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Both can be true 
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Obviously! How else could cognitive dissonance exist?
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Iād try to explain it but I donāt have a good track record it seems
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I was just saying to my friends yesterday that there seems to be little point to Black Friday anymore with early Black Friday sales. Cyber Monday, Cyber Week, and so on, so you can get pretty much the same deal from the beginning of November through January. (Give or take a tiny amount, which I do appreciate can tip the scales for those who are working to a tight holiday budget).
Meanwhile, my mom told me there are Black Friday sales going on in India right now
. I asked ā what was on Thursday? She thought for a minute and replied āwhat does that matter? They probably didnāt sell enough during Diwali, and itās a good name for a sale!ā
Never miss a marketing opportunity!
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Iāve had an 11 day weekend.
I return to work tomorrow.
Iāve not done everything that I wrote down that I wanted to do while off from work.
Iāve not done even a third of what I wanted to accomplish.
What have I done?
Iāve stayed up late.
Iāve slept in.
Iāve gone antiquing.
Iāve sat and read.
Iāve watched āLaw and Order: SVUā night-time marathons on ION Television.
Iāve baked. (No, not THAT kind of baked!)
Iāve cooked.
Iāve bitched to myself about having to handwash dishes because my dishwasher started leaking badly over a month ago.
Iāve done nothing about replacing the leaking dishwasher even though Black Friday sales have been going on.
Iāve been hibernating except for going to my sisterās SILās house on Thanksgiving Day (and enjoying it).
Tomorrow will be an expected shitstorm of playing catch up.
But Iām OK with all of my relative non-action these past 11 days.
The brain needs what it needs.
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Itās all over the place here, just take a gander
Consumerism knows no borders.
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Itās been such a nice, relaxing break for us and our friends, especially after such a trying year.
Glad you got some time off as well. Youāve had a lot on your plate 
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I have a family member who implies that about me. He might be at least partially right, but when we are together, what is on my mind is that he doesnāt know whatās on my mind, because I am not as inclined to share it.
I know both of these things can be true.
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Imagine a random stranger making such assumptions about you, your character or your values 
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That is not hard to imagine at all. I like to think that wouldnāt bother me, or be on my mind , for longer than a few moments.
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Iām thinking itās going to be a cold winter here in SE PA. Yesterday I noticed our squirrels are fat and their tails are very bushy. Now I just looked out and saw three very well-fed deer in the yard. Mom (who predates the internet by quite a few decades) could always predict the weather based on the fauna of the area.
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I honestly wouldnāt mind it too much. We barely got snow the last couple of winters (two storms maybe? at least in my necka tha woodz), and I need to get my sledding fix in
It is but a blip, if that
Iām also thinking language is a funny thing. A word that is completely acceptable in the US may be obscene in the UK, downright offensive in Canada and completely unknown in New Zealand. And thatās not even taking into account regional differences within those nations 
We havenāt had any snow the last two years. I can live without it. But it is pretty to look at for a day or two.
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Have you tried to find the leak?? Could be something as simple as a hose. Does it leak when filling or emptying or washing cycle??
Family relationships are charged differently. Chips and old memories that never quite lose their shadow and assumptions that creep in and all the rest of it.
No one can ever know your mind unless you share it, as you rightly said. But when someone does so freely and often, then itās out there on display.
(What strikes me about what you said here and elsewhere is your self-reflection, which I aspire to share. If someone thought something about me I donāt think is true, I would wonder what I might have done to make them feel that way at least as much I might be bothered that they thought it. One turns in, the other deflects out. Not unrelated to my earlier observation.)
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