August 9, 2024
Good Things Friday (285) and Link Love
1. We did NOT get COVID from the friend who did get it and spent time with us before she knew. Go masks and booster vax!
August 2, 2024
Good Things Friday (284) and Link Love
1. I took a chance on a package of soft rolls for lunch sandwiches and it was perfect. They were soft as a cloud and squishy so it didn’t feel like I was getting 70% starch to the rest of the sandwich.
Challenges this week:
July 26, 2024
Good Things Friday (283) and Link Love
1. At first I was positively astonished that Biden bowed out and was a touch skeptical that this country will elect the first female and Black president. That was in the first hour of the announcement. I was imagining total chaos in the wake of his stepping down. I wanted to hold out hope because a baked potato would be better than Trump, never mind a relatively reasonable human with relevant experience.
Now I’m relieved at how the whole thing was managed to give her support immediately. I won’t pretend that I personally like Harris. I don’t know enough about her to say yet and I’m not a fan of the cult of personality type politics. However she does have a body of experience that’s highly relevant and she came out of the gate strong and that gives me hope. I do like the possibility that she might be a leader we can accomplish good things with even if we have to push her to them. We all know that’s absolutely nothing like what we’d get out of a second TFG presidency.
July 19, 2024
Good Things Friday (282) and Link Love
1. For better or for worse, this week flew by.
July 12, 2024
Good Things Friday (281) and Link Love
1. I treated myself to a $5 body wash in hopes it would smell super fruity (pink lemon and mandarin orange) and it’s totally what I hoped for but also it’s basically grapefruit.
July 5, 2024
Good Things Friday (280) and Link Love
1. Half the potato plants are turning yellow and brown. Sooooon, we harvest! 🤞🤞🤞
2. So far I’ve spotted two blueberries on the bush. Maybe we’ll have as many as three this season? Once again I’m so grateful this is a hobby and not a need.
June 28, 2024
Good Things Friday (279) and Link Love
1. I was very proud of myself for managing to get the kids rounded up to go to the mall and return some poorly chosen purchases over the weekend. Physical errands have mostly fallen to PiC since COVID and while I’ve been to that shopping center dozens of times to grab takeout, I have never gone in to do any shopping related activities. This felt like a minor victory that I could scrape together the time and energy.
2. Of course then I had to nap afterwards because I’d spent the whole morning doing chores and morning the kids solo. But rest was also a good thing even if I resented it.