11/1/23
mantra:
instagram does not determine my existence.
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11/13/23
- not watching tv until after the baby is asleep for the night
- deleting fb and ig from my phone
- spending more time with my family
- feeling a little checked out from work
- looking forward to when i’ll be fully stay-at-home starting 11/28
- working on lots of creative projects like writing and designing invitations and planning events and producing comedy shows
- finding well-paying teaching side hustles already!
- trying to get the baby to laugh!!! (semi-successfully)
- letting myself start to get excited about christmas since it’s my daughter’s first one!
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11/21/23
- feeling very seen, appreciated, and loved after all the kind words said about me at my farewell party at work
- dancing with my baby in the living room
- blowing raspberries at the baby to make her smile
- getting excited for her first Christmas
- getting excited to be stay-at-home
- feeling overwhelmed by the cleaning we need to do in our house currently
- cooking and baking!
- being worried about money and trying to resist the Season of Spending (poorly)
- planning to be in SO MANY shows for December!
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11/26/23
tomorrow is my last day of work!
i would be more excited but i really overcommitted myself to a lot of things this month and i am worried about being so busy.
this week alone i have:
last day of work
improv music practice
exercise class
tutoring
library storytime
writing workshop
youth improv class
library program
improvised ted talk show
improv forms show
exercise class
improvised christmas carol practice
santa at the nature center
all the stuff that i could cut out and not do in the above list are things i actually want to do :\
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