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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle Seguera.
I keep a to do list on.
A notepad on my desk, and when I looked at it not too long ago, I noticed something.
It's kind of all over the place.
On a given day, it might read, make allergist appointment.
Buy razors.
Retile kitchen floor, Throw out compost.
Microblading, question mark.
Microblading, by the way, is something you do to make your eyebrows look fuller.
It's like a tattoo that lasts a couple years.
I mean, the list is filled with tasks, but some are big and some are small.
Some are urgent and some are definitely not.
Some I'm not even sure should be on there, like the microblading, which I frantically scribbled down after the lady at my eyebrow threading salon asked, who messed up my eyebrows so bad?
Hi.
Yeah, that was me and a tweezer.