this is my favorite picture of my jack russell. she does this on her own, she’s so fuckin weird!

that’s why you gotta sing along but louder! 😉

i have the exact opposite reaction to rickrolls, i am overjoyed and do the brendan fraser clap before joining in and singing at the top of my lungs.

i just demanded my three office mates be as horrified as i was that that happened

lucky for me (she said with no shot at momoa BUT STILL A GIRL CAN DREAM)

so my therapist is russian and she told me a story about her grandmother telling her how after wwii, it took people in the eastern bloc to thaw out and feel safe again...to stop waiting for the next bomb, the next raid, etc. she told me this because she was stressing to me the importance of letting myself settle into…

i know you’ve got so much to contend with right now, but i thought i’d share this: my therapist reminded me the last time i had an allergic reaction and needed a few days of prednisone that (imagine this in a thick russian accent): “prednisone will FUCK you up. it is hardcore medication. it gets into your emotions…

seconded

there’s a book called stitch and bitch by debbie stoller that i’ve given to a few friends and they’ve learned from it. i would also recommend supplementing the book with youtube videos to see it in 3D. (also if you want to learn to crochet she wrote a great crochet book called the happy hooker)

i just wanted to send out a million hi fives to everyone who’s been cheering me on— i signed the lease yesterday and the dogs and i are camping out in the new place on an air mattress tonight. movers are moving everything else tomorrow. we are ALONE and it’s QUIET and i am ELATED.

i found the perfect apartment this week. it’s no fee (nyc real estate ughhhhh), walking distance to work, will allow me both my dogs, is a block from a huge two tier dog park— one for the bigs, one for the littles— and the realtor went to bat for me and got the management to verbally approve me as long as we got all…

i made a list of all the books on my kindle i haven’t read and i have two neil gaiman books i haven’t touched yet and three i have and i just...i think i am just meh on neil gaiman? i’ve tried!

i have a question for you— i’m moving into my own place in a few weeks (🤞🏻🤞🏻) and i’m debating paying for a weekly cleaning service but it feels decadent/like something i should pull myself up by the bootstraps and do myself. how did you decide it was worth it?

i just finished watching hannibal (OHMYGOD) but was wondering if anyone else had a callback to alana saying they told her that her bones had been broken and marrow was in her blood so she would be “different” in some ways now. is it a fuller theme, the idea of literally breaking bones open to transform a character?

i described borderline as “narcissism without the ego” and my therapist said “that nails it, yes.”

so, i would like to hear some self-care strategies from other people with mentally ill parents.

yes. the neighborhood i live in now barely has any grass, so all the dogs pee and poo on the sidewalk and my poor jack russell has had a constant low grade skin infection on her belly/vulva the whole six months we’ve been here from such lovely canine sanitary conditions. there’s nothing for it but to move (which we…

omg zoo. my favorite was when the jack russell stole the kid’s wolf toy and lured the dad out into the alley to get eaten by all of the other dogs. i love this girl but i can see her turning rull quick if we lived in the zoo dimension.

after seven years in chicago where this was frequently the norm in winter, the one thing i can say THANK YOU NYC for is that the sun is out while this is going on. this + two solid months of grey in chicago was what made me finally bail. that and being called blunt and loud 9000x cause midwesterners do not like the…

i haven’t done cross stitch since i was ten maybe (currently a cool thirty-five)...where do i start again? also is it a bad plan to start cross stitch again when i already have tons of half finished knitting laying around?