[shutyourmoustache]

Her confidence is up to HERE.

[whos-this-lisa-person]

Her face says it all.

[pelicanhypeman]

“Auntie” is retired WNBA player DR. CHANTEL TREMITIERE. For the record.

[pelicanhypeman]

so this post kind of never stops going around, today it got reblogged with this fantastic tag:

my dude she is 56 😭

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

[rogerchaffee]

July 16th, 1969 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins set off for the moon, arriving there 3 days later. Over 1 million people watched the launch in Florida. A total of about 400,000 people worked to make this mission a success.

Happy Apollo 11 Launch Day!

[innerchildabortionclinic]

they should give you the option to unblock in these circumstances. just to see the drama unfold

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I decided to listen to some old school Mariah Carey on the drive to work today and wasn’t prepared for hearing One Sweet Day and having tears running down my face while it was playing.

A girl in my class died our sophomore year in a car crash, and maybe this song was played during a memorial assembly or something? It would have come out a couple years before that.

Because it just triggered a deep wave of almost nostalgic sadness???

She wasn’t really a friend of mine, but she was a friend of a friend I wasn’t super close with anymore by sophomore year, so it wasn’t a real personal loss, anymore than just being a teen and having a classmate pass feels really close to home, I guess.

But maybe the song is just that good, that it will make you cry, no matter what.

Also I can remember the music video SO CLEARLY, just footage of Mariah and Boyz2Men in the recording studio.

The 90s were such a heyday of music videos.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Hey did you guys know that Lin Manuel Miranda didn’t successfully address and condemn all the racist problems of the founding fathers with the musical Hamilton and that in his loosely historical rap musical interpretation of a historical figure, there was quite a bit of nuance lost about who Alexander Hamilton truly was as a person?

I think some people may have thought Hamilton was like LMM’s history PhD thesis about the Absolute Truth of America’s Foundation or something.

I just saw an iceberg post about how Problematic the musical is.

Next you’ll be telling me that “Assassins” doesn’t tell the whole and truthful story about all the presidential assassins portrayed in the show.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Holy shit, it took me five episodes to realize that it’s Hugo Weaving in season four of Slow Horses.

The gray beard apparently made him unrecognizable to me!!

It wasn’t until there was a scene of him having a longer conversation that I recognized his voice before I even recognized his face!

[femalegothic]

men just love to run their fucking mouth about what women do or do not want without even once considering consulting any actual women on the matter

How Women’s Sports Uniforms Became So Controversial, Long Before The Paris Olympics

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(cnn) — When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she

Women’s beach handball team fined for choosing shorts over bikini bottoms | CNN

The Norwegian women’s beach handball team has been fined after players opted to wear shorts instead of bikini bottoms during a European cham

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An Olympic medalist who refused to compete in bikini bottoms says skimpy outfits are putting women off athletics

Pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw refused to wear the customary bikini bottoms and crop tops favored by the majority of female athletes.

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According to Women in Sport, 78 percent of girls avoid participating in sports while on their period. 78 percent.  CEO of Women in Sport, St

[stealingpotatoes]

you’ve seen project Hail Mary???? Oh my gosh I love Rocky in your style!!!

well now i just havee to draw more rocky in my style

(links // tip jar!)

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Here’s the birthday present I picked out yesterday at the fancy stationary store! A set of notecards and envelopes and a new bottle of fountain pen ink. It’s a shimmer ink, of course!

I love the store so much, it’s called Tabula Rasa and I’ve been enamored with it since it was a just teeny tiny shop in the corner of a now non-existent downtown mall when I was in college back in 2001. I bought my first ever dip pen there and a wax stamp. I don’t think I still have either of them though.

It was successful and became a larger store and moved to a place called Trolley Square which is an historic building that used to be a trolley depot and now has shops and restaurants and it’s just a gorgeous building and I love going there so much. It also has my favorite bookstore which has a ton of used and rare books.

Being out of the house cheered me up, so I was in the mood for a birthday dinner, so we went to the restaurant we’d been planning for and had a great time.

All in all, a pretty good way to turn 44!

[fucking-relax]

comfort check

lounging in an ouch position?

haven't taken a deep breath lately?

hungry? thirsty?

need to use the toilet?

too much sensory input?

this is your reminder to get comfortable! go do what you need to do!

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

After talking about my anxiety with Dude and having a small cry, a small, late breakfast, and then a nap, we are about to head out to my favorite store to get a present.

I don’t think I’m up for dinner at the restaurant we were going to go to, I just don’t have a big appetite, so we will have a bday celebration dinner later this week.

