I'm sitting here and it's 2:17 AM and there's a pile of dishes like eight dinner plates and five mugs and two saucepans and a frying pan and I just stare at them. My kid with his meds and his appointments all day tomorrow and my mom passed last year and I just don't have it in me anymore. Like I can't even get up to do one dish. And people will say I'm lazy but I'm just so TIRED.
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