Tomorrow Starts Week 5

Tomorrow starts week 5 at home.
Here is the week 4 recap:

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Egg prices in the grocery store, this should be illegal:

I normally pay $1.90 - $2.20 for 18 eggs at the grocery store.

Thank goodness Costco is still normal. I stocked up.
We go thru a lot of eggs.
I went shopping last weekend and I'm not going back until I absolutely have to.

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One of my Topiary Cat paintings was featured on the Art Students League page.
It is 15 out of 33.

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Daya's Ailey summer intensive got cancelled and she's heartbroken.
So am I.

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Daya wants a Playstation 4 so she can play Warframe with her friend.
I told her yes I will get her one but she's under a work contract for it.

I am having a heck of a time getting one for her.
First I purchased one on ebay, paid, all of it.... the seller took too long to ship then cancelled the transaction due to not being able to get to the post office because of the virus.
I did get a full refund.

Amazon has them but isn't shipping until end of the month at the earliest.

Then Daya found a local seller- I asked twice if they are in walking distance from my neighborhood, no response.

Last night I found another listing on the local site----which was offering shipping----- and as of this writing might have done a stupid transaction. Seller gave their phone number and I texted to verify they really would ship, they said yes. They were very responsive.

Instead of paying verified with buyer protection through the website, the seller wanted a Cash App transfer, it's like paypal or venmo......... and I did it. This is something stupid I know it is, I'm really taking a risk sending a stranger $214 with no buyer protection.  And I really did it.  The seller was identity verified thru the website I found them at, and they have a few other listings. And I didn't pay sales tax and neither of us paid fees.

This was a freaking scary thing to do, they said they would send video of shipping and tracking this morning AND THEY DID NOT.

So I texted and didn't hear back, freaked out, called them- call rejected!!!!-- looked on Cash App, saw that the payee I sent funds to was different today than yesterday, the username I sent to yesterday NOT FOUND... well bad on me I guess........ the transaction is there but to a different username.

THEN the seller did respond and I was quite upset and told them so- he said his wife did ship the package this morning and he apologized, now he says I have to wait three hours for her to send the tracking.

So now I wait til this evening, I know this was a stupid way to purchase something and I can't even believe I did it.  I am hoping I didn't get scammed.  I will not know until I get tracking and a package arrives with what he said would be in it, in it.

I'm so scrambled and upset and the stress gave me a bad headache.

Even if this turns out to be legit I think I will not ever do this again because 1) it is stupid and 2) the stress isn't worth it.

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I hope to pass through this dreadful time quickly.

Also I hope toilet paper comes back into the stores because my toilet paper tower is getting a bit low.
I'll be ok til the end of next week............ then..... I don't know.

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Finally, here is a paragraph from a work update from our Chief People Officer,
I like it, so will put it here.

A final thought from me: many things are emerging that will serve us well as and after we recover from this crisis. People are finding that there’s strength in being gentle, that leading means so much more than managing, and small talk isn’t small at all. 
I’m sure you've noticed changes and developments in people, businesses, and society too – please reflect on these and ask yourself, what could this mean for us when (not if) we come out the other side?