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It was already a bitch to weed out all the letters before<\/em> the strokes, but it was even tougher after. The strokes made my hands weaker and shakier, so it took me longer than necessary to weed all the letters. I also need more help opening jars. I used to have beautiful penmanship, but now I try to print everything I can on my computer. I only write my rent checks and sign restaurant receipts \ud83d\ude05 I also used to have a nice singing voice (I was in advanced choir in high school\u2014I have the sequin dresses and nude character shoes to prove it), but after the strokes, I kinda sound like Marge Simpson \ud83d\ude05 I was telling the girls this story about this\u00a0Manhattan Beach woman<\/a>\u00a0who had Alzeimer’s that I used to see missing flyers for. She went to LACMA with her husband, used the bathroom and then wandered off. I was like, “And years later, they found her BONES!” and Shi was like, “Your voice makes your stories sound 100x scarier!” \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s a wrap on 2023!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One Christmas, my aunt texted the whole family and was like, “If you’re married or over the age of 25, you will not be getting a gift this year.” I was like, “So not only am I old and single, I also won’t be getting presents this Christmas???” \ud83e\udd23 My mom’s sisters and grandma used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83553"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86029,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83553\/revisions\/86029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"custom](\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/personalized-gift-tags-2023.jpg\")
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