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September 2022 Moms
kboydbowman
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What random things are going on for you?
Weekly Randoms 4/4
kboydbowman
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What random things are going on for you?
Current pregnancy -
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
Four prior losses, no living children - 1 first trimester miscarriage, 1 blighted ovum, 1 chemical, and one extreme premature live birth daughter who died at 15 days old.
Re: Weekly Randoms 4/4
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
I know, which makes it random
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
@pangolindrome I wish my students could work independently. They either need me cracking the whip to get back to work, or they glue themselves to me and ask after each computation of they did it right.
Wait. Was that sarcasm? I'm tired.
Wow though, I had no idea that this wasn't a global thing! I have found them different across the globe. In Australia all burgers are made fresh to order - they are never pre-made and left in a warmer, which I was shocked to see when I went to Sweden. I did not consider that the McFlurry spoon would be different depending on the country you're in as well. Wild.
As a side note to that, but also slightly related, as we reduce our plastics consumption the price of aluminium (so cars and electronics) will increase. The extraction of alumina from bauxite is currently only achieved through the Bayer process that relies on caustic soda. The most cost effective and impurity free way of making caustic is as a byproduct through the manufacturing of plastics. I used to work in an alumina refinery and they have seen caustic prices double over the last 10 years as the world as a whole uses less plastic, resulting in a reduction in caustic production. There are other ways of producing caustic but they result in a lot of impurities that are impossible to remove from the circuit meaning you have to use a much higher volume of caustic to get the same amount of alumina out. I find it interesting how everything in the world is connected in weird and wonderful ways like that.
That said, I'm fully planning to buy my mother-in-law reusable paper towels for mother's day. They seem interested in that kind of thing, and we have some we love. We use the unbleached ones for cleaning around the house and bleached for cleaning up toddler messes and dirty hands/faces (our daughter calls them wet napkins). Using the bleached for her allows us to bleach them if needed, which is super helpful (especially if we didn't rinse one super well after use).
Managing the washing of them couldn't be easier, either! We have two bins attached to the wall behind our washer: gray is for household cleaning towels, white is for wet napkins. I just dump hers in with her laundry or our bath towels and the others go in their own wash cycle. Since starting this over a year ago, it takes us about two months to go through one roll of paper towels (which we keep on hand for super nasty messes or guests to dry their hands). We have 12 for hands and faces, and 24 for cleaning.
I'm pretty passionate about this and could go on and on. 😄 Even small changes make a difference, and it doesn't have to be all or nothing for those wanting to start somewhere. That's what helped me get motivated. You just have to start!
Our wash bins in the laundry room.
The towels are about 12"x12", double layer Birdseye cotton. (We also use a dog placemat for our toddlers placemat. 😂 Genius!)
I do find some attempts to go "green" amusing. Like at my work we have several electric vehicles but they are charged using a diesel generator because we don't have mains power to a lot of our mine site 🤦♀️ I also find it frustrating that the world has not adopted Sweden's landfill management style where they burn their landfill for power. If you design the plant right the emissions can be significantly limited, particularly particulate emissions, and it has to be considered what is more detrimental to the environment: continual clearing of land to increase tips while covering over tips and re-purposing the land causing who-knows what damages to the people, fauna and flora that will now be living on that old tip, or emitting some CO into the atmosphere. But, you would have emitted 2/3 of that CO into the atmosphere through the breakdown of the garbage anyway. It's been a gripe of mine ever since I lived in Sweden, as well as Australia's awful recycling program compared to Sweden (perhaps that is greatly impacted by the way we live as we don't live in communes where you can have large recycling vats people take their own rubbish to). In the town I live in we didn't have recycling facilities at all until last year! Crazy to think that in the 2020s it is a new concept for a town to recycle.
How frustrating with respect to the towels! My husband does 98% of the dishes and therefore uses the kitchen towels more than me. I would be grossed out too if he used the same ones! His biggest flaw there is using the same ones for weeks on end if I don't change them out. 🤮
I'm glad your husband is taking some time for himself, too, especially with everything else going on outside the pregnancy. I hope you get to spend some quality time together today as a family ❤
What brand of underpants do you use for your period? I've been very intrigued by those, but also super nervous. My periods are rarely super heavy and would be considered regular or light the whole time. I usually use organic cotton pads because they don't upset my skin like other ones do.
@trapperkeeper87 my periods are the opposite and if I don't wear my period undies I am usually rocking a night-time pad. I use a variety of different brands - Modi bodi, luna loves & bonds are what I've had recently. My faves for sleeping is the luna loves because they are full briefs and have absorbency right up to the waist band, though I have found that after 6 months of use they are losing their absorbency - which I think is to be expected, just annoying that I have to replace them frequently (https://www.loveluna.com/collections/heavy-bleed-brief/products/copy-of-period-full-brief-1) My faves for during the day are the Bonds "bloody comfy full brief heavy flow" undies (https://www.bonds.com.au/bloody-comfy-period-full-brief-wtgl-bac.html). Modi bodi is supposedly the most popular brand but I didn't rate them in comfort so don't use them unless I absolutely must. I'm not sure if you can get any of those options outside Australia so I'm not sure how much help that info is.. But, I did see that the luna loves are mostly cotton so this could work if you are sensitive to fabrics in normal underwear too.
Random: Cheerios Oat Crunch Cinnamon with a diced fuji apple and milk is pure heaven. SO GOOD.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
It also looks like I'll be able to enroll our preschooler out of district there so that would save one headache.