The Best of Times is Now

30+ | No minors | Midwest | Here before the fall of Rome (or nsfw content to be precise) #self portrait for the goods

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Summer things.

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Perfect bush 😍🤤

At your service 🫡

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This moment started as an appreciation photo shoot for my long hair before I get the springtime chop. Let’s see if this one gets me banned!

Why does warm weather do this to me?

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Super intense week last week.

Rough family news. Rough late shifts with a couple grisly death scenes for my husband. Solo parenting through an all day migraine with almost nonstop vomiting and intense nausea. A weekend road trip to see family following the news we got, and *no one* in our immediate family unit was on their best behavior.

Not sure if it would feel better if I could cry it out, or just make my head feel worse. Either way, feeling super detached and numb at this point because there’s just not a lot of time or energy to deal with anything.

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I just did a double take at the pictures of your kitchen. Love it. That mug rack….unf.

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever received on anon, and I cannot overstate that 😂

Thanks for the kitchen appreciation- it was a labor of love and has taken over 2 years (still have some wall finishing to do, and a ceiling to reskim), but I have a house built in 1900 that needed a refitting that honored the age and style of the house but still suited my fairly intense home chef tendencies 🫶🏼

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Probably shouldn't show my face in this but oh well

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Oof. The way your head drops back and your eyes close.

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POV: I’m your wife and I’ve chosen pajamas that are especially convenient to remove.

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If I’ve learned anything in this life, it’s that the uglier the sound the better the orgasm.

If you’re not mooing and your partner isn’t laughing, are you even cumming?

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If you were putting 5 things in a pentagram to summon me, it would have to be:

1. Anything chocolate mint, although I’m partial to Yorks and thin mint pretzels.

2. This delicious meal I can’t stop making with San Marzano tomatoes stewed with anchovies, garlic, tons of red pepper flakes, charred broccoli and melty/bubbly mozz that you dunk and scoop with hunks of bread. (This is elaborate, but I didn’t say it would be easy to summon me.)

3. Frasier

4. A down comforter

5. An iced lime leaf latte

Now that I read that back, it’s mostly food. C’est la vie.

#2 pictured here with a Parmesan thyme black pepper focaccia I made a while back. This thing is so god damned delicious.

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My best friend’s mother passed away back in December of 2014. I haven’t seen this ring tray from her jewelry box since right after she died, but got to play in it again this past weekend on a trip visiting T and her family. It brought up a lot of feelings and reflections.

She was the world’s most generous magpie. She loved hunting for, giving, and sharing treasures with people (I would say people she loved, but she really took in anyone who was weary or needed a substitute family - I got more than one Easter basket from her over the years during extended periods of estrangement from my own parents. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses à la the Statue of Liberty, I suppose.). Her definition of treasure was loose, in the sweetest way. It could be a great deal on a cardigan set (her favorite top option), a collection of WWII era silver brooches, a sale on her favorite chips and dips, or her desire to collect one of every gem available - semi or precious - as witnessed here in these photos. When we returned from a teenage trip to the mall, she’d comb through our bags with us, relishing in our finds with as much enthusiasm as we had. I can’t say how much it meant to feel that warmth from her. To experience someone else’s joy witnessing our excitement over simple pleasures.

Thanks for being a mother to your children and a hundred more, Tim. And thanks for letting me play in your treasure box all those times.

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In case you were wondering how elder millennial mom types were dressing these days for school pick up.

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La mia famiglia ❤️

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This feels like a weird post, but in case you’ve ever wanted to see my ring up close, here it is. 😂

Designed to look old (c. 1910s-1920s Edwardian meets Art Deco), crafted in platinum, diamond and emerald accents, a center stone that has a considerable tint of yellow because color grading wasn’t important during that historical time, and it was often thought that a diamond with a bit of color to it lent itself to a more candlelight glimmer (I agree).

Emeralds for Brigid, goddess of the hearth, fertility, and alchemy. Triangles to represent the three sacred phases of life I will walk through while wearing this ring: maiden, mother, crone. Eight of them, the traditional wheel of the year marked by 8 festivals that help ground the spirit to the earth during the passage of time.

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A personal blurb. If you’re here for the nudes, keep scrolling past this one 😉

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me and my mutuals, we’re in the river washing our clothes in the high summer heat and splashing each other with whimsical glints in our eyes

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With the energy of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women sans the familial ties, and the eroticism of Outlander 😅

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And might I just add that this whole infection comes at a time when my partner has just started his firefighting recruit academy, and is coming home in a dirty uniform after scaling ladders and axing roofs all day? He has never been more hot. My fungus and I are living in the cuck chair on our very own adult film set.

I literally picked up this ghastly infection on our celebratory weekend getaway before the super intense 8-month-long class kicked off.

Okay, I’ll stop complaining now. Overall, lots to be thankful for; albeit, not a whole lot of human interaction. 🙃

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Kitchen witch shit. 🧙🏻‍♀️

When modern meds fail, you call in the old wisdom.

Black walnut hulls. Burdock root. Dandelion leaf. (All natural anti-fungals, among other things.)

Ground fine, steeped in just enough alcohol overnight to wet the herbs for maximum extraction, and now combined with EVOO and steeped for 3 days at a constant 130 F until you have an incredibly potent herbal oil.

Once that process is complete, we’ll strain through a rag and melt together with organic beeswax, tea tree oil, & vitamin E for an anti-fungal herbal salve.

If this doesn’t work, I’m buying myself a new skin suit with next year’s tax return cash.

(And like any good herbalist, I keep my formulas and scribbles in a kitschy little nature themed notebook.

The parts that matter are measured by weight or volume, and the parts that don’t get no more explanation than any other experienced soap, tincture, or salve maker would need. These directions aren’t for beginners and there’s no handholding, and that’s why I love them.)

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peopIe who fall asleep right away freak me out. don’t u bitches have thoughts ????

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Hey, download the Calm app and listen to “A Rainy Day in Paris” and let Ramon Tikaram lull you to sleep with the sweetest little drizzly walk you’ll never remember the ending of.