(Another) God Bless the Screenshot

Man, it was a long week. I've got, like, nothing left in me by Friday. Literally, getting out of bed is my Everest and then after a day of work and Wells and whatnot... My thoughts are often too jumbled to organize and I just scroll social media or read until I fall asleep. 

Once in a while I have this thought and it goes like this: You have lived in 5 states in less than 4 years. Just stop thinking you can be on par with people who never move. The playing field of expectations is not even. In that 4 years, we had Wells, moved 4 times, I've had multiple jobs, Wells has had multiple caregivers, Scott has had multiple jobs and projects outside of work, we've had to find multiple new doctors and dentists and service providers and now we're having another baby in less than a month. 

Honestly, thank goodness for the Service Members' Civil Relief Act. It means I/we can hold onto Alaska residency/voting/taxes. Otherwise, we'd be changing residency in every new place. 

I've discovered that Wells whines less in the car if we listen to music instead of podcasts (i know, i know), so my Pandora app has been getting a workout. Pandora > Spotify, always, by the way. 

Remember when music used to be good?  Anyway, that song demonstrates my current survival mode.

But the window to the soul is the collection of screenshots one can find on someone's phone...

Most of this is Covid related. 

I feel very disheartened, dejected, and disappointed...and disgusted...at the fact that we're still doing all this while ignoring very real problems that are presented to us. I will have a fact-driven discussion with anyone, any day, who chooses to live in the real world, but I don't get a lot of that in my day-to-day. 

I cannot stress this enough: if you celebrating societal segregation, you are not the good guy. The least of these reasons is that people who are vaccinated can still spread Covid. We all agree on this, right? 

Daniel Buck runs The Chalkboard Review. Highly recommend if you're a teacher OR a parent with kids in school. 

This popped up in my Google Photos memories. This was our normal pre-Covid. It's also our normal now (I just don't take pictures anymore).

Yikes, indeed. If you posted a black square in solidarity, not with a group of people but, with an incredibly corrupt organization, can you defend this? 

This does explain a lot, to be honest: 

If you know of a good phonics curriculum I can do at home this summer, let me know! Wells is in a more Christian-oriented, play-based preschool so they don't push reading early (and I don't either...I've never even attempted to teach him to read at 3), but I'd like to introduce phonics soon. He knows his letters. 

                                                                             Finally: 

 

God bless the screenshot

I live by bookmarks and screenshots. If I want to remember something, that's how I do it. I still use Pinterest too. IS there another way to keep track of things online? Screenshots are the way. 

Here's what I've been saving this week...

Okay, someone posted this and I'm confused: I have no idea how they got this translation of Luke 14. If you even look at the NLT (generally the most "user-friendly"), it says "For those who exalt themselves will be humbled and those who humble themselves will be exalted". And it's the story about Jesus telling people not to take the head seat when invited to a wedding feast; humble yourself and don't assume you're going to be the most important guest. It'll be embarrassing if you're asked to move. But if you take the lowest seat, the host may ask you to move to the head seat.

What am I missing here? 

I am getting ads for this bag. What do you think?

And, oh my gosh, if you do this, I am humiliated FOR you. Stop it. The first time I saw a moderate influencer I follow post a try-on picture with a fanny pack around her chest I thought it was a joke. 

Left, right, and center: we can all find common ground on the topic of sanity. 

I don't know why I find this so amusing: 

I've had to commit to stopping with the constantly dwelling on politics and how we ended up where we are right now. It's not productive. But burying your head in the sand isn't productive either, so middle ground is hard. This guy is one of my favorite follows. Everything he posts is just blatant common sense and I'm genuinely concerned that we aren't willing to just follow facts at this point:

(though, I admit, Columbus Day off of work would've made the week better...since the military had a 4-day weekend, a lot of kids didn't come to school anyway)

What's up, Wednesday?

Last Wednesday of the month, right?

Instead of prompts, here's a bunch of random things from my phone. 

It's been a WEEK. 

I've noticed not many are blogging this week (says my Bloglovin' anyway) and I think we're all just feeling heavy. 

In that vein, I have, like, nothing to offer here today at all except a bunch of screenshots. I wish I had clothes or food or anything interesting to share, but this is literally what I see when I open my photos app. LOL.

I'm still fighting with the internet company.  It's been almost 4 months.

My timelines are taken over with this sort of posting because it's who I follow. I feel, at least, informed? This is a satire account but you'd never know it. 

Back to the vet for a follow-up.

Also, recommend a bag? Ugh. I hate all of mine. 

Wells has spent a few days at home this week with a runny nose and some congestion. No fever, but I figured I'd keep him home since my mom is still here to help out. His teacher said the whole class is in the same position: lots of runny noses. Germs, amiright? 

And, yes, that's common-sense-parenting. Keep them home if they're sick. (Although, I remember how we all used to function just fine with the occasional head cold.) Don't slap your small child into a mask and expect health and wellness. The roads go to the same place. 

Who DOESN'T get sick the first few weeks of the school year? 

(this is my sorest spot, if you haven't figured that out yet)

Oh look! The kind of weather that makes you hate everything. 

*giant shrug*, right?

Article source (with many, many sources cited in the article) here. 

And to all of my teacher friends out there:

Friday screenshots.

It's been a hard week, mentally. Along with coronavirus trepidation, it's just been...hard. I'm going to leave that vague-blog statement there, unapologetically. Oh well?

They say to stay home if you're sick, and Wells had a runny nose last week and had a low fever on and off for two days this week...so we stayed home. I also had a sore throat on Wednesday. So we stayed home. This has been the most tedious week in quite awhile. I didn't exactly think we had coronavirus, but I also didn't want to be out and about if we were sick AND I didn't want him to pick up anything else. There's a lot of germs out there, even if they aren't coronavirus-related and it seems like getting sick with anything else wouldn't be an easy trip to the doctor's office.

To be honest, at this moment, I'm more worried about boredom and running out of snack food than I am about getting sick (we're all better now, btw).

ANYWAY.

My thoughts on this week can be summarized as follows:

This episode had some good points. I liked it a lot ...and you can see I was listening while I folded laundry at 8am.

And this one. Absolutely hilarious.

Thoughts to share?

Funny stuffs #becauseTuesday

So then, what is the point of layering it all on if you can't go from indoors to outdoors?

My guess is that they're not reading books. 

Not so much for "tired", but because I lack "motivation". 

"" are being used somewhat ironically there. 

I think this is my favorite Friends quote.

The caption makes this. 

I really, really wanted this but thought it might be too inappropriate for work and/or Scott's work gatherings. 

#mylife

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