My mom returned one of my books and it looked like she had taken a swim with it.

I was like, what happened?

Oh, it got wet, you think?

I see that.

Yeah, I can, I can see that.

I now can't close it.

I can see that, mom.

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Hey, Hannah. How are you? Hey, Tina. I am doing good. How are you? I'm all right. It's been a week. It has been a week. And like, I've been seeing chatter online about how people say they don't realize or they always

forget how busy May is and I thoroughly concur. I'm like, why do I feel so busy? It's been

crazy. But the worst part is I keep saying, oh, it'll slow down soon. It'll slow down and no, it doesn't.

But do you feel the same? Yeah, I work in healthcare and we do have a lot of things going on in May, like a lot of months long celebrations and things like that that I end up having to do communications for. But I will say the weather has been

beautiful. And I truly feel my spirits lifted. Like I was taking a walk the other day. And I was

just like, I am so happy just to be outside. I was like, I think we're finally over the hump. Like, I think it's,

warmer weather is here, you know, feeling, feeling good about that. Me too. It's been a perfect

May weather-wise. And it is supposed to be like in the 80s this weekend, which makes me a little

nervous because it's very early for 80 degrees in Chicago.

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