Something Like That...

[kokobug110]

[snodil-praty]

[thesixpennybook]

ATTENTION ALL FOLLOWERS: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

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[kokobug110]

This Isn’t Fair.

 I sleep in the buff.

This means I also wake up in the buff.

This means I walk past my mirror in the buff.

And, almost every time, inevitably, I am disappointed. My hips are too big or my ass is, and even though maybe that’s supposed to be a good thing it’s big in the wrong way. Don’t even ask – I don’t know what that means either. My thighs are actually the worst thing to have ever existed, and while I actually do have a tiny waist it just isn't tiny enough. My boobs. Not big enough, or when they are they aren't perky or something…

Don’t take all of that the wrong way – there are many days that I feel great about myself. But the fact that there are also many days that I don’t sucks. And how could I feel consistently good about my normal, mind you even fairly slim, healthy body when other healthy bodies are being consistently altered in the media to look completely Barbie-like.

Here’s why (NSFW!!): http://dudecomedy.com/kim-kardashians-picture-before-photoshop-nsfw/

It’s an uphill battle for any person and I might argue even more so for any woman to feel good about what she’s given when the subtext of everything she sees is that even the “beautiful” people aren't good the way they are.

Another thing – and I speak from an almost unfair standpoint on this – it is even more unfair that there seems to be only one idea of what a healthy, happy body looks like. I say it’s unfair because I probably fit into that confine, but there are so many versions of a healthy body that there just shouldn't be a confine. Just be healthy and happy.

Uphill battle, I know.

[kokobug110]

Why Life after College is a Total Letdown

Maybe you’re lucky.

Maybe you know exactly what you want to do and you went to school for that, graduated, are now doing it and you feel totally fulfilled. Maybe you’re just one of those people who will feel fulfilled doing anything.

I am not. Either of those things. I went to school, found the thing that made me the least miserable, graduated and did the same. Now I wake up, go to work, come home, sleep and do the same.

I feel like I have less free time than I did in college, which is 100% not true. I have fewer close friends, or friends that are even close to me in distance. But most importantly I have lost the feeling that this is going anywhere. I work somewhere that is satisfying enough. I make money that is satisfying enough. If I do well I will move up in that job and make more money doing it. But there are no degrees, no certificates of any real meaning at the end of this tunnel. There’s not even really an end TO the tunnel. Work until retirement. 40+ hours a week. More if you want to make more money so you can have no time to spend it. Do that until you retire, then die.

Like anyone I will get used to this life, embrace it even; I will find the concept of life like it was in college foreign and seemingly way more challenging than right now. But for now, I don’t. School made sense. There was always something that needed doing, and that was its own brand of misery that I do not miss, but it made sense. I was working towards something.

Now? Everybody’s working for the weekend… And Sunday nights bring along a new hell that says “put that fun and relaxation away now” – back in it’s neat little weekend box – and maybe, if you’re lucky, you can take it out again Friday night to play some more. 

[weltenwellen]

But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you’re not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are.

(via seulray)

[forever90s]

[kokobug110]

<3

[kokobug110]

Homemade Quinoa Tabouli

Ingredients:

1 bunch flat leaf parsley finely chopped

4 green onions 

2 tomatoes, chopped

1 lemon

Approx. 5 tbsp olive oil

1/2 cup quinoa

Ground black pepper

Salt

Directions:

Rinse quinoa under running water. Boil 1 cup of water, then add quinoa. Bring to a boil again, then turn down the heat and allow to simmer for approximately 15 min. or until cooked. Let cool. 

Finely chop the parsley, onions and tomatoes and mix in a large mixing bowl.

Cut the lemon into quarters, cut the flesh of the wedges and squeeze over mixture.

Add in quinoa, olive oil, black pepper and salt and mix well.

For best taste, chill before serving. 

Recipe modified from:

http://www.food.com/recipe/tabbouli-tabouli-tabbouleh-salad-parsley-salad-197922

[positivedoodles]

[kokobug110]

This fish. Adorable.

[branchmeleaf]

It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographing “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “black professional” I asked her why she didn’t photograph the delivery people, construction workers etc. … ie. the black and Hispanic and Asian people… and she mumbled something about trying to “improve the image of biking” then admitted that she didn’t really see them as part of the “green movement” since they “probably have no choice” – I was so mad I wanted to quit working on the project she and I were collaborating on. So, in the same way when people in a poor neighborhood grow food in their yards … it’s just being poor– but when white people do it they are saving the earth or something.

vomit

[buzzfeed]

Everything you wanted to know about transgender people but were afraid to ask. 

[fuckyesinternetarguments]

A handy guide for y’all

[kokobug110]

I don't know why rappers get so much flack for putting offensive content in their songs, then country singers are let off the hook for the same things. I am sure there is more basis in rap for people to look for the offensive lyrics, but offensive is offensive. Period. For instance, “Jodeci Freestyle” by Drake and J.Cole contains the lyrics “I’m artistic, you n----s is autistic, retarded." Now don't get me wrong - I am by no means supporting the choice to include this line, but it is obviously not a malicious stab at autism, it is purely ignorant. It was in bad taste, but the intent was to chase the alliteration and assonance.

In Kieth Urban's song, "Little Bit of Everything", however, there are three consecutive lines "I want a cool chick that’ll cook for me/But’ll dance on the bar in her tan bare feet/And do what I want when I want and she’ll do it with me". Now how is this not the most blatant misogyny to go unnoticed? Perhaps it could be argued that the third and most offensive line is really saying Kieth Urban does what he wants and hopes for a girl who will do it with him, which is better than the way it is actually written but still terrible. I have heard nothing from anyone saying this is wrong, and I would argue that this is genre specific. The same lines rapped by a different artist would have been under the microscope long ago. Offensive doesn't have a genre. 

[kokobug110]

As I tromp through wet, marshy glass with my inappropriately light jacket and flip flops on, I’m reminded why I chose to go to school in Florida, not Maine.

[beeishappy]

TCR | 2013.05.01

[beeishappy]

TCR | 2013.05.01

[musingsofmyheart2]

Reaching

Although I find

the frustrations and the pain

I find all of the joy

too,

And I wish it didn’t take

reminders

and thought,

but I never forget

that I love you back.

I’m sorry that it’s hard,

difficult at best,

But I’m trying to be yours,

Nothing more.

Nothing less.

[kokobug110]

My 8 year old cousin asked me how much I was going to get paid for babysitting her, and I told her I didn't know yet. She said I should give it to her, that it was for a good cause. I asked her what cause and she said herself because she's broke. I laughed and said I'm broke too, to which she responded but you're in college! As if that is an answer... So I said a lot of people are broke in college. Then I asked what she would spend the money on if she had it, and she said candy. I told her I spend it on groceries and car insurance, so...