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lesless · 5 months

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glowing, growing 🔮 🍀

It is gently dropping small, delicate flakes of white outside & the air is so still, quiet, like a whisper. My love took the dog & headed out to a town 2 hours away to meet his father so he can spend tomorrow working on an initiative that may prove to be a wonderful investment of time/energy/etc., but not without quite a lot of work first. I am proud of him in a lot of ways, but I will miss him. I do enjoy my down time though, so I will make the most of it.

I had planned on meeting up with a friend tonight after she had dinner with her sister, but neither of us wanted to do much once the sky grew grey & it began to snow. I wrote a list of what I want to do solo tomorrow--tea (I need to reign back my coffee consumption, again), journal, breakfast, eat, go to yoga, get a juice from the place next door to the studio, a bath with the bath bomb I bought at the botanical gardens. Then, get some work done on the photo and/or writing project, buy some yarn to make gifts, write xmas cards, then maybe meet up with that friend I missed today. It sounds like a great solo day, exactly the kind of thing I like to do! A little chill, a little activity/movement in the A.M., a little productivity, a little shopping, a little fun.

It is funny that since I sorted through my clothes & replaced them with quality items I enjoy wearing that I feel like I have SO many options but I have SUCH a small number of items now compared to when I started weeding out synthetics. I have reflected that life is funny like that, sometimes when we lack quality we go for quantity, don't we?

Being deliberate in purchasing/replacing items has been a years-long thing & lately I do feel surprised that interacting with quality on a regular basis is satisfying, though I have kind of always held the idea that spending extra $ on things you interact with daily will make your daily experience more enjoyable. A nice face wash, comfortable bedsheets, decent rubber gloves to wash dishes in. I suppose I will just never stop appreciating little things in life.

Sunday bb will return, we will relax & play BG3, spend our last little bit of solo time together until next year, quite literally. Tuesday our friend arrives, I visit the allergist, then Thursday my cousin arrives, then Sunday we fly to Texas, then it's holiday madness & remote work, then we fly to Mexico, the new year blooms, more remote work, & we return to life & a new semester.

In more mundane news, I told myself that I would learn how to french braid my hair while it's short so I can become accustomed to it as it grows out & I have stuck to my word! 3 successful braids so far, though my arms do get exhausted & I feel feeble every time I braid it. Just as I feel weak every time I do core exercises (2 down this week! pretty good considering I spent 3 full & exhausting days in the office today) at least I'm doing it! I will get better! I can't expect myself to be good at something right off the bat, as much as I want to be for my ego's sake.

I still always feel at least a little anxious after socializing with people I am not intimately close with, & I have done an assload of socializing over the last 3 days, BUT I feel relatively unscathed after this week. 2 fumbles, which I felt I saved, & maybe I shouldn't be cataloging my social blunders mentally but also maybe mentally I'm a little left of center & I should just be OK with that, too, instead of self-monitoring so heavily. Anyway, I think the level of comfort I DO feel has a lot to do with the fact that I really just feel delightful about the people I work with; I really genuinely like them all. They are all such characters, so knowledgeable, incredibly well-intentioned, & most of them are as sassy & quippy as I enjoy in a person without the malicious undertone that often accompanies that trait.

Anyway I am trying to remind myself that bettering is incremental & when I look back at how far I have come I am proud of myself, too. Lastly, perhaps, I must shake the scolding I want to give myself at every imperfection.

It is a beautiful night & I am comfortable, listening to music & watching everything collect a thin layer of white outside of my window. I have things to look forward to, people to love, people to love me back, humble goals, & a deep appreciation for the now. I hope you, too, find a quiet sort of peace as the year wraps itself in darkness & cold. I hope spring makes you feel like you can start over if you need to. I hope you treat yourself gently tomorrow.

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intrepidacious · 1 year

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welcome, friend, to nika's follower appreciation invite only casual sleepover / gala for friends potluck 🖤

i reached another follower milestone a couple of weeks ago and decided it was about time for another sleepover!! and what better way to do it than in true nika style: a little odd, a little whimsy, and in reference to one of my favourite pieces of media ever created. (along with food metaphors.)

but enough preamble, time for everyone's favourite part: the rules

you don't have to follow me to participate but i will remind you that my blog is 18+ only so if you're a minor: please stay away <3

the sleepover will go from december 13th through december 20th

what are we going to be up to, you ask? well, lovely link you have here. you should click it.

🗡 don't do murder the classic sleepover games: fmk and would you rather. we will, in fact, be doing murder. to the vault!! right?

🥪 a lie sandwich tell me two truths and a lie and i have to guess, or turn it around and guess mine

😶 the rare blank character card send me a thing and i will cast my mutuals

❤️ a good time! send me a character and a situation and i will write you some headcanons about them. alternatively, you could send me an AU and i'll tell you which character i could see in it!!

🎞 so, hella motive send me a character and a prompt and i'll write a seven sentence drabble for you

🍷 a spirit for a spirit here, i will recommend you a fic, a book, a movie, a writer, whatever you want

🎩 haunt these halls no more if you've ever had burning questions about my wips and/or my writing, this is the category for you

🫀 it was always you send me a random fact about yourself and i will tell you which character i ship you with (feel free to specify if you want a character au or if you have gender preferences)

💀 way harsh, wilde we love unpopular opinions. send me yours and i'll tell you mine

🔮 séancing isn't a word ask me a question and i'll pull some tarot cards for you. (disclaimer: i haven't done this in a while and my cards get very rude sometimes lmao)

✨ just getting a sense of everyone's auras i had so much fun reading everyone's astrological big three to bits last time, so we're gonna do it again!! if you want to send me your big six, that's also fine with me

⚜️ several strongly worded poems mutuals only category <3 i will write you a personalised letter on why i think you're an amazing and wonderful person. you're all doing very good work on yourselves, and that's important

🍜 right in the soup! ask me anything that doesn't fit into the categories above!! tell me about your day!! did you bake something recently? do you have any pets? lmk

no pressure tagging some of my wonderful moots <3

@traitorjoelite @sweetascanbee @marvelettesassemblenow @daisyprouvaire @imaginearyparties @foreverindreamlandd @aphrogeneias @demxters @sanguineterrain @treatbuckywkisses @writing-for-marvel @jadedvibes @wildlivelychild @youremyfriend-youremymission @abovethesmokestacks @rookthorne @lavendercitizen @jesterstrange

#sleepover time

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