Break down -5minutefreewrite

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Sigh.

My body, this computer

Hey, in the good way, my body breaks down food, turning it into the building blocks and fuel it needs to function. That's good. And the rot in compost. You gotta have that.

Just, sometimes it feels like

Oh, and this computer...gets slower.

Beep beep beep. Our neighbors, for weeks now, have had a smoke detector going off. It drives me bonkers. What the heck.

Break down. Break down. Break it down. Honestly, except for the common car-related expression, and then all the metaphors relating thereto, break down is usually positive, but that one's a doozy, so it's the first thing I think of. Like... yeah

Oh, and I've been having a lot of deja vu lately. I also started running again, and I know that does things to your brain. I wonder if it's related. Deja vu... if I recall correctly, and I'll surely do some research after this, is most common in early adulthood and adolescence. It's supposed to wane as we get older. I think. I think it has to do with neural pathways getting built and the interference patterns with, oh I don't know. It's just bonkers stuff.

How do people go out? We're getting a sitter for tomorrow night. I think the only decent wage to pay him is $100 but to just leave for a few hours, to pay $100, do I still have a sense of money that's decades old or something? I probably do. But seriously. What is it to be a person who gets older. No wonder we get weirded out by costs. I can't imagine regularly having $100 to go out, plus what it costs to actually be out.
An acquaintance told me about his spending thousands of dollars at the bar. What is with people having ridiculous money.



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I don't go out. With little children it was too exhausting to arrange it next to a fulltime job. Going out is no fun if you are tired. No idea what a sitter costs but I think 100$ is too much.

Bars were always filled with smokers, today with QR codes and ridiculous prices. It's cozier and cheaper to stay home.

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Absolutely. We've only left him with a sitter once before, to attend a film screening of a short film my wife wrote. We wound up canceling and not going out, but this was because some dear friends of ours wanted to host us and another couple for games.

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