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4/19 Today some of my friends and I decided we should do yoga outside. My friend, Hannah, has a park she really likes in the Skokie Lagoons, so we decided to go there. One thing you should know about Hannah is that she always has her phone on do not disturb and she is always late to everything. None of us knew where the park was and Hannah gave us really bad directions and then she didn’t respond after that. My friend Claire, who was also coming, thought she knew where Hannah was talking about, so my friend, Emilia, and I met her at a baseball field and followed her. After weaving our way through the entire Skokie Lagoons, Claire found out she didn’t know where the park was. We turned around and decided we would just do it at the park on the opposite side of the lagoons (where we started) because Hannah wasn’t responding and we were confused. All of the driving wasn’t that bad because the scenery is beautiful and I could roll down the windows. The only reason all the driving was ...

4/13 Yesterday was Easter! My family usually celebrates Easter by going to church, doing an egg hunt, and then eating ham for dinner. This Easter was obviously different, but we still kept tradition as similar as we could. Our church did a stream so we watched that. My family isn’t really religious but we go to church on holidays. My mom knows more church things than me and my brother, so it was really awkward during the responses when we mumbled it or responded a second later. Next up we did an Easter egg hunt. The day before we dyed eggs. My mom broke some eggs while trying to hard boil them, so I only ended up dying three. The Easter hunt was the same as every year before: my brother and I hunted while my parents hid the eggs (I lost), then we hid them while they found the eggs. However, at the end of the Easter egg hunt we didn’t get a basket of jellybeans and a chocolate bunny, so that was sad. The rest of the day we called various family members and relaxed. For dinner we had ...

4/5 With nothing else to do, my family wants to watch movies together every night, but the problem is we all have such different tastes. At the start of quarantine we took an hour each night just deciding on a movie, which usually ended up being a mediocre movie at best. However, now we have this complicated system that only my family would do to decide what to watch. First we made a group list with movie suggestions from all of us on there. Then, each night, we each choose three from the master list and make a new list for the night. From there we all have two vetoes and we go around in a circle vetoing others movies. After the vetoing there are four left and we take the matter to a vote.   Our master list of movies After some complaints, mostly by me, we have refined the system even more. Two new rules were set in place: everyday we rotate who starts the vetoing and voting, and we capped the master list, so it wouldn’t get flooded with new things and we would never get ...