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A Toast to the 2020 Washington Nationals
The Nats entered 2020 on a high like few others - coming off an improbable postseason run that led to the franchise’s first World Series title and basking in the glory knowing they had defeated the villains of the baseball universe in the Houston Astros.
The Nationals, for the second season in the row, lost an MVP caliber player in free agency as Anthony Rendon left for the Los Angeles Angels. However, when two of the most impactful heroes of the 2019 postseason, Stephen Strasburg and Howie Kendrick, were both re-signed, there was optimism in Washington that there was some magic left and the team could go on a run once again.
Even as the coronavirus pandemic delayed the season’s start, Nationals players were active, with Max Scherzer
being one of
the leading voices in the MLBPA’s negotiations, and
the players pushing their team’s ownership over paying Minor League salaries.. Eventually, the negotiations were figured out and play would resume. The Nationals would be without several pieces to start the season however. 2020 was the first year in Nationals history without franchise cornerstone Ryan Zimmerman, who opted-out due to concerns about his mother’s health and a newly born son. Joe Ross, a pitcher who has shown flashes of greatness in his several years with the team, opted-out as well. Most of all, the team would miss Stephen Strasburg, fresh off a new 7-year contract, for several games to begin the season on the IL. As reigning champs, the Nats featured on opening night against the Yankees. Everything seemed in place until…
An Opening Night to Remember Mere hours before the first pitch,
Juan Soto tested positive for COVID, which later turned out to be a false positive. An adopted Nationals fan, Dr. Anthony Fauci was invited to
“throw” out the first pitch of Opening Day in DC. Rob Manfred looked like a supervillain on national TV. The game didn’t even finish as the Yankees beat the Nationals in 6 innings
due to a storm stoppage. The negative result, unfortunately, portended much of the Nationals season.
The natinaLs The Nationals’ 2019 season was defined by their resiliency and resurgence after a rough 19-31 start. In 2020, they were on a similar start, at one point even matching the 19-31 record. Unfortunately, there is no room for a miracle comeback in a 60-game season. Inconsistency defined the season, as the Nats were never able to string more than 2 wins together until late September, at which point it was too late. The Nats were eliminated from the playoffs on September 24th, and became the 3rd defending World Series champion to finish last in their division.
The rotation, long the strength of their team, collapsed to the 4th worst ERA in MLB. Stephen Strasburg, already missing time at the start of the season, pitched only 2 games before heading to the IL for the rest of the season with carpal tunnel issues. Scherzer and Corbin both had solid seasons, but the back half of the rotation was a disaster. The bullpen wasn’t as historically bad as it was in 2019, but remained subpar.
Offensively...well, abandon all production, ye
who click on this link. The Nationals had two MVP-caliber players and then an absolute black hole in the remainder of the lineup. Of particular concern were the lackluster performances at the plate by young Victor Robles and Carter Kieboom, players that Nats fans hoped could replace the production of the departed Anthony Rendon.
The Curly Ws It wasn’t all bad in 2020. Even with the subpar record, the season still felt more or less like a victory lap. The fresh memories of a championship and extenuating circumstances of the year 2020 were able to numb any pain, and Nats fans were just glad to have any baseball at all. Especially when we got to watch:
- Juan GOATo/Han Soto/Juan DES-PA-SOTO: Juan Soto continued his torrid pace of development, cementing his status among baseball’s superstars. It was another year of breaking numerous “before turning age X” records, as he put up arguably the best offensive performance in all of MLB in 2020. Unfortunately, the false positive COVID test he received at the start of the year, plus one injury stint, limited him to 47 games played. If he played a full season, he very well could’ve had an MVP award at age 21. Soto is enough reason to watch Nationals games, and we are extremely excited to see him continue to soar.
- Trea “Bae” Turner: Trea Turner, long noted in baseball for his unique skillset, finally put it all together for the best season of his still-young career. A surge in the second half of the season (likely powered by newly acquired Dad strength) led to career highs in non-counting stats and a 7th place finish in MVP voting. Personally, Trea has been my favorite Nats player since his rookie season and I wish for you all to love him as much as ILoveArtHistory and I do.
A Farewell to Arms & Bats The offseason moves of 2019-20 very much had a “run it back” feel, with most of the team returning. However, this offseason has signaled the departure of several long-time Nationals and I wanted to point them out:
- Michael A Taylor: The Baby-Faced Assassin. He was never a star in DC, yet has been with the team since 2014 and is fondly remembered by the Nats online fandom for among other things, his face of extreme jubilance, his 2017 NLDS performance & grand slam, and his 5.000 OPS in the World Series. Best of luck with the Royals.
