The flooring scares me the most because it’s the biggest unknown. The house is so old, there are so many layers, I have to commit to a plan before I really know the whole situation.

Well that sounds glorious. I only even get my sugar once I have fulfilled my minimum 5 veggies for the day. Bleh.

I am in the same boat. I get two sugars per week, and spent one of them tonight on pumpkin pie mochi. Not worth it, but following up with wine, which is always a win.

I still haven’t completely figured it out. People would generally assume I have my shit together, but I continually feel like I’m not good enough at any one thing and am too much of a generalist.

* remove and replace all flooring. There’s tile in the bathroom (cracked), faux wood in the living room and bedrooms (mismatched, not laid straight), and VCT in the kitchen (peeling, generally disgusting).

It sucks when you are a millennial too, btw. So much so that I gave up and moved back to where I went to college, back to my people.

A cheap bottle of tempranillo from trader joe’s. OK, I probably won’t polish off the whole bottle, but I’m enjoying what I can handle.

How long did it take you? And I totally understand about the old house thing—ours is 103 years old.

The only time I feel the way you describe on an everyday basis is when I am depressed and/or overwhelmed. I find that I can mitigate this by 1) having scheduled alone time in several-hour chunks. Like, usually Saturdays are 100% me-time. And 2) this sounds unrelated, but it really helps me to make sure that I am going…

One unit of our new duplex was vacated yesterday!!! Now I have to start the all-consuming work of actually fixing it up, and I’m a little overwhelmed/terrified. I have a little experience, and as much of a plan as I can given that we’re still uncovering and figuring out what’s underneath all those layers of bad, cheap…

I have seen lovely bouquets made with giant protea. This is not one of them. It’s like there were two entirely different bouquets that got trampled and the surviving half of each was mushed together.

Holy shit. I guess it makes sense when you explain it that way, but the idea of a psychiatrist chopping off a patient’s limb is still pretty horrifying.

Even if it were possible to find a psychologist who would agree that she should hypothetically be blind, a) doesn’t doing so after only a couple of weeks worth of sessions seem to be jumping the gun a little? and b) I would be fucking stunned if the psychologist would actually do it herself. That’s some seriously…

Much like my favorite football team, they don’t seem to get that getting back to the great things they used to do doesn’t mean literally repeating them over and over again. What made the music was that they had a knack for picking songs that perfectly encapsulated the emotion of the moment, not that those specific…

I think that’s actually the core of their problem. They view everything as black or white—these people are worthy, these people are not, since I am not, then it is not worth living.

Or it’s just, you haven’t found your people yet. One thing I’ve noticed about these communities is there’s often a very strong attachment to a singular way that they believe the world is, and the type of people they believe are worth anything. They simultaneously believe that they should be noticed more, and reject…

Ironically, I bet if they asked people, they’d find that “normies” also have often felt like we weren’t wanted by society and would never be the chosen people. The difference is just whether you choose to create a community that wallows in that feeling instead of deciding to work on yourself and find ways to feel…

I wound up seeing a dress at Anthro that made me think it’s what I would want to wear if I were a guest at my own wedding, so I sent her the link and wiped my hands of the whole thing. I only wish my MIL would have been as easy, but there’s a big difference between picking something for a body type and coloring you’ve…

Agreed, if you’re going to offend everyone, at least manage to be entertaining while you do so.

That’s great if that’s how it works for you! Does not work for me though. I’ve been up to 6 months at a time without any added sugar (like, whole fruit is ok, but no juice and nothing with the white stuff), and the moment I take a bite I’m hooked all over again. It’s like crack.