Having long been a fan of a stack of heavy blankets on me (it’s why my heavy quilt goes on my bed when the weather gets cold) I’ve long thought that I would be the perfect match with a weighted blanket. Birthday money came my way and I decided to give the weighted blanket a try.
Alas, the weight wasn’t quite as I was hoping (I was hoping for the feeling I get when they put my apron on at the dentist before the x-ray) and so I found a new home for this weighted blanket.
There is so much to love about this. Just on the front cover alone we’ve got a lion with wings, a woman in a mask, a dragon, some jaguars with wings, and a billowing flag.
Then, it turns out that it goes on for an entire week! I could even attend on my birthday and learn about Revelation’s 1000 years!
And it’s been so long since I’ve had a proper learning session about the mark of the beast.
Also, what does “especially designed for busy people” mean?
This is the kind of thing I’m always tempted to go to, but never quite do because I don’t know if the time spent would be worth the irony.
Still! A fun bulk mailing!
Sara reports they have been waiting (and waiting) for their solar and HVAC and that it’s been cold in the house because of it.
I also felt it was important to take this picture for reasons I now can’t remember. Perhaps I was enjoying the postmark dovetailed with the subject?
I got these tickets in the mail for my “employees”
Reading the fine print, it seems that my “employees” need to have a child in order to take advantage of the free ticket. And they will need to pay for themselves before the child gets in free.
Still, I did have a great time at the monster truck rally I went to that one time.
Sara reports that she has a no-meetings work-from-home day. Hurrah.
Also that she’s ready to be done with the semester, but has two months left to go. Less of a hurrah.
At the last minute of her Business 101 class, the teacher assigned Greta to bring iced animal crackers. On her way home, she stopped at the big grocery store that reminded her of her mother frowning at every price, she headed to the cookie aisle and grabbed three bags. Her eyes shifted to the left as she calculated the cost. It looked like she would be air drying her laundry again this week.
She headed to the produce section to grab the scallions her mother had asked her to buy and as she cut through the bulk department, something caught her eye. In the white bin were the very same animal crackers she was holding. Her eyes shifted to the left again as she calculated the bulk price.
She set down her three bags and grabbed one of the industrial-strength bulk bags and started scooping, imagining the hug of warm, clean pajamas.
My coworker mentioned this post. She first found the episode about crack babies. I was hooked on once I listened to the episode about Shannon Faulkner and the Citadel, a case I followed very closely in the 90s. I’ve got a mindless task at work going on, so I took a deep dive. And decided to start listening at the beginning.
I like that Mike and Sara are a bit younger than me. They often talk about things in the 80s and 90s that are very clear memories for me, so it’s fun to learn all the things I didn’t know, and to hear their take on the topic, having not really lived through it. It turns out that I found this podcast just as Mike is departing, but I’ve got a huge back catalog to listen through.
Do I think the fact that Google knows everything about me is probably bad? Yes. But do I also love this summary of my travels in early September? Yes I do.
You can even see me jump from Boise to Spokane to Portland!
Here are the screenshots from my phone, followed by the songs themselves.
