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Can't be bothered with life right now.
My supervisor in reception pulled me and 2 work colleagues aside today and gave us each £50 for no reason other than she said we're all so good to her. I really love my job.
Life update
I barely use tumblr anymore because it's so dull now. Olive got accepted and shortlisted by a Modelguides, who are affiliated with Kube studios and who have agency links. She had a portfolio made up (cost a fortune) but she's since been signed to BizzyKidz agency which is pretty amazing. Also been invited to sign with 3 other agencies but I'm holding out till she has her BizzyKidz assessment and headshots cause they're the most well known. She's doing great, and we're super proud of her. Jasper is great, his behaviour is not. But he's so loving and affectionate that it's hard to stay angry at him. Yesterday I gave him the day off nursery and after the school run we got back in bed and napped together for a few hours, it's was lovely. Chris and I are amazing, I've come off the pill (no we are not trying) and it's amazing what it does for my sex drive. My mental health is not so fab and it's like bashing your head against a brick wall trying to get doctors to do anything about it. But we'll get there.
It's 2am and I'm sat on the floor of the bathroom throwing up, ugh. I curse kids and their gross germs.
Four decades of feminism later I am reading the comedian Angela Barnes’ blog. “I am ugly, and I am proud,” she writes. She goes on to say: “The fact is I don’t see people in magazines who look like me. I don’t see people like me playing the romantic lead or having a romantic life.” At the top of the blog is a picture of Barnes. And the thing is, she isn’t ugly. Neither is she beautiful. She’s normal looking. She’s somewhere in the middle of the spectrum, just like lots of women you see every day in real life. It made me think of this year’s Wimbledon ladies’ final between Sabine Lisicki and Marion Bartoli. When Bartoli won, the BBC commentator John Inverdale infamously said, “Do you think Bartoli’s dad told her when she was little, ‘You’re never going to be a looker, you’re never going to be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight’?” The first thing I thought was: this woman has just won a tennis tournament! And she’s being judged on her looks! And then I thought: but Bartoli is attractive. Sure, she’s not at the very highest point on the scale – she doesn’t look like a top model. But she’s pretty. And, in any case, why should it matter? She’s a top athlete. Surely that’s what counts. A sports commentator refers to a pretty woman as “not a looker”. A normal-looking woman thinks she’s ugly. Why? Because, even though the world is full of normal and pretty women, the world we see – the world of television, films, magazines and websites – is full of women who are top-of-the-scale beauties. And right now, in the second decade of the 21st century, the situation is more extreme than ever. If you’re a woman, a huge proportion of your role models are beautiful. So if you’re normal looking, you feel ugly. And if you’re merely pretty, men feel free to comment on how un-beautiful you are. As a normal-looking man, I find myself in a completely different position. Being normal makes me feel, well, normal. Absolutely fine. As if the way I look is not an issue. That’s because it’s not an issue. As a normal-looking man, I’m in good company. Sure, some male actors and celebrities are very good looking. Brad Pitt. George Clooney. Russell Brand. But many of Hollywood’s leading men, like me, look like the sort of blokes you see every day, in real life. Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Bruce Willis, Jack Black, Seth Rogen, Martin Freeman, Tom Hanks, Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Brendan Fraser… In fact, you might almost say that most leading men are normal-looking blokes. It’s true of television, too. Bryan Cranston, who plays the lead in Breaking Bad – he’s a normal. James Gandolfini – he was a normal. And chubby too. Kevin Whately – normal. Ben Miller – normal. TV cops all look normal. Ray Winstone looks normal. Tim Roth looks normal. They portray people who are interesting for what they do, not what they look like. Oh, and think of sitcoms. The Big Bang Theory features four normal-looking blokes and a stunningly beautiful woman. New Girl is about two normal blokes, a guy who’s quite good looking, and two women who are… yes, strikingly beautiful. When I watch the news, on whatever channel, it’s presented by the classic partnership of an ordinary-looking guy and a gorgeous woman. After the news, I watch the weather. Male weather presenters look like standard males. Female weather presenters look like models. Footballers look normal. Footballers’ wives and girlfriends look stunning. Daytime television presenters: men look like Phillip Schofield; women look like Holly Willoughby. A typical Saturday-night judges’ panel consists of two types of people – middle-aged blokes and young, stunning women. Sometimes a normal-looking or ageing woman slips through the net – but then, like Arlene Phillips, her days are soon numbered. Countdown had an attractive woman and an ageing bloke; when the attractive woman began to show signs of ageing, she was axed – replaced by a woman who was, of course, strikingly beautiful. Who presents historical documentaries? Guys like David Starkey. Normals. And what happened when a normal-looking woman, Mary Beard, presented a series about the ancient world? She was mocked for not being attractive enough. In a recent interview Dustin Hoffman, another normal, made a revealing comment. Remember when he dressed up as a woman in Tootsie? “I went home and started crying,” he said. Why? “Because I think I am an interesting woman when I look at myself on screen. And I know that if I met myself at a party, I would never talk to that character. Because she doesn’t fulfil physically the demands that we’re brought up to think women have to have in order to ask them out… I have been brainwashed.”
