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I've been busting my butt and I never thought I would post a photo of myself on social media in any form ever. However, I did a contest at my gym and I wound up in the final 3 and am proud of how far I have come. I still haven't put it on IG or FB. Would you?

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“but what are Hillary’s POLICIES?”

So I got tired of not seeing any news on HRC’s actual positions because every single media outlet is busy fact-checking Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum, and decided to look some up.

Also, tired of stories about 26-year-olds complaining that they can’t get behind Clinton because they don’t know what she stands for, and also have no idea who Ralph Nader is, even though these frickin’ kids are only two years younger than me and also Wikipedia exists

But anyway. Hillary Clinton! Actual positions!

Guys, there’s so much to love.

We already knew she wants harder regulation on the megabanks, right?

Not as hardcore as Bernie wants, but in the same direction?

Turns out she bundles that with a bunch of provisions to support and protect credit unions!

Seriously, I love my credit union. And they’re tiny and responsible and don’t secretly open millions of accounts in the names of unaware users.

Universal quality pre-K for every kid!

Paid medical leave and new-parent leave. Not just for new moms, either. Regardless of gender.

Funding childcare centers on college campuses for student parents!

omg you guys, her plans for addressing autism. Note the total absence of the word “curing.” It’s all about “providing support” and “early diagnosis” and “improving access” and “increasing opportunities.”

She’s full of specific plans for Alzheimer’s research and treatment

Including supporting stem-cell research

You know how otherwise work-ready people sometimes get stuck as unpaid caregivers when a family member becomes sick or disabled? Well, Hillary wants to give those people credit where credit is due.

By which I mean, tax credit

And Social Security benefits

and you know the horrific unnecessary price hikes we’ve seen on EpiPens and various livesaving drugs? Think that oughta be a crime? So does HRC.

Plus she supports emergency imports of similar treatments from other countries (the ones with quality safety standards, obv) if that’s what it takes to save lives

Hillary stands with Planned Parenthood

Supports more funding for VA mental health treatments

And better training for police on how to de-escalate when they’re called in on a crisis situation

Seriously, she’s coming at mental health from all sides, it’s fantastic

Her rhetoric about the police also hits better training to deal with implicit bias

Comprehensive background checks for gun buying!

Close the Charleston loophole

End the special legal protections that gun manufacturers get when the rest of the manufacturing industry doesn’t

eyyyy, btw, guess where Sanders fell on that issue?

that’s right: this time Clinton was the one dragging Bernie to the left

Solar panels!

I mean, clean energy in general, but “solar panels” is the shiniest part

Automatic voter registration

AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION

No more harried every-four-year drives pleading for everyone to register, even if it’s inconvenient, even if there are serious barriers in your way

No more “welcome to the polling center, whoops, looks like you were registered but it got thrown out on a technicality and nobody told you”

Automatic voter registration!!

Raise the minimum wage to $12/hr

Still not the $16/hr we’d have if it had kept up with inflation since the ‘70s, but a big improvement

I’m not even in a minimum-wage job and this would still give me a raise of at least $320/month

and obviously the tipped minimum wage is a national shame, well guess what, HRC wants to do away with that

Fewer loopholes and more taxes for the super-rich, including the Buffett Rule and a millionaire tax

Hella infrastructure investment plans: covering our roads, bridges, airports, dams, public transit, and Internet access

She’s planning to upgrade our 25 most costly freight bottlenecks

Did you know our country had a cost issue with freight bottlenecks?

Because I had no idea

and this happens over and over with her policies

things you didn’t even know were things

but Hermione Rodham Clinton has already looked up the statistics, talked to the experts, and written the ten-page memo

and listen, voting for HRC for no other reason than to keep Trump and his tax-evading business-bankrupting employee-stiffing racist sexist across-the-board-hateful loose-cannon general inanity out of office is completely legitimate –

but if I never see another “why don’t we know more about her plans?? it is a hopeless unsolvable mystery for the ages!” post again it will be too soon.

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Well I know my husband definitely has no clue about his surprise party. ... he's trying to surprise me on the same day! Our birthdays are three days apart. I really disappointed him when I told him I didn't want to do anything this weekend but relax and I didn't want to know what his surprise was going to be.

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Surprise

I'm throwing my husband a surprise party, and I am getting pretty excited! Granted it's 10 days away and I have no idea how the surprise part will go. Meaning getting him out of the house for two hours and back home ready all before 11am.

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I just want to vent!!!

My husband is one of 8, which means there is always drama, there is always an event and doing family stuff all the time is freaking expensive. Last month we went to the mountains and paid a lot of money to stay in a house with the rest of the family for his dad's 80th bday. In 3 weeks his nephew is getting married and the wedding is about an hour and a half from us. His sister (mother of the groom) wants us to stay in a hotel up at the wedding because we can't go to the rehearsal dinner and she wants us at day after brunch. It's $300 for the hotel. I said no way but the family drama ensued and I gave in so no one would be upset. But now I feel like someone else is forcing me to spend money I don't want to spend and I never have a choice because you can never tell this family no or they are all butt hurt.

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Monday I took my car to the dealership because I kept getting locked in. The fixed it promptly and on the way home I discovered they unplugged my speakers. Today they came and picked up my car at my office and on my lunch I went and picked it back up. My service advisor bought me a Starbucks at the dealership and then gave me a Starbucks gift card as well. So kind of him. Actually leaving the dealership not frustrated is a great feeling!

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When you get to see your wedding song performed live. (at Pacific Amphitheatre)

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Amazing amazing meal last night! And I got to meet the chef!!! #chefsaremyfavoritecelebrities (at Vaca)

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Just leaving work

7 pm on a Friday ... Of my first week. Ok because we were drinking.

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Friday 5

+ I made it to Friday, this was my first week of work at my new job and my first full week of work since the end of May and getting out of bed has been a chore. - I'm wearing a skirt and heels to work on a Friday. Boo business professional attire. + I got a pay check and without benefits or 401k taken out I feel rich. + date night tonight at a new restaurant I have been dying to try. One of the finalists from Top Chef owns it. +\- went to the Nordies anniversary sale yesterday and bought tons of new things ... Yay. All the monies. 💸💸💸

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Ladies with fantasy of a tall man to ride a tandem beach cruiser along the boardwalk on warm summer nights, you might want to reconsider. #Icantsee #tootall

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I don't know where time has gone, or what happened to this cute little adorable puppy. But today my baby girl turns 9! Yes 9! How is it even possible that I have been responsible for 9 years I don't know! Love you Roxy-do!

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I’ve always been pretty obsessed with him, but him plus that ring?! Swoon.

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at Zac Brown Band Verizon Wireless

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Download the slice app. It's a life changer.

Is there a gmail extension that will manage all of the shipping notifications in one easy to view place?

signed,

online shopping addict

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Marry Me by Train, my husbands nephew played the guitar and a friend sang.

In My Life...

By The Beatles is what i walked down the aisle to. 

If you have gotten married, what song did you walk down the aisle to? Or if you haven’t, what WOULD you like to walk down the aisle to?

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When we went through customs the first time we were going to New York. This year we were going home. Clearly not so happy about it.