February 23, 2024

Good Things Friday (261) and Link Love

Big opportunity to help folks: Amy Jo Cousins (@ajcousins.bsky.social) said: “Applying for asylum without an attorney is a nearly impossible process. Six nonprofits are coming together (this is REALLY unusual) to raise money to maximize the number of families who will have the legal rep they need to MEANINGFULLY seek safety here.”

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February 16, 2024

Good Things Friday (260) and Link Love

1. I managed TWO, no, THREE short yardwork sessions this weekend. I pulled weeds for ten minutes Saturday morning. Smol Acrobat very sweetly asked for a weeding session later that afternoon, which I’d been promising them for days, so it was time to make good on my promise. The last one was for Smol Acrobat’s sake too, but mostly to divert them from the Lego trolley they wanted. However. Ten minutes of chopping hedges is not the same as ten minutes of pulling weeds. My hands were shaking terribly after whacking off the sticky-out bits all along the hedges and dumping them into compost. I needed an hour to recover from that one.
2. I have come to like my Darn Tough wool socks so much that I don’t want to wear my cotton socks anymore. The first part is good. Not sure what I’m going to do about the second part since we try to keep things out of landfill as much as possible. They’re still in good shape but I think they’re too worn in to be handed down. Actually maybe I’ll set them aside for one of the kids to wear when their feet catch up. They like borrowing my stuff.

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February 9, 2024

Good Things Friday (259) and Link Love

1. We made it to Friday. Thank goodness for giant battery power and that the storm passed on.

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February 2, 2024

Good Things Friday (258) and Link Love

1. JB took a very proactive lead in helping keep Smol Acrobat entertained when I was working on paperwork this weekend and then played with them the whole time at the playground when we walked to the park. They aren’t usually that focused and these outings are more often like handling two only children wanting things they want when they want it.

Help a family escape Gaza

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January 26, 2024

Good Things Friday (257) and Link Love

1. The WordPress app occasionally has trouble with uploading posts when I’m on WiFi. I’ve learned to toggle it off when I’m ready to post and back on again. This weekend it decided to quit uploading anything entirely, regardless of my connection, which was quite the fitting cap to this awful week. Thankfully after an hour of fruitless troubleshooting, uninstalling and reinstalling the app did the trick. Could have been worse.

2. I couldn’t make my Monday therapy make up appointment between illness and stunningly bad news but thank goodness for my Saturday appointment because, well, awful week.

It’s been a hard week.

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January 19, 2024

Good Things Friday (256) and Link Love

1. My post-holidays recombobulation process continues apace. I pulled pictures for JB’s school project and that pushed me to pull pictures from the holidays to photoshop a group picture. That led to me downloading a couple pics for my cousin. THAT led me to finally downloading the majillion (42, actually) pictures from Smol Acrobat’s friend’s birthday party to share with his friend’s mom who says they can’t get their kid to smile for ANY pics. That kiddo beamed like the sun for me so these are precious.

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January 12, 2024

Good Things Friday (255) and Link Love

1. I’m making incremental but mostly steady progress gathering stuff for donations: books the kids have outgrown or have duplicates of; hand me down Legos; collected puzzles that can go to a new home. These will ship out in a large box. 🎉

Actually, I should ship the books in a medium box or someone is going to throw out their back carrying it.

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