My kids are leaving today to go spend a week with their paternal grandparents in Toronto. We have to leave the house at noon. They each have a list of non-optional tasks, largely related to packing. Bigger kid is refusing to get out of bed because it’s too early (it is 10) and little dude is stacking objects and thinking about starting a load of laundry.
I have been unkind. It didn’t help. So I’m hiding in my room.
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I found some elderly peanut sauce in a container in the fridge. I scooped it out with my fingers and onto the floor for the dogs.
Except that it didn’t land on the floor. It splattered all over my foot.
The dogs don’t mind. I do.
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I get to be at home all day, but with my electricity out, so I don’t get to play Stardew Valley even though I really want to.
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We just found out my husband has to shave his beard (well, he can keep a goatee if he wants) in order to fit his respirator for his new job 
I like his beard though. This is legitimately upsetting us both a ton. And cosmically its so small. But like… c’mon universe!
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One of my kittens likes to snuggle around dawn, which is…quite a bit earlier than I would like to wake up. Really, I should just go to bed earlier and wake up when my kitty wants me to so I can get an earlier start on my running. But all I want to do is sleep in, especially after having a four day weekend full of slow mornings and naps.
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That’s why I stopped shaving my pits. 
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I’ve found that using a very light sugar scrub right after shaving can help with the ingrown hairs! Mix coconut oil and granulated sugar together until you have a consistency you like, carefully rub it over the shaved skin after you shave in the shower, rinse off. The scrubby is supposed to help get out anything that’s stuck, and the oil helps moisturize.
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Have you tried a cheap men’s electric razor?
I’m an infrequent leg shaver, but when I do I commandeer my husband’s electric shaver. (It’s ok, he grew a beard and wasn’t using it anyway.) It doesn’t get the legs QUITE as smooth and short as a disposable razor and sometimes there’s still minor razor burn, but a lot less blood. Also it’s way quicker and you can do it on dry legs.
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Why do I have a headache? Make it go.
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I do understand your pain, and I have been in the exact same place with husband, respirator, a beard. However, there are situations where you really, really want him to have the respirator, and I successfully convinced myself that more than outweighed the beard sadness. It’ll be OK. Hair grows back later.
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That’s definitely true, and he’ll be in a lot of unknown exposures type environments. But I’m just worried he’ll have to be beardless the entire time he has this job
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That’s so sad, B_J 
I’m kinda surprised that wasn’t considered something to mention earlier in the interview/onboarding process.
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Right?! We literally might have reconsidered him taking the job in that case.
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“Freedom to beard” is a new reason to pursue ER. 
(Apologies if that was too flip. My DH has a beard and would be sad to shave it, so I kind of get it.)
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Pandora is pushing a lot of damn ads these days.
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Also, we are now entering the portion of the summer where one does not step into the sun during daylight hours lest you spontaneously combust.
I used to crave heat, but I have grown weak.
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In the morning I have to get my specialist to fill out forms attesting to the fact that I continue to be disabled, so my disability payments continue. The fact is that I am sicker than ever right now, but I’m still scared that they will find out that I’m a fraud. What if i really am just making it all up?
Imposter syndrome for being disabled. How fucked up is that?
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Definitely flip, but made me laugh! All the more fitting since it’s Mr Money Mustache that started us down this path… SirB needs to get his Money Mustache so he can get back his Real Beard!
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Work thing after work tonight. I super don’t want to go, but I should. It’s a cook-out, and I generally like these people, but… ugh. I just want to go home, make dinner, and forget I have to wake up early again tomorrow.
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Early morning insomnia, for no reason. 4:30 AM is not a sane hour to wake. Nobody else was awake. It is now 7AM and I would like to go back to bed, but now everyone I have to take care of is awake…
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