Hey y'all. Happy New Year! Indeed, we are actually recording this on January 1st, 2021.

We sure are, and we just wanted to give you a little uplifting message at the suggestion of one of our newest patrons.

Yes, thank you, Carmel, because this is, this was a great suggestion. We just, we wanted to tell you all

in the wake of the dumpster fire that was 2020, um, that you know what? You're doing great.

You are. Hey, you out there listening? You're doing great. You're doing excellent. I, you know,

regardless of however you're feeling, however you're looking back at 2020 and if you're going, oh, I accomplished a lot,

or I basically sat in PJs on the couch and drank wine and watched movies, everything,

those two experiences and also everything in between are so valid.

And I hope that you are giving yourself credit for literally just having made it this far.

Yeah.

Why not walk over to your mirror right now, unless you're in a car, then, you know, be safe.

Yeah.

Look yourself in the eye and say, hey, I'm doing great.

I'm doing great.

For example, I've been out of a job since March and genuinely cannot remember the last time I put on deodorant, but I'm doing great.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I've been basically waddling around with this giant belly, intermittently doing some writing when I'm

not procrastinating, which is about 90% of the time. And there have been many days in a row where I

haven't walked outside, literally have not had fresh air. And I'm doing great. You're doing great. Doing great. Yeah. So we just wanted to say that.

New Year's tend to have some pressure on them for like, oh, this is like a clean slate. I mean,

look, we're all just trying. We're all just trying and we're all doing great.

Things are getting better slowly but surely.

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