It’s amazing how much getting shit out of your head helps you feel better instead of just festering. Will I learn from this? Probably not.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

lol well I called it on my old glasses. They damaged the frames somehow.

I somehow knew from basically the moment I dropped them off to get new lenses with my new prescription that something was going to go wrong.

How did I know this would happen??? I swear sometimes I am just a little bit psychic.

It’s been almost a month so I just called and they put me on a long hold after I said why I was calling and when someone came back on she introduced herself as the assistant manager.

And sure enough, she said the lab damaged my frames I had dropped off and so I could come in and pick a new pair from their bottom two price points of frames. She didn’t say that specifically, she said the “blue and green tag frames,” but I assume it’s the lowest two prices.

And then they’ll just process my order for the type of lenses I wanted and give me back the damaged frames.

But the new glasses I have were actually some of the cheapest ones, because I didn’t like any of the really expensive ones, even though my insurance frame allowance was $175, these were $89.

I don’t remember if they had these frames in another color, but if they do I may just get those. But now I have to go back in! What a pain!

And the manager wasn’t terribly apologetic, especially since no one apparently was ever going to call me. She said, “Someone should have called you….” Literally trailed off and didn’t apologize! Like basic customer service! I was super nice and didn’t even act annoyed or anything.

I just said, “Well things just happen sometimes.”

But my internal eye roll was of Liz Lemon proportions.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

It’s my birthday!

But I’m not feeling very celebratory. I took yesterday and today off work but the dogs being sick has hampered my mood.

The plan was to go to a good restaurant for lunch and then to the fancy stationary store after so I can see if there’s anything I want for a present, since there was nothing I could think of to tell Dude I wanted.

But I managed to turn the rice I was making for the big dogs’ breakfast into porridge and they had to wait a long time for it to be done, so the routine was all off and they were super weirded out because they are very routine-oriented.

And then neither of them wanted to eat the rice. Walter ate about half of it by me feeding it to him by hand and Appa didn’t want it even that way.

So I’m just feeling anxious and slightly off.

I think I need to go on a solo vacation somewhere. Nothing fancy, but I think I need some solid alone time. With Dude not working I have almost no time at home alone and I think I am missing solitude.

I really need to get my art room back into working order. It’s cycled back into a catch-all storage space which happened every few years as things accumulate.

Having that space back to do my crafts and hobbies and witchcraft will be really good for my mental health, I think.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Our child support obligation ends in September.

My crazy urge is to sell our house and put most of our shit in one of those moving pods and then like…move to Oregon. And keep doing my job without telling them I’ve left Utah and wait for them to fire me when they realize I’ve stopped going to the office.

Or maybe just tell my job I am leaving Utah and if that is still a dealbreaker and the company won’t make me fully remote (LIKE THE REST OF MY FUCKING TEAMMATES IN THE US) then I will be submitting my resignation. And then live off the sale of the house while we find new jobs.

We have a lot of equity in this place, just because we bought at such a good time and the market is so inflated right now.

I’m tired of Utah and the heat. I know every place has its drawbacks and downfalls, but I really really want to live in the PNW. That or Maine.

I need to be in a land with water and also near the ocean! I have been landlocked for almost 17 years! My So Cal soul yearns for the ocean.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Dude just reminded me that we keep Marv’s food in a separate bin in the kitchen, so his food is still from the previous bag and not from the new bag of food we opened Saturday morning.

So I guess it’s entirely possible that it is indeed the new bag of food that is making the big dogs sick.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I called the vet but I cycled through the hold message twice, so I texted them, since that is an option they advise in the hold message for non-urgent issues.

I wrote a three paragraph text with all the info about what’s going on LOL, so we’ll see what they say.

Probably just make sure they are drinking water and if it persists for another couple days to bring them in or if they stop drinking.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

TMI about dog poop:

Both of our big dogs have developed diarrhea in the last day.

Walter woke me up every two hours last night to go potty and has had runny poops a few times today. Appa went out once last night and this morning had a normal poop and then just now they both went out again and had runny poops.

Marv eats the same food as they do, but in smaller quantities obvs, and he has been fine.

They have both been drinking water fine and seem fine, energy and personality wise.

We are in the midst of a heat wave right now, so it’s possible that drinking more water has caused it? But we did just fill the food bin with new bags of food on Saturday morning. But if it was the food, I would think Marv would have an upset belly, too.

We’ll see how they are doing tonight and tomorrow and if it hasn’t cleared up I’ll call the vet. Maybe I’ll call them tonight just to see what they say, if we should maybe give them rice or something.