Hi Everyone!
Good morning, I've woken up really late with a pounding migraine. Isn't that lovely. Yesterday was just not it. It very much stressed me out and once again put me in a bad headspace. 
I was hoping to go forward and have a good day, I got along with my morning routine like I usually do. Doing my cointiply, reading articles on Publish0x to catch up with the crypto news, wrote my daily article and was spending time with my cat. 
I went out to sit and talk to my Dad. He was pretty upset about all that's been going on in our family this year. It's really taken a toll on us all. I did my best to be there for him, to sit and listen. 
After talking with my Dad I came back in my room to feed my expensive kitty. That's her nickname. Since she's pretty picky and likes her boujee food and she eats everything up and then wants so much more! That's how my adorable kitty got her nickname. 
I did some work on my Mechanical Turk program. As I'm working on building my savings account back up after being totally screwed by FMLA in recent months. I have a lot of hopeful plans for my future. Which right now in these dark times I'm trying to hold onto. So working on the program every day while I've been home from work on leave has been a way for me to build my savings account knowing I'm making a difference in my future in small ways. It's truly been helping to keep me going. 
My friend Frost from work texted me, we began chatting for a bit. Checking in on each other. It feels really nice to know I have them by my side during this crazy hectic time in life. 
Talked with my partner. He was having a pretty chill, laid back day. We sent each other tiktok's had some really good laughs and talked about life. My partner Dammie and I have been together since late March of 2022. So just about nine months now. Which is still such a shock to me. But having him by my side has been something that has gotten me through so much. He means the world to me!
Whatever virus I have at the moment began coming back to bite me in the booty and I told him I needed to lay down for a while. Though I wasn't expecting to sleep for five hours I'd say that. 
When I woke up I found out that my job had hired someone new on my shift full-time. I thought I had been let go. The whole situation at work is that a traumatic event happened in the homeless shelter which I work. It's been causing me a lot of PTSD lately I won't lie. But for some reason I personally was put on administrative leave due to the incident. Despite not being the only employee on duty that night. And I was the one in the back doing the chores and had zero interaction with the person who lead to the event. 
My workplace hasn't been handling this legally nor ethically. They've broken all of my rights. When I informed them of such they continued to ignore me. Today when I thought I had been let go due to the new hire coming on full-time and tried to make contact I was accused of being harassing and hounding them. They even accused me of actions that I didn't do. I'm so confused and heart broken about the whole situation and it's been very depressing, stressful and overwhelming to say the least. 
This job means the world to me. All I've ever wanted to do in life was to help people. To give back to my community. To be of use to society. I have such a big heart and caring for people, our planet and society has always been my number one priority. 
Easy to say I wasn't feeling okay at that point. It was not a fun way to wake up from being sick and sleeping for five bloody hours. I needed to get out. I knew I had some errands to run anyways. It took me about fifteen minutes to find the motivation to get up off the couch after putting on my shoes. I just continued to stare at the floor. The whole situation has left me feeling quite empty inside. 
I got up went for a walk downtown. Hit up the local coffee shop that makes my favorite iced caramel coffee. I always get mine with extra caramel and a splash of vanilla. I go in there so much they know my order. Lol talk about me being predictable. When I got there the local bakers were there, they'd just dropped off the baked goods for the day. I saw they had brought in brownies. As you may remember I'm a celiac, I can't eat gluten. But my father for the past few days has just randomly been talking about how much he wanted a brownie lol. So of course when I saw freshly made brownies, picking one up for my Dad was a no brainer. 
Headed over to the pet store. There I picked up what Taffy my beautiful expensive kitty needed to restock up on her food. I saw the owner she had some new Christmas hedge hog toys for dogs. There was this one that called to me, I needed to pick it up for Nola and Thea. My two pugs. We named them Hedgie the Hog they're already filled with pug drool they're in love with their new toy. 
Last stop on my downtown journey was the hardware store. Since my Dad had picked me up a tree I needed some small lights for my tree. The other day at the hardware store with my friends I found some beautiful ones, I knew they'd be perfect for my tree. Today on the to do list is to finally decorate it. Now that I have the lights and all of my ornaments ready. If you have any name suggestions for my tree please feel free to leave them down below. This tree is in a pot, I will keep it, tend to it, grow it for many years to come. So I think it's only right as I give all of my plants a name that they have one too. 
Some people just irritate me. Some people just love to stir the pot, to bring people down. It makes me sad that people are like this. I honestly don't know why. I've never been this type of person. I've always been a caring, giving person wanting nothing but the best for everyone. I hope things resolve themselves. I really don't want to take legal action. But I already have a number for a local attorney, I'm ready to make the call if need be. 
Remember everyone, there's a lot of toxic people in this world. People who try to hold you back. Never stop advocating for yourself. Keep on fighting, don't let them hold you down. Karma always comes arounds. In good ways and in bad. So always live a life of love and kindness, treat people how you'd like to be treated. Never take the people who are there for you for granted and keep your head held high. 

- Salem