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This is where I don't worry about stuff. There are other places where I do worry about it, but those places are not this place. This is the place where I don't worry about stuff.

[kristenschaals]

[phantomviolet]

THIS JUST BLEW ME AWAY

[curvily]

How often have you been shopping and you come across something that is just PERFECT, but does not go up to your size? Over 60% of American women wear a size 14 or above, but only 17% of clothing sold is 14 & up. That is a ridiculous disparity.

Moreover, when some brands move into plus (ahem H&M), they throw their signature trendy looks by the wayside in favor of flowy dark fabrics that they think “work” for plus sizes. That is crap. Plus size women want color, print, and structure. Moreover, we want variety. A group this numerous cannot be a monolith, and since style is such a personal thing, we all have different tastes. I want #plussizeplease to be a way to showcase the demand for styles we’d buy and rock, and all the money brands are forfeiting by refusing to expand their sizes.

So here’s how to use it:

1) Snap a picture of a garment you love but does not come in your size. Include the brand and price, tagging the company if possible. For example, I am in love with this Zara marble print dress. I would have purchased it yesterday if it went above a size L. My tweet would be:

“.@Zara marble print sheath, $59. I’d buy it right now if it came in my size. #plussizeplease”

2) Use it on any social media – Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest… even Facebook supports hashtags now.

3) Tag anything you’d purchase, whether in store or online.

4) Feel free to include the size range it comes in and/or the size you think you’d need. Sizing can be tricky, so this is definitely not required.

5) Tell your friends! I don’t just want this to be a blogger thing – I want all women who wear size 14 and up to show their purchasing power and share styles they love. Let’s be unignorable!

[lurkingbottle]

Um, yes. I will be doing this.

[lizzywhimsy]

I’m doing this. Hopefully designers will catch wind of this movement and stop wanting to keep a “brand” by keeping plus sized people out of their clothing… Someday I hope I will be able to go into stores and see all clothes in size XXS-4X (and beyond) 

[hatesthesecans]

Signal boost.

[hatesthesecans]

Self help is not so stupid

I am reading The Seven Habits as part of my personal goal at work. I really thought I would hate it, but I'm really loving it a lot. I'm realizing that at least for me, having goals and values and plans is actually motivating and exciting. I think I've just become another self help junky. Lord save us...

[hatesthesecans]

The promotion has been gotten.

Hell yes.

[hatesthesecans]

About ready to snap because I want to know if I got the job RIGHT NOW!!!!

[hatesthesecans]

I can't share this on Facebook because I am friends with a lot of my coworkers and it's a big secret (shh!), but I am up for a promotion right now, and I feel like my second interview this morning went super well. Please send your good vibes! This would be a huge boon for my husband and me right now. We want to move into a nice apartment in the suburbs (I KNOW, right?), and it would be a big deal if we could extend our budget a bit. Plus my career is important to me, and if I can take this first step, I can conquer the universe and buy new clothes. <3

[hatesthesecans]

Update! Review went spectacularly. (As if anyone doubted that it would. I am a working machine!)

[hatesthesecans]

Checking in briefly. I got a haircut, my mid year review is today, and I feel like I'm going to throw up.

[muxer-rebelde-deactivated201310]

emotional abuse is when someone does something to hurt you, and when you express your feelings, that you’re upset, they turn it around to be something you did to hurt them and they force you to apologize for it, and your feelings, like always, are rendered invalid and silenced, forever damaging the ability to trust others with your feelings because they always are used against you.

[cracked]

There are books that will tell you how to repair a motorcycle or how to bake a cake or how to wire a lamp. And there should be, because motorcycles, cakes, and lamps are things with specific parts that can be studied and analyzed and mastered. When you buy a guide that promises to teach you how to have more sex with more women, you’ve taken your first wrong step, because you immediately start looking at women the way you look at motorcycles — as a standard piece of equipment with interchangeable parts.

