Born to blossom, bloom to perish

Idk why I’m here. I’m just striving for growth and change✨

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[xo-borntoblossom]

I feel super depressed. It could be my period messing with my mind but man today is hard. I feel so fat and gross. I also feel like I am not good enough for my boyfriend... or like I will never be what he wants in regards to my body. I want to just melt the fat off of my body. I don’t know why I can't just get in control of my weight. It is ridiculous. I know what I need to do but I just don't do it. Anyway, I just need to make it happen.

[xo-borntoblossom]

Been a while...

To say it’s been a while since I’ve posted would be an understatement. A lot has changed. My dog died. Still feels like the worst pain in the world. My life is not the same without Peewee and it never will be the same. I moved in with my boyfriend. It’s been quite the experience but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I finally left my job of 8 years and now I’ve been working at my job for 6 months. It’s been intense. But I love my new job!! Unfortunately I’ve gained almost al of the weight I lost back. But I am trying to make a change once again.... It’s hard but it can and will happen. I decided to open my tumblr again for my own thoughts and so I can look back at myself and my thoughts going forward. I really need a diary and this will be it for me.

[kennycrows]

[xo-borntoblossom]

Kinda was feeling myself today

[xo-borntoblossom]

Haven’t posted in forever. Life’s crazy. But I sure am happy to be down 16 pounds. More to go but I’m happy with the progress so far.

[literarysext]

I need to be the hottest person at the grocery store

[rnemory]

This perfectly captures my ridiculous inner monologue that revolves around impressing other people in the most oblique ways

[juststemthings]

my uterus realizing we aren’t having a baby after building up a lining for three weeks:

[nanocomputer]

during the day: maannnn i can’t wait to get into bed and sleep tonight

*at night in bed for 5 hours*

[xo-borntoblossom]

Literally me today

[prospects]

[secondhandsong]

Visit Original Link

[flawlassmami]

[lit-bxby]

x

[erinariele]

Another Hasselback chicken meal. I am loving how easy and delicious they are!!! Kevin says they look fancy too so-bonus!

Ingredients: *2 Chicken Breasts *4 oz of Muenster Cheese *4 Slices of Bacon *Oregano, Parsley, Red Pepper Flakes, Minced Garlic, Salt, and Pepper to taste

Instructions: *Preheat oven to 350F. *Cut slits in the chicken, short ways, without cutting all the way through to the bottom of the chicken. You’ll have 5-8 slits per breast. *Stuff the slits with cheese and bacon. *Add the spices on top. *Place the Chicken Breasts in a greased casserole dish. *Bake for 30 minutes. *Enjoy!

Hasselback Chicken is the easiest thing to cook and you can alter it to any taste!

Thanks for reading and please send your Chicken dishes!

XOXO erinariele

[elpatron-delmal]

[hateorloveus]

[lit-bxby]

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[pinkandgreenlivingthedream]

[galexy-astra]

LET 👏 RETAIL 👏 EMPLOYEES 👏 SIT 👏

[the-real-skye]

The only major chain retail store that I know of that allows their cashiers to sit is the Aldi grocery store, a German chain. Their starting pay is also $12 an hour chain-wide.

The interior of the store looks like this so they save money on the annoying shelf restocking. Products remain in their boxes until being removed by customers.  No unboxing and putting stuff on shelves, and constantly having to rearrange it. Also, the boxes make inventory a breeze as a sealed box has a defined number of items in it. 

Typical American grocery stores have shelves like this

Every item has to be unboxed and neatly stacked on the shelves. If they get messed up by the customers, everything has to be rearranged back to specific rigid order. When you have to verify the inventory, every item has to be removed from the shelves to be counted and put back. Aldi’s also do not have plastic bags. You can buy reusable bags or simply use the empty cardboard boxes that are available.

Last is the carts. Most grocery stores have their carts strewn across the parking lots, rolling around and hitting cars until a store employee is sent out to collect them, after being yelled at by the manager when they were told to do other tasks in the meantime. Aldi’s chains those carts together and you have to put a Quarter in to release it. When you are done, you plug the chain back in and get your Quarter back. If others are lazy, you can collect and return the loose carts and collect the Quarters. 

It stops this…

Then the employees have to do this

[hclark70]

reblogging this because I love Alidis

[brighdethebonsai]

With the exception of the shelf stacking, all of this is totally normal in every single supermarket chain in the UK… what the heck America

[putrandomnamehere-deactivated20]

Same for Germany… why would you make it any more complicated than that. Just. Why not let them sit??

[queeranarchism]

They’re not normal for no reason. The right to sit during work seems normal for most retail workers in these countries because they are it is part of the labor rights that have been won by unions. Sometimes the right to sit was won in an agreement with the store and sometimes it was put down in national laws.

For example, in the UK your employer legally has to provide you with a comfortable seat if you do work that can be done while seating. In the Netherlands you have to be provided a seat if you work at a cash register for more than 4 hours a day or for more than 1 hour uninterrupted.

Unionize.

[fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20]

America’s Unions got killed.

[fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20]

Also the reason they don’t let us sit is they keep telling us it makes us look “unproductive” because the average American has been trained since birth to spot and correct perceived laziness.

Save us.

[left-reminders]