- Adam Eaton: Acquired via trade in 2017, Eaton missed much of his first two seasons due to injuries, yet became an integral part of the 2019 squad. He has returned to the White Sox in FA, so we’ll miss you Spanky, and especially your celebrations. Howie Kendrick: Perpetually underrated player, professional hitter, and owner of two of the most legendary moments in the Nats’ short history. He has decided to retire from MLB. Thank you for the memories Howie, and remember - bang foul poles, not trash cans.
- Sean Doolittle: A fan favorite in DC for his colorful personality, terminal online-ness, results on the field, and social activism off of it. Doolittle’s season was prematurely ended due to an oblique injury and it remains to be seen where he’ll end up after hitting FA this offseason. If he has thrown his last pitch in DC, he will be remembered for years to come.
- Ryan Zimmerman, maybe: Uncertain if this is a goodbye yet, because he hasn’t made anything official for 2021. There’s nothing I can’t say about him that already hasn’t been said. A local boy, the first draft pick after relocation, the first player that made you want to watch the Nationals, hit the first World Series HR in Nationals history, Mr. Walkoff, and most of all, Mr. National. It felt weird watching Nationals baseball without him last year, and if his opt-out in 2020 becomes a retirement in 2021, then we should start casting the statue now to have it ready by Opening Day.
Season Highlights First and foremost, welcome to our community!
Remember to read the rules on the sidebar, so the chances of your post getting removed can lower from 99% to maybe 30%.
If you haven't guessed already,
worldfunnies is a subreddit that involves mixing and matching videos on le internet to align it to foreign social media videos. Have you ever watched a "car fail compilation america" from a suspicious YouTube account and wondered to yourself, "why are there so many terrible edits on this video? Why are there laughing smileys on each corner?" If so, you'll no doubt realize that we're devoted to recreating this level of quality in our videos, of course in a foreign manner.
You might be thinking, "so, this is
arabfunny?" Simply put, no; our level of standards for what is considered quality is significantly higher, and we are more open with our rules, in that if your video has any foreign language to it, it'll fit this community. Because of our leniency in our rules, we in return would like to see quality videos that encapture what foreign media is all about.
Don't just put Arabic text on your video and call it a day -- put some time, effort and dedication to any and all your projects.
Now, with that out of the way, I want to provide some links and such that you might find useful.
Recommended Programs/Websites
As long as it doesn't unintentionally have a hideous watermark on the video (like in the case of Kinemaster), chances are your video won't get removed. We highly recommend that you make videos on a desktop of some sort, as most mobile video editors are pretty limited with what you can do with it.
Here's some video editors/programs that we at the worldfunnies HQ recommend.
NOTE: WHEN USING WEBSITES FOR CONVERTING/DOWNLOADING THINGS, WE AREN'T RESPONSIBLE IF YOU GET ASIAN MILF ADS/POPUPS. USE ADBLOCK OR UBLOCK (latter preferred) WHEN USING YT > MP3 SITES, FOR EXAMPLE. -
Windows Movie Maker 6 -- (WINDOWS ONLY)
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Windows Movie Maker Live -- (WINDOWS ONLY -- YOU ONLY NEED TO INSTALL WMM ITSELF)
- iMovie -- (MAC/iOS ONLY)
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Avidemux 2.5.4 (later versions won't work as well) -- This program will help you do what's called datamoshing -- watch
this video to understand what it's all about and how to use the program.
You'll also need VLC for this program and schematic to work (or really anything that can convert .avi to .mp4 or the like) -
Online Converter -- This will help you convert .wmm videos to .mp4, or really any other video format. No, it shouldn't cause any problems, from my (and other people's) experiences.
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YTMP3 --
NOTE: USE ADBLOCK OR UBLOCK ORIGINS WITH THIS SITE. IT MAY HAVE POPUPS AND HAZBIN R34. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!! Helps convert YT videos to mp3/mp4 files.
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http://www.shadyurl.com/ -- You can create some funny and really autistic URL links with this.
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Vegas Pro/Open Shot/any other decent video editor. Personally I got my copy of Vegas Pro 17 for free, but it shouldn't be hard to find a cracked copy of it online. If you manage to get this editor, it's worth it.
