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[arksnay]

I have to mention I started this post quite awhile ago but had to stop to extract my seventeen-year-old cat from under our porch, where she got stuck after sneaking out through a barely-open window, wandering down a short flight of stairs and through a dense flower garden, finding a very small space between two cinder blocks, and shimmying through

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[arksnay]

We've certainly given in to the madness a little bit - you should see all of the things piled in our living room and the insane to-do lists I've made (color-coded, yo). Honestly, at this point my biggest worries are whether we can get our house to a point of parent-friendly spotlessness and whether my body is actually trying to tell me I'm going to get my period a week and a half early in the midst of all this. Oh, and the friend doing our hair and makeup seems to have strep throat. Fun.

It's funny what can trigger those under-the-surface insecurities, isn't it? I feel like I can trace this back to a moment of decisiveness at age eleven, but I'm sure that it's more complicated than that.