cooper

i'm fit, i'm flirty, an i've got double f

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hello? is this thing on?

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Resolutions for 2018

resolutions are silly but i always kind of like marking the new year with some goals and thoughts so here goes

- make more time for friends. reach out more to them. put more effort into friendships

- be more open and honest about my feelings

- continue doing yoga because it makes me feel really good

that’s it!

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That time of year again. I did pretty well on these I think. I’ve been feeling a lot of emotional growth this year, even though I’ve had some pretty solid downward-spiral-y episodes. But I feel like I’m more in touch with my feelings than ever, good or bad, which is nice.

I also made some new friends this year and reconnected with some that I’d lost contact with, so that’s good.

Also I kind of quit yoga halfway through the year but I picked it back up again recently!

So here’s some new resolutions for 2019:

- make work a less important part of my life (I know!!!! I am a full on workaholic and it’s not cute. But I’m being laid off in August anyway so this seems like a great year to prioritise a better work/life balance, both in my current job and whatever comes next)

- keep building and strengthening friendships and nurturing my social circle

- set healthy boundaries with my parents (and stop trying to save them from themselves because they are just never going to learn!!!! And you cannot be your parents’ therapist!!!!!!)

- try another form of physical activity besides yoga (I like yoga a lot so I want to keep doing that, but I’ve been meaning to explore other things)

- finish my first knitting project (my past is littered with half finished scarves but I am determined to finish the one I’m currently working on!!!)

- read more (I’ve been enjoying reading again in the last couple of months so I’d like to keep that up)

- take more photos of my days, my friends and myself (I’m often so caught up in my own self consciousness that I get too anxious to document what life looks like) (and with that in mind:)

- actively work on my relationship with my body and food (it hasn’t been a great year with regard to my confidence, especially physically. I can feel it infecting my wider sense of self worth and that is Not Good. I’m focusing on intuitive eating and making peace with my body as it is right now)

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killing two birds with one stone: ordered two books about body positivity, intuitive eating and diet culture. new year new me y'all

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Resolutions for 2018

resolutions are silly but i always kind of like marking the new year with some goals and thoughts so here goes

- make more time for friends. reach out more to them. put more effort into friendships

- be more open and honest about my feelings

- continue doing yoga because it makes me feel really good

that’s it!

[cooper-in-space]

That time of year again. I did pretty well on these I think. I've been feeling a lot of emotional growth this year, even though I've had some pretty solid downward-spiral-y episodes. But I feel like I'm more in touch with my feelings than ever, good or bad, which is nice.

I also made some new friends this year and reconnected with some that I'd lost contact with, so that's good.

Also I kind of quit yoga halfway through the year but I picked it back up again recently!

So here's some new resolutions for 2019:

- make work a less important part of my life (I know!!!! I am a full on workaholic and it's not cute. But I'm being laid off in August anyway so this seems like a great year to prioritise a better work/life balance, both in my current job and whatever comes next)

- keep building and strengthening friendships and nurturing my social circle

- set healthy boundaries with my parents (and stop trying to save them from themselves because they are just never going to learn!!!! And you cannot be your parents' therapist!!!!!!)

- try another form of physical activity besides yoga (I like yoga a lot so I want to keep doing that, but I've been meaning to explore other things)

- finish my first knitting project (my past is littered with half finished scarves but I am determined to finish the one I'm currently working on!!!)

- read more (I've been enjoying reading again in the last couple of months so I'd like to keep that up)

- take more photos of my days, my friends and myself (I'm often so caught up in my own self consciousness that I get too anxious to document what life looks like) (and with that in mind:)

- actively work on my relationship with my body and food (it hasn't been a great year with regard to my confidence, especially physically. I can feel it infecting my wider sense of self worth and that is Not Good. I'm focusing on intuitive eating and making peace with my body as it is right now)

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you ever meet someone that just completely blows you away within like two hours of meeting them? like wow some people are actually just so immediately impressive

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one of the dorkiest, most horrible things about me is that I read the ‘Contributors’ section in The New Yorker for career inspiration

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'fredric winston hammersmith has been a staff writer since 1987 and won a pulitzer prize in 2015 for being way better at everything than you could ever remotely hope to be'

ok cool cool cool maybe i should like start a blog then?

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one of the dorkiest, most horrible things about me is that I read the 'Contributors' section in The New Yorker for career inspiration

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Ewan McGregor by David LaChapelle

[dailytessa]

Tessa Thompson by Awol Erizku for The Cut (2018)

[monsieur-j]

Thierry Mugler Fall 2001 Runway Details

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‘dont say gay if youre bi’ lmao lets all leave the house! lets all go outside and get a big gulp of fresh air is what im thinking

[highlandvalley]

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Ok so the great thing about getting an IUD is that sometimes you won't necessarily get periods anymore after a while which is nice

However you do still get hormonal cycles with all the PMS-y emotional wreck cravings stuff that come with them, just no blood coming out of the vagoo

So at some point you find yourself in bed watching Minority Report while eating applesauce out of a mug and thinking 'wait how did I get here and why am I doing this'

And then while you're opening a packet of biscuits to add some crunch to the applesauce you think 'oh right. ghost period. cool.'

[itscolossal]

Nigerian Hair Culture Documented in Rainbow-Hued Portraits by Medina Dugger

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ok yes im def back. got a new url to celebrate ✨

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please listen to this poor man losing his shit as he reads an article blaming millenials for killing the mayonnaise industry that was written by a babyboomer upset people don’t want to eat her bland salads anymore

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cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and

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i have the solution! i call it ‘junebugging’.

have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.

how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.

go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.

nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.

not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.

this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.

plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. :D

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Don’t let the adorable name fool you—this is some Seriously Good Advice. May be useful for brain fog and depression, too!

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