- Paint.net -- Modify images with this program. Real easy to use.
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https://panzoid.com/ -- Create funny intros with this website.
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https://ttsmp3.com -- Create TTS with this website.
- Google Translate -- This one should be a no brainer. If you're like me and can't speak some obscure African tribal language, this is the right utility for you.
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Join our Discord Server and get access to all sorts of images/video sources that you can use in your very own videos. You can also reach out to people like me or anyone else in that community.
- I also recommend finding weird or surreal mods in Garry's Mod and messing around from there.
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https://handbrake.fr -- modifies video/audio lol
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HxD -- This is a hex editor that, if used properly, can allow you to datamosh in the form of corrupting data. Read
this and
this to learn more about using this method.
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NEW: flixpress.com -- This is where you can make terrible (but hilarious) intros. THIS is the site where you find those weird "cinematic" intros that damn-near every YouTuber from 2011 used.
- Finally, you can also use
https://www.petittube.com/, which is a site that automatically displays YouTube videos with zero views. You can find some pretty weird/funny videos there that may/may not be foreign.
NOTE: YOUR CONNECTION MIGHT NOT BE PRIVATE WHEN CLICKING ON THIS LINK, VISIT AT YOUR OWN RISK
Tips & Advice (new section!)
- If you’re completely lost and/or are overwhelmed by what you want to make with your video, try and find some inspiration on this sub! Filter posts here by
”Post of The Day” to get a good feel for what generally “good” posts look and feel like when watching.
- Find an original foreign theme. Look around the sub and find a missing piece of the puzzle; if the sub is saturated with, say, Slavic or Arabic themes, try and make a funny based on Gambia, or maybe something with a more Spanish theme to it.
- When you feel as if your video is complete, check over the video and see if there’s any part/section that feels played out. If there’s a part of your video in which nothing new is going on, most likely you’ll have to add more stuff to keep your audience interested. Ask yourself, “what’s keeping somebody from skipping this part?”
- Earrape can be funny, but we prefer more compressed & muffled audio over the former.
- Go to Google Translate, convert from your native language to a “funny” language (like Arabic, Urdu or Hindu), copy the translated results, and then google the results. You can find some batshit insane and confusing (albeit funny) pictures of half-assed memes that were unironic.
With that being said, enjoy our subreddit........................................... trollface
(Warning: this is boooooooooring. You'll see a lot more of my boring quarantine routine than any money I spend.)
Section One: Assets and Debt
Retirement Balance (and how you got there) - $230,000. I’ve been saving for retirement since I got my first post-college job at 21, so I have several 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and a Roth IRA.
Savings account balance - $26,000
Checking account balance - $2500
Credit card debt (and how you accumulated it) – $0. I have never carried any credit card debt, and I know I’m lucky that I never had to.
Student loan debt (for what degree) - $0. I had $61,000 total in student loan debt from undergrad and grad school, but I used the snowball method to pay off my undergrad loans when I was 28, and (I kid you not) won enough money on a game show to pay off my grad school loans a few years later.
Section Two: Income
Income Progression: I've been working in higher education for 13 years, and my starting salary was $38,000. When I switched jobs two years ago, it got bumped up to $45,000. I started out after college working as a microbiology laboratory technician making around $34,000 a year, but started teaching at the college level after I got my master’s degree because I was tired of laboratory work.
Main Job Monthly Take Home:
$2274. I make a little extra each month on top of my base salary because I teach one overload class every semester.
Deductions:
Health Insurance - $158
Dental Insurance - $4
403(b) contribution - $519 (this is 15% of my pre-tax income; my job matches 6%)
Federal w/h - $262
OASDI - $214
Medicare - $50
Louisiana w/h - $96
Side Gig Monthly Take Home
I have a side gig teaching online ESL classes with a Chinese company. My pre-tax take-home income from that job varies between $600-1100 per month, depending on how many slots I open on my schedule and how many parents book my classes. I usually average around $850 per month pre-tax. I haven’t had to file taxes yet on this income because I’ve only been doing it since the beginning of the year, but the company advises that you reserve 30% of your pre-tax income for taxes. That would leave me with around $600 post-tax per month.
Section Three: Expenses
Housing expenses - I have no housing costs, because my boyfriend paid cash for a Katrina-flooded house in 2006 and had fixed it up by the time I moved in with him in 2018. He pays the property taxes and homeowners insurance, and I don’t know how much they are.
