How Contagious Is Ebola? It turns out, not very. Unlike measles or mumps, you have to seriously come into contact with bodily fluids containing the virus. Measles and mumps also have vaccines to prevent them, unlike Ebola and a few of the other diseases mentioned.
Giddy. My boys (the Giants) are in the playoffs after beating Pittsburgh! My other boys (the Cardinals) are playing Jon’s boys (the Dodgers) and of course, I’m rooting for the Cardinals in that one. Ah… I love October — I just wish I had a TV so I could watch all of this.
Girding up my loins. I thought this was an interesting show of what it actually meant to “gird up your loins” back in the day. It satisfies my “history geek” side.
The War on Rosh Hashanah. I’m very thankful that my friend Neil posted this on his Facebook. It should give me something to be self-righteously indignant about until after Thanksgiving when I can obsess about the War on Advent.
The Benefit of Family Dinner. A friend of my bloggy friend Calah wrote this and I absolutely love it. (It’s about how eating dinner as a family saved her.) Calah expounds on it and I can relate. It’s really hard to eat a family dinner because everyone here is on a different schedule with work, medication, and childcare. We do manage it on occasion and it’s something I’ll be making an effort to try when Jon gets into his next parish.
An interesting view on waiting until a later age to date. I love Michelle. I love her blog. I love her family and wish I could be adopted in because they are so insanely cool and they seem to have so much fun! The particular post I’m sharing is on why one should wait until age 16 to date. She’s Mormon so it is written from that perspective but I found a number of her arguments compelling.
Super Woman. On days I torture myself on my core ball, I usually go for a 1 mile loop around the neighborhood for the purposes of getting some cardio as well as getting in some prayer time. (I pray for people while I walk and usually I’m walking a 5K.) I run into a lot of the same people every morning and one of them is an older man walking a dog. He jokingly asked me which lap I was on and I told him that I was just doing my 1 mile loop because I was going to go do a bunch of core exercises.
His response: “You must be Super Woman!”
Dude, you totally made this fat girl’s day.
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Family dinners are definitely something we need to work on. We do Baby-Led Weaning with J and when I was reading up on it in the beginning one of the touted advantages is that the baby sits with you and eats what you eat and watches as you sit and eat and converse with each other…except, oops, we don’t sit at the table and converse. We sit at our computers and eat while staring at the glowing screens. *cone of shame*
I was the girl who could never get a date in high school. Dated some in college and as a young adult. Found a good guy, married him and I’ve been married 25 years. The “cutest couple” in my high school class have been married over 30 years. Good for them. On the other hand, there have been lots of divorces among the popular crowd. My college daughter didn’t date in hs–her choice. She went to most of the big dances but went with a crowd of friends. She had a date for the prom but was quick to say he was just a friend. I’ve seen a lot of parents push kids to date and I think that’s just plain dumb. Dating is looking for a mate; if you aren’t ready for a mate, then why take all those risks? Why limit your social life? Get together with friends, male and female, have a good time and don’t worry about “dating”.
My parents had a 16-year rule for dating too.
Love the girding your loins. 🙂