By: Revanche

Good Things Friday (43)

December 6, 2019

1. JB was treated to a movie at the theater, and we ran into quite a few of zir classmates (boys and girls alike, boy is that movie popular) which was bonus excitement for zir. I hardly remember the first movie but Frozen 2 was really quite entertaining.

2. With some help, I made a few jars of my “liquid gold” to give away to friends who I never know what to give in return for their food gifts. This is the only thing they’ve ever requested and I make this soup stock once a year, if that.

3. We hosted a mini Friendsgiving the day after Thanksgiving. A couple of friends who didn’t make a turkey came over and dined on our set aside turkey. It was perfect and then we wound up the night talking about emergency preparedness and what we still need. I broke out our water filter for the first time in 8 years, and we figured out how to put it together. We also may do disaster preparedness practice runs together – Emergency Food Fridays, anyone? I have been pushing PiC to do this because I want us to be totally prepared for emergencies and disasters. *Totally prepared = where it’s muscle memory and not us fumbling around trying to figure out how to arrange the basics: lights, clean water, heating up food safely indoors, staying warm, etc.

4. I deeply appreciate my warm sweatpants that fit. I could live in these. I have to fight the urge to go buy five more as an overreaction to many years of ill fitting clothes. Is this just me? Anytime I find something I like, I want one more in case I can’t find it again but I also wear things until their doom (usually at least 5 years, more like 8-10) by which point it’s possible my taste or standards may have changed so why not let it go and find a new thing?

This may be a deeply ingrained reflex from my pre-tailoring things to fit and pre-Petite sizes era. Back then, nothing ever really fit and if it did I wasn’t likely to get lucky again in that clothing group. I was always going about in oversized and poor fitting clothes.

5. While I tackled a page long To Do list on Sunday, with JB’s help at times, PiC cleaned the sink, vacuumed, did all the laundry, changed the sheets for our guest room to prepare for our next house guest and cooked dinner. I was so focused on all the things I needed to get done that I didn’t quite realize what he was doing the whole time. Naturally, I appreciate him like you wouldn’t believe.

6. I was in charge of ordering a ton of alcohol gifts for the family. I started my order over the weekend and happened across two stackable promotions to get 2 bottles of whisky plus a mini, 12 bottles of wine, and a whole case of beer for $187. Note to self, plan ahead. Next year’s supply of alcohol to serve guests and for gifts – buy on Cyber Monday!

7. I tried adding a half cup of baking soda to the wash drum + vinegar in the fabric softener dish for JB’s funny smelling sheets, and PiC’s workout clothes, and they don’t smell terrible anymore! Huzzah!

8. How is it Thursday already?? (Right now as I type this.) JB and I both went to the dentist and got our teeth cleaned and is there anything more dentally satisfying than a professional cleaning?? I love how clean our teeth are and I’m loaded up on advice for how to take better care of our teeth and gums. I have some gum recession 😭😭 and I’m more afraid of dental recession than a financial one these days. So, brushing and flossing diligently, as we’ve been doing, but I have to wear my night guard every night now.

:: How was your week?

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