1. How could it be Friday again already?
2. Time is slippery right now. Things last forever but somehow fly by. It’s alarming.
3. This seems like a good reminder moment: Check your voter status at usa.gov.
4. Go on. Click over to make sure you’re registered and active.
5. Let’s say you’re not. You’ve never voted. You moved and forgot to register. You were mysteriously purged from the voter rolls. Whatever. What’s next?
6. Go to vote.gov to learn how to register in your state.
7. Some deadlines are only a month away so watch that slippery corona time.
8. The kids’ school sent a gentle reminder to basically say we’re all in this together. The choices your family makes affect everyone so please honor the spirit of partnership with healthy choices.
9. Can I get an AMEN?
10. This is the kind of adult solidarity I really need right now.
11. I’m not typically a censorship kinda gal but I’d even entertain the idea of locking down teen social media for the duration because if I have to hear so-and-so is out on a DATE one more time…
12. Dammit, people, make your kids stop posting this crap. Mine already think I’m an evil dictator.
13. Gracie’s over there licking a throw pillow right now.
14. Basically it’s 20% fabric and 80% dog hair so it’s pretty much like licking herself.
15. No, not that way, get your mind out of the gutter.
16. You know how sometimes you’re rolling right along and something slaps you silly?
17. I was scrolling instagram when an advertisement shouting “best face mask for men” caught my eye.
18. Best face mask for men?? Huh?
19. “Does this one make my chin look fat?”
20. “This makes my ears stick out.”
21. “Sure, the color’s nice, but I’m more of an autumn.”
22. For heaven’s sake.
23. I’ve spent precisely zero minutes looking for a “best” mask.
24. That’s not true, I’ve asked every glasses-wearing person I know if they’ve found one that won’t fog.
25. Spoiler alert: Nobody has.
26. I’ve found a horribly awkward workaround for the grocery store.
27. Important background information: I’ve reached a delightful age where I need glasses for both near and far. Technically I can see far away it’s just a little…fuzzy. And it hurts to focus. Whatever, it’s annoying, I use glasses.
28. Except I’ve tried ninety minutes in the grocery store, glasses fogging up with every breath. It makes me all rage-y. So here’s my workaround.
29. Glasses on: Change text size to visible-from-two-aisles-over. Load shopping list on phone. Start spotify playlist.
30. Hang glasses on shirt. Tuck into bra strap so I stop accidentally dropping them on the floor.
31. Put glasses on. Check produce. Take off. Repeat.
32. Put glasses on. Check weight on chicken package. Take off. Repeat.
33. Put glasses on. Price check cereal sales. Take off. Repeat.
34. You see a pattern, right?
35. Basically grocery shopping involves accepting senior citizen style without the discounts.
36. I weighed it out, though, and glasses olympics beats fogged up vision every time.
37. So who’s taking bets on how disastrous Labor Day will be?
38. I’ll go with a 20% bump in covid positives. Maybe twenty-five?
39. I dunno, let’s just say groups will gather, people will be dumb, and numbers will blow up. Again.
40. I’m seriously starting to doubt this whole commitment to “getting back to normal” thing.
Riddle from the Middle 
AMEN! As to masks that cut down on fogging glasses, I got some at starks.com. They have a little piece that folds inside that you pull up to fit more snugly over your nose.
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Well then, it looks like I might have another face mask to try. I’ll give those a look. Thanks, Carol!
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My glasses fog up unless I switch to a bandanna. But then I look like I’m robbing the place.
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😆 You’re braver than I am. I haven’t tried rocking a bandana yet. Don’t think I can pull that one off.
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My Instagram scrolling somehow diverted me to watching women of all ages, sizes and ethnicity demonstrating brow tattoos on YouTube. Much more entertaining than mask choices. Corona is really getting on my nerves. I find the masks with bendable nose pieces work best for the fogging and I, too, put my glasses on top of the mask to mitigate the fogging. I did buy some paper-like adhesive bandage tape to tape the top of the mask to my face. Yes, I am that far gone. I am not above looking that ridiculous.
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Honestly, if I had to wear the thing any longer than a trip to the grocery store or doctor’s appointment I’d be taping it to my face too! My other favorite Instagram diversions are puppy photos and braiding videos. Sometimes I wander down the rabbit hole but at least I end up smiling.
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my glasses!! i so get it. and thank you for supporting your schools and teachers, we are truly in this together, they are right, we are in the trenches right now, trying to open our school in a safe way
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Ours offered the choice of fully remote or partial in person. Our kids are fully remote but we told them we’d reevaluate in another week (that’ll be a month total). Truth is I’m terrified people aren’t reporting honestly on their outside exposure or illness and we’ll end up sending them into a hot zone that gets closed again. These choices are super stressful.
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I totally get that, no right answers
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🙂 I put my mask on and put the glasses on top, so the mask ends snug under the frame. This way the “air” can’t come out of the top of the mask and fog up my glasses.
I hate it when it happens!!!
a HAPPY Friday to you.
Claudia 🙂
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Okay, you’re the second person to say this so clearly I don’t have my glasses set properly on my nose. There’s still hope! 🙂
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If I wear my glasses on top of the edge of the mask, it doesn’t fogs up that quickly. Stay safe.
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I thought I was but I’ll make sure I am. Maybe that will help. Thanks!
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Hope it helps.
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