Good Things Friday (162) and Link Love
April 1, 2022
1. I can hide under my covers and check out books from the library on my phone and read them. 8 year old me would be SO JEALOUS of this kind of access.
2. There’s an earring maker whose crafts I love admiring but have held back from buying anything for a bit because Smol keeps ripping out my earrings and it’s not fun. I did find a pair that are perfect for a Christmas gift for a friend and since I was paying for shipping anyway, decided to pick out one bright colorful pair to go with my bright colorful dresses I bought a couple years ago. I normally avoid bright and colorful but I’ve been thinking that I could try branching out a little and even accessorize! I only agonized over spending the money a little bit. For a while.
3. This Direct Aid campaign to help Afghani citizens in dire need passed their goal but I think we should keep contributing as much as long as we are able. I’m really glad that Shep shared this last week.
Challenges this week: The top of my foot has been swollen for a week and I haven’t been able to convince it to stop. If it sticks around a few more days, I’m naming it.
We’re acutely aware of the continued devastation that Russian is wreaking on Ukraine and it’s all horrible.
I might have to try Jen Gunter’s French Lentil recipe. Years and years ago I had a lentil recipe I loved but darn if I can find it now. Maybe PiC has it in his email somewhere.
My friend! Elsa Sjunneson: DeafBlind fencer, hiker, published author
I share Jenny’s frustration with our COVID situation. I AM willing to do what it takes to be extremely careful but still I’m sick and tired of the societal-level approach that makes no sense, is fractured, and doesn’t do a damn thing for immunocompromised and under-5 people. And now that people have decided they’re over it, we’re seeing accessibility for disabled people that helped so many be taken away too. It feels like everything is so much worse than it was at the start of this whole mess. Other than adults having vaccines, which isn’t hardly effective enough against omicron for my comfort, and I think our school has done stuff around ventilation but I have to wonder how long they’ll keep that up. We’ve been very careful and very lucky so far, but how long can our luck hold? I am BARELY keeping it together as it is with my pain and exhaustion and overwhelm.
This is sickening: ‘A get out of jail free card’: GOP bill would eliminate age requirements for marriages in Tennessee
now this is cinema pic.twitter.com/PAcVTgeeQ2
— DGA Anderson (@AndersonVilien) March 10, 2022
@failing_full_circle She’s fine #PNW #RuralLife #Corgi #corgisoftiktok #labradorretriever #SmallFarm #Creek #River #outdoors ♬ original sound – FailingFullCircle
TIL that “Panda CPS Worker” is a legitimate career path.https://t.co/dJ1q76s4fg
— Iron Spike (@Iron_Spike) March 19, 2022
I started making polymer clay earrings last summer; they’re super fun and very lightweight! Those you linked are all adorable but I especially like the animal cookie ones.
I give any individual human low odds indeed of never getting a widespread, gonna-be-endemic, currently-epidemic, very contagious virus. (I understand exactly why you want to not get it, it’s just a really hard situation!)
How fun! I hope you might share a bit of your process and your creations one of these days, I’d love to see.
Deep sigh. I know. I have to let myself be important enough to me to TRY my best (part of my therapeutic process) but I also know you’re right.