u/poddy_fries

I'm pretty happy with my skin in general, have a good routine, and don't wear makeup often, but I've been looking for some kind of very light product I could use on my nose area some days because I do have some rosacea. My problem is that the anti-redness products I find are mostly geared to paler people, and they tend to be either green, to counteract the redness, or way too pale for my olive skin. Green on me just looks green, and I'd need to put more makeup on to cover it, which isn't what I want. Some primers help a little, but the ones I've tried, like the Revolution Pore Blur or the Porefessional, either look too pale, or don't help much. Is there something I could try, that I could just swipe a little across my middle face, and would tone down the red while somewhat matching?

At the end of every school year I go over what supplies came home with my kid and set aside whatever's still good for next year. Every year I print out the following year's list and check what I already have, and what I need to buy. Then I make sure to go shopping alone, because while I care what my son thinks, I see what happens with other families:

*Why these pencils instead of those? Can I have this thermos too? Can I have this school bag? These markers are nicer, I want these.* I get it but I can't.

I'm a little annoyed at the school board because each kid has to arrive with all their own supplies, but they never seem to match last year's list. Stuff like the exact colors of binders needed change, so I have to set aside last year's red and buy a black, and hope he needs red or black next year, for example. Every year they're expected to arrive with 24 pencils, but quite frankly my oldest is starting next year with 18 because this is what's left of the 24 I bought him 4 years ago plus another pack of 12 along the way, and I'll go buy more only if they complain because not once have they used up all those pencils. Oh, last year's glue sticks were 20g but we need 40g now. I don't blame them, I understand why they elaborate lists and they certainly have other problems, but it is annoying.

Each and every one of these things has to be identified. EACH. I have the option of scratching or writing the name on each individual pen and marker and everything, or buying identity stickers. I keep thinking there has to be better ways to do this. Does it really matter whose eraser this is? I'd be happy to kick in money or provide a package that everyone can use. Is this to teach them to take care of their own things? That's good, but it feels like it'd be just as good to teach them to take care of the classroom pencils. Someone once told me that if they knew the school supplies would be getting shared, they wouldn't bother getting good ones like they do for their own kid alone. I couldn't understand at first, but yes, they were saying they'd get good quality glue sticks for their kid alone, but crappy glue sticks if the class would be sharing. I'm mad about this but I'm mostly puzzled. If everyone thought like this, the class would only be sharing crappy supplies, including their kid, right? But this is somehow better than the *possibility* of some other child getting to use good glue? This seems like a much bigger societal problem than I can address at the stationery shop.

The list is also tricky. They're not allowed to name specific brands for you to buy, so sometimes they're ridiculously specific instead. You can get any notebooks you like as long as they're 32 pages, this size, linespaced to this exact measurement, and available in these colors, so you're getting the Canada notebooks. You need sticky notes, but they have to be bright yellow and they have to be this stupid arcane size only, so they're going to be Post-its. Their inability to be specific allows you faint hope that you may have options, but mostly it's just extra mental load.

Every year this bothers me.

I'm looking for an engaging non-fiction book about everything around what happened in Cambodia with Pol Pot, and the repercussions!