#tomorrow I'm going with the cousins J and A to my favorite restaurant

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got to hold my own beautiful, absolutely perfect used good condition copy of The Analytical Lexicon to the New Testament (William Mounce), the lexicon that carried me through fall semester like a graceful yet meek beast of burden

got an early Christmas gift from my dad and it was literally a work uniform shirt from the restaurant I worked at?? he asked them for one??

saw the Christmas gifts I bought online for my sister and my brother-in-law! they're going to work, which is a relief bc I've just about lost my steam for Christmas gifts (RIP to my plans but based on the current mental health I've got to go easier on myself)

washed a good number (but not all) of my musty sweaters

discovered that my two beloved black satin sashes have been destroyed by rats

encountered rat feces on my bookshelf (after my sister apparently cleaned up a larger mess that she wouldn't describe in detail)

I was really hyperactive and chatty and kept bringing up LGBTQ issues without meaning to and getting myself into awkward conversations with my brother-in-law (like actively trying really hard not to set him off but constantly doing it anyway by accident)

hugged a lot of people at church

watched a really xenophobic video lecture on Revelation. The speaker said the 4 horsemen were: communism (evil bc red), capitalism (which is of course not as bad as communism but only its necessary balance), Catholicism (evil bc white), and Islam (evil bc green??). I know that Revelation is a notoriously opaque text and I'm honestly fine with people having equally bizarre interpretations. But this was just irresponsible.

got asked to do a church-related music performance for the first time in 3 years! it's a string trio with my cousins O and A and they're actually excited about it so that makes it a lot easier. The hard part is that we have to find/arrange our own music, I have to transpose a part into alto clef so that O can play it on viola, and technically I should probably double check with the pastor that I am actually allowed to do this, since it was the music director who asked me (I am excited to an unhealthy extent about this)

crawled in a window to help my neighbor who got locked out of her house!

washed a lot of dishes by hand bc the dishwasher is broken and my dad can't get the new one in bc he put in flooring after the dishwasher and now it's stuck