I got three people signed up for poll observer training in 30 minutes!
Some people didn’t pick up, but everyone was very nice!
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aw, thank you! 
I have been fighting my innate messiness my entire life, but as an adult finally realized how much more relaxing life is when things are clean and organized! I still have a lot of internal resistance around actually doing the cleaning, but it’s getting better the older I get.
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I went and got a hair cut! For the first time in… 2.5 years? Something like that. A long time. Cut quite a bit of hair off. Bonus, found an awesome local black owned, LGBT owned salon very close to me. Took a fair bit of length off, but it’s still like armpit length right now straightened. We’ll see once I wash it how long it is curly.
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That’s a big deal for lots of reasons, well done!
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I might have a lead on a new therapist that may be able to see me as early as next week? Bestie was helping do the info gathering because I couldn’t do it. Fingers crossed, I need it so so bad right now.
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One for you and one for Bestie:
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I have two Tony V’s:
• made a hard phone call that I’d been putting off.
• Responded to someone hitting on me honestly (I just said that I really like being alone) instead of offering some response that aims to be “less threatening” (for safety). That won’t always work, but wow did it feel good to just straight up respond honestly & without (…?) fear.
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My partner got this under cabinet mounted radio/bluetooth speaker combo (for the sake of not spamming, I won’t name it here, but lemme know if you want to know what it is, just lemme know) for the kitchen. I’m one of those people that really likes having music playing while doing the dishes or other tasks, for some reason silence weirds me out but music really makes chores pleasurable?
Anyways, I really like the jazz and classical radio stations, but don’t really like much other radio (maybe the NPR stations, but it isn’t always music and I’m really trying to be intentional about my news/informational diet). Anyways, long story short it has 20 memory presets and I just needed 2, there is was only one button which only forward-cycled through the stations, there wasn’t a “back” button. Adding insult to injury, I couldn’t even delete the other preset stations.
Reading the manual online, I had an A-ha! moment. I went back to the kitchen and what I did was I set all the odd presets to the jazz station and then all the even presets to the classical station. Voila! When I pressed the only forward cycling button it now alternates between the two stations no matter what. If I want to add a station, I can reprogram it or just give it 2 or 3 spots, depending on my interest in the new radio station. 
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This is beautiful and brilliant.
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@Neuroman genius!
@JanetJackson Your honest response Tony Victor made me all warm and happy to read. I haven’t been out and about often enough to practice that lately but I was struggling with that same thing a little last year with fellow bus-riders. It’s very affirming to know I’m not the only one and also I’m chronically inspired by the way you approach things 
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A group of children onna string passed by me on my walk in the neighbourhood today and one of them said “nice hat”.
Or at least that is what I heard, so I thanked them. This hat gets all the compliments, and it was $50 at the local big mall. I bet all the fancy custom hats get jealous when it comes back from a walk and tells them it got another one.
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Jealouuuuusss. I wanna vote so hard. We have an anti-abortion measure on the ballot and I am EAGER to GET THAT SHIT OUTTA HERE.
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You’re in CO too, yes?
I told someone I was against it and they said “what, at 22 weeks? That’s like 3rd trimester, right?”
I tried to keep my brain from exploding when I was trying to explain WHY people usually end up getting abortions done that late, and I think I managed to actually gave them some real info instead of just spluttering sounds.
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Yep yep.
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I got a new t shirt nightie and I am happy. More socially acceptable than t shirt and undies for shared housing, but better than pyjamas.
And 2)
I’ve been at my parents’ house since Sunday night and it is like being a mother on relaxed easy mode.
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I am so happy for you that you are getting this.
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1 - I have been sleeping 9+ hours a night this week – HEAVEN
2 - Looking over my finances for the year and giving is by far the biggest spending category after rent and I am so happy about this 
As someone who grew up with massive financial and many other kinds of instability, it has been a long road to realize that my situation is vastly different now and to open up and give more generously to folks who need it. Long may it continue! (or maybe we’ll have a society that does better at this at some point too 
)
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TMI follow up to TC
The floodgates have opened!
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YAY lololol
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