1.  Here we are, two weeks into February, the shortest month with the longest days.

2.  How do you like them apples?

3.  “Longest days” may technically be hyperbole.

4.  I don’t have a scientific basis for the claim and my brain might implode under the weight of planetary orbits were I to try.

5.  We’ll just call it a rough stretch and keep it moving.

6.  Do other people love February?

7.  I mean, I know there are people who love winter and this month definitely falls within that realm.

8.  It’s just that pretty snow or not, winter brings the shortened daylight hours and cold temps which all add up to blues-ville for me.

9.  Just saying.

10.  We’re pushing through.

11.  I will say last month made ten years since I lost my mom so we’re in a tougher than typical season.

12.  Keep. Pushing. Through.

13.  Visual arts break.

14.  We’ve been working on a print of this for our house and I just realized I took the photo about a month before my mom died.

15.  I find that somewhat comforting.

16.  Alrighty, let’s time for some giggles.

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18.  You can use the arrows on the right and left side to scroll. You’ll want to make it to the wasabi one. You can thank me later. 😂

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20.  Now, some others. Please watch.

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24.  I get it, there’s a lot of shit going on in the world.

25.  We are multitasking.

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“The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans.

Over the past several months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency within the Department of Homeland Security that’s responsible for legal immigration, has been sending experts to its offices around the country or reassigning staff members to focus on whether some citizens processed through those offices could now be denaturalized, these people said.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-working-expand-effort-strip-citizenship-foreign-b-rcna255427

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“The Environmental Protection Agency has repealed its own landmark Obama era assessment that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare.

Public health and environmental groups warn, today’s changes could lead to many more premature deaths and arise in asthma attacks in the coming decades. Until today’s shift, which is expected to be challenged in court, the so-called Endangerment Finding has been the legal foundation for many of the federal government’s climate regulations.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-rolls-back-landmark-policy-regulating-greenhouse-emissions

 

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“A top Democrat is calling for a watchdog investigation after photographs emerged suggesting that the Justice Department has been tracking the search history of lawmakers who are reviewing files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate what he characterized as “spying” on members of Congress who this week have reviewed less-redacted versions of the Epstein files at a department annex and on department-owned computers.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/raskin-accuses-justice-department-of-spying-on-lawmakers-reviewing-epstein-files

29.  Phew. Okay, time for another break.

30.  40 things is late this week but we’re gonna cut ourselves some slack.

31.  A household can be hectic, man.

32.  Sometimes crossing guard duties call.

33.  Sometimes Seven goes a little wild child and cuts off Mittens as she’s heading back to her favorite chairs.

34.  Sometimes that means dropping what I’m doing to go chaperone.

35.  I never said my cats were normal.

36.  We’re also doing some reorganizing and let me tell you, nothing lays you bare like packing up a bathroom cabinet.

37.  Sixteen bars of soap from that Costco run? FOR JUST ME?? Sure, that seems totally normal.

38.  That tube of split end repair cream from a zillion years ago when I was straightening my hair? Yep yep.

39.  Every travel toothpaste and tiny dental floss I’ve ever received from visits to the dentist? Why not. At least they don’t expire.

40.  At least that’s what I’m telling myself about that toothpaste. Don’t burst my bubble. Happy Friday, everyone.