Good Things Friday (309) and Link Love
January 24, 2025
1. Things I got done despite marrow-deep exhaustion and illness (in addition to bare survival): dealt with a post office issue, oversaw the addressing and stamping of our new year cards, cooked a nourishing and tasty chicken broth with ginger. Contacted all our Congresspeople to encourage them to keep voting NO on the Laken Riley Act (which is so dangerous for minorities, doesn’t matter if we’re “legal” or not) and to actually stand up against this presidential administration. (I’m furious that they passed it. So that sort of takes away from the “good” aspect. This is open season on minorities, because a false accusation’s free and still gets people deported under this act.)
2. Treated myself to a Cinnabon this week. Delicious but holy crap they’re pricy now.
3. I don’t think there’s ever been a song that I’ve heard Kelly Clarkson song that didn’t sound amazing. I didn’t know she covered “It’s Quiet Uptown” years ago.
A friend on dealing with what’s ahead: Making pudding at 3am
I hope every individual person who chose to treat her like this gets what’s coming: Warren woman arrested after miscarriage sues hospital, police
This is so bleak: Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead
It’s infuriating that these companies are getting away with child exploitation with a slap on the wrist: Child labor in slaughterhouses spotlighted by 3 settlements this week
I wonder if they rotate the pictures and if the sunfish would notice: Japan aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish by taping photos of human faces to its tank
It’s been a rough week for sleep for sure. I haven’t figured out the right approach – at least last night when I woke up I just refused to do anything but lie there, and I did fall back to sleep eventually.
Yay you for giving yourself a treat!