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Friday: kid home sick, phone call, walk
Oct. 25th, 2019 02:45 pmI walked with M. today. I got to sleep in because A. was not well last night (went to bed early, fever) and was still warm to the touch this morning so we did not wake her up and just called her in sick. If the school is going to have a policy about fevers, I am prepared to follow it. If they ever want to check, I will bring her in so they can take her temperature, but funnily enough, they do not actually care to ever check.
I had a nice phone call with K. She got to go to Galaxy’s Edge recently, so that was fun to listen to her about. She is always fun to listen to, of course, but that is particularly relevant. I went on a hunt for A.’s pink cap with the resistance emblem on it, and eventually found it the second time I checked the DVC backpack. Of course I had already packed it!
A. is still coughing, but the fever has gone down a lot. Apparently, they are still planning on going trick or treating in the cubicles at AMD this afternoon. *shrug*
While I was spending a couple hours at Moodz yesterday getting my hair colored (twice), I finished reading _Unstuffed_. The xtianity is annoying in general, however, there are parts of the exegesis that are just wildly wrong (as in, no one interprets that part of the Sermon on the Mount the way she did). Worse, however, is her persistent lack of insight into her own unreliability. She can talk about past extreme positions as being mistakes, but does not give any real awareness of seeing the wild swings from one to another as being a problem, nor does she seem able to relate those wild swings and extreme positions to the difficulties she repeatedly describes with understanding and enforcing her own boundaries, and respecting the boundaries of others (and I do not just mean her kids).
I have been turning over in my head how to review the book, and ultimately just decided to post the above paragraph. Obviously, it is hard to write an entire book about decluttering / personal organization / time management / WTFBBQ without including some useful tips, so I will not say the book is without worth. I will note, however, that I resorted to the kindle read via the page navigation view trick towards the end — it was so obvious that the church she was muscled into joining after achieving some distance from organized religion was going to last no more than a few pages that I just could not bring myself to play along.
Really, the whole thing is sort of distressing. She seems like a very well meaning person who tries very hard, and who works hard to relate to other people and learn from her experiences. Pity about the difficulties with moderation. Oh well! I will contemplate the samples I have read lately, and then maybe just go finish reading the Prescott Lecky book.
Along the procrastination path to writing this review, I talked to my sister about some product sitting under the sink in my bathroom that is specifically aimed at hair and skin exposed to a lot of pool water. I have taped up the lids and packaged them up to go out in the mail. So, yay! That is the best thing about reading decluttering stuff; it is motivating.
I had a nice phone call with K. She got to go to Galaxy’s Edge recently, so that was fun to listen to her about. She is always fun to listen to, of course, but that is particularly relevant. I went on a hunt for A.’s pink cap with the resistance emblem on it, and eventually found it the second time I checked the DVC backpack. Of course I had already packed it!
A. is still coughing, but the fever has gone down a lot. Apparently, they are still planning on going trick or treating in the cubicles at AMD this afternoon. *shrug*
While I was spending a couple hours at Moodz yesterday getting my hair colored (twice), I finished reading _Unstuffed_. The xtianity is annoying in general, however, there are parts of the exegesis that are just wildly wrong (as in, no one interprets that part of the Sermon on the Mount the way she did). Worse, however, is her persistent lack of insight into her own unreliability. She can talk about past extreme positions as being mistakes, but does not give any real awareness of seeing the wild swings from one to another as being a problem, nor does she seem able to relate those wild swings and extreme positions to the difficulties she repeatedly describes with understanding and enforcing her own boundaries, and respecting the boundaries of others (and I do not just mean her kids).
I have been turning over in my head how to review the book, and ultimately just decided to post the above paragraph. Obviously, it is hard to write an entire book about decluttering / personal organization / time management / WTFBBQ without including some useful tips, so I will not say the book is without worth. I will note, however, that I resorted to the kindle read via the page navigation view trick towards the end — it was so obvious that the church she was muscled into joining after achieving some distance from organized religion was going to last no more than a few pages that I just could not bring myself to play along.
Really, the whole thing is sort of distressing. She seems like a very well meaning person who tries very hard, and who works hard to relate to other people and learn from her experiences. Pity about the difficulties with moderation. Oh well! I will contemplate the samples I have read lately, and then maybe just go finish reading the Prescott Lecky book.
Along the procrastination path to writing this review, I talked to my sister about some product sitting under the sink in my bathroom that is specifically aimed at hair and skin exposed to a lot of pool water. I have taped up the lids and packaged them up to go out in the mail. So, yay! That is the best thing about reading decluttering stuff; it is motivating.