Retirement contribution – I’ve already contributed the full amount for my Roth IRA this year, but it averages $500 a month.
Savings contribution – I have an online high-yield savings account and since the pandemic started, I’ve been contributing $2000 per month because I’m not spending a lot of money right now.
Investment contribution – I don’t have a separate investment account, only my retirement accounts.
Debt payments – None.
Donations – this makes me feel terrible, but I’m not donating any of my money right now. My whole industry is on shaky ground right now and I teach at a college with a small enrollment, so I’m trying to save as much as I can in case I get laid off next year, due to lower enrollment because of the pandemic. I do contribute a few cans of food and some toiletries every month to our neighborhood Little Free Pantry.
Electric – my boyfriend pays this, and I don’t know how much it usually is.
Wi-Fi/Cable/Landline - $65 for Internet. We don’t have cable or a landline.
Cellphone - $43
Subscriptions – None.
Gym membership – None. I take walks around my neighborhood instead.
Pet expenses – My boyfriend and I split pet expenses for our three cats. I usually spend around $60 per month on food, medication for our cat who has skin allergies, and flea treatments.
Car payment / insurance – I paid cash for my car last year so I don’t have a car payment, and my car insurance is around $80 per month.
Paid hobbies – I love to make handicrafts, and I spend around $20 per month on cross-stitch/knitting/macramé/beading supplies.
Gas - $10 a month. I barely leave the house these days due to the pandemic, so I’m spending a lot less on gas right now.
Long-term disability insurance - $61. I had a health scare in my early 30s where I developed vestibular neuritis, a mild form of vertigo, for almost two years after a nasty upper respiratory infection. I was lucky that I was never sick enough to have to stop working, but I’ve paid for disability insurance ever since I recovered, because I know how quickly sickness and accidents can happen. I have short-term disability insurance, life insurance, and hospitalization insurance free through my work, so I don’t pay for separate policies for those.
Food - $600/month. I paid $90 for a yearly Shipt subscription when the pandemic started, because my boyfriend is diabetic and I’d never forgive myself if I spread the virus to him. I really appreciate our delivery guy doing this for us and I tip him well! I cook most of our meals and pay for take-out once or twice a month.
WateTrash - $100/month. Our local water utility is a hot mess and our usage is rarely calculated correctly, but this is the average.
Wednesday
5:30 – I wake up to feed my cats and prepare for my four ESL classes this morning.
6:00 – I teach a class to one of my favorite students, a thirteen-year-old girl who loves telling me about her pet birds and the fun things she and her friends do at school.
6:30 – I teach a class to a twelve-year-old boy who is a VERY good student and laughs at all my stupid jokes. He’s one of my favorites too.
7:00 – I teach a class to an eight-year-old girl who used to be one of my favorites, but she’s been really bored with the material lately and has been misbehaving a bit on camera. Luckily today she’s fairly well-behaved today and participates for the most part.
7:30 – I teach a class to my absolute favorite student, a twelve-year old who speaks great English and thinks I hung the moon for some reason. My face hurts every time I end class because I smile so much when I teach her!
8:00 – I eat breakfast: cereal with almond milk, cottage cheese, a clementine, a can of V8, and coffee.
9:00 – It’s raining pretty hard today so I stay inside and snuggle my most affectionate cat while I waste time on my phone. I tidy up the house and make the beds after my cat has had enough of me.
11:00 – I make lunch. I eat leftover homemade guacamole with Costco tortilla chips, leftover Korean-style ground beef over rice with some sriracha on top, and a bottle of Costco kombucha to drink.
12:00 – I teach my first college class of the day via Zoom. The enrollment is officially 17 students, but I don’t require that they attend the Zoom class because everything is basically on fire right now, and a lot of students are working and/or helping their kids with online school. I usually have a handful of students show up, and I record the class and post it online for anyone who can’t make it to class. Today I only have two students, but they’re great and class goes quickly. I remind them about their chapter assignments that are due on Monday evening.
1:30 – I teach my second college class via Zoom. This class is a smaller 400-level class and the students ALWAYS attend unless there’s an emergency. They’re a terrific group of students, and this class is on the subject that I specialized in for my master’s degree, so I always have good stories and terrible jokes to tell about the material. It’s a lot of fun for me to talk about! My students have an online exam next Monday, so I prep them for that as well and answer their questions.
