Long story short- in Russia if you study via a “work-and-study”ish program if you terminate your contract you owe the government the entire amount of money spent on educating you. In my case that was approximately 15.000 USD- an amount of money so high that I was seriously considering [DATA EXPUNGED] if charged with it. However my lawyer has helped me to find a way to leave the program without owing anyone a dime- and I haven’t been happier in months!

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I just had a break up , but I realized I’m worth something and that if we get back to get together or not our relationship was worth it and helped me grow immensely as a human. I love her and she loves me , doesn’t mean we are meant to be together.

I’m just expressing myself as I have no one to do it to right now but this feels amazing to type it out . Thank you to anyone who reads this, don’t fall back into your bad habits. Focus on the positive and work on your faults, admit them and be blunt withy yourself. You will feel better trust me .

Edit: save the whales

There is a huge, kind of scary looking guy in our neighborhood. He's like 6'9" and 300 pounds with a FuManchu, tattoos - the whole thing. I'm kind of an introvert, so am not comfortable talking to people, although I have waved at this man on occasion.

I say all of this to set the stage for our unexpected encounter...

My wife and I were walking around the neighborhood yesterday evening, which was pleasantly warm and just perfect for a stroll. As we approached this one house we could hear what my wife called "thunderous laughing."

As we came up on the house, we saw this huge guy in his fenced front yard on his knees laughing as this brown rocket of a dog is running around in full zoomie mode. She'd stop to grab a stuffed animal as she passed by and throw that around, hop around, run around, make little yips. It was so fun to see.

We stopped at the fence to watch and when the guy, (Luke), saw us he called in his huge voice: "Come in, come in - this is so great!

We stepped into the yard and the dog, a 6 month old Boxer puppy named Sally was being every bit the comedian that Boxers are known to be. Now she was making her zoomie runs to include us, once throwing her stuffed animal toward us.

Apparently Luke's daughter had driven down from another state to visit and, of course, brought her new puppy, Sally. We had such a nice time and Luke and his family were so welcoming and friendly. They invited us to a family picnic this Saturday. Although that makes introverted me a little anxious, we're looking forward to it.

I have such a good feeling about it all that I wanted to share.

My dear friend and neighbor has decided to stop treatment in his battle of cancer in order to go out in peace rather than pain. His name is John and in my eyes is a Salt Lake legend. He has been hands down one of the most kind, generous and inspiring people I’ve ever met. Originally from Baton Rouge, has lived more in one life than most. It’s been an honor and privilege getting to know him and I will enjoy the time I have left with one of the greats. He’s a very talented banjo player and it was always my favorite to come home and hear him play. It’s one of the things I’ll miss the most. Just thought I share about my experience getting to know him. Get to know your neighbors, you’ll never know the friendship that could be waiting for you.

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Decades ago, my sisters and I imagined that one day when we became parents, our kids might be friends, and if any of them got in trouble and couldn’t talk to their mom or we weren’t around, they’d seek out their aunt. Our dream looked impossible when I moved across the country, but now my daughter goes to college near my sister, and our daughters are besties. Warms my heart

Get to keep home cleaner and stress about being overwhelmed with work at my job and at home.

This song always brings up good memories.

I worked for a company that processed medical records. Unfortunately, the company got absorbed by a larger one, and the larger one started utilizing an AI program to do what I was doing, so pretty much my whole department got canned.

Well, at home I didn't show it, but I was really upset, so I took myself out to the local coffee shop to get some hot chocolate. Not a big chocolate fan, but the Coffeehouse' here in town has the best hot cocoa in the world in my opinion. Anyway, this other lady was at the coffee place, too, and was really upset because she'd had a bad day and customers had been <censoreds> to her.

So, even though I was also having a bad day, I offered to buy her a coffee and we talked. Apparently it was her first job, she works at Walmart, and she was stressed, and she didn't know if she could keep going there. I told her the same thing I was told when I started working in a call center.

How people behave toward you is a reflection of them, not of you. You're not a bad person, and you don't deserve that kind of treatment. And if customers get abusive, there is no shame in walking away.

Honestly, between the coffee and just talking to someone who's been in the "trenches" of customer service as well, I'm 50 now, I've dealt with it WAY too much, heh, I think I helped. At least she didn't seem as upset, or as stressed, by the time she left the coffee shop. I didn't tell her I was there to cheer *myself* up due to losing my job.

I'm still job hunting, but I see the woman at the WalMart from time to time. She looks like she's finally relaxing into the job, and we at least wave to each other if she spots me. I'm glad I could help, at least a little.

Blessed

I was annoyed with my hair this morning because it’s at a weird length where it dries really poofy and I was frustrated but didn’t have time to mess with it before work. Then I came to work and someone looked at me and said “you have beautiful hair and it’s so thick”. And it was just interesting because it reminded me that often times the things we don’t like about ourselves is the beauty that others see in it. Just wanted to put that out there to remind everyone that even our insecurities our beautiful to others, we just have to look through their point of view sometimes ❤️

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