Friday Things, 1/30

Linking up with Friday Favorites!

This week I wrote about dogs and kids and why it's good and then a recipe for buffalo chicken dip and why we have 6 crockpots. 

1. With giving up Twitter, I've needed something to mindlessly scroll lately so I've turned to Reddit. Not much better, right? Usually I can learn something interesting, though. What's funny is that there's always posts about "who to follow for _______" and who to not follow based on whatever the arbitrary measure happens to be. And since it's anonymous posters are always like "_________ is a good one!" and you know it's probably them posting themselves. I can't stop chuckling over the idea of this. I also get a kick out of reading AITA posts, mostly because I am an avid reader of Dear Abby and Dear Prudence and their advice is so bad a lot of the time. I like to see what the masses have to offer in the form of advice instead. 

2. I saw a reel awhile back about how if you want to wake up energized you set your alarm extra early, have coffee brewed by your bedside, chug it, go back to sleep. 

I concur on this. I have always been able to sleep after drinking coffee and I did this on Monday. Drank two cups of coffee at 6am, went back to sleep at 7, woke up at 8 feeling on top of it all. 

I've been trying to stop shopping at Walmart again. It's been 2 weeks! I've been buying coffee at Aldi, Target, and online for a few months though. I don't like the coffee selection at Walmart anyway. These organic beans at Aldi are so much cheaper than anything at the other stores. My grocery spending for January was $785, which is the lowest since I started tracking in September. I didn't even get super specific so that includes cleaning products, dog treats, and personal hygiene like soap and toothpaste.

3. Let's talk about government overreach and why I hate everything: 

There's a local park with a playground, some soccer fields, some baseball fields, some trails, some fishing...every time it snows, the whole place is closed. They literally close a gate for a week. This is what happens when you live in an overly-governed area. One would call where we live "rural", even. It doesn't matter. The local government here is absolutely awful. 

Ron Swanson was right concerning the government. 

4. We've been trucking along with the homeschooling through these snow days. Most schools here were closed Monday and Tuesday, due to the cold temps, not necessarily ice or the few inches of snow. 

Next week, Wells will finish the cursive book and the math workbook. <<< those two books are what I would recommend to ANY parent who wants to do ANYTHING at home with their child. The cursive can be introduced at any time and the IXL brand has a workbook for every grade level. I am a huge fan of the Learning Without Tears series so I got the My First Schoolbook for Sutton to start next week, since we've introduced (at the most basic surface letter formation level) each letter. 

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But remember: if you're over 30, you have to say hunker down instead of lock in. 

^^^ If you understand this, we can be best friends. 

I am still really trying to make it to this exhibit in Kansas City. 

Wells asked what snakes were supposed to look like, before God curse them to crawl in the dirt. I didn't really know what to say to that one. 

So this isn't quite accurate, but it's funny. 

Again, we can be friends ^^^