I sewed a button back on. This normally wouldn’t be a victory, but at first I totally mangled it, reminding me that it is in fact a skill, and just because I’ve known how to do this a long time doesn’t diminish that. It’s a skill and I was out of practice but it came back to me. TV.
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While frantically searching under the kitchen sink for the steel wool for my Tiny Complaint, I found the following:
- our missing flashlight
- a full unopened box of trash bags
- half a roll of paper towels
- 1 more clean unused dish sponge than I thought we had.
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a coworker expressed that she needed a few food items, and they happened to be things that I stocked up on a little too much for Covid winter that I am not using as fast as I expected. I was able to make a bag of them for her and she will come get them today!
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I had lunch in between meetings and it was white chili and it was amazing.
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I thought my copay for therapy was $45, but turns out it’s only $25! I can’t believe I have a therapist I like and it’s only $25. 
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Sometimes supporting local businesses means getting an enormous sushi platter and going to town on it until all three of you are groaning and rubbing your distended bellies.
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This has been my go-to excuse for Way Too Much Indian food. I literally would be in tears if it shut down.
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Getting pepperoni rolls and calzones from the local italian place down the street is just me being a good citizen.
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My sister has grown up to be a decent host and we’re having Christmas Breakfast at her place this year. I am delighted and planning on showering her with praise.
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A friend texted me while he was super high asking high level linguistics questions. I love every ounce of this.
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I’m almost done with the Silmarillion. So close. Were JT still alive, I’d write him a letter asking for fewer sentences that were more names than verbs, adjectives, non-proper nouns etc. I don’t know that to do when there’s 3 names in a row with nothing in between.
But I’m almost done and this later part is more narrative and I like it.
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Praise you. This is a feat I have tried many times and never accomplished. It reminded me too much of when my parents made me read Exodus in the Bible as a kid. I just can’t follow. And I have read the entire Tolkein dictionary cover to cover multiple times.
Was it good??
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It was! If I ever try to read it again, I’m going to make maps and family trees and a chronological mapping of who did what, where, and when. I usually read for 20-30 minutes in bed, but this one I have to do during the day or I can’t concentrate enough to follow!
Props for getting through Exodus. My folks read a chapter of the Bible every night to me as a kid, which was fine. But trying to the Pentateuch or the prophets when i was a kid… man, that was weird stuff and not at like to stuff i got to read at the library!
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Oh dear. This sounds like something that I would do 
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I read the Bible cover to cover during high school because I was really interested in religion but didn’t “get it”. Reading the Bible did not help
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Yeah, Tolkein has never been night time reading for me. Well, except when I was a kid. I used to just read through those books like they were nothing. I can’t find the resolve as an adult. I want that brain back! Have you read through the appendices of LOTR? Really interesting stuff in there as well.
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Fun fact: my mom was one of the first people who got to handle all his notes when Marquette got his archives. She has all sorts of interesting stories about seeing his edits.
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I have a hard time believing those exist.
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I had to try three times before I made it through that book. It’s got so much interesting information, but it is rough going.
I think it’s extra difficult because characters have multiple names/titles that are used throughout the book, and if you don’t remember all of them you might miss something important. I should have made a flow chart. I mean, I did for Wheel of Time eventually, and that wasn’t anywhere near as confusing.
ETA - also no one ever dies, but they do have kids. So he just keeps piling new characters with enormous names on top of one another.
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