Weekly Roundup

Wooo! What a week. We have a new President, people! While I’m joyous about the exit of 45 and optimistic about being able to make positive change, I don’t consider Biden a savior. Rather, he’s someone who can more effectively respond to our push for progressive change. Here’s that sentiment from someone better at articulating this. There’s still work to be done!

Have you seen Patrick Bernatz’ Summit House? The earthy creams, reds, greens, paired with all that texture are so perfect together.

I shared last month some of my favorite accounts to follow on Instagram covering facts on the vaccine and the pandemic. Well one of them, epidemiologist & infodemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera spoke on one of my favorite podcasts, Ologies, all about herd immunity, vaccine facts, trials, and so much great info about the available vaccines. Go listen!

My friend found these enneagram pencils themed to each personality type of our friend group. Interestingly, most of the folx in our group are 1s and 3s. Can you guess what number my friend is that gifted us our custom pencils? She’s definitely a 2. Ross and I are a 3 and a 1, respectively.

Anyone else suffering from a dust mite allergy? Years ago when I was having allergy episodes, I got tested and dust mites are the one thing that really get to me. The doctor recommended I get this particular allergen-proof mattress cover. Well, I failed to listen years ago but I finally ordered it after recently waking up in the middle of the night with a stuffy nose for days on end. I’ll report back on how my sleep status, but fingers crossed the doctor-recommended mattress cover is all I needed all these years.

Are you familiar with mutual aid? Polly breaks it down here. Wondering how much to donate to mutual aid or pay in reparations? Click here and swipe for perspective.

Wanna learn about trash?? This episode of Flash Forward does a great job of looking at our waste issues and references a lot of approaches to the issue. This is one of my favorite podcasts so I encourage you to subscribe - but note that I don’t love the scripted stories in the beginning so I’ll admit I skip the first 5ish minutes.

I’m off to scroll through the endless Bernie and his mittens memes!