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Hi. So, I've been decorating for Christmas, and I've been thinking about sensory experience.

I, when I was more ill before you guys helped me overcome my

medical stuff, I would often not even have the energy to like see a gif. If somebody sent me

like a giff or something as a DM, be like, well, I'll see that

tomorrow because I'm just too tired for right now. Medical illness plus physical, you know, tired,

plus giving your mental capacity for the day, all your spoons means, like for me at least,

I don't want no more sensory experience today, thank you. Or I want it to be real limited

and real familiar. Now that's faded a lot in the last couple of years, but I have focused so much on some of these rules that I've put into place in my life,

like no screens or no technology in the bedroom, yada, yada, yada.

These are things that I think that I needed because of my medical stuff.

These are things that I think that I needed. I've talked about this a little bit in the past. And I, it's funny kind of emerging from it because some of it is good and some of it is bad. I still don't want any technology in my bedroom.

I think that's just such a great rule.

I got blackout curtains, you know?

I tried to make it as quiet as possible.

I've tried to insulate it from sound, noise, light, and everything.

And let me just say, I think that's great.

I don't read in the bedroom. I don't watch screens in the bedroom. I don't play. There's certain kinds of thinking that is off limits in the bedroom, right? Like, how can we be more glorious to God here on Earth? That's not allowed in the bedroom. I mean, I don't allow it anywhere else, but it's not allowed in the bedroom. In all

seriousness, there's things like, ooh, we have to do, no, no, we don't, not here. That's not what we do here,

friend. Like, we have to think, that's who we are, but we don't have to think about lists,

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