be present always

UCD Clinical Nutrition. Vegan.🌱

[wild-cabins]

Captains Rest

[grayskymorning]

[wintercozy]

[vikawicca-deactivated20181129]

[pseudomantis]

[marisatomay]

not to be a bitch but i wish they wouldn’t do prayers at government events lol

[apprenticenanoswarm-deactivated]

yup! it’s weird and creepy 

[shttty]

I heard of this thing called separation of church and state once, but I’m starting to think it was just a rumor

[championsaremade]

well, it’s official! Christiana, Licensed Associate Counselor 🤞🏻😊

[senatortedcruz]

imagine a giant monster following you around and picking you up and kissing you all the time. that’s what my cat lives with every day

[fancyladssnacks]

that’s exactly what half the people on this site want

[gremlinstarr]

oh to be gently picked up and kissed by a giant monster

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

dismantling toxic masculinity means we are also obligated to build a culture where it is safe for boys and young men to express their emotions and ask for help as needed. 

if you want a generation of men who are respectful and communicative, you first need a generation of boys who are encouraged to express themselves emotionally and who grow up knowing their feelings are valid

[theriddlerisanerd]

They dropped this on us as if we knew about the Diet Coke button

[thestraggletag]

I'm tired of googling nonsensical Donald Trump posts only to find out they're true.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

not to dredge up old wounds and sound bitter but when I was 17 my dad died in a house fire and the very next week we had a huge geometry test I hadn’t studied for because of the whole House Fire Dead Dad situation so the extremely kind kid sitting next to me let me cheat from his test since the answers were multiple choice, but I was SO stressed about the whole House Fire Dead Dad situation I didn’t even notice we had different tests.

My teacher handed them back the next day with an obvious zero written on mine, and when I started crying in class he told me that’s what I get for cheating, in front of everyone.

Most things from my teenagehood I have let go, but if I ever run into this man in a grocery store I 100% will ask him what is problem was.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

That said, I used to spend a lot of time grieving this girl who lost so much and who suffered so much under the rules of people like that teacher. I told my therapist that the tragedy of it all is that nobody ever came to save her and so she was never saved.

My therapist asked me why I saw her as separate from myself. I realized I felt that at some point between then and Adulthood, that girl had died, and I was mourning her death. All the time, I looked at photos of my younger self as if they were memories of a childhood friend I’d lost.

My therapist helped me understand and accept that she never died, she is me, and by surviving, I did save her life. She is alive, and those hopes and dreams she had before she felt pain and loss still exist in me. And every time someone treats me badly and I stand up for myself, I am standing up for her. Every time I try to get better, I am nursing her back to health. Every time I take care of myself, I am taking care of her. I am the adult she needed.

She was saved, because she is me, and I saved myself. I saved her. I saved us both.

I’m only sharing such personal feelings this plainly, because I hope it will resonate with some of you who feel that there’s a part of you, a child crying, who got left behind. If you’re still alive, you’re holding that child in your arms right now. They are vulnerable, they are wounded, but they are alive. Take care of yourself, and you’ll take care of them. I love you.

[ms-demeanor]

Okay so in LA they’ve had the reusable bag and thick plastic bag for ten cents going on for years but in Vegas they still give you thin plastic bags at every store but they’re these really thin shitty bags that you pretty much can’t reuse because they barely survive the trip from the car to the house.

So basically this is how I tell you that I’ve started making plarn that I’m crocheting into a plarn basket that I will use to hold the plarn balls I make in the future in order to control how many plastic bags are pouring out of our cabinets.

[ms-demeanor]

How to make plarn:

1. Flatten out a clean plastic bag

2. Cut off the handles and the bottom

3. Cut diagonally into the plastic until the strand is about as thick as you want it to be. (Probably aim for at least an inch thick, it doesn’t have to be super even all the way around but you don’t want it to get so thin that the strand will break)

4. Cut in a spiral until you run out of bag and then diagonally cut your way out of the final loop.

5. Tie the end of the strand to the end of whatever you were working on or to the last stand you cut.

6. Wind or crochet like any other bulky yarn.

The gray disk at the bottom of this post is the bottom of my basket, I’m using an N/10mm hook in a double-crocheted spiral. (I’ve just started the first layer of elevation)

So far I’m about 10-12 bags in and I’ve been trimming the tails of the joined bags as I go.

(One bag’s worth of plarn goes about halfway around the disk at this point, I think I’m going to do 3-4 more gray bags before I change colors; bags come in 3 general colors around here so this basket is going to be mostly white with gray and brown accents.)

[ms-demeanor]

Also save the bag scraps, you can use them as stuffing. I’m gonna make a big fucking pincushion with mine. It’s gonna be a cube made out of the leftover cat fabric that I don’t want to use for masks.

[ms-demeanor]

Worked my way through the ball in the first photoset, made some more balls. I’m intrigued by the way the patterns on the white bags show up. I’ve got some Ross and 99 cent store bags in the next white ball to add some purple and blue-green to the mix.

Making this basket might actually exhaust my current supply of plastic bags, so I’ve asked my dad to set aside his thicker bags for me in LA so I can compare working both materials.

Kind of get the feeling that I’m going to be a complete gremlin and make a laundry hamper out of the thicker plastic.

[ms-demeanor]

It’s a little ugly, but it’s going to do a great job of holding my plarn and associated projects.

[snurtle]

Oh this is totally apocalypse punk! Makes me want to make my own for use in small grocery runs. Or just to write a scrappy band of fictional survivors using them, haha.

[ms-demeanor]

NGL, cutting apart a pile of plastic trash and turning it into thread and rolling it into balls and crocheting it into fabric does feel like some variety of cyberpunk Rumplestiltskin shit.

[rose-honey-lemonade]

Oh I knitted a plarn bag like this for my mom several years ago. I have so many plastic bags right now I should do it for myself.

Another way to make plarn is to cut the bag into loops and tie the loops together. I’ve found it’s more sturdy than the single ply plarn.

[kristina100000]

idgaf about people who make fun of subtitles when im having fun understanding what the fuck people r saying in movies

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[ruinedchildhood]

[1eos]

alright somebody add the ‘you can excuse racism?’ meme

[rubyapologism]

[christopher-bryant]

[blanketfortarchitect]

I can’t believe we get to use this for once without having to edit it

[mysharona1987]

[toomuchscifi]

Cash cash cash if (and only if) you can!

That cost of jar of peanut butter you brought to your last food drive (thank you!!!) can be used to buy like 4 or 5 jars when the Food Bank is purchasing it wholesale and possibly at a deep discount. They also work with other Food Banks to share overstocked products, but have to cover fees and transportation costs.

At the end of the day, pretty much every donation is appreciated and helpful, but if you were planning to do a grocery run to drop stuff at the Food Bank, save the time and gas and donate online! And in normal times, I would say you could use that extra time to volunteer....

-An ex-food bank employee