Duckling’s gumboots that I bought 6+ weeks ago turned up today! Thank goodness, because we had to really squeeze his feet in the past 2 days.
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I have gotten approval from my VP & SVP for my team to restart some of their public facing activities that they had been forced to stop because certain people were concerned about reputational risk to the organization.
They’ve been making do, but they will be so much more effective with a 90% available toolkit (the other 10% is in-person, so obviously nobody is asking for that for several months).
My VP specifically called out that I made their job easy with the prep work I had done to lay out the case and picking the right timing for people to be able to listen instead of react from fear. Almost like I’m good at my job, which I question sometimes when it takes 6 weeks to do something that should have been accomplished in 2 or 3.
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converted checking account that was charging me a monthly maintenance fee into a no-fee one (I got $500 to sign up and had been putting off closing it so I was still ahead, but woof maintenance fees are dumb!)
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Oh man, yup. It’s a big deal. Recommend this slightly trashy and kinda uplifting show if you want to know more about child marriage in the US. It is hosted by three sisters who escaped a polygamist cult who help others escape. Still reality TV but covers the economic power and strong influence of child marriage in fundamentalist religions in the US + Canada.
CW: cult, sexual abuse
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Thanks for the rec. Don’t think I can watch that without being filled with rage though.
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I completed a review of two colleagues tasks. Unfortunately I couldn’t sign off because corrections are needed, but it’s one step closer to something being done.I really really really really need something to be done. I need that mental win because I feel like I have 5 million balls in the air and nothing is getting done.
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I walked into the house and surprised bigger kid, who was doing something involving vanilla extract and cayenne. He quickly hid his activity. The ongoing and profound weirdness of my kids feels like a tiny victory to me. They are so goddamned secure in who they are and comfortable in their own skin. What teenager is like that? I don’t get it but I love it.
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I like bigger kid’s boldness with cayenne, even if learning how much of it chili can handle before it becomes inedible is part of the process.
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I am also in favor of the boldness, but I am puzzled by the vanilla extract combo.
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I am too. I could imagine some sort of pseudo-chocOlate chili drink with vanilla, but I think this is likely more original. Future mixologist on our hands
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He said something about vanilla coming from the anal glands of beavers. It was unclear.
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One of the greatest words of all time comes from otter places. Possibly other weasels. Spraint. The things you can learn at a zoo
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Correction: the best thing to learn at a zoo is lockpicking.
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Did online games with friends via Discord & jackbox. And I was more technically saavy than the other newbies!
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My husband is home. I solo did 7 of the last 8 days. I survived. 
I also listened to 3 audiobooks. Thank you Libby.
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Update on my complaint: figured out it was probably a blocked salivary gland, been treating it, and my face is much smaller now. 
fingers crossed for no antibiotics.
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My elongated and slightly trapezoidal mask design covers husband’s full beard as I had hoped.
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Affogato for breakfast.
(that’s espresso poured over ice cream. It has to be exceptionally good ice cream, the kind with no weird ingredients at all, or it gets gross. I have exceptionally good ice cream. This might be a double victory)
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If you’re a gorilla.
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