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Welcome back to the mood podcast on your host, Lauren Elizabeth.

Today's mood for thought is that I was thinking I needed some mood boosting.

And we will talk about, you know, just my general mood and best and worst.

But I was just thinking that I really needed my gals and my guys,

whoever you are, out there to just chat with and boost my mood

because something that is a real mood booster for me,

especially when I'm feeling really down is connection.

And especially, I think depending on maybe your personality type or what kind of job you have,

it can be so easy to really get disconnected and not even realize it and think,

oh my god, when was the last time I called someone or FaceTime someone or hung out

because we just get so into just working and just these like random routines.

And I think it can even relate to work sometimes.

So for me as someone who makes a living basically speaking to themselves all day,

that's not very fun for me or maybe even fun for you guys.

So I was like, let's chat, let's chat, let's chat.

And that's going to be today's mood for thought.

We also haven't done a general Q&A in so long.

So let's just do it, shall we?

But first, obviously, let's jump into best mood and worst mood of the week.

I'm not going to lie to you guys.

I have been a little bit on the struggle bus,

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