[spiritsaunicorn]

General COVID awareness post

Hey,

I got sick on 12/23/2020

I went to work after a groggy morning waking up. I lasted about 2 hours (aka i groomed 1 and a half dogs) and all of a sudden started feeling like utter and complete shit. I had felt slightly groggy all morning (8am to 10am) but around 10:20 or so I suddenly couldnt focus. I had a headache and literally was in the middle of shaving a dog, easy haircut, and in that moment I absolutely could not focus. Also, I felt H O T. Not the sexy hot, but like my skin was on fire.

I looked at my direct boss (not my shop’s owner, but the woman in charge of my side of the grooming room) and said “hey I absolutely do not feel great right now. Are you hot? I feel overheated.”

My boss said she was cold. She then told me to put my dog away for a few and to step outside into the cold to cool down. I went out for 10 minutes in a t-shirt and gym leggings. It was 40 degrees fahrenheit that day. I was STILL hot as hell outside in that cold. I decided I was going to push through - WEARING MY MASK - and try to finish my last 4 and a half dogs for the day and to go home after. After I tried to get the half shaved dog out, I realized how stupid I was being. I put the dog back in her kennel and went up front where we keep out forehead thermometer.

My temp was 99.8.

Not exactly a COVID fever but too high for my comfort.

I immediately started crying. I did not want to leave work. I had 4 and a half dogs to finish and I didnt want to pass those off on anyone, but I had a fever and needed to gtfo before I got anyone else sick.

I went up to the owner of the shop and told her my symptoms (the fever plus a neverending headache and a kind of weakness and my inability to focus) and she immediately told me to leave. 

I went home to my moms, isolated myself in my room, scheduled a covid test the next day, took my covid test, and have not gone within 10 ft of my mom or my fiance since. My fiance dropped of my xmas gifts on the front porch of my mom and my mom has been (rightfully!) isolating me to my own bedroom.

I am utterly convinced that I only have a headcold. Does that mean I am going to be any less careful? NO. For all I know, I’m in early covid stages and I ABSOLUTELY do NOT want to get anyone else in my life sick. A N Y O N E.

So I am isolating.

I wont lie, its hard. I want nothing more than to hug my fiance or my mom. I’m still not going to do it because my need for physical contact is not at all more important than their health.

If you feel sick A T A L L, get a covid test ASAP and ISOLATE!!!!!

You CAN DO IT!!!

[highlights-of-the-lowlife]

Stop vilifying adults that live with their parents.

We’re still deep in one of the worst economic recessions of modern times. For many of us its not a choice but a requirement in order to survive. For many of us we have disabilities that make finding accommodation that suit our needs a lot harder and a lot more expensive.

Many of us pay into the household. Many of us are trapped in abusive households because we don’t have the means to leave. We aren’t moochers or afraid to leave the nest. The world simply isn’t built to support us anymore.

[solitarelee]

This is actually an incredibly western (and specifically American) thing. In a lot of other countries and cultures it’s NOT AT ALL uncommon for an adult to still live with their parents. As a second generation immigrant, it’s BEWILDERING to me. My cousin still lives with our grandmother; it’s important. She needs someone to watch after her, and she has the space… why wouldn’t he? This obsession with “adults” being “fully independent” of their parents is a fully American, bizarrely capitalist notion and it needs to be stomped into the ground.

[showerthoughtsofficial]

People don’t hate math. They hate being confused, intimidated, and embarrassed by math. Their problem is with how it’s taught.

[m00nba3]

Finally

[kyraneko]

A Mathematician’s Lament or Lockhart’s Lament is an essay explaining a lot of what’s wrong with how math is commonly taught. One of the comparisons is “like learning musical notation without ever hearing the music,” which felt quite spot-on. Highly informative reading.

