• First, how cute is this mani? I love how it turned out.

• And loved that it matched my Starbucks from Sunday! I don’t often get Starbucks on the weekend but I woke up Sunday with a killer headache from the pressure change, and caffeine helps (ha, although, that marker smell was NOT helping with my headache! I dumped it in a mug when I got home).

• We’re having a typical March here. Friday it was sunny and in the 70s. Saturday it was warm and hella windy. Then Sunday it snowed (hence the pressure change).

• Lately, when I wear my hair down and curly, people ask me if I cut it! Nope. The curls just shorten it that much.

• The dentist appointment happened on Tuesday! Woo hoo. And I impulse bought a retainer. I had braces in high school and had a retainer then that I wore for a few years and quit in college. I was asking if your teeth are at risk of moving when you age and the dental hygienist said yes, then I was asking what I could do to prevent it because I like how my teeth are now … and here we are! I had NO idea they just put a wand in your mouth to map your teeth and order your retainer. My mind was blown! The last time I had one made I put my teeth in that clay/foamy stuff.
• I stumbled across an article on toxic positivity yesterday and the explanation of why people do it was so insightful: “some people are uncomfortable with negative emotions, and so they invalidate your sadness or disappointment. Their response is disingenuous, and it comes at the expense of your well-being because we have to process our feelings in order to grow.” “Even though the person expressing toxic positivity wants to make the disappointed person feel better, the ‘suppression makes a person feel worse because they are alone in their reality.'” Yep yep. That explanation seems so obvious but it was helpful to me.

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