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| A mask on the tree is about a festive as Sean will get. We decided to put the tree up early. It's easy now that we have the small tree. One mask was as much as Sean put into it. |
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| Finally, Linda is wearing a mask. The state made a mask mandate last week and businesses will be fined $10,000 if their employees are not wearing mask. This country is a hot mess. Trump still won't accept the election results and is trying to start a civil war and COVID is out of control in all but two states. The two states aren't even under control just not spreading as rapidly as everyone else. We cancelled our trip to Fla on Tuesday. The odds of someone on the plane having COVID are probably around 100%. I'm bummed but we wouldn't be there long enough to see the girls and it's just not worth the risk of getting sick in another state. |
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| Cars have always been one of the joys in Carter's life. Every couple of years he gets a new one. He always buys them from a used car dealer named Dave because that's where he bought his first car. He has been hell bent on buying a new car. I thought since he had to use the majority of his savings to pay off all the money he donated to politicians that he might wait but no he wants a new car now. I asked him why he needed a new car and he said because sometimes his radio skips. Um ok. He said Dave could get him a new car for $360 a month. I told him it was a bad idea and to talk to his dad first. Then I wondered why I said that. His dad makes terrible car decisions. Don looked online and found new cars that he could afford for less than $300 a month. Yesterday he took Carter out and they found a new Kia for $285 a month. Carter is pretty happy. |
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| How did this little boy turn 13? My mind is blown, where does time go. Sean turned 13 on an uneventful Friday the 13th. He couldn't decide on chocolate cake vs white cake and chocolate frosting. He ended up with two cakes with two types of frosting. |
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| Kylie and Brie came over for an hour and brought a present. The COVID cases were up over 4000 a day and the Governor has asked people to stay away from people they don't live with so no sleep over. Just this week the Governor declared a state mask mandate. Might have been helpful if he had done that 6 months ago. |
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| Sean wanted to go to Big Fish for sushi. We went for lunch so it would be less crowded. |
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| This election year has been incredibly stressful. The country is in the middle of a pandemic, the world is a mess and the president is an insane narcissistic asshole who belongs in prison. I was pretty stoked with Biden won the election. I'll be even more stoked if the narcissistic asshole doesn't destroy democracy, the country or the world before he leaves the White House. Oh how I would love to see him, his family and a lot of his associates in hand cuffs standing in a court room. |
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| Carter was pretty stoked about Biden winning. As he should be when he donated over $7000 to the democratic party this election season. The only positive side of him giving away 25% of his yearly income to politicians is that he didn't give it to the Republicans. Carter said he was having some financial problems which was pretty weird. He asked me to help him make a budget. Ultimately the budget was pretty easy. Carter don't give your money away and you will have enough! He really didn't understand how much money he had donated on his credit card. He didn't get worried until he couldn't pay off his credit card and was burning through his savings account. I cancelled his credit card, changed his email and got him a new phone number so hopefully the phone calls asking for money will stop. He believed them when they said they needed "him" to win the election. I'm still not totally sure Carter understands that he was taken advantage of. I forget how disabled he is until I get smacked in the face with how disabled he is. |
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| There's been snow:) |
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| We got back to Utah 3 weeks ago but I haven't posted any pictures. Sean was ready to get home because his birthday was coming. No party but he wanted to build a new computer because he built his last computer six weeks ago. He got some new computer parts for his birthday. |
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| Now he has an even faster gaming computer. |
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| Sean did really great with his online classes first term. He got straight A's. He really has improved his writing skills. |