[justwritingsomethingsisuppose]

Hello who would be interested in an AU CrowleyxReader BDSM story akin to the Carry On destiel fanfic but like Crowley x College age female reader 

I started writing one ages ago (aka when this blog was active) and never finished it but if there are folks interested i’d be happy to start posting it 

[spiritsaunicorn]

lmk

[adhd-vibes]

overstimulation/sensory overload really is like sorry I can’t hear you over the sound of my shirt tag being itchy and these two strands of hair touching my face and the tv and one of my shoelaces being undone and air touching me and the plane flying overhead and my own thoughts about remembering to buy hummus

[winchestered-cannibal]

IN THE SPN FAMILY, OSRIC CHAU IS THE FAMILY PET.

and you

will never

convince me

otherwise

[vikingfighter-deactivated201909]

THERE’S A SEQUEL

[rickcastlefromthailand]

“It’s just a TV show”

no

stop right now

you have no idea how that tv show has impacted someone’s life

for all you know it saved their life

do not fucking invalidate someone’s love for something just because it deviates from society’s expectations of what we should love

[grimeys-deactivated20160610]

Can we stop acting like depression is all sad poems and love songs? Depression is being tired without doing anything, it’s not being able to eat when you haven’t eaten all day, it’s feeling guilty of things that aren’t your fault, it’s blocking everyone out because you don’t know anything else, it’s just hazy and weird and dark it’s not sad in a good way it’s not about being sad all the time it’s ups and downs and it’s a fucking mess.

[lizard-is-writing]

How to Get Back to Writing-

Now this is straight from experience. If you haven’t written anything in a little while it is hard to get back in the swing of things. Everything you write feels a bit contrived, a bit desperate, but you know what, that’s okay. I had to take a few weeks off while traveling and when you go from writing every day to not writing at all, trying to get back into it just does not happen easily. But here’s how I got back into it in the quickest and least painful way I possibly could: 

Don’t work on anything you’ve been working on before at first. Likely you’ll have a standard for your writing that goes into your ongoing projects and if you have taken a long enough break from writing, you won’t return right away at that standard. You’ll just get more frustrated. So instead, pick a prompt and write something new. It can be a short story, a few scenes, something to go alongside of another project - anything like that. 

If your first sentence sucks, don’t delete it. The second one might be better. This goes for scenes too. The first scene was just meh… the next one might be eh - okay.  And it will improve from there. If your writing is just sounding horrible to you, just keep writing. Going back and editing and fixing it will not help you here. Just keep writing. Write 100 words. If it’s still eh… then write 200. I wrote 2,000 words just the other day before it started looking alright again. But, you know, it worked. 

Anything that sounds terrible just needs to be edited six months from now. Use that as your golden rule in times like these. Just until you get your mojo back. Just keep saying, yeah, I know it’s bad, but I can fix it later.  Believe it or not, that helps a lot. Just get to the story and keep telling the story. 

Work in sprints. Don’t let yourself stare at a blank screen for hours. Write for 15 or 30 minutes and then take a break. I do 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off and I get a lot more writing done that way than a solid 30 minute session and can keep that pace up for hours.  Maybe read a book in the 15 or 30 minute break. It helps to see good writing and to let yourself be just a little bit influenced by another writer. I don’t recommend this as a permanent solution, but a temporary aid. 

[beautifulpicturesofhealthyfood]

Rose Shaped Baked Apple Dessert…RECIPE

[thechrizzler]

Maybe we can do this as the Marauders cronicallyawesome?? as Rob wanted them do try some muggle baking…

[mostly10]

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

ThEC LOGnER YOU WATCHIT TH e MORE HILARIOUS IT GETS

[to-the-moon-and-bxck]

Sam what is your face even doing right now?

[troyler-dipped-in-ranch-deactiv]

dolla dolla make a moose holla

[thisissorandomspnimagines]

i’m reblogging this purely for the “dolla dolla make a moose holla” 

[pondlifeforme]

Season 8: The Road Hugs So Far

Bonus Gif:

[princeowl-deactivated20150410]

the trick to intrusive thoughts is not to try to resist em but like…..let them happen and dont fixate on them…treat them like an annoying friend who’s yelling random shit from the backseat like “hey you could stab yourself in the leg with those scissors” thanks timothy i could also not do that 

[frumpyboyjuicebar-deactivated20]

this is so helpful, imma start calling all my intrusive thoughts timothy from now on

[lesbian-moon-gf]

it’s called radical acceptance and it is super liberating

[crystalground-deactivated201507]

Rules my Grandma's Psychiatrist gave her in 56'

[keepfitstayfab-deactivated20130]

Get some cheap dishes and break them when you get upset.

Learn how to say “NO” and don’t feel guilty about it

Buy something frivolous for yourself once in awhile, like a new hat. 

Never again do anything you don’t want to do. 

that’s damn good advice

[wnq-anonymous]

Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a ‘hot mess’ or having ‘too many issues’ are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.

Anthon St. Maarten  (via labellefindumonde)

[theeldermillennial]

Mark the Five Year Old