June 7, 2024
1. I’m really glad we have the new washer. It washes efficiently! It spins efficiently (and doesn’t need to be spun 3 times to be dry enough)! I can set a delayed start so it runs after peak hours! It handled the 15, no, 20 loads of laundry in 3 days for the Pine Ridge Reservation like a champ.
2. Nicole and Maggie shared this GoFundMe for a study on “the enduring impact of childhood exposure to violence on bilateral intimate partner violence in Northern Uganda where thousands of boys and girls were abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army during childhood.”
3. I forgot how glorious it is to get 8 whole uninterrupted hours a day alone. I dislike the scheduling chaos that is generally summer but I very much love the few solo days I get this. Thanks, summer camp!
Challenges this week: everything is overwhelm. There’s too much going on and I’d already hit the upper limit for planning things when a funeral (not someone I knew but still an obligation) entered the chat and wanted scheduling. UGH.
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May 31, 2024
1. Scarleteen is fundraising through Give Out Day. I wasn’t totally clear on the platform they’re using for the fundraising but I know they’re a valuable resource so I donated to get them to their unique donors goal. This explains a little more about it.
Challenges this week:
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May 24, 2024
1. From Nicole and Maggie, donations to this Donors Choose is being matched.
2. Crickette’s a good friend of a good friend and needs some help making ends meet. Paypal pool, Cashapp ($Crickette19), Venmo (@Crickette).
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May 17, 2024
- I had a FULL ON panic, frantically looking up the grace period (61 days) for late payment of my life insurance policy, because I just found the premium notice on the shelf instead of filed away in the Big Notebook of Important Stuff. I scribbled out a check fast as I could, counting the days as I sealed up the envelope, hoping that almost 2 weeks was enough time. Then, while kicking myself, wondered why this bill wasn’t in my template for all bill payments, and went to fix that. But wait… it was… so …? I scrolled up two months and there is it. I paid it two months ago, on time and it was such a non-event I completely forgot to file away the paperwork as normal. Way to scare myself. But hey, my system worked/works.
- Grief hung particularly heavy this weekend so I’m glad that I’d been saving this snippet featuring Klaus, Dina and Arland to read: I Will Explain Everything
- We have delayed start on our washing machine and I like it. On days when I simply cannot get the laundry run during my work hours, I can fill the washer and set it to start the run after peak hours and then it’s ready for me to pop in the dryer early the next morning. That’s really nice.
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May 10, 2024
1. We need more of this: Columbia And Barnard Alumni Announce A Boycott Of University Reunions And Plans To Send Funds From Alternative Events To Aid In Palestine
2. Can’t say I expected a seminary to be the first one but good on them! Union Theological Seminary votes to divest from companies profiting from Gaza war
Challenges this week: still grieving. Still sick.
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May 3, 2024
1. When I returned some things from our most recent Chewy order, they sent us a vase of flowers for Sera. I’m not very big on flowers but it was a kind gesture and they’re pretty to look at.
Challenges this week: Every day this week was a slog.
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April 26, 2024
1. It’s been an incredibly hard week with Sera’s health. The kindness of friends knowing I wouldn’t be able to eat and making it a point to check up on me and send food has been deeply appreciated. I’m lucky that they care.
2. In the midst of all this loss and sadness, I have reconnected by text with two former colleagues that I liked a lot from my past jobs. One of them reminded me that one of the main tenets of Buddhism is that change is the only constant and we never have true control over most things (except our decisions). This in relation to both my job and Sera is poignant and it helps a little to remember that riding the waves is my job. That this isn’t my own personal failure whether at work or at home, that I couldn’t maintain stability there or here.
3. I’m just too tired to figure out why our backyard hose faucet spigot thingie started leaking and/or fix it so, for now, I stick the kids’ watering can sand toy under the drip and use that to water the plants. It’s not great but it makes me water regularly which I don’t tend to do.
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