Lauren&Hyrum

 I quiet-quit social media because I was pretty obsessive about doom-scrolling instead of doing other things.   Things I have wanted to say to the anonymity of Everyone:  1.) A new song about ADHD hyperfixations called, "Don't Worry, I Figured It Out". 2.) A video of my dog smelling the fur I trimmed off of him like it is a brand new and highly nefarious mystery that will have him focused until the very moment that he Sherlocks it out. 3.) That mental institutions are run like prisons and that is objectively wrong, and the system is broken. Things I have gotten done instead of doom-scrolling: 1.) Moved a majority of the junk in my room out of the way so we can have the   I can tear the carpet out of my room where it has been brought swiftly to its knees by my aged 4 lb Morkie. 2.) Trimmed my unendingly adorable bull-schnau of his more egregious scraggllies for the purpose of his looking younger, and nothing else.

Oh man, what a morning!  Sometimes stuff just works out so beautifully, and I am so grateful to be in a place at this moment where I can appreciate it.  I need something heavier than a period to finish that sentence, because an exclamation point is the wrong energy. So, I'll bold the period. "... and I am so grateful to be in a place at this moment where I can appreciate it . " Does it... Nah it didn't do it. Anyway, things are just normal.  Gemma was warm enough yesterday that she left her coat at school when she came home, which means she doesn't have it this morning.  We all smell like smoke because Russ burned a cardboard box in the fireplace last night that was big enough that he had to use the poker to keep it inside the fireplace, but in pushing it inside, he pushed the flu lever back and shut it, smoking us all out. It was already so late when it happened that no one had time to shower.  Wyatt had a basketball game last night (we finally won!!!), which m...