Mr H is now singing a weird Scottish song, “you canny shove your granny off the bus”, and it’s making my day.
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They got the top off before midnight. It was Jefferson Davis’ birthday (still a state holiday in Alabama.)
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I squirreled away a bunch of large boxes over the past few months, most of them fit inside each other so it didn’t take up a ton of space. Finally got them all out this weekend for Kiddo to play with and so far he’s made a wall to be pushed over, a soccer goal, a castle, a spaceship, a cave, an ice cream truck, and several variations on a house. They’re taking up a ton of room in the tv room right now but I don’t care, he’s still building stuff every now and then. Yesterday I walked by to see he was sitting on the couch and had built the boxes entirely around him with a little open spot so he could still watch tv (#priorities).
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One more thing: a local gofundme raised the $25k to cover the fine from the state in under two hours last night.
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I don’t know how, but I actually slept for real last night for the first time in a few nights. Even after the explosion in my neighborhood around 11 p.m. that about gave me a heart attack.
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Thank you for sharing this bit of good news!
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Workplace has decided to be useful, which is what I was hoping for, and along with corporate donations will match individual donations to a given set of social justice organizations and not count it towards the normal individual yearly donation match limit. There’s some stipulations that mean that I can’t raid the DAF for this so need to free up some cash, but on the other hand it means I don’t have to figure out which organizations on the donation list for later this year lose the match money.
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Even though I’m still working I went ahead and applied for a job, and just had a great first screening interview. I like my current job, but am doing interviews to relearn how to interview and get feedback on what I can improve when I interview in the future.
It seems weird, but what I am doing by interviewing is psychologically tempering myself. It is much better to interview having a job already than having no job. In the case if I am being threatened to be/or actually laid off I can look back on this interviewing experience and not have anxiety that I can interview and that people are interested in me and value my skills and labor.
I reached out and cold e-mailed some people to ask for mentor advice, that I found on a professional conference website.
I got approved for being a mentor for students within my field.
Am boning up on literature within my field…kind of trying to plan for my late career/recreationally employed life
I reached out to a former co-worker about if they wanted to talk and maybe explore opening a consultant side business.
I sent away for a free sourdough starter: http://carlsfriends.net/ and have been baking bread, making chinese knife cut noodles, and green onions (from the garden!) cheese rolls/fried wontons/fried cheese/parsley fritters. Next up, maybe some egg pasta fettuccine/papparadelle!
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It’s not the change that is needed, but I figure hell, we need a little something right now.
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I cashed out my small pension at work and it turned out to be almost 4x what it was estimated a few months ago! I found out that it has an inverse correlation with the interest rate. So unfortunately your amount will drop once the interest rates go back up…
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yes, this is such a great mindset to go into an interview with, and having some ‘sample’ interviews under your belt is a great way to demystify the process and reduce anxiety because it isn’t the great unknown any more.
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I accepted a client 1x/week for the month of June who lives in near-west-end of the city. I live on the east end, actually out of the city… I don’t even like driving that far, let alone cycling… but I did it! It’s only once a week and I can do it any time of the day, so I just did it.
She is chafed, but she is victorious.
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I figured out how to make my tv work, more or less.
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thank you so much for your acknowledgement! 
Well this feels like the dumbest least important thing in the world right now, but… after buying a house in 2019, then basically immediately being in a big car accident and then immediately after that needing to put 10k on a credit card to save my dogs life and watching my credit score do a niiiiiice little tank… it’s been inching it’s way up and as of today (or whenever they updated it last, I’ve sorta been oblivious) it’s almost 800 again.
Cool?
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I had amazing burritos today.
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Wizard being down for boxed mac and cheese with frozen peas tossed in kept me from being like “fuck it let’s get burritos.” I have a good partner.
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Super cool!
Kid-4 has had a friend for a few weeks, who she still denies is a partner/girlfriend but is constantly over here for sleepovers (that often result in interesting neck coloration in the morning…). The TV is that the friend seems smart, kind, confident, and polite. I think I like her. As an added bonus, she seems to be able to calm Kid-4’s natural spitfire personality without pissing her off. Here’s hoping she sticks around.
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The peas made it healthy, right?
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