Good Things Friday (150) and Link Love
January 7, 2022
1. There is something REALLY satisfying about sitting down to roll over to your next year’s spreadsheets and seeing all the numbers lined up properly for once. I usually have my totals a little off for one reason or another and have to spend time fixing that but this year’s final balance on my manual spreadsheet matches my bank account! Woot!
2. Related: This year I want to track my investing income separately but in the same spreadsheet that I track all my normal budgeting things. I’ve adjusted the formulas to see if that works as planned. I don’t do new year’s resolutions but I do love financial fresh starts so I especially love when the new year is on a weekend so I can spend some quality time with my numbers.
3. I finally got to try spaghetti squash that someone else made and I liked it! We will try it on our own now that we know we like it.
4. This was a really good comment from the Ask A Manager updates: “And a reminder that so many times the people/situations that are taking up enormous amounts of real estate in our brain, turn out to be no big deal.”
Challenges this week:
I’m three miles beyond tired.
I came to this article late (Who’s Struggling With The Emotional Labor Of The Holidays?) and thought about all the work I put into making the holidays work and why it didn’t send me into a rage tizzy. I think my rage is reserved for ridiculous people we encounter in the holidaying more than the labor itself because there’s something deeply satisfying about making things happen but also because PiC picks up my slack in so many other ways to make space for me to do the prep. It’s not unacknowledged and he does his part.
Great Resignation? How About Great Realization. (I agree with her point because I’m sick of whiny conservatives saying people don’t want to work as if that was a moral failing, but also I don’t want to work anymore. Fancy that.)
I’ve been struggling with my appetite lately, fatigue and stress are destroying it, so I’m poking around for easy recipes I vaguely remember liking. I think I made Extra Petite’s Easy Seafood Pasta with shrimp and scallops and that was well received. I need to replenish our frozen seafood supplies. I’d like to find a good recipe for strong flavors to go with spaghetti squash.
Welp, Finland’s #1 AGAIN for World Happiness, Those Clever Bastards—Here’s Why
Jerrrryyyyy! (Contains otter)
Beowulf translated in 15 lines, a reading by Michael Alexander
Writer’s Resolution, 2022: The Necessary Act Of Selfishly Seeking Joy
No thank you!! What Fresh Hell Is ‘Flurona’?
Dog thought to be lost on I-89 in New Hampshire leads police to scene of crash, injured owner
My super talented friend
Fun fact: Doggle never liked my singing, he only approved of Ashley’s.
I’ve never seen the Harry Potter movies so I didn’t see how bad this was visually but it sure seemed bad enough in the text
So @jonstewart recently broke Hollywood’s complete silence on @jk_rowling unapologetically maintaining antisemitic folklore through Harry Potter. pic.twitter.com/ezWrxpzryB
— raf (@rafaelshimunov) January 3, 2022