3:00 – I wait for the Zoom classes to convert to .mp4 files and post them on our classes’ Canvas websites (this is the online learning management system that my school uses).
3:30 – Our municipal recycling company doesn’t accept glass in their bins, so I drive our empty glass bottles to a local nonprofit’s weekly glass collection (they crush it and make sand for coastal restoration – pretty cool). I also take a book back to the neighborhood library. Last month I got two traffic tickets in school zones while I was making this same run and had to pay $220, so I drive veeeerrryyyy slowly today and really watch for the school zone signs.
5:00 – I eat dinner: leftover meatloaf and mashed potatoes from last night. My boyfriend usually doesn’t like to eat leftovers so it’s ALL FOR ME, yum!
6:00 – My boyfriend comes home from work and just grabs a snack because he ate a big lunch at work.
7:00 – We cuddle on the couch and watch a movie together.
9:00 – I read the news on my phone before I zonk out around 9:30 pm.
Daily expenses: $0
Thursday
5:30 – I wake up to feed my cats and teach one ESL class to an absolutely adorable five-year-old girl.
6:30 – I wake up my boyfriend for work - he’s an essential worker in the shipping industry and has had to go to work through the whole pandemic. I eat the same breakfast as yesterday: cereal with almond milk, cottage cheese, a clementine, a can of V8, and coffee.
8:00 – I take a long walk around our neighborhood and nerd out at the beautiful architecture of the houses on a ritzy street near my not-so-ritzy street. I have a deep love of architecture and design, and am lucky to live in one of the most beautiful and unique cities in the US (and, I think, the world). Living in New Orleans is a treat for all of the senses.
10:00 – I tidy up the house, make the beds, and do my laundry. I’m fussy about the detergent and washing requirements for my clothes, so I always do my laundry and my boyfriend’s laundry separately.
11:30 – I eat lunch: a ham and turkey sandwich, a piece of cheese from Costco, and a bottle of kombucha.
12:00 – I have online office hours via Zoom for three hours. No one ever shows up, so I use the time to grade assignments and answer e-mails. I got a few new advisees this semester, so I’m helping them pick their classes for the upcoming spring and summer semesters.
3:30 – I char corn tortillas and cook turkey taco meat for dinner.
4:00 – The mail comes and I get a package – a shirt I ordered from Poshmark last week. I discovered Poshmark last year and I absolutely love it! I don’t buy clothes from there very often, but if I do it’s usually not too much, maybe $25 at a time. This particular shirt cost $21 but retails at $60, so I got a great deal for a barely-used piece of clothing.
4:30 – My boyfriend hasn’t come home from work yet and I’m hungry, so I make myself dinner: four turkey tacos.
5:30 – My boyfriend comes home from work and makes himself nachos with the taco meat, and we sit at the dinner table and talk about our day.
6:00 – I took part in a COVID vaccine study two months ago and I have to log my symptoms twice a week in a study app, so the researchers can monitor if there’s a difference in COVID rates between people who got the experimental vaccine and people who received a placebo. I’ve been just fine for the past few days, so I log that in the app.
6:30 – I read a book I picked up from our neighborhood Little Free Library until bedtime.
9:00 – Bedtime! One of our cats comes in to get nighttime scritches, and my boyfriend crawls in a bit later when he finishes the movie he was watching.
Daily expenses: $0
Friday
5:30 – My alarm goes off, I feed my cats, and I check my phone and see that my first ESL student of the day cancelled today’s class, but I still get paid because they cancelled less than 24 hours before class. He’s a really nice little boy and I enjoy teaching him, but I’ll take it!
6:00 – I wake up my boyfriend and make the same breakfast as yesterday: cereal with almond milk, cottage cheese, a clementine, a can of V8, and coffee. I also eat a few pieces of turkey sausage because I’m a little hungrier than usual this morning and need the protein.
6:30- I teach my second ESL class to a twelve-year-old kid who is always tired and kind of lazy, but speaks good English and usually does a pretty good job in class.
9:00 – I do my boyfriend’s laundry, make the beds, and tidy up and sweep the house. How do we have so much HAIR on the floor? Oh, right, three cats and a long-haired human.
11:30 – I fix a snack plate for lunch that has almonds, cheese, hummus, crackers, and a clementine on it, and I have kombucha to drink.
12:00 – I attend a college department meeting via Zoom. It’s pretty boring, but it’s nice to see everyone’s faces again.
