My thoughts these days go to the medical professionals who, despite the pressures and stress they're facing, are putting in the effort and time to understand our struggles, take them seriously, and try to help to the best of their ability, sometimes even beyond. All medical professionals should be like this; I'm glad there's at least some who are.
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I didn't check my availability for work and got put on for 50 hours this week. Not super happy about that but the extra money will help. I did my taxes early this year but for some reason owe $1500 but April and I need to figure out how to pay my kid's $1600 hospital bill. So now I gotta try and figure out where I can save money. I got food for the first time from one of our food distribution programs yesterday. I'm grateful even if a lot of it is expired. It's the first time I've been on the receiving end instead of the volunteer side. No shame though, just humbled that after posting about needing to look for free food, 4 different people reached out to help. We got a community here, it's small but it's solid.
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Out of all I got, some snacks a bag of flour, rice that I ironically don't need since I buy in bulk, etc, I was very surprised that I got 2 lb of very high quality ground beef. One lb is 97/3, and the other is grass-fed organic. It's like $15 worth of meat. I'm gonna probably make hamburgers with one and soup out of the other. I eventually want to go back to vegan(or possibly Mediterranean) but for now, I'm gonna get what I can get.Friday, I made it out to a local show in support of one of my favorite local bands. I'm becoming really tight with them, but didn't know how tight lol. They invited me over to hang out when the practice and to possibly start writing some stuff with them. I'm super stoked and humbled yet again. I've been wanting to get back into the music scene but wasn't expecting this lol. And like it wasn't an off-hand invitation. The guitarist said he was talking to the bassist about it so it was a whole conversation. So I might be doing guest vocals! It's funny because I eventually want to ask them to collab with my band once we get going and wanted the vocalists and bassist to do guest spots on a song. I haven't brought this up to them yet. I know they'd be down for sure though.
Last Tuesday my band ended on a high note too! We are working on a song and I sort of ad-libbed the vocals and went all out. It actually sounded good too. I hope we can do more like this because it's a really interesting sound.
The goal for this week is to take each day as it comes, try to avoid meltdowns and make it to Friday. There is charity show this Friday for someone who recently had very severe pneumonia and almost died due ti complications. The community is trying to raise money for her and I wanna show up in support.
Stay healthy friends. If you haven't been told this lately, I want you to know that you are loved. The world is shit but it's better with you all in it.