The ugly, unfair truth about looking beautiful (via fucknosexistcostumes)
This is why I get infuriated whenever men talk about how they’re held to unrealistic beauty standards too, because it really doesn’t even compare. Men who aren’t attractive simply aren’t attractive and maybe that’s rough for them, but women who aren’t attractive are barely even people.
(via escapingtoxicjustice)
We all went out this afternoon to actually socialise with other parents and it was soooo nice. We had a five hour play date/barbecue/wine drinking session with the parents of one of Olive's best friends from school. They are exactly the same parents as us, so laid back and chilled out about everything. Literally 5 hours flew by, they are so great.
Flu clinic over and done with. It's so dull and my mum gave me my flu jab this year...it fucking hurt.
Your friend Richard abruptly tells you he’s gay. You’re fine with it, but you wonder why he’s choosing to tell you now after all these years of friendship. When you ask him, Richard tells you, “I want to be as open and honest as possible with the people I care about. It’s what Harambe would have wanted.” It is at that moment you realize—Dick’s out for Harambe.
I made friends with a patient at work because she has great eyebrows and now we are pals that discuss makeup when she comes in. And also today one of my faves told the nurse that I am the "twinkle in his eye" because I'm so lovely. Which made my day cause he is such a nice grandad-type man.
The doctor has now put me on 60mg of fluoxetine and I have to review with her in a month and see how I'm getting on, or change to something else. Sigh.
Had to cancel 2 weeks of nurse appointments today as our nurse has been signed off sick. A lady told me its my fault if she dies of tetanus. After 10 minutes of whinging I was desperate to say that at this point, I would rather die of tetanus than listen to her bang on. But I didn’t. I laid my head on the desk and held the phone away from my ear until she ranted her way into oblivion.
I love my job but godddd, some people are annoying.
A man came on Monday to artex the ceiling in our lounge, and he came back today to carry on and he has left sooooo much mess everywhere. I'm so cross. I've had a shitty day at work and then had to come home to the house being a tip because he didn't tidy up after himself. He's still not finished so Lord knows when he's actually going to come back but I kinda wanna cry right now.
Tell me if I'm crazy to be considering this
My mother in law lives in a 3 bed council house, with my sister in law (who’s 20) and her boyfriend (he lives next door but one but spends most of his time at my sister in law's house. My sister in law and her boyfriend work full time, but don’t give my MIL much money a month. My MIL works full time as a carer so her wage isn’t great, and some weeks she has 48 hours and some she has 20.
Obviously, money is tight for her as she is on an average wage and still having to pay for 2 extra people in the house. She let on the other day that she is really skint at the moment and worrying about paying her bills etc. After she left, I spoke with Chris about how much easier it would be if we all lived with her (although the house is miiiiiles out of town and I don’t drive, ha) and then we thought about perhaps moving into a 4 bed house with her. Understandably she would be reluctant to give up her council house as they’re like gold dust, so we proposed that my sister in law and her boyfriend move into it while my MIL moves in with us, closer to town, in a larger house.
Financially it would make so much sense for everyone. We would be paying less than we pay now and would be able to save for a mortgage, my mother in law would LOVE living with the kids as well as having much more money to live on. And she is really keen. So am I, as she is super easy to get along with and we have lived together when Chris still lived at home years ago. Obviously I’m just worried about giving up our freedom to do whatever we want in the house (she’s super relaxed about everything though) and you know, what if we want to have sex in the lounge or something? Haha. Tell me I’m not insane for going ahead with this?!
Jasper's new thing is to fart and then ask if you can smell it. He's gross.
Tmi
Since coming off the pill I have become a total sex pest. I want sex all the time. Like literally I just had sex and could 100% have sex again right now but Chris is not complying 😂 what is wrong with meeeeee
That is too many steps before 10am in my opinion. The school/nursery run will be the death of me.