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I survived the sleepover. Starting back at an old job tonight working overnights. Overnights are really rough on my mental health, not sure how this is going to go but I have to have a paycheck coming in right? Anyway, did some more "loves" designs yesterday, the one I linked to here is inspired by my youngest gorilla girl who loves both cats and avocados. Hope you enjoy it.

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Gorilla warriors...my middle daughter turns 12 on Monday and tonight is her party. Movie, dinner, and then a popcorn bar and sleepover for 8 girls. This Gorilla dad is TERRIFIED. I'm sure I'll survive...

Vikings thoughts, I love love love love love love the Kwesi Adofo-Mensah hire. Excited for a new direction of Vikings football...but still terrified about tonight.

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Was in a gaming mood today so I put together a few gaming designs. Here's a classic heartbeat design, it's available with a few different backgrounds if you check out my Redbubble shop. I posted a pic of a couple of the other designs below.

Gramma Gorilla was here from out of town for a week. She's awesome...and she has no off button. We love it when she comes and we breath when she leaves.

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Navy Veteran Multiple Products Here ►► https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/100113193 #america #usa #military #service #sailor #veteran #officer #enlisted #usnavy #sea (at Coleraine, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZMkI8IrIjp/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Let's talk for a just a purple minute about veteran's (I am one) and suicide (I am a survivor). Did you know that 22 Veterans every day commit suicide. 22. That number is way too big. If you know a veteran, even if they seem like the happiest person in the universe, do me a favor and give them this number: 1-800-273-8255, it's a 24 hour confidential veteran's crisis line. It's also a great resource for the loved ones of a veteran, they can point you towards local resources.

Until next time. Stay purple, stay furry, and tell someone today that you love them; they probably need to hear i...in fact, today might be the day it keeps them alive.

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Wow Football

If you're a football fan (and your favorite team didn't lose) what an amazing weekend it was! Every game decided by one score, every game competitive, the greasy grimy Green Bay Packers lost, it was incredible.

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“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”

— Marie Lu, Champion

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Archery Day!

Just got home from watching the Gorilla Girls rock it out along with their team at another archery tournament. Both my 6th grader and my 8th grader beat their previous 2 scores and for the second tournament in a row, my 8th grader beat my 6th grader by less than 5 points. It's going to be quite the day when the 6th grader beats her for the first time. So much fun watching your kids do something they love.

No medals today for the GG's but their middle school team is sitting in 2nd place with just a few archers left to shoot, looking like a second straight second place finish for the team.

Random thought - Bengals over the Titans and 49ers over the greasy grimy Green Bay Packers today. Rams over the Bucs and Bills over the Chiefs tomorrow.

Until next time. Stay purple, stay furry, and tell someone today that you love them; they probably need to hear it.

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Working on some "loves" designs today. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see and what colors you'd like the letters/stripes to be. The one on the left (Jesus/Dinos) is specifically for my youngest gorilla girl, who truly does love both of those things. The one on the right was one that just popped into my head. You could purchase either of these from the links below. Support a gorilla today.

Random thought. Living with depression and chronic pain is so frustrating. Either I'm not the mood for something, or I hurt too much to do it. I hope I get to see my girls grow up, but if I don't, I'm pretty excited for that new and perfect body in Heaven.

Until next time. Stay purple, stay furry, and tell someone today that you love them; they probably need to hear it.

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Working on some Christian quote designs today. If you happen to see this, let me know which of the 5 is your favorite. I get less done while working on Christian designs, but I always go down some great roads of my faith during the process.

Random thought. I will be happy with anyone that is not Mike Zimmer, but my personal favorite coaching candidate is Nathaniel Hackett. He just has something special and he's an offensive genius. As far as GM goes, I have no idea...someone that can draft a QB and talk to the coach...I don't think that's asking too much.

Until next time. Stay purple, stay furry, and tell someone today that you love them; they probably need to hear it.

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Mardi Gras is coming up my fellow Gorillas. I have never been, however...anything that has purple as one of the main colors that are associated with it MUST be good right? So check out my holiday shop at the link above for a bunch of new Mardi Gras designs (as well as a ton of Valentines designs, there's still time)

Until next time. Stay purple, stay furry, and tell someone today that you love them; they probably need to hear it.

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Agates and Rock Licking

Good purple afternoon fellow gorillas. Does anyone else out there have someone in your family that licks rocks? My wife and one of our little gorillas absolutely love rock picking and did you know that in order to tell if a rock is a normal rock or a really cool agate is to lick it? Getting it wet makes it more obvious. I know...you're thinking what I'm thinking...just put it in the water (most rock picking is done along the shore of a lake, up here that's Lake Superior)...but nope...they lick them.

I don't have to understand it, I just have to support it. In honor of their wackiness, I created the following design. Check it out.

Until next time, stay furry, stay purple and today tell yourself that you matter and that are important. Positive self-talk is a very important thing.

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Just a reblog today because this punched me right in the gorilla stomach. This is my life right now, all I want is to be on a beach somewhere tropical, smelling the ocean, and loving life. I know, it's what we all want, but aren't you tired of slaving away to make someone else more money then you'll ever see, having to ask permission to live your own life for a day, or having to apologize for getting sick?

Stay purple my friends, and tell someone today that they can live their dream, they probably need to hear it.

“I need a life that isn’t just about needing to escape my life.”

— Robert Polito (via thoughtkick)

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Gorilla warriors...meet Niles the cat. Niles is about 4 years old and he is CHONKY. In the last 6 months or so he has become my helper when I'm trying to work. As you can see, he lays right on my desk and puts his head on my arm, my phone is also under his belly, and he'll often stretch out and hit keys on the keyboard...like I said, a big helper.

I wouldn't have it any other way. I've struggled with mental health my entire adult life and cats are one of the outlets that I have. Nothing like a cat sitting on my lap purring to make everything in the world seem ok for a minute or two.

Today's design and link is an homage to how I personally feel about cats, most days they are my best therapist. Grab a sticker or another product with this design on it, or one of my other 500 designs that are currently in my redbubble shop.

Until next time, stay purple, stay furry, and tell someone that you love them, that they matter, and that you're there for them if they need you.

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Designed some shirts, etc for my girls' archery team. They can be found at the link at the bottom of this post. The designs were a hit, I have another school that wants me to create shirts for them and now some of the others winter sports are asking for sport specific designs for them so I'm a pretty excited Gorilla regarding all of that.

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1st archery competition of the year went great! 1st of the year? No, first in two years because of COVID. These two little gorillas rocked it, they both topped their final scores from their last season. We'll see if they medal today, still some schools to shoot, but we always focus just on topping our last score, being better than our last arrow and when medals and trophies come, they come. No design stuff today, just a little gorilla dad-brag. Stay purple people.

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Good Evening

Over the last two days I have created 250 state inspired designs (5 for each state for those of you that hate math). I'm going to link to one in this post, and yes I chose my home state of Minnesota. I only have one design for each state for sale right now because of posting limits at Redbubble, so over the next few days I will get the others up and link to them here.

I slipped on some ice today and hit my head and tweaked my neck. Can't turn it to the left, if anyone feels so inclined, prayers are always welcome for healing. This entry is going to be short, my girls shoot at 8:30 am tomorrow for school archery and the school we're shooting at is 30 minutes from our house. That means, on a Saturday, I'm getting up at 6:30. Whiny Gorilla time is now over, because I know that no one reading this is going to feel sorry for me. :)