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Sunday: brunch
Jan. 19th, 2020 09:46 pmToday, R. took T. to Team Verge track. Then all but T. of us went to brunch. No movie for us; T. went to see Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker again. We got a Sunbasket today and had a fish tacos recipe. It was a really good cheater recipe: pre-made slaw (of the no mayo variety), tortillas, fish to pan fry, chipotle flavored greek yogurt and a couple wholly guacamole containers. This is a setup that works for both of us (I get the guac, he gets the yogurt), and is dead simple, especially since I usually have cole slaw around anyway.
R. ran a bunch of things over to Savers. That was nice to get those things moved along — box of books, some clothes, a couple cushions.
A. put together the Lego Arendelle Castle based on Frozen 2. I helped with a couple stickers and the boat and that was about it. I read Tara Westover’ s _Educated_ while she built it; it is a pretty brutal read, lots of accidents, violence, head trauma, bad burns. A lot of terrible parenting and people just diving into a pool of horrendous abuse. It should make for an interesting discussion at book group tomorrow night. I may or may not review it further. My main takeaways are that Westover could maybe spend some time thinking about and talking about cycles of abuse; it would probably help make more sense of the hurtful decisions that some of her family members made when presented with the opportunity to extricate themselves. This is a lot less about excusing choices and more about explaining them. Her instincts are solid, and she has definitely learned a lot from the people she has developed relationships with (friends, mentors, therapists), but I feel like there are elements of the story that continue to be opaque to her. But that could just be me!
For breakfast this morning, I tried making an english muffin basically straight out of the sourdough crock. Worked great and I will do that again in the future. It was pretty sour, tho. Might feed it, then make a muffin after about an hour.
I printed a picture of A. from the day we got the lightsaber, when she had a Porg on her shoulder while we waited in the queue at Savi’s, and Chewbacca came in to chat with her. Or the Porg. Or whatever. I put it in the frame I took down, and remounted it directly below the lightsaber, sort of as a caption. Soooo nerdily delicious.
R. ran a bunch of things over to Savers. That was nice to get those things moved along — box of books, some clothes, a couple cushions.
A. put together the Lego Arendelle Castle based on Frozen 2. I helped with a couple stickers and the boat and that was about it. I read Tara Westover’ s _Educated_ while she built it; it is a pretty brutal read, lots of accidents, violence, head trauma, bad burns. A lot of terrible parenting and people just diving into a pool of horrendous abuse. It should make for an interesting discussion at book group tomorrow night. I may or may not review it further. My main takeaways are that Westover could maybe spend some time thinking about and talking about cycles of abuse; it would probably help make more sense of the hurtful decisions that some of her family members made when presented with the opportunity to extricate themselves. This is a lot less about excusing choices and more about explaining them. Her instincts are solid, and she has definitely learned a lot from the people she has developed relationships with (friends, mentors, therapists), but I feel like there are elements of the story that continue to be opaque to her. But that could just be me!
For breakfast this morning, I tried making an english muffin basically straight out of the sourdough crock. Worked great and I will do that again in the future. It was pretty sour, tho. Might feed it, then make a muffin after about an hour.
I printed a picture of A. from the day we got the lightsaber, when she had a Porg on her shoulder while we waited in the queue at Savi’s, and Chewbacca came in to chat with her. Or the Porg. Or whatever. I put it in the frame I took down, and remounted it directly below the lightsaber, sort of as a caption. Soooo nerdily delicious.