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small small catch monkey small small catch monkey thoughts from my world friday october 10 2014 the sky is falling you may have heard we re all going to die of ebola calm down we re not all going to die of ebola why do you ask we don t live in west africa please take a minute and read this assessment of ebola virus disease health care infrastructure and preparedness four counties southeastern liberia august 2014 before this is over there well may be more imported cases of ebola in the u s there may even be a few infections here depending on how well cases are identified and managed see spain or at worst nigeria but that s where it will stop here then look again at liberia or sierra leone and think to yourself this is exactly why we pay taxes as onerous as that is no doubt we could manage our tax dollars a bit better but i am grateful to live in a country that has a long standing public commitment to infrastructure in public health medicine communication transportation etc all of which is so important to have in place before the crisis happens i have not been involved at all in the response yet though that could change at some point i only know what i read in the news i have no insights on how well things have or have not been managed but i do know it is unrealistic to blame the global public health response for not fixing a fundamental lack of infrastructure and generations of war and poverty in the past six months posted by carrie at 6 09 pm no comments tuesday february 11 2014 i heart my neighborhood part 523 having just been to the grocery store at 11pm and being amused at a very similar situation imagine this level of barren on every aisle of the store i had to share this gem from the neighborhood page posted by carrie at 12 14 am 1 comment sunday june 9 2013 i made this well i didn t so much as did the dirt and the water and some cool genes but still these are all blooming in my yard right now as in i took each of these pictures this very morning i ve put many many hours of work into this yard since i bought my house a few years ago it still has a ways to go notice you re not seeing any wide shots but this spring things have finally seemed to start growing into something recognizable it has been remarkably satisfying to be seeing some tangible results turns out gardening may not be the best hobby for instant gratification maybe this will make those summer hours of weeding a little less tedious posted by carrie at 10 30 pm 2 comments sunday february 10 2013 my neighborhood is classy much could probably be said about the following i ll just leave it at welcome to the newest neighborhood watering hole edited to add also this from the neighborhood facebook page posted by carrie at 9 01 pm 1 comment saturday june 30 2012 hobbies i used to be a reader i m still hopeful i can recover that aspect of my being but for now it s just not relaxing and last year i decided if things were going to be stressful with work i needed some outlet for distraction at first there was a lot of angry birds don t judge but what i really needed was a hobby first there was my garden this is still relaxing but not nearly as much so on days like today when it s over 100 degrees and humid outside even my garden doesn t want to be outside on days like this i think this year has been more productive than last in some ways although less so in others on the edible side i have managed to eat from my yard at least a handful of peas potatoes tomatoes beets beans squash basil blueberries blackberries the figs will be ripe soon as will the peppers the jury s still out on the eggplant and more tomatoes if the squirrels don t get them all some evidence of the produce and the flowers then the cooking i m a messy cook and not at all graceful and i hate doing dishes but it s fun to play in the kitchen in the past month in addition to the normal meal routine which let s face it is sometimes just cereal for dinner too i ve experimented with making my own bread yogurt pesto pickles and bbq sauce these have mostly worked out successfully though i ve still got a ways to go with the bread finally sewing after many years hiatus i took a sewing class at a cute little co op in atlanta last year to remind myself how to do more than just sew a straight line skills beyond said straight lines have been slow in coming but i ve been trying to find smallish projects to keep it up the other week i made a cute little baby bib for a coworker or the pattern was cute at least the perfectionist in me almost couldn t bring myself to actually gift my much less polished version of which i don t even have a picture but hey the kid s just going to stain it with carrot mush and spit up anyway and guess what a hobby or three later things have been looking much better and extremely domestic i know but even when things don t work out right having done something active and tangible makes a difference also i think all my friends started dating people at about the same time so i entertain myself a lot these days this week i m going on vacation and i m going to try again at the reading thing i have a lengthy backlog of well intended book sale purchases but i ve yet to decide on the perfect vacation book after a lengthy separation i m open to suggestions or recipes posted by carrie at 10 28 pm 3 comments tuesday may 8 2012 adulthood revisited so in the last week i ve now had two cars towed due to mechanical problems and the 16 year old ac unit in my house is on its last legs and needs to be completely replaced or as was pointed out yesterday in 5 days i managed to break two cars and a house thanks brooke lesson being a grown up is also expensive posted by carrie at 10 20 am no comments tuesday may 1 2012 turns out being a grown up could be overrated adulthood seems so great when you first start doing it living on your own making your own decisions exciting fun adventures i could go to bed at 2am if i want hah or 9 30pm or let s face it 8 30pm if i m feeling really crazy m m s for dinner sure vacations to the other side of the world on short notice check sleep on the couch because you just washed your sheets but didn t plan enough time to dry them before you needed to go to bed done it and now i m even adult enough to have a guest bedroom as back up oh yep done it psst please don t look in my bedroom right now and judge me with the covers piled up on the middle of the bed next to a neatly folded pile of sheets unmade i just really hate making the bed okay that s part of the grown up stuff that s not so fun all the chores you especially hate are yours know what you don t quite get right away being a grown up is great for much more substantive reasons than that but it s hard and frequently uncomfortable i think i ve mentioned before that it s been a really stressful year or so mostly because of work i feel like i m in that awkward growing pains phase in life where i m inexperienced enough to still be making a lot of mistakes but experienced enough that i m the one on the hook for them now i m not anyone s student or fellow anymore i m supposed to be learning how to be the one in charge i m finding this feeling is true for a lot of people at this stage in our lives whether it be early in careers or marriage or parenting want to know what s really hard learning how to do it gracefully not getting defensive or aggressive learning when to stand your ground or when to take the hits and do what needs to be done even in the times when it s not your fault i ve seen some really good examples of that in the last year and some really bad ones lucky for me i have a wonderful supervisor who happens to be one of the really good examples on the upside a working group conference call that has felt to border on verbal abuse in recent weeks was actually pleasant today it might be a breakthrough in the meantime it makes a difference when you have people in your life who are in your corner like this posted by carrie at 10 49 pm no comments 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