Category — Microblog Mondays

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I have an article on L’Inconnue de la Seine open in the Internet browser on my phone.  It has been there for days.  The article itself made me so sad, and then it felt wrong to close the page, as if doing so somehow diminished this nameless woman’s life as much as turning her into death mask.  Or Rescue Annie.

There are dozens of other open searches, from a pinball machine to a video on how to find all the minikits in one of the LEGO Dimension levels to the lyrics of a song I was trying to remember a few weeks ago.  And those are just the open pages on my phone.  Please, let’s not even go into all the tabs I have open on the computer full of random things I’ve looked up this week and never closed.

Do you leave web pages open for days?  Which ones are currently open on your phone or computer browser because you looked up something and never closed the tab?

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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The twins and I have settled into a thoroughly enjoyable and very bad habit.  Every week before their art class, we go out for water ice and custard.  It started because I was having a bad day.  “I need something nice.  Let’s go out for gelati.”

Every week since, we’ve found some reason to need gelatis.  By last week, we were no longer pretending.  The kids got in the car after school and said, “Are we going out for gelati?”  As if it were a question.  As if I hadn’t flipped my turn signal to take us in the direction of the store.  “Oh?  Do you want to?”

I told them that we had to break this habit because it’s so bad for our bodies.  The ChickieNob added, “It’s so bad for our bodies, but it’s so good for our souls.”  How can I argue with that?

Do you have any bad habits that bring you so much pleasure?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Thank you to everyone who sent along the Time magazine or the Jezebel article about that hashtag #ObamaAndKids.  We were out all day, so I didn’t know that was happening on Twitter.

That photo of the twins that they included actually marks an interesting moment. It was the first time I let the kids go off with a stranger.

The ChickieNob had questions for the President, so one of the staffers arranged for the kids to go over to the other side of the room to meet him. I wouldn’t be able to see them during that time because there was a crowd around the President. I must have had a look on my face when they told me what was going to happen because the woman touched my arm and said, “I will not let anything happen to them. They are in the safest place in the US, and I will stay with them the whole time.”

(In my defense, it was a really big room. And they were really small kids. And I couldn’t see them. And I’m a really nervous person, in general.)

She clearly returned them to me, unscathed. And while they were over there, this super-nice photographer we met earlier in the day photographed them for me at the same time as Pete Souza so I could see what was happening while they were out of my sight line. The whole experience made me chill out (a bit) but was moreover a really good reminder that there are a lot of kind adults out there who are going to watch out for your kids when you’re not around. And those adults that day — none of whom had kids and therefore weren’t doing it from experience because they knew how nerve wracking it can be to be separated from your children in a crowd — were good people who set my heart at ease that day.

And to keep me from sounding like the only anxiety-prone woman on the Internet, tell me what makes you nervous. And has anyone ever helped you quell your fears?

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Though we’ve known about the theater production of The Cursed Child for a while (and my friend has tickets; she has tickets, people!), the Internet lost their mind over the announcement that JK Rowling would be releasing the script in bound form.  Will I buy it?  Yes, because all of our money is earmarked to be given to JK Rowling.  But no, I have not preordered it yet, nor have a lost my mind.

There are some people who do not want to read the script because they feel like the series ended so neatly back in Book 7 (save for the years into the future chapter), and to return to these characters is to ruin something.  Harry is forever 17, surrounded by his friends after ridding the world of its greatest evil.  Who wants to peek at a middle aged Harry Potter with a beer gut and receding hairline?  At the same time, who wants to imagine that our beloved Harry Potter peaked in high school?  That after all of that excitement, he has lived a fairly tame married life, has kids, reads the newspaper?  Anything other than fighting the Dark Lord with the whole wizarding world behind him is a bit of a letdown.

But will I read it?  Hells yeah.  It’s sort of like Facebook: I don’t really want to think of all of us as middle aged, but I like peeking at old classmates to see how they turned out.

Do you want to know what happened to Harry Potter years down the road, or are you happy to keep him 17 forever?

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My current biggest non-dangerous pet peeve (to differentiate the annoying from the dangerous, such as texting and driving) is people who call something hummus that doesn’t have chickpeas.

The word “hummus” means chickpea.  How can you have hummus without chickpeas?  That’s like saying this is a delicious coffee made with tea.  It isn’t coffee then; it’s tea.  And hummus without chickpeas is some other bean spread.

This ire isn’t even aimed at people who put stuff in their hummus.  I mean, I personally won’t eat bizarro hummus with ingredients beyond tehini and garlic, but if people want to use chickpeas as a base and add stuff to it, go ahead.  But I just read yet another site that said, “No chickpeas, no problem!  Try this delicious hummus made with edamame.”

NOOOOOOO.

Got that out of my system.  So what is your annoying (non-dangerous) pet peeve?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.