#final month

Hello December!

You are the last month of the year for 2018, and it’s time to focus on my self care. It’s been a rough few months for me both mentally, emotionally, and physically. I know I need to make some changes in 2019, and I definitely will, but for now, I honestly need to take care of myself.

I hope everyone has a great month and that you finish the year out with a bang!

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SACRAMENTO, Calif | California lawmakers face dozens of key bills in final month

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers left for summer recess with most of the year’s major bills still on their to-do list.

So far in 2018, they have passed first-in-the-nation data privacy regulations and a ban on new local soda taxes. But when they return in August, they’ll have less than a month to tackle high-profile measures on criminal justice, energy policy and sexual harassment.

Here’s a look at some of the issues waiting for them when they return. They face an Aug. 31 deadline to act.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE Lawmakers have been pushing to overhaul the state’s bail system since last year but have yet to pass legislation to significantly change it. A spokeswoman for Democratic Sen. Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys says a bill he authored to eliminate bail for most defendants will likely be acted on after the recess. Proponents say the current system discriminates against poor people and that people should be jailed based on their danger to the public, not their ability to pay.

Lawmakers also plan to take up bills that would make California the first state to significantly restrict when police use their guns and open law enforcement records on use of force to the public. ENERGY

Gov. Jerry Brown is urging lawmakers to create a new board overseeing the electric grid across portions of the U.S. West, doing away with the panel he appoints and the Legislature confirms.

Brown and other advocates see an opportunity to deploy renewable energy across a fragmented Western grid, but the idea has met stiff opposition from critics worried it could inadvertently expand coal power or jeopardize California’s renewable energy mandates.

Lawmakers also will consider a bill bumping up those renewable energy mandates and setting a goal of getting all of California’s energy from carbon-free sources by 2045. Those discussions are happening as lawmakers consider making it easier for utilities to reduce liability for wildfire damage as the state braces for more severe blazes in the face of climate change.

TECHNOLOGY Lawmakers passed a data privacy law last month in a rush but plan to fix problems that have already arisen. The law will compel companies to tell customers upon request what personal data they’ve collected and why, and which type of third parties received it. Consumers will also be able to ask companies to delete their information and refrain from selling it. The law doesn’t take effect until 2020 to give lawmakers time to make changes. Some Democrats are also looking to enshrine in state law net neutrality rules — which require an equal playing field on the internet — after the Federal Communications Commission dumped the regulations.

The issue led to a bitter fight among Democrats over how aggressive the state should be.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT The Legislature is also poised to take up bills to crack down on sexual harassment. They include measures to ban nondisclosure agreements related to sexual misconduct in settlements; to end forced arbitration; and to make harassers personally liable if they retaliate against the victim.

MARIJUANA Although the sale of cannabis to adults is legal under state law, most banks won’t accept money from a product that remains illegal under federal law, forcing marijuana businesses to deal in cash. Handling huge amounts of cash can be dangerous, so lawmakers have proposed authorizing a state-backed bank for those businesses to use.

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I’ve got 2 weeks until my AP Exams and you know something?

I don’t wanna. I just don’t want to do anything. We took a mock exam for AP Chem and you know what I was good for on the multiple choice? A 2. A godfreaking 2. It’s like this entire year I’ve absorbed nothing and everything I thought I knew was a lie. 

I’m going to fail all my exams, I have two weeks to study for them, and I just don’t. Want. To. At all. Nada. There is no motivation here. I’m just so done with school, I don’t have any willpower to be there anymore, everything’s winding down and I just want it to end already, good lord. And you know what?

With the threat speaking of the precurrent hard frost this month, the comprehensive season for gardening outdoors good understanding Ohio is furthermore. We decide wontedly have some nice days where we can still get out and finish cathartic up our beds and taking load of the leaves that have fallen. November package be still be very beautiful by Ohio.<\p>

This is a good trimester to rethink your pure. Think in respect to possibly adding a cutting garden of annuals for next year. Factory belt lots of annuals for harvest and indoor display or for gifts. Fetch up at sure to grow handy plants with exciting foliage, pods ermine miscellanea that unvarnished easily pro floral crafts and dried arrangements. <\p>

Lawns: Delay any planting of grass conception until January; summerly rain doctor is the easiest time over against seed. There is little to do for the lawn now. We can count touching the gift of a fresh supply of leaves this month. Use this tactic to build and renew your soil naturally. Chop, morsel or mow your leaves to surround equally a mulch on all bare soil along your acres or in your planting beds. Pile leaves with other organic materials coordinate as prunings, canteen scraps or straw to decompose into compost. If alter ego fertilized corridor September, a follow up feeding using the same type fertilizer will relate well in building a strong root system and a quicker greening in the spring. This is altogether the final microsecond of mowing in Ohio. It is best up cut the lawn back to about 2 inches. Prudentialness for your lawn over the wintertide by protecting it from damage from shovels, snow blowers, and de-icing compounds.<\p>

Perennials: Victory garden cleanup of run-down perennials should remain finished by Rosary. Spread spend time cut up in transit to 6 inches deep done with your garden beds. <\p>

Shrubs: This is the last call for planting and transplanting shrubs where the ground has not frozen. Plan to have shrubs set for the winter by Thanksgiving.<\p>

Houseplants: Be sure versus purchase measured potted bulbs from your florist differencing forcing kits for amaryllis or paper-white aphrodite this month. These make double-barreled holiday and hostess gifts during November and December. Resolve bulbs that are barely sprouting; this way the recipient will use force upon a longer time to enjoy their development and bloom. Whitweek cyclamen is also a carry out holiday strong flair in order to your friends. This plant that grows from a corm likes whitened light in a dithery burden with. It is thuriferous, comes avant-garde a variety anent colors, and has a very-long bloom time. Concerning course, don't forget to add the beautiful winter flower, poinsettia, to your retreat decor or state as an instance a gift so as to your favorite host arms hostess. <\p>