Good Thing Friday (87)
October 16, 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, $1,816.35; Rural libraries, $346.69
1. We’re seeing improvement in JB’s reading comprehension from PiC’s reading with them every single day and with their tutoe. That’s really heartening amid all my frustrations with the kindergarten teacher who is working at a snail’s pace of one letter or one two-letter word a day/week. They spend a lot of time reading comic books we find at the library and early reader books. Oddly, they gravitate to reading under my desk or the dining table. Not a great deal of light under there but they seem happy and all I care about is that they develop a love of reading.
2. Saturday we each had an ambitious list of things to get done. Too ambitious. We had about a week’s worth of work on each of our lists. I sat down to start working on my top priority and immediately started working on something that wasn’t even on the list. I pulled a huge stack of old tax paperwork from my overstuffed filing cabinet, checked the digital copies, and scanned and filed everything that was missing. Same for our closing docs for every property we have bought, sold, or refinances. Then the whole five inch stack of documents went into a sack for shredding later. So. Satisfying. I added that to the list just so I could cross it off.
3. PiC and JB tackled the furniture situation in JB’s room. We needed to make some space in there for various uses and the heavier furniture also needed to be secured to studs in case of earthquake. Naturally that meant that all the books and everything in the bookshelves had to come out for the moving and it looked like a tornado hit. I hollered at them every so often to focus on actually putting things away and not get sucked into reading every book before it goes back on the shelf.
Challenges this week: I’m hitting a wall mentally with preparations for my leave. It’s not super long but we’re such a small team that it’s going to be quite tough for them to absorb my work for any length of time and I have sixteen kinds of guilt over that. It’s something I’m working through because not going on leave is simply not an option.
4. Many months ago I backed the translation of The Road of Ice and Salt on Indiegogo. Silvia Moreno-Garcia ushered this project into being and it’s coming out in January 2021 as The Route of Ice and Salt. That’s pretty cool!
5. I feel like we should consider doing take out during the week. We tend to put it off until we’re nearly broken at the weekend from all the decision fatigue and physical fatigue. It’s unintentional self torment. We don’t have much time to be running out to pick up food since we’re trying to give restaurants our money directly so they’re not losing so much to the delivery services. At least the meals we didn’t have to prep or cook taste extra good when you’ve slogged all week long to make it to the end?
Plus my argument for more takeout is my eating a variety of foods in hopes of influencing Smol Acrobat’s enjoyment of a variety of foods outside the womb. I know that isn’t a sure thing but I’d much rather try than not. We exposed them to Vietnamese, Korean (spicy bibimbap!), and Mexican (fish tacos and spicy carrots!) this weekend. If nothing else, it improves my appetite and that’s pretty great.
6. Daydream: I’d like to have a plate of really crisp, not greasy fish and chips while watching the waves on a beach. Also maybe a clam chowder. On a cool day.
Oh or half a dozen beignets (apple and crayfish flights please!) from Brenda’s French Soul Food. Mmm…. Delicious…
:: What are you craving this weekend?