& Life Goes On

My name is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt THFC♥

[slickerthanrick]

Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse (1918)

The brick Ignatz is carrying is the year 2016 and I’m Krazy Kat betting it’s a “mints pie” because I’m optimistic and stupid :)

Oh, and happy new year!!!

[shanicomics]

[sith-hammer]

[slickerthanrick]

[slickerthanrick]

*shell shocked plays in the background*

[eatsleepdraw]

“Undead Candy Corn” by Alvaro Diaz-Rubio

[in-the-middle-of-a-daydream]

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

[dorrismccomics]

[world-ethnic-beauty]

Jewish Berber woman from Debdou, Morocco (ca.1917)

[explodingdog]

Another Cup

available, along with other favorites in limited quantities

[slickerthanrick]

Next month my mom and little sister are going to Morocco. Unfortunately, I’m not able to go with them because of summer classes and I am filled with so much sadness and regret. It’s been 4 years now since I last went and saw my family. I can’t help but sit here and think of all my aunts and uncles and cousins and how much I miss them. I even have new cousins I haven’t seen yet. 

I feel so disconnected from them being the only one on my mom’s side of the family to be here in the US, and it makes my heart so heavy thinking about it. I wish I could spend every summer there with them. I’ve only had great times there and love them all so much, but even being there leaves me with another sadness; a feeling that I don’t belong. I wish my identity felt whole rather than torn and incomplete. I wish I didn’t feel so far away. Every year I don’t go back I feel as if the distance only grows where eventually there will be no way back. I’ll slowly become a stranger to them as they grow unrecognizable to me--seeing them will mean nothing and so will the words they speak. It’s my biggest fear.

I wish I had someone to talk to who understands how I feel. 

[notalkingplz]

[boxingbearstudio]

[reorientmag]

[pussyhandss-deactivated20131226]

[slickerthanrick]

The semester has finally ended and I have so much extra time now that I no longer have to avoid doing homework. So I don’t know what to do with myself, I feel like there’s so many things I want to do and so many things I want to start doing. I don’t know where to begin. All I want to do is catch up on my comics, but on the other hand I want to read more books. I recently started playing Animal Crossing New Leaf and I spend hours playing, especially when I have downtime at work. I really want to spend more time playing Mortal Kombat X, but I also have shows I need to finish. I’d like to write more stories and do more creative things, but then I end up on tumblr and never accomplish anything...

One more week til I go on vacation. Two more weeks til the summer semester.

[frank--enstein]