Good Things Friday (277) and Link Love
June 14, 2024
1. I finally tackled the linen closet with an armload of compression bags and organized every room’s bedding into their own labeled bag. It doesn’t look a great deal different from before but tis vastly more functional. I’ll know exactly which bag to take the sheets from for each bed and I’ll know where all the pillowcases are because they’re all in one bag. I’d tried the stuff all the sheets and pillowcases in a pillowcase method but then I couldn’t tell which set was complete with matching pillowcase. Now it doesn’t matter, I can grab a sheet set and then pick a set of pillowcases from the pillowcase bag. Very satisfying.
Challenges this week: Smol Acrobat’s going through an unbelievably grumpy big dramatic feelings phase. Any tiny disagreement will send them into a total meltdown.
9 Questions to Help You Figure Out Why You’re Burned Out: I was absolutely approaching this cynically but it is something to have some of these things spelled out like: The last hallmark of burnout is essentially disengagement, characterized by feelings of cynicism or negativity towards one’s job.
Also:
- What one or two things have been most exhausting or stressful for me?
- What has been stopping me from getting adequate rest or taking regular breaks?
Answers to both are “my job and my children”. Literally in the case of getting adequate rest, Smol Acrobat’s up multiple times a night every night still.
This is cool: California’s New 1600-Acre State Park Set to Open This Week
This cracks me up: Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered
Interesting. We can’t use this for the kids but could save us some time: Online Passport Renewal Quietly Launches Today — Here’s How It Will Work
So much for one of PF’s big money saving tactics: Dozens of CVS Generic Drug Recalls Expose Link to Tainted Factories. I remember buying generics when it was still stigmatized and I thought that was silly. Now, though….
