Good Things Friday (213) and Link Love
March 24, 2023
1. As much as I’ve been sad this week, that some of this might just be sadness and not depression because I’ve also felt the small pips of wanting to have good food or do fun things for the first time in years. I’ve not wanted to do anything, even the things I love the most for a long time. I’ve found no pleasure in planning or even dreaming about unlikely plans for the fun of it.
2. Therapy also helped me work through lots of mixed up grief. Friends have been going through rough stuff and it’s bringing up a lot of empathetic grief for their losses and also twangs resonantly with my own personal grief and losses.
3. My hollowed out chest coughing is still playing up occasionally but it’s much less this week. I almost want to put up a 2 days since last infection counter but that’s just tempting fate, isn’t it?
4. I found PiC’s Global Entry card!!!! It was under my nose this whole time. I’m never telling him I missed it being right there for three months. 😅😂
5. This gave me a much needed laugh:
Helping folks: I peripherally know Limecello through Romancelandia. Can we help them out a bit? They’re going through a particularly rough time post-op: Please Help Limecello
Lance Reddick Answers Every Question We Have About John Wick
I knew Kara Goucher’s name from PiC’s running days, but I didn’t follow her after he pulled back on the sport. I bet her book will be a worthwhile read. Don’t F*ck with Kara Goucher.
Kara Goucher on Owning Her Own Story
This made me sick to my stomach. Why are a 4 and 9 year old designated carers for three family members?! That’d be like Smol Acrobat and JB having to care for adults and what? Why have we failed these children so badly?: Bedford young carer sisters given bedroom makeover
I’m shocked he was charged, I’m curious to see if there will be actual repercussions beyond that: Carson Briere charged for pushing woman’s wheelchair down steps
I never understood ASMR until this clip
i could listen to @benbarnes do asmr all day long pic.twitter.com/Dj9ao1b4qV
— Shadow And Bone (@shadowandbone_) March 18, 2023
Last week was about kids who don’t yet have the ability to consent. This week, adults who are losing the ability to consent. I’m an Extremely Online person but even so, I try to be super aware of protecting everyone’s identities since they can’t consent to being talked about here. I don’t understand why and how people think it’s ok to video adults with dementia to mock them: Dementia content gets billions of views on TikTok. Whose story does it tell?
Man these next two articles paint a bleak picture for our future: Drug shortages are rising and pose a national security risk, new report warns
UN warns against ‘vampiric’ global water use
I really needed a pick me up and this really helped.
In grad school, I once lost my apartment keys for two months. The day after I called the landlord for a replacement, I found them.
In the key dish by the back door. The key dish.
😆😆😆 thank you for sharing that. It makes me feel better.
The necessity of the Young Carers program is sad but it is also simply recognition of the de-facto situation many disabled-parent/disabled-guardian families operate in. A blind parent might rely on their child to read schoolwork paperwork aloud; a grandma with bad arthritis might need their granddaughter to help open jars and fasten buttons; someone with SAD might spend weeks in winter too depressed to keep up with the laundry or housework. The gov’t can’t fund full-time or even part-time caregivers to replace all their work, and removing kids from otherwise loving homes into foster homes seems wrong, but it is still such a burden for those young shoulders to carry. 🙁 At least with the British Carer programs they have more oversight and emotional resources available than America provides.
It’s so sad to think of a 4 year old in that role. At 8, JB certainly has regular responsibilities around the house, which we have been building up since they were 4, but that’s so different from being a carer.
It’s such a sad situation entirely. I hope the kids are much more supported in this than I’m imagining, the article was spare on details.