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MY ANGST HAS SOME FOUNDATION. Employer matching for 401k contributions has been cancelled.
Time to obsessively look at rentals just in case. This is mentally healthy, right??
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Step FIL is getting increasingly miserable to be around. He’s pissed off about his job (his boss will not let employees WFH even though they’re fully capable and set up for it) and he’s taking it out on everyone around him.
More passive aggressiveness towards my partner (who doesn’t notice/care but I do), making fun of my (and my MIL’s) employers for the awesome things they’re doing (like paid wellness time), making sexist jokes, aggressively questioning people during dinner conversation (eg. “You know WHY that is, right?”).
He needs to go to therapy.
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You can get hamster harnesses and tiny travel cages and take them on picnics and hikes. My hamster liked that sort of thing. Camping he didn’t love
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A person just sent me a draft email for a meeting with me and one of their direct reports (who I’m borrowing for the thing I did a coup on to start publishing stuff the team says they want info about).
The draft suggests we want to “spend 30 minutes with you to expose opportunities for [] to you, and to engage you in a conversation to understand your perspective. Our objective is to help you feel empowered to move forward by sharing our perspective and supporting your thinking”
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I’m wearing pants with a zipper…maybe for the first time since August.
Also, except for these pants, most of my clothes are falling apart, slutty, or super casual. I love all those categories, but perhaps I need to expand my options in the "in good repair, good enough to go for dinner and not slutty " category to include 1-3 outfits.
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I used a hand sanitizer in my buildings trash room and now my hands smell like fabric softener and it’s giving me a headache and I can’t wash it off 
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I hate it when they scent those 
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Since the dining rooms of all restaurants are closed, there’s nowhere to stop when I’m out working to use a restroom, so I have to drive all the way home. It really is a tiny complaint because I read a story yesterday about a postal carrier who walks 7 miles a day and has to hold it all day after 1 pm because that’s when the last restroom along her route, at Dunkin Donuts, closes. That’s a big complaint.
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We have the return of the asshat cutting fiber optic cables in the Bay Area. In a pandemic. While everyone’s working from home.
Frustrating.
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This afternoon in numbers:
- 5 hours
- 3 meetings
- 3 videoconferencing platforms **
- 0 breaks
** Zoom, MS Teams, and Collaborate Ultra, for those keeping score at home.
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Theres an ice cream truck outside. I’m so lost as to how that works right now
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I mean, drive through Starbucks type places are still open, too. 
It’s the wild west in terms of what is “essential.”
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I should say, being able to get to-go coffee as a pedestrian pretending to be a car is one of the things keeping Partner sane right now. SO as nonsensical as it is, I can’t really knock it too much lol.
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The baby will not sleep. The dog is an asshole. My hands still smell bad. My husband is getting nonstop work calls. I slept poorly. Today officially sucks.
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I ate too much burrito, and now I am burrito. Oof.
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I totally feel ya on the smelly stuff causing migraines. I had a similar hand smelly issue on our wedding day (parents bought very perfumed hand soap, instead of plain generic stuff they normally had). I swear that the pleasant to me scents fade so fast, but the headache causing ones hang around forever. Yuck. One more reason to appreciate work from home is I avoid nice-but-applies-perfume-in-her-cubicle-lady.
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Try making a paste of water and baking soda in your hand and scrubbing with it, gently so you don’t irritate the skin.
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If you are a burrito then I love you. True science fact.
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Alas, I have no baking soda. I think I’m gonna try olive oil then washing it off. See if it’s fat soluble 
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