“Pretty Odd” is an album that rests securely in my list of top ten Favorite Albums ever, and this song always calms my spirit. Great for soothing anxiety, incoming panic, or just for a bit of happiness and peace.
Presented for your enjoyment on this #musicmonday 🎶🎼🎵🎹🎧🎤🎺
This is just gonna be a little journal post because good gods the adventures I’ve had today…
I needed to get my tag renewed like…two days ago, ok? So that’s already a stressor. I drove the 40 minutes to the tax office yesterday, SURPRISE FOOL it’s a holiday and I forgot.
Bringing us to today.
I’m sick but I still have to work, so I’m a little cloudy in the head from the cold medicine (this post not sponsored by Day-Quil), and work rather floated by. I get my ass to the tax office again, today, and I fuckin GET THERE and it’s SCARY because UNFAMILIAR LOCATION and it’s my turn and I can’t get a tag because I don’t have my emissions done.
I forgot that was a thing.
So I drove over to the emissions place, but it was cash only, and by then I needed to pee really bad so I said “heck it” and went home. I go to get my emissions at a nearby car wash (a place I’ve never been before, thus I was unfamiliar with their business customs because NEW PLACE), and had to be instructed by the (very patient) attendant on how to get my car going through the wash. Tips such as: “you need to put your window up” were delivered unto me by this very kind and good car wash attendant so away I went through the wash!
Car washes are a little scary.
And out I come on the other side…and no emissions test has happened. There is no sign instructing me to “Drive here to get that inspection test, son!” Nothing. I confusedly pull into a parking spot and avail myself of the free vacuum, hardcore thinking about just dejectedly driving away. However, I decided against eating the $15 I had just paid, and walked over to some car wash employees, asking about my sought-after emissions test.
The test got done, and for the first time in my FUCKING life, I have to get shit fixed on my car before I can pass my emissions test. For fuck’s sucking sake.
I am taking the rest of the night off, these flippin’ adult problems can wait ’till tomorrow. I need a break.
This is a special one: the lustrous Golden Slumbers bath bomb was tucked away in the luxe Lush Spa gift set this past Yuletide. Sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of exclusivity in my bath experience.
Golden Slumbers is a gentle, comforting dream of lavender, chamomile and neroli. Where I live, my bathtub time is limited (so I have to be relatively quick in there, and squeeze in my soaks when I can), but this bath was relaxing enough to put the anxious little “gotta hurry up and get outta here” to rest.
I liked the neroli mixed in with the somewhat predictable pair of chamomile and lavender, it provided something new and fresh to go with an already- functional pair.
Also, if you are a new reader of this blog (hallo!), or if you just don’t know me outside of the internet, I’m actually a dragon. As such, the beautiful gold lustre this bomb is laced with was a big plus for me 🐉👍✨💖
i am shadow, darkness and lantern flame
the beast in the woods
monsters can’t be tamed
you know me by so many names
yet i’m not understood
i am shadow, darkness and lantern flame
cruel fangs that bite and maim
i’m nothing close to good
monsters can’t be tamed
i’ve been denounced and shamed
when before the world i stood
i am shadow, darkness and lantern flame
you called me “beast” and one i became
i’d open throats if i could
monsters can’t be tamed
much like an animal, i’m unashamed
branching antlers made of wood
i am shadow, darkness and lantern flame
monsters can’t be tamed
I love reptiles, and ball pythons sit at the absolute top of my list. I had one as a child (her name was Sasha and we were best friends) and I would love to have one again.
They’re so docile and sweet, and they don’t grow to be an unmanageable size, either! And soooo cute, ugh just look at ’em:
Oooooh that sweet lil puppyface ;o; precious wonderful noodle babies!!
I’ve mentioned my fiance at least once on this blog, so here he is 💖 He’s my best friend in the world and a very handsome werewolf. #showmeyateeth
This place is basically hipster heaven and I love it. 2nd and Charles is a chain store that offers tons of second-hand media (up to and including musical instruments), and bunches of fun nerd merch as well. There are rows of bookshelves to get lost in, chairs to plop down in and flip through that weird self-help book you found, an area to play games on the Wii or Xbox with a friend, and a whole mess of fun tchotchkes to look through on your way up to the checkout. My fiance and I particularly enjoy the FNAF blind box figures…although I just got my third of the same one (anybody need them a tiny Springtrap?).
When I’m by myself and the silence is crushing
that’s when depression decides to drop by
It tells me I’m worthless, it tells me I’m nothing
My head in my hands, I try not to cry
I wonder sometimes, what it would be like
to go for a day without hating myself
And tell these bad thoughts to just take a hike
And bottle my tears, put them high on a shelf
This is a battle I never thought I’d fight
Sadness coming over me out of nowhere
But by now I’ve the heart of a war-hardened knight
And I lift up my weapons of hope and self-care
God help me, I won’t be another statistic
“They couldn’t deal with it, the world was too rough”
I’ll dismantle my feelings with methods artistic
With lyrics and verse, but will this be enough?
Can writing this down really help my depression?
I don’t understand, it’s just words on a page…
I guess it’s a visual mind-decompression
my sorrow can now, finally, exit the stage
Laying these words down, I follow my thoughts
I see where my heart goes, the paths my mind takes
Depression sneers at me with all that it’s got
But I’ll stand up and foil every move it can make
This will not destroy me, I will not retreat
And I’ll handle myself with pure, joyful grace
Lots of friends on my side, I can stay on my feet
And keep fighting on with a smile on my face
Tried my first #meatfreemonday for 2017 and well…my spinach wrap for breakfast was great but then I needed to make a quick lunch at home and didn’t have stuff on hand to make anything tasty and filling without meat.
So I failed. But I’ll try again!
What are y’alls favorite quick and tasty meat-free meals? I’ll try any recipes/suggestions next Monday!
Today was pretty drab; worked both jobs so a lot of it was spent on autopilot. But! I’m wrapping all that up with some selfcare and Better Call Saul on Netflix. It wears me out to have to spend so much time away from my home and my fiance and kids (they all have four legs and fur), but honestly? That feeling of resentment, of “Oh God I gotta go out and do this again”, that is just encouraging me to make this the year I get out of foodservice/retail limbo and get myself working from home in a sustainable and long-term way.
Feelin’ good about this year, folks 💖
branchantlers 