The building is doing a "refresh" and updating the hallways. They put up wallpaper that reminds those of us in our office (we're all 40ish) of doctor's offices in the mid-90s. How much you want to bet that this is the brainchild of some young designer in their 20s?
I had a panic attack last night so I didn't sleep well, all over a work party. No one told me spouses were invited even though I'm the one planning the event, but everyone else assumed I knew spouses were invited. I found out as I was leaving work yesterday. The party is today. My guest count doubled. Talk about scrambling.
QFT. Today's latest with my dad is that apparently he *won't* look into the hearing aids he thought sounded like a great option a few days ago. He had significant enough hearing loss several years ago that he was given NHS-issued hearing aids, and he doesn't like them because they just amplify all sounds. But instead of paying for better ones - which aren't cheap, but he can 100% afford them - he just insists that he can hear most things and then pouts when he thinks he's being ignored because he can't hear the group conversation. I notice his hearing is worse even since Christmas, but apparently it's just our fault we talk too softly.
My dad is the same way! He has pretty bad hearing loss in one ear and didn't like the aids he tried so he gave up. Thankfully his other ear is ok, but if you happen to be sitting on his bad side and try to speak to him, he won't even know. I don't know why he won't just try some others, I think it would make his life a lot easier!
Whenever my mom mentions being frustrated with a family member or friend being stubborn about aging or health stuff, I tell her to remember that when it's her turn. I know we all think we won't be like that.
Hearing loss is linked with dementia. When I realized that I had an actual physical loss, I marched myself right into an audiologists office and haven't looked back. There's no way I want to fight monsters every day like my gpa did for a year before he died.
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Coinciding with our Bluey convo yesterday - I was leaving before-care and one of my kid's providers was discussing how happy DS is in the morning, "He's like a jack russell terrier and I love it!" Which... is a pretty accurate description of my son's personality, lol!
My non-Bluey random is that my phone wasn't fitting into it's case properly. Upon inspection, it had developed a swollen battery. So now I'm phoneless and adrift until it's fixed tomorrow.
But to go back to Bluey teaching lessons - I dunno if they're lessons, or explaining things in child appropriate ways. Some episodes are just fun, but some are so deep I don't know if I'll emotionally recover. In "Onesies" we're introduced to Aunt Brandy who is infertile, and they go into why Aunt Brandy doesn't come around much.
I also felt the Bluey episode of them not moving was unrealistic. It was too much of a "happy ending." Maybe Australia has a better social safety net that would allow both Bandit and Rad to change employment plans at a whim like that. It definitely felt like a very un-American decision.
Maybe they foreshadowed the happy ending when the teacher says calmly (paraphrased), "Stories often have a happy ending because life is full of sad ones."
Bandit is an archeologist and Rad is an oil rigger. Rad definitely could change his job, and I wonder if Bandit will just step back into his old job since that seems like a specialty spot that would be hard to fill. (Chilli is part time airport security.)
I had no idea adults were into Bluey, I thought it was a kid's show? I've never seen it.
It's so wholesome. Like genuinely wholesome makes you want to be a better parent wholesome. It's also not annoying, mostly. I've seen threads about Bluey pop up in completely unrelated boards (like a mj-enthusiasts, primarily male, subreddit) that sings it's praises. Although, thinking about it, the show is really nice and relaxing to watch while high, so maybe that's the connection lol!
The bridge has been closed to all traffic since Thursday evening, after an inspection of the bridge at Dillon Pinnacles revealed a 3-inch crack in structural steel. The unexpected shutdown has left people stranded on either side of the closure and facing six to seven hours of driving over precarious mountain passes to reach home — a journey that typically takes an hour.
I genuinely don't have a formed opinion on this. It's *very* clear that the US is unwilling to make the changes needed to slow/stop climate change. I think people have been banking on technology to save us.
My gut feel is that we're (general) going to start throwing money at things like this because we can't fathom changing our daily lives, and in the end we'll end up in a much worse situation much faster.
Rave- we are making our yard a Bee Yard! Also going to add wildflowers and pollinator friendly plants/flowers on our Blvd.
My favorite thing is to watch the entirety of our front yard bounce and sway with the bees moving around. You're going to love it!
This year we're going to focus on the back yard and planting more pollinator friendly plants back there. I've been seeding the bare spots with clover, but want to be more purposeful about it.
Does sunscreen smell like that because of the chemicals or did they decide one day on a near universal sunscreen scent and stick with it?
Without googling for the correct answer - I think the smell originally came from the sun oil of the bygone era of slathering yourself with oil like roasting chicken and frying yourself in the sun. To mask the chemical smell of sunscreen they went with that coconut/oil smell.
I'm going to end up sounding like a nut, but I think the Bluey episode did have a point - moving for a job isn't as important as keeping close to your family and friends. Both Chilli/Bandit and Rad/Frisky come to this decision in very different stages of life. I think they're also setting up to talk about divorce (Stripe/Trixie). Maybe even single parenting with Chilli's sister Brandy being pregnant without an introduced partner.
But also, I missed all these my first run through. My kid and I just snuggled and cried during the episode when we first watched it.
Except so many people have little choice in whether they move for a job, whether due to the type of job (ie: military or government) or for economic opportunity. And now our kids are getting the message that we can just decide not to move. When instead, the episode could have focused on resilience, recognizing sadness and doing the hard thing anyway, and using family as a way to get through tough times. Shrug.
They were specifically moving for economic opportunity and chose family over a presumably "better life". The show made their choice and stuck with it. I wonder if it's an Aussie thing, because for sure capitalism comes before pretty much anything else in the US, and the message would damn sure have been, "suck it up every single person in the family, even the person with the new job, because $$$$$". FWIW, there's no way they ever would have ran with that storyline. Even during the episode they (Chilli/Bandit) said they didn't actually have to move for money.
Bluey was never going to move - they’re not going to build an entirely different cast.
I’ll riot if I never get to see Lucky’s dad again.
Or sweet baby Rusty and his cricket bat 🥺
The only thing I was hung up on was all the work Chili and Bandit were going to have to do to re-move into their house. And as the person who has been chasing my career for a long time, I felt bad for Bandit probably losing that opportunity.
I was hung up on, they were moving! They had everything packed and on the way somewhere else! Presumably they bought a house that actually closed. So do they have two houses? What about Chilli's job?
-The entire TSA security screening needs an over-haul...some places have a "just scan you license" technology
Fun fact - CO licenses in some places do not scan. Las Vegas always takes an embarrassingly long time to get through with the TSA agent muttering repeatedly that CO licenses don't scan with each swipe.
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