Sale PSA: An easy and chic seersucker blazer from Rag & Bone, now 60% off, very cool Air Zooms from Nike, now 25% off, and ribbed flare pants from Everlane, now $30 (very interested in these).
Hi! I’m writing this in between sneezes. My allergies have started to go haywire this week. Anyone else? I have a few really bad days a year and this is one of them. Just sneeze and sneeze and sneeze all over again. For awhile I was convinced that eating chocolate stopped it somehow but honestly it just seems that I wanted to eat chocolate because nothing has changed. Anyway, I have all the remedies, both prescription and natural…just some whining.
Covid-19: We are almost there. Or are we? I keep saying I have accepted that we will all get it eventually…but then the medical professionals in my life remind me that this is really not the right attitude to have. I get it but I’m also so fatigued over it all. I nearly have my 4 year old to the finish line of vaccination…either Moderna will release or she’ll turn 5. Either one is OK at this point.
This is our spring break week: another week of no childcare!! I know this is old news to everyone with school age children we just had a week off in February. I like having this much time with the kids but you also wonder how people manage.
Shopping: I have been buying old items off of an old haunt – eBay! It’s been vintage sweaters and random other items. With knits its always a worry though as I am paranoid about moths. But there are soo many great discount knit items for sale. And awesome items in general! I got a Vivienne Tam dress the other day. So great.
Politics: Oh lord, I really don’t want to talk politics right now…but I did want to ask all of you, what you are doing about political discussions in your life. I think I’ve been fairly upfront with how I feel about Russia’s war on Ukraine…and lately there are people who I feel have been so in my face about the topic…they mix a bit of truth and a lot of “whataboutism” and NATO this and etc etc and I just don’t know how to deal. I want to be accepting of different views. But I also have a moral red line. How do you all feel? There’s a lot going on in the world right now.
5 Comments
Lucetta
April 11, 2022 at 1:23 pmOld rag pickers trick.
Throw the unopened package in the freezer for a week or so and any little strangers will freeze to death.
Then open outside on a sunny day and hang out to let the dust and any dead critters blow away.
Then I hang wash but dealers usually bulk dry clean.
Good luck!
Kat
April 11, 2022 at 7:02 pmI’ve been doing this! The freezer part and then I wash but the sunny part I haven’t done enough…will do more – thank you!!
Jenny
April 11, 2022 at 7:34 pmI’ve started and stopped so many times to comment on the part about Ukraine. The whataboutism is really all I need to know. The other events were also horrific and shitty and we didn’t do enough. That’s not an excuse to be okay with horrific and shitty things happening now. I know there’s nuance in finding a way forward but there no real nuance in quietly derailing us from a path forward. I’m making a lot of assumptions at what those folks might have said but come on.
Kat
April 12, 2022 at 9:31 amYou’ve stated it perfectly.
Anonymous
April 11, 2022 at 9:29 pmIt does beg the question… why does Ukraine merit call outs? France forces its ex colonies to pay back slavery and liberation debt and use a currency that Paris devalues at leisure, under threat of invasion? Not a peep on one of your many trips to eat bonbons and shop?