Wow, they missed you a lot!
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I tried to nap yesterday and failed (thank you noisy nap-less small child), child went to sleep at 7pm yesterday and I intended to go to sleep right after he did but the neighbors started doing intermittent fire works at 7:30 with a “show” at midnight that wrapped up at 12:30ish. Child slept through all that and woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed at 5:30AM. He probably won’t nap today either. 
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The library book I am excitedly waiting for has been two weeks away from my place in the queue for at least four weeks now. Come onnnnn.
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I live just far enough outside of the city and the very rural areas that most of the midnight fireworks from the city & the farm folks weren’t too loud last night at midnight, BUT as I was having a really beautiful little ritual in my yard to celebrate the incoming new year my diagonal rear neighbor who I have literally never seen or met came out onto her back deck and rang the loudest cowbell I’ve ever heard in person … twenty times. 
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The restaurant I was going to take my friends to today is closed.
So is the backup restaurant.
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Getting greedy with tiny complaints: I stepped on cat shit and smeared it all around the house right before guests are coming over 
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Ohmygod. I’m awake. I feel truly awful. I only slept for 4.5 hours and have tremendous gas.
And I’m going to drag myself out running because the weather is perfect for it.
Grumble
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We have roaches. We have had pest control come out three times and the number of roaches has definitely reduced but now the last stubborn survivors refuse to go. I got rid of some plants near the part of the house where we keep seeing the roaches but since no bugs scuttled out when I did the plant removal I don’t think it’ll help (it was a ginormous sago palm that was planted too close to the house, the branches were constantly touching the house even with pruning). The last pest guy was really thorough, I don’t know what else they can do to help us short of tenting the house, which seems extreme.
Secondary complaint: we should have had the sago removed when we did other tree removal a few months ago but didn’t think of it. Hmph.
Unrelated complaint, since I’m being whiny: I have to go back to work tomorrow and have no more planned PTO to look forward to at this point.
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I got to start the new year by asking my neighbors to turn their bass down. I don’t mind people having a good time, but I shouldn’t be able to feel your TV show in my teeth at 10 pm.
I’m now over adrenalined because somehow I still think that people in a suburban neighborhood are going to try to fight me.
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I get that feeling whenever I initiate the slightest conflict and it sucks and is stupid.
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My hand is paralyzed and the big muscle at the base of my thumb has been twitching hard all day. It is useless and worrying.
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The new puppy bit me on the nipple this morning.
OW.
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Period blood everywhere.
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I went from 1 to 2 cats but I feel like the litter situation has gotten 4x worse.
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I am STILL sick. 20 out of 30 days in December I was sick. I decided yesterday that I was not sick anymore, so I went for a bike ride. Today, still sick. My immune system is really failing me right now.
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My utility bill is as high as it was before we got solar. WTF?
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Cramps. And aches. SO MANY CRAMPS.
Also the lady (whom I do not work with) from two office doors down is in today (always unpredictable) and she talks SO LOUD ABOUT SO MANY THINGS NONE OF WHICH I NEED TO KNOW AND MANY NOT WORK RELATED AT ALL.
Time for music.
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Is your plan that you get reimbursed from the utility company for the energy generated by solar that goes back into the main stream?
Or is yours connected only to your house?
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Yeah, we are supposed to get reimbursed for what we don’t use. But we haven’t had a month yet where we haven’t used all we’ve generated.
I suspect this month we just had higher electricity usage because for most of the month one of us was home, and so we had computers running 12 hours a day, but I’ll have to check the itemized utility bill. I just looked at the one in my email which is just the amount.
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Bouncing with the baby to calm her means that I don’t have an accurate step count on my Fitbit.
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