March started off with our first Covid case in our family. We still don't know where or how Brian got it since he went out a couple of times the weekend before, but he tested positive for Covid and stayed home with a fever and weakness for a week. After he felt better, he took a PCR test and still tested positive for Covid.
Since mom has almost no immune system anymore, she was scared to stay home even though Brian was isolated in his room. As a result, Michelle picked her up in the middle of the week, and she stayed with us until finally Brian tested negative on Saturday. Dad drove up that Saturday night since he had nothing to do and drove mom home on Sun after we ate at I Luv Pho for lunch.
That Saturday night was also our first concert of the year. Eric Nam was in town for his There And Back Again tour, and we originally planned to go in person. However, since the parents were over (and because we were lazy), we decided to watch the livestream in the theater room downstairs. The concert was great! The only problem was that the streaming site kept on having lagging issues, so the audio never completely matched with the video.
The next weekend was the Savannah birthday trip with Alec and his parents. You can read about it here.
The following week was full of interviews. I stayed at Alec's house until Tuesday night since I wanted to accompany him to celebrate Pie day on Monday lol. He made blueberry pie! Check it out!
I also took that Friday to hangout with Archana, since it was her last day with the company, so we planned a farewell lunch. Unfortunately, the day before, Jack found out that his ex-wife died in a car accident and couldn't make it to the lunch. And Erin had an important interview with Salesforce at the time, so she couldn't make it either.
In the end, it was Azeneth, Zach, and me left to get Bezoria with Archana one last time. Afterwards, I took Archana back to her apartment complex so that she could get her monitor from one of her neighbors to bring back to the office. I helped her drop off her equipment at the office, and we went for one last walk around the trail near the building. It felt like we were both saying goodbye to SITA.
I drove her back to her neighbor's apartment so she could spend some time with her since she was flying out the next morning. It was really hard to say goodbye. I think we hugged like 5 times near the end lol.
After I came back home, I was feeling super introverted and sad and told Ebony that I wouldn't make it to her housewarming/birthday party on Sunday because I was in my feelings lol. However, Alec and I had already bought tickets to watch the Jujutsu Kaisen: 0 premiere in theaters on Saturday, so we still went out and had a good time. I really liked the opening and ending songs! The only problem was that there were some kids sitting in the row in front of us who would not stop talking and taking pics of Gojo whenever he appeared, which was kind of annoying.
If you've been following along recently, you'll have noticed that I've been decluttering a lot of stuff for the past few months. That's because we're doing a big purge in the house and planned on donating a lot of stuff to the VVA. For one reason, we've used their services before and really enjoyed the convenience of scheduling a pickup so that they will come to our house and take everything instead of us dropping it off at a location. Two, we don't want to donate to Goodwill or the Salvation Army, which makes a profit off of our business and doesn't have the best moral character with the LGBTQ+ family.
Anyway, we scheduled a pickup the next Friday and asked Alec to come over the night before to help Kyle move the dressers from upstairs to the garage for pickup. In total, we donated two large furniture and six bags of clothes, kitchen appliances/utensils, and gardening items. Not a bad haul at all.
Shanice was also in town for work since that Wednesday, so we offered to let her spend the weekend at our place instead of the hotel. We met up with her for dinner on Friday night at the Battery and ate a bunch of different stuff at Ph'east. Then, we went home and talked until late.
Because Shanice was feeling guilty for overeating and not working out since she came to Atlanta, we went hiking at Olde Rope Mill Park for 2 miles after having chai for breakfast. I didn't know until we got there that it was actually a hiking trail spot with lots of different loops available.
We drove back home to meet up with Michelle and Kyle before heading to Halcyon for lunch. They have a lot of stores and restaurants nearby as well as a food court, where we got Gu's Dumplings, poke, and hotdogs for lunch before walking around and chilling for a bit.
Then, we went to Cristy's Kitchen, which is famous for it's gluten free and vegan foods and bakery for drinks and snacks. Shanice bought a lot of stuff to bring back to Josh since they recently found out that he's allergic to gluten.
We were in a bit of a rush because we had already booked an escape room not long after that at Urban Escape Games. We originally asked Emily if she could come, but her family came to visit, so she wasn't free. Instead, we went back to downtown Woodstock to get dinner with Emily at Salt Factory Pub instead. Overall, it was a very busy day.
We chilled in the morning until Shanice's parents picked her up for brunch before she went back to DC.
I thought our busy weekend was over, but at 9:30PM, Jackie asked if she and Ben could come over. They came up for a double date with friends which was cancelled last minute, so they visited her nephew, Luca, instead. They came over with my bridesmaid's dress, and we talked until 1AM before they drove back home.
Overall, a very busy weekend to end a busy month :)
