My personal mantra for today has been:
My body is beautiful and sexy and amazing and gaining weight didn’t change that
Yes, I’m on a weight loss mission. But I can still love me now— I don’t have to wait to lose 50lbs first
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Me: I am a mature adult with a professional job
Also Me:
*snickering while taking a screenshot for posterity*
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My job isn't giving me a lot of work to do recently, so I'm being paid to sit at home doing nothing some days. This is technically ideal, and I don't owe them busywork, but I'm having trouble convincing myself not to feel guilty about it
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I Tolkien’d myself. I’ve been periodically telling my kids a very involved high fantasy story in which they star as the heroes and I have to start writing it down because they keep telling me I’m misremembering important details. There are… a lot of details.
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Your 70s daddy fresh out the gym showers
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So much music. So much music. After nine years of lost activity, I've been reinvesting in classical music. It's been great fun!! I'm wanting to do all the things that I slacked on even when I was doing a composition degree - score studies, performance opportunities, etc. I am trying to remind myself that returning for another music degree is a bad, bad, highly implausible idea.
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The best piece of advice I ever got was not meant as advice, but as an edict. If I was going to threaten people as a joke, it had to be so far out of proportion with what happened that it would be obvious I was joking. This changed how I expressed frustration with others. It then changed how I expressed frustration with myself.
Not “I’m going to hit you” but “I am going to buy a tuna sub from the gas station and hide it under the seat of your car”
Not “I’m going to kill myself” but “I am going to walk into the desert and let the scarabs take me”
The other side then happened. When I mess something up, instead of saying it’s bad and perpetuating negative thoughts, swing hard the other way.
Not “this art is terrible” but “this shall be framed and mounted on the wall in my museum exhibition as testament to the suffering I had to overcome”
Have been doing this since high school. It was my drama teacher who asked me to please stop scaring the actors. The other half of the edict was that I had to say it in a polite tone, and end it with either please or thank you.
Life changing. 10/10 Mr Muëller. Highly reccomend.
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My brother-in-law has a Thing where he gives me increasingly rare copies of The Bee Movie and it’s long since gone from “Goofy running gag” to “I don’t know how much money he’s willing to commit to this bit and it Scares Me.”
Where the fuck can we go from here
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Several of my friends who previously self-identified as bi are realizing they've lost interest in men, generally speaking
A friend of mine who's identified as a lesbian her whole life fell in love with a very sweet and shy man
I lost interest in men a few years ago, fell in love with a non-binary person, and now I give them their T shots
Life and love are unpredictable
And "queer" is a great word that all of us like and self-identify with (along with our other, more specific labels), and I love that no matter what else happens, we're still, always queer
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So that’s how my morning is going.
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I cannot even begin to explain how bone deep exhausted I am today
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When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...
call that the Ship of Thesaurus
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Also. In other news from this morning.
I got a work email and one of the guys included on it has an email that takes the form of first-initial-part-of-lastname, which, yknow, generally works well
But his name is Mario Pregler
And the psychic damage I took as a result of seeing the email
[email protected] at 9 in the morning cannot be overstated
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Literally me about 2 minutes ago before I ordered this.
I just looked up at @apocalycious with big eyes and said "it's oooonly eighteen dollars!"
(she said I could order it)
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Anyone do this? Self-doubt, self-confidence, and self-worth always be kicking my butt 😭
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