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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 4h

Day 326 of Chaotic Joy (late edition)

My joy: hanging out with my Tue writing buddy

My challenge: so tired

My life: so much wiping bottoms and dealing with bodily fluids

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 2d

My life: why is the reward for doing things more things to do?

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 2d

Day 325 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: clearing out and reorganizing my kids' bathroom - and them THANKING me for it!

My challenge: I'm so tired from organizing shit lolol my brain is so tired from all these micro decisions of keep, move, throw away
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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 3d

Day 324 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: ticking more things off my to do list

My challenge: THE TO DO LIST JUST KEEPS GROWING

My life: I think I'm-going-to-bed-early-on-a-Saturday-night-bc-I-did-too-much-adulting-years-old

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 4d

Day 323 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: having dinner with my mom, Not Yoongi, and Gamera (13).

My challenge: too much stuff to do and i'm doing themmmmm

My life: toddler put herself to sleep tonight. Just demanded my presence and she conked out.

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 5d

Day 322 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: seeing an old friend as she dyed Gamera’s (13) hair

My challenge: can’t sleep because too wired and too much to do

My life: idk if it’s a combo of higher adderall dosage, caffeine, and this new adhd system but damn what is sleep/rest

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 6d

Day 321 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: idek but it was a good day

My challenge: even though i've been very productive, i need to remember that my kids are not obstacles to my productivity and to see them as human

My life: i finally finished writing an article!

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 7d

Day 320 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: i was really productive today, but mostly, i'm happy i'm actually getting things done

My challenge: I AM REALLY TIRED THOUGH

My life: the hardest part is adjusting my expectations to reality (which is that i am too ambitious)

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 8d

Day 319 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: got all my desk organizing stuff and decluttered/rearranged my desk and it looks great

My challenge: tempted to keep fiddling instead of just letting it be good enough

My life: doing things makes me happy

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 9d

omg yesss - when you spend all night falling asleep but you're actually asleep. the worst!

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Happy Chuseok! Happy Tết Trung Thu! Happy Tsukimi!

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 9d

Day 318 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: listened to podcasts

My challenge: played way too many mobile games

My life: did make progress on trying to arrange my life to minimize distraction and systematize my tasks

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 10d

Day 317 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: spending time on zoom with a good friend

My challenge: staying up way too late

My life: going through an ADHD course and working through the action items

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 10d

Day 326 of Chaotic Joy (super late edition)

My joy: got a ton of errands and stuff done

My challenge: did not get important writing done

My life: just wasted my dayyyyyy

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 12d

Day 315 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: finally catching up with a friend after a few months apart

My challenge: i had too much teaaaaaaa

My life: learning korean has been nice just so i can see some progress in my life

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, they do!

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 13d

Day 314 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: finishing a book

My challenge: The book was not good

My life: What I want to read is so hard to find😭

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 13d

Omg i didn’t even think of that!! Seriously what in the what

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 14d

i'm getting really sick and tired of reading about fucking in romantasy like it's magic and remaking people. it's so cliche and boring and sooo boring. I AM ALSO SICK OF ANCIENT HUNDRED/THOUSAND YO MEN FUCKING COMPARATIVELY YOUNG WOMEN UGH GROSS 1000000000X GROSS

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 15d

Day 313 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: slowly making progress in Korean

My challenge: not making much progress in anything else

My life: just another day of building sand castles by the shore

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 16d

Day 312 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: multiple moments of community today! I always start off dreading such events bc effort, but after, my heart is always full

My challenge: so much to write!!

My life: Toddler was up at 3am, then napped from 2-5pm so idek what is happening

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 17d

Oh, I love this take. It’s beautiful and comforting all at the same time. 💕

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 17d

Day 311 of Chaotic Joy (late edition)

My joy: met up with a college friend I haven't seen for 20+ years or so!

My challenge: so many things to dooooooooo so tiredddd

My life: i blinked and wonder when did my life get so full suddenly? especially with the children!

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 18d

Day 310 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: had unexpected moments of connection today with strangers

My challenge: did so much am so tired

My life: so much of what I do is quotidian, like building sand castles on the beach, constantly washed away only to redo it the next day

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Virginia Duan | 段怡宣 (she/her) @themandarinmama.bsky.social · 19d

Day 309 of Chaotic Joy

My joy: I really am starting to like my Korean lessons more and more. It's one of the few things in my life where I feel like I'm moving forward.

My challenge: IDEK I'm just existing

My life: I do a lot but it feels like nothing

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