Category — Microblog Mondays

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I am still mentally regrouping after the Kavanaugh vote.  Analysts are stating that things are calming down, but… I’m not feeling that.  I don’t feel like I’m settling.  I feel like I’m sinking.

(You too?)

There was a Carolyn Hax column this weekend.  Hax was trying to give pregnancy after infertility advice without definitively understanding the situation (the asker was extremely vague with her pronouns), and she coins/uses the term “alpha feeler” to describe the only person’s emotions who matter.  Meaning the alpha feeler feels something and everyone else around her needs to feel it, too.  In this case, the alpha feeler is not asking this, but the mother is asking one child to treat the other child as the alpha feeler.  Anyway.

The point is that considering another person’s feelings is complicated business, and yet, we still have to do it.  It’s a key piece of being a family member/friend/community member.  Trying to honour the feelings of a country is even more complicated, and yet, lawmakers still have to do it.  The public offered their feelings through polls.  The majority consistently did not support the confirmation of Kavanaugh.  The lawmakers chose to ignore feelings.

And this is where we are.

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I really love this idea: If you can’t coordinate dinner to fall for everyone in your home at the same time, set up a family snack.  Like let’s say your partner always needs to work late.  Have a snack with them when they return home.  Or if you have kids and they’re ensconced in evening activities, don’t stress it.  Just plan a family snack.

I wish I had read this years ago when we couldn’t get family dinners going because of bed times bumping up against work hours.  Instead of feeling like we were failing, we could have shifted the focus to a family snack and accomplished the same thing of talking about our day over food.

Does everyone in your home eat a meal at the same time?

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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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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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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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