Just a little (link) love: tiny carrot cake edition
April 5, 2018
PF Ladies have been having a hell of a time. Little Green Revelation talks about her incredibly tough year between parental health issues, home issues, and personal health issues.
Will you be traveling to the EU? Do you know your air passenger rights in case of flight disruptions? This seems to be a handy set of guidelines to EU passenger rights.
An interview with a nanny for a psychic. This bit caught my attention: “I initially reached out to her because my (deceased) father’s spirit was following me around trying to get my attention. I asked him to stop but she told me that he was there trying to make it up to me for being a negligent father. He was trying to protect me now and wanted me to know that he’s there.”
Haunting runs in our family and is considered run of the mill. But if my dad tried to pull this, I’d be looking into banishment. We don’t typically go in for that in our family but no way no how no sir.
Nicole Cliffe on bigamous marriages in her family. We also have one of those stories. It’s weird.
I had no idea there was so much unoccupied or abandoned housing in Oakland.
Slate does a series based on the idea that “Every couple has one core fight that replays over and over again, in different disguises, over the course of their relationship.” Realistic or no? The very idea seems totally exhausting to me. We have had long standing differences of opinion, and backgrounds, but we acknowledge them, discuss why they’re important, and work out compromises based on knowing those things about ourselves. It’s a lot of work sometimes but it sure feels better than engaging in a lifelong tug of war like this couple. Also I think this is a remarkably immature read on risk-aversion, but is this actually common?: “I see risk-aversion as banality, boredom, giving into convention or family pressure or something like that. I hate this idea in our culture that you’re not an adult unless you feel frustrated and stifled and you hate your life. We equate maturity with the wrong things.”
Since when is adult life equated with feeling frustrated? For me, it’s meant freedom and stability and more freedom even with all the responsibilities I choose to take on.
Tiny food will always amuse me
Tiny Carrot Cake
This tiny carrot cake counts as a serving of veggies… right? @tinykitchenTM pic.twitter.com/QsdlJbKRXC— Tastemade (@tastemade) April 1, 2018
“Haunting runs in our family and is considered run of the mill.”
That is the single most amazing sentence I’ve ever read on any blog.
I’m actually really intrigued by this as well. It could warrant a full post! 😀
LOL I could maybe put that together though I don’t think there’s any real way to justify it as a money post 😀
*doffs cap*
There are a lot of weird, toxic relationship tropes floating around out there that seem thoroughly exhausting: You will constantly feel angry at your partner, that’s marriage. You should feel jealous if they have an opposite sex friendship. You should refer to your spouse as your “ball and chain” because you feel constantly restricted and imprisoned in your marriage.
No, I’m satisfied with my uncomplicated, happy relationship, tyvm.
SERIOUSLY all the unhealthy relationship tropes. Just because YOU are suffering doesn’t mean we need to.
I am SO here for the psychic’s nanny. I love that shit!
Glad you’re OK and crock pots are evil…
I will forever be amused by the tiny builds too, because despite my little fingers I’m actually super clumsy.
LOL I knew there was a market for that 😀
I thought that Catherine the Slate article came off as pretty unlikeable in her portrayal of everything, but Chris did call her on most of it, and she acquiesced. I think there is something to the “one fight” thing, although I’d not call it a fight. We have different ways of thinking of certain things, and it become a theme in decision making and discussions. For example, I like to have plans ad back up plans and make decisions relatively quickly, and he’s much slower to get used to the idea of things and wants to delay making a decision until necessary. It is generally just a good balance, but it is a really predictable difference in approach to things.
Also intrigued by the haunting!
Yeah I would characterize us alone the same lines but it rarely produces an actual fight anymore, we’ve learned each other’s differences and try to respect them. I take issue with acting like it HAS to be a fight, all the time.
Haunting, y’know, normal! 😉