Category: Journal
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Feeling encouraged for the future
I noticed a lot of things in the temple this morning: After the temple I hurried to the fall cleanup service activity—at least as long as I could stay before I had to take Alex to work.
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More optimistic
I’m feeling more optimistic in the outcome of this election. I’m also seeing more optimism coming from others who are pulling for Kamala Harris to win. I also saw Jennifer Lopez website Harris and once again it was a masterclass in political communication — I’ve seen several of these extraordinary endorsements and I’m planning to…
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Real work today
I feel like it’s the first time in weeks that I was able to just get effective work done for my work day. I started a task yesterday and I spent all day today making good progress on that. I’m also feeling a little more confident in the election prospects today. I still won’t relax…
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The closing argument
I listened to Kamala Harris speak at the ellipse tonight—the site where Trump had rallied his people to storm the capitol on January 6th—in what was labeled as her closing argument for the election. I felt fortunate to get to listen to it as it was being given rather than sometime later. In fact, while…
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Unfair in our favor.
We may perform at a 6 in letting God prevail in our lives but our covenants aren’t fair because the Lord blessed us at a 10 for being willing so that we can become accustomed to how to be an 8. Jared Lund(Paraphrase) We had an interesting discussion in Elders Quorum about how we let…
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Staying in balance
I made sure to go to the temple today as I promised myself I would be sure to do every week through the election. Also, in the spirit of not letting myself get sucked into politics, I made sure to go driving with Alex and take Noah out for lunch. We didn’t ultimately watch the…
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Prize winning chili
Today the Ward did their annual trunk-or-treat and chili cook-off. As usual I contributed chili. This year I brought our red chili and it was fun to see that it was completely fine before the night was over. We took off around 7:45 and then while I was out picking Alex up from work I…
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Twelve more days
Staying focused on things outside wanting some clear break indicating that Trump can’t win is difficult right now. I think it’s scars from 2016 when I fully expected him to lose combined with PTSD from 2020 knowing that even if he loses by less than as landslide (at least 25,000 votes in enough states to…
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Test results
It only took 24 hours to get the results of my blood work. The high cholesterol was no surprise but I hadn’t expected the hemoglobin (blood sugar) results to come back as mildly pre-diabetic. I’m not really worried (at least until I get more feedback when I talk to Dr. McGrew about the results) but…
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Vote counted
I signed up to receive notifications on my ballot status a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been waiting for an update since I dropped off my ballot last week and today I got the notification that my ballot had been accepted. I believe that indicates that there are no issues such as a mismatched signature…