I got Clip Studio on this laptop and was able to make a not shitty thumbnail for a video! 
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I love work. It is very very me
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Got my state inspection done for the truck today. I live walking distance from the dealership so it was $8 instead of $70 and I didn’t have to wait in their waiting room
ETA: to clarify, it’s cheaper at the dealership I bought the truck at. Walking distance let me avoid the waiting room.
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Latte laughs every time she sneezes. It’s hilarious.
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Omg that’s adorable.
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The flip side is that she cries any time anyone else sneezes 
except the dog. She gets laughs.
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Oh nooooooo
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I introduced the kids to So I Married An Axe Murderer. They are doing Mike Myers-esque beat poetry in the kitchen.
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Was able to eat and get ready for the (solo) day ahead before baby woke up. This will make the day much, much easier.
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I’ve been using a mental health app and just shared about it with my coworkers in our group chat to let them know a) it exists and b) it’s free right now with our insurance. Several people said thank you, one person chatted me separately with questions figuring out how to get it set up.
(Your insurance company may be doing this also cause pandemic, if you have the spoons it’s worth at least calling and asking them and they can tell you which app they work with.)
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Our CSA has us drowning in veggies so I offered some around at work. All the ones I was offering were claimed within 10 minutes, and one guy hadn’t heard of a CSA and is very excited about the concept.
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It’s just like poooouring down rain here today and any low area is flooded and total mush.
…But wait a second I left that job I hated a year ago – I’ll just call my clients and reschedule my appointments because I can. Heyyyyyyyyyy
What a great realization today.
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I made phone calls and did things. We have home insurance again! I straightened out a weirdness with a retirement account. I prepped a student for a conference presentation (both prep and conference virtual!) Might as well see if I can’t conquer the “two HSAs” problem while I’m at it.
Edit, also:
And two more have red stripes now)
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NW bump - nice. May be fleeting, but nice.
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I realized that I’ve been off by a factor of 2 in calculating my serving size of spinach. So I just found an easy way to double my leafy green intake over the past 2 months.
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I have a related victory. I figured out a way I can stomach greens in the morning! I normally fight morning nausea, but am used to my (very specific, utterly unchanging) breakfast. But thanks to TJs chili onion crunch, I was able to work a small amount of butter braised greens into my breakfast the last couple days! 
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Is it Talkspace? My insurance is going to start covering that as of 1/1 and I’ve been considering it.
I don’t have a photo but my paper-bag-ripening trick has resulted in FOUR gorgeous Cherokee Purple tomatoes.
I mean, no they are not gorgeous. They’re heirlooms and thus are fugly. But yummmmmm. And bonus post-season tomatoes! 
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It is Talkspace! Initially you enter all your info (insurance and what state you’re in cause they have to match you to a provider that can serve your state) then I was connected to a human being who was not a therapist so I could talk to her about what I was looking for out of therapy (basically they want to figure out if you’re there for anxiety, PTSD, family issues, anger management, etc etc) then I had a list of I think three providers to choose from. My original provider left Talkspace a few weeks after I joined and I was able to choose from another list of three and the new person could see all my chat history.
It’s not the same as in person therapy but it’s definitely way better than nothing. The outside perspective is helpful and she’s providing me with tools to not get “flooded”. With the first therapist I did flat out say “Everything sucks, it is objectively terrible, what can therapy do?” Not to be adversarial, but more of if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck we’re not going to pretend it’s not a duck, right?
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