Category — Microblog Mondays

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So I should begin by saying that I spent a chunk of the summer reading an “end of the world” trilogy (The Last Policeman — so good!), which thoroughly freaked me out.  The world was ending.  People were awful, making the end of the world even worse.

And then the Guardian ran a piece about the super wealthy preparing for this inevitable event: “The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.”

It’s less about the tech itself and more about predicting how humans will behave.  It’s about people thinking how to continue to survive when the fragile social rules that govern are world are useless.  The article (and that book series) will terrify you, but it will also make you think long and hard about how we’re treating each other in the here and now.

How do you think people will behave after a world-ending event?  Will we bond together, or will all hell break loose?

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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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Real Simple put out a form this summer for conducting a chore audit in your home.  It’s a little limiting, and it would probably work better if it had it as Person A, Person B, Person C, etc. and you could fill in the name and work on the form together.  But it’s a fantastic idea to take an honest look at what everyone does and see where people can step in to help.

Because you may think you’re doing everything and then realize as you fill out the form that other people in the home sometimes take those tasks.  Or you may think that you’re not doing enough but then see how much you’re actually doing to keep the home running.

Like there are only six tasks on that list that are solely mine.  Almost everything else, Josh or the twins do a quarter or half the time.  And there are four things I never — or almost never — do.

Take a look at the chore audit list.  How do chores in your house shake out?

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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 post.

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

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I am a super-user at my library, there several times per week.  We read a lot.  And usually the books are in great shape.  Checking them out from the library saves a lot of space on our bookshelves.

But.

I was on the waiting list for China Rich Girlfriend along with 477 other people.  It was finally my turn to get the book, and I picked up the copy from the hold shelf and brought it home.  Then I opened it.  There was food smeared across a bunch of the pages, and something that looked like the skin of peanuts in most of the seams.  I held the book over the rubbish bin and tried to clean it out as best I could as I vomited in my mouth.  Why would someone do this to a book?

I tried to read the copy, but the food stains were turning my stomach, and I felt like I had to wash my hands every time I read it.  So I purchased a copy (plus the next one in the trilogy).  It’s rare to get a book in this state, though it’s the second time it has happened to me this summer.

How are the books at your library?

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After reading (and seeing) Crazy Rich Asians, I am devouring every article linked to inside other articles, and found this one about crazy rich honeymoon planners.  (Actually, it’s not that the honeymoon planners are crazy rich.  It’s their clients.  So I guess that moniker doesn’t really work.)

Anyway, $50,000 for a honeymoon!  Or more.  The minimum is $20,000 to use their services, and they talk about one that cost $1.8 million.  FOR A HONEYMOON.

We went on a great honeymoon.  We went to St. Lucia.  We had good intentions to explore and learn the patois, but we ended up face-planting on the beach and sleeping or reading every day.  We managed to head into a nearby town twice, catching a street fair one night, and we went on a hike (though quit early so we could go back to sleeping).

If you’re married, did you go on a honeymoon?  If not, where would you want to go?

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There was a fascinating article earlier this summer on unneeded spaces in houses that pointed out this fact from a study:

Nobody is actually using their formal living and dining rooms. Families actually spend most of their time in the kitchen and the informal living room or den. Yet we continue to build these wastes of space because many Americans still want that extra square footage.

Okay, it’s a very judgy article, but it does make a point.  When you take a step back and look at homes, it’s a bizarre idea to keep a living space that you seldom use when rooms that get continual use can be changed to accommodate entertaining.  And it’s also true that entertaining is emotional; inviting people into your space is emotional.

We don’t have a second living room or a dining room.  I’m curious how many people who have them use them on a daily or weekly basis.

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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 post.