Good Things Friday (146) and Link Love
December 10, 2021
1. Is there anything more satisfying than bringing your dog fresh blankets out of the dryer?
2. Saturdays feel like days where I get to choose everything I want to do in whatever order I want, in whatever increment I want.
Sundays feel like days where I have to do what I have to do.
I would like more days like Saturday.
Which is not to say I don’t appreciate the value of Sundays. Even if I wanted to be doing something else, the things I am doing are things I wanted to get done so there’s satisfaction there: cooking a meal, teaching JB a little about food, letting the kids be together and playing and feeding each other so they build their bond absent parental involvement, cleaning and vacuuming. Making arrangements for people’s birthdays.
Challenges this week: Another nasty cold landed and got the whole clan done to Super Sneezy Sera. Bad times y’all.
I was asked privately to help organize for a PF friend in need but it’s hard for them to ask for help, so they wanted to stay anon for this. This is someone from our own community who has been going through some rough times.
Hey y’all, I’m pretty sick but a PF friend of ours is having financial difficulties+needs help w/temporary housing. They asked if I could organize a bit of help to tide them over anonymously. If you can, (gift so they don’t take out fees, paypal, admin@agaishanlife.com) I’ll get it to them ASAP.
— Revanche (@RevAGSL) December 9, 2021
The dilemma about whether to bring kids into a world on the path to annihilation was very much a real one for us and I have to admit to a certain amount of despair myself. We do our best but it hasn’t felt like it’d be worth it at all.
When You’re Not Ready to Chase Financial Independence: “My mindset, at this time, was fear-based. It limited my thought processes to resembling tunnel vision. There was little room for anything that wasn’t about becoming an attractive, in-demand worker. Due to that and the stress from stretching myself too (needlessly) thin, financial independence wasn’t even a consideration.” This was me all through 2000-2010, roughly. Maybe 2014 even. I wouldn’t say that JB was the turning point, JB coincided with the turning point as we became financially stable enough for me to start to work through my bag lady syndrome. I’m not through it entirely of course, I’ve got a way to go, but I have completely shifted my mindset on what I want for my personal and professional future.
