Good Thing Friday (76)
July 31, 2020
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,713.62; Rural libraries, $321.62.
1. We tried roast beef for my sandwiches and I’ve discovered that a good cheese and roast beef sandwich on the keto bagels that PiC makes for me is kind of like a keto friendly cheeseburger! Such a happy food discovery.
2. Two, wait three more, great discoveries: our local dumpling shop set up their own online ordering system so I know the money we pay goes entirely to them, we got 10% off an order over $25, AND they sell frozen bags of their dumplings so we can just stock up on those to avoid too many take out runs for when I’m not up to making our own dumplings.
3. I keep nickel and diming myself on every single purchase to control budget creep but finally said florf it! and bought myself a few much-wanted e-books on Kobo. They were all great. My brain is happy. And of course it wants more. Because I gave it a cookie, so now it wants milk, and a straw and and and…! I am so predictable.
Challenges this week: I caught a one-two punch with the rental and had to sacrifice half a work day to figure things out. It was not fun. We are two weeks out from the supposed start date for school and we still have zero information to go on. We also just found out that PiC’s company has a large number of layoffs planned and we have no information other than “a large number by the fall”. Of course that news has put us on edge.
4. Weirdly enough, after starting the process of making decisions based on what I want and need instead of what I “should” do financially, even though nothing is resolved yet, I feel a hundred pounds lighter. I’m less moody and grouchy overall and I have an extra half bucket of patience. It’s a much missed, now unfamiliar feeling. I don’t know how long it’ll last but I really like it and hope it’s here to stay. I’m going to need every ounce of patience I can get!
When the first item is roast beef, that is a good week! My favorite items this week: we saw the coolest orange sunrise that reminded me of Halloween (even the bird flying by looked like a bat). Then we saw a white sunrise that made the sun look like a moon. Clearly, I love my sunrises on the beach.
Food related good things are the best.
Now I want dumplings!
Saaaaaaame! Too lazy to make and all the frozen options are too far!
Ooh I really hope a frozen option opens up for you soon, this was a very happy surprise for us.
Dumplings are amazing!! They are a bit more work than I am usually willing to commit to unless I’m making a really big batch.