Daniel O’Brien (via cracked)

[maxistentialist-deactivated2020]

Many Republicans searching for something to say in defense of the disastrous shutdown strategy will say President Obama just doesn’t try hard enough to communicate with Republicans. But in a ‘negotiation’ meeting with the president, one GOP House Leader told the president: ‘I cannot even stand to look at you.’ What are the chances of an honest conversation with someone who has just said something so disrespectful?

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Wow.

(via wilwheaton)

Dick Durbin speaks the truth.

[daunvaliant]

[ding dong, ding dong]

Hello, sir and/or madam! Have you heard the good news?

[strangeasanjles-deactivated2019]

*cackles*

[pubhealth]

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

For 75 years, Finland’s expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It’s like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world’s lowest infant mortality rates.

It’s a tradition that dates back to the 1930s and it’s designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they’re from, an equal start in life.

The maternity package - a gift from the government - is available to all expectant mothers.

It contains bodysuits, a sleeping bag, outdoor gear, bathing products for the baby, as well as nappies, bedding and a small mattress.

With the mattress in the bottom, the box becomes a baby’s first bed. Many children, from all social backgrounds, have their first naps within the safety of the box’s four cardboard walls.

Mothers have a choice between taking the box, or a cash grant, currently set at 140 euros, but 95% opt for the box as it’s worth much more.

The tradition dates back to 1938. To begin with, the scheme was only available to families on low incomes, but that changed in 1949.

(From BBC)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415

[estradoll]

Socialism at work.

[mia-the-wonder-slut-blog]

I would rather my tax money pay for this than drone missiles.

[wateringgoodseeds]

Kent County’s Community Action Agency is recommending its seniors stretch the food they already have —by watering down milk and soup.

NPR reports on how the shutdown is affecting the nutrition programs for seniors in one western Michigan county.

I wonder if members of Congress are going without any meals?

(via wateringgoodseeds)

What the actual fuck. Do the members of Congress even realize that most of them are only a few years off from being members of this demographic that they have deemed useless to society and therefore unworthy of basic care?

(via bookishbutcorruptible)

Like they’d ever have to go hungry though.

ACTUAL DICKENSIAN VILLAINS.

(via moniquill)

It’s not “members of congress” it’s “the House GOP”.

(via wilwheaton)

[detrea]

The premise of minimum wage, when it was introduced, was that a single wage earner should be able to own a home and support a family.  That was what it was based on; a full time job, any job, should be able to accomplish this.

The fact people scoff at this idea if presented nowadays, as though the people that ring up your groceries or hand you your burgers don’t deserve the luxury of a home and a family, is disgusting.

[thatlupa]

^^

[wilwheaton]

What the Democrats are trying to do is not to end the shutdown for its own sake, but to break the cycle of crises governance, where they are constantly being asked to make absurd concessions merely to keep the government operating. They want to take away the Republicans’ ability to hold a gun to our country’s credit rating and take away their will to shut down the government. And, since this is the priority, helping the Republicans save face by giving them some reward, no matter how paltry, is entirely counterproductive.   To put it in parent/child terms, if you have a boy who throws a lot of tantrums, your problem isn’t the particular tantrum he is throwing right now, but the fact that he throws tantrums whenever he doesn’t get what he wants. When you bargain with the child, you ensure that he will continue the behavior in the future because it is effective.

Why Face-Saving Won’t Work (via wilwheaton)

[hatesthesecans]

The best pumpkin pie recipe

My husband even likes this shit! 1 can pumpkin (15 oz) 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 oz) 2 eggs 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp ground ginger 1/2 tsp salt 1 9" graham cracker pie crust Beat that shit together, pour into fucking crust. Bake that shit at 425 for 15 minutes, then turn down the motherfucking oven to 350 and bake another 35 goddamned minutes. Test for doneness by inserting a fucking knife about one inch from the crust. Then eat the shit out of it.