12:30 – During my meeting, I sneak online and buy a 2021 refill for my Day-Timer planner. I’m old school and still use a paper planner, and I’ve used the same kind since 2000, when I was in college! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it… Cost = $25.93
1:00 – I attend a meeting for professors who have dual enrollees (high school students who are taking classes with us for college credit) via Zoom. The students are doing very well in spite of COVID, which really cheers me up to hear.
3:30 – I eat a homemade peach yogurt popsicle for a snack. Homemade popsicles have been a new obsession during quarantine, and this is one of my favorites – it’s just peach preserves mixed with Greek yogurt and a little water.
5:30 – I make leftover turkey tacos for dinner and eat a piece of leftover Halloween candy for dessert.
8:00 – I teach another ESL class (I teach in the evenings on Fridays and Saturdays). The little girl is… something else, but she kisses the camera when I tell her good-bye, which is adorable.
8:30 – I read some of my book and conk out around 9:30.
Daily expenses: $25.93
Saturday
5:30 – I wake up to feed my cats and prepare for an ESL class.
6:00 – I teach a class to a really fun and smart eight-year-old boy. His mom has booked me for more classes in the coming weeks, yay!
6:30 – I eat pretty much the same breakfast as before: cereal with almond milk, cottage cheese, a clementine, and coffee. I’m so predictable.
10:00 – My boyfriend and I go to a socially-distanced used book sale that we sometimes visit on Saturdays. I pick out three books to send to my parents, who are trying to stay sane in virus-infested Michigan right now. My boyfriend pays for them and buys a few DVDs for himself too.
11:00 – We get take-out lunch from a local cheese shop. My boyfriend pays for this as well – he gets a turkey sandwich and I get a salad and a cheese plate.
1:00 – I’m running low on hydrocolloid patches for pimples, so I go to the Walgreens website and order three packs of them (there’s a buy-two-get-one-free sale), along with tampons, pads, rosehip oil for my rosacea, and a honey shampoo to try out on my dry, wavy hair. Cost = $42.60
1:30 – About once a month I upload a bunch of pictures of me, my boyfriend, and our cats to my Snapfish account and send my parents the prints. They don’t use social media or smartphones, so this is an easy way to show them what’s going on in our lives. (Admittedly, not much these days.) Cost = $3.39
2:30 – I’ve been wanting a linen duvet cover for the longest time, and Ikea FINALLY has the one I want in stock. I buy one along with the lightest king-sized down comforter they offer, and some cooking tools for our upcoming Thanksgiving dinner as well. This will be the first Thanksgiving dinner I’ve ever cooked, and I want it to turn out well for the two of us! Cost = $256.53
2:45 – I got paid yesterday, so I transfer $1000 into my online high-yield savings account. It hasn’t been yielding a whole lot this year since interest rates were cut, but I’ll take what I can get at this point.
3:30 – My other shirt from Poshmark arrived that I ordered last week! Now I’m set for fall and don’t have to buy any more clothes for a while.
4:00 – I do a little college schoolwork online – grading and doing prep work for a new course I’m developing and will be teaching in the spring. First off I have to figure out what assessments to give the students, and then I’ll start writing the PowerPoints and quizzes/exams. I’m co-teaching it with a colleague, so I send her an e-mail as well about it.
5:30 – I’m still pretty full from lunch so I just eat some crackers and hummus and a clementine for dinner, plus kombucha to drink.
6:30 – I teach three ESL classes back-to-back to three regular students who always book classes on Saturday night. My butt is sore by the end of it!
8:00 – Bedtime, yay! I have to get up really early tomorrow for more ESL classes.
Daily expenses: $302.52
Sunday
4:30 – This is waaaay too early to be up. I only have to get up so early because of the time change, and I have three regular ESL students who have been booking the same timeslots every Sunday for months. At least they’re all good kids.
5:00 – I teach my most faithful regular student, a nine-year-old girl who’s been taking my classes the whole year.
6:00 – One of my students canceled and I get paid anyway! This is the second time this week it’s happened, which is pretty rare. I go back to bed and read for a half hour instead.
6:30 – I teach a seven-year-old girl who is more interested in playing with toys at her desk than participating, but hey, I get paid either way!
7:00 – Same breakfast: cereal with almond milk, cottage cheese, a clementine, and coffee. Boooooring.
10:00 – I grade assignments for my online college courses – my students turn them in on Saturday, so I usually take a big chunk of time on Sunday morning/afternoon to grade them all at once.
12:00 – I eat the rest of the cheese plate from yesterday for lunch with some crackers and kombucha.
12:30 – I review my notes for tomorrow’s college class. Luckily I’m only teaching one class tomorrow because of the online exam in my second class.
2:30 – I haven’t started a craft project in the past few weeks, so I start a HUGE Frank Lloyd Wright cross-stitch that I’d like to frame and put up in our entryway if it turns out nicely. I have all the supplies already, but later on I may have to buy some more embroidery floss. I watch Lucy Worsley English history documentaries on YouTube as I stitch, because, well, I’m a nerd.
5:00 – I eat the rest of the leftover turkey tacos and have a can of La Croix with them.
6:00 – I tuck in early and read the news on my phone for a couple hours before conking out around 8:30. Good night!
Daily expenses: $0
Monday
5:30 – I wake up to feed the cats and teach two ESL classes.
6:00 – My first ESL class has some technical problems but we manage to get everything completed. I’ve been noticing a few problems crop up here and there with the desktop app I use and wonder if the company should update its software.
6:30 – My second ESL class is with a total spaz of a five-year-old boy who keeps getting up and running around the room because he’s so excited. Luckily his mom is there to rein him in and help him repeat the new vocabulary.
7:00 – I have to clean up cat barf because one of my cats yacked in the hallway. I think I know which one it is because he hangs out at the other end of the hallway watching me clean up the whole time! Gross.
7:30 – I eat breakfast: same as yesterday, but with turkey bacon added. This is what passes for excitement in my life these days.
8:00 – I order a Shipt grocery delivery. Since quarantine started in March, I have this down to a science and place two big orders a month, one during the first week of the month and the other during the third week of the month. I usually get the same shopper every time and he knows my substitutions by now, and all in all it’s been a good experience. I order a little more food than usual this time because I’m stocking up for Thanksgiving next week, and I order a big box of canned cat food as well. Cost = $198.15
10:30 – My Shipt order arrives and I hurry to put everything away.
11:30 – Lunchtime! I make a snack plate with salami, cheese, a clementine, and a bag of Zapp’s, and have kombucha to drink.
12:00 – I teach my college class via Zoom. I last about an hour before my voice gives out and I end class a little early.
2:30 – While I wait for the students in my second class of the day to finish taking their online exam, I go on 1800PetMeds to buy allergy medication for my cat since we’re down to one last vial. Cost = $52.38
4:00 – I make dinner – ground beef stew with the groceries I got today. We had a cold front come through yesterday and it’s FINALLY cool enough to justify eating this!
6:00 – My boyfriend comes home and has a bowl of beef stew while we bitch about people not respecting public health guidelines during COVID.
7:00 – I read in bed while my boyfriend watches a movie. He comes to bed around 9:00 because he needs to get up early tomorrow too.
Daily expenses: $250.53
Tuesday
5:00 – I wake up, again.
5:30 - I teach three English classes back-to-back. Two of the kids are great and one is a total spaz the whole time and won’t sit still.
7:00 – Breakfast! You know how this goes.
7:30 – I’ve had a scratchy throat and runny nose all day so I take it easy all morning, reading in bed and drinking tea.
11:30 – Lunchtime! I eat a can of vegetable soup, some salami, cheese, and a clementine.
12:00 – I have office hours and spend my time grading papers.
2:30 – I review my notes for my college class tomorrow.
6:00 – I eat dinner: leftover beef stew from yesterday.
7:00 – I read the new issue of Harper’s Monthly in bed until I conk out around 9:30.
Daily expenses: $0
Weekly Tally:
Food + Drink: $198.15
Fun / Entertainment: $0
Home + Health: $256.53
Clothes + Beauty: $42.60
Transport: $0
Other: $81.70
This was a normal week for me in quarantine, other than the big Ikea order, but I felt like I had to jump on that because they’ve had shortages in their stock all year. I’m doing well in balancing savings and spending on little things that make quarantine easier. Also, this has definitely made it easier to start cooking more with what I have around the house rather than getting takeout.
I’m working on socking away as much money as I can right now so in case I lose my job next year, or if my boyfriend broke up with me for some reason, I’d have enough money in liquid savings that I’d be all right for a while. If neither of those things happen, I am taking an EPIC SUMMER VACATION next year as long as the COVID vaccine is being distributed by then and infection rates are plummeting.
Thanks for reading, everyone!
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