SRSLY

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SOMEONE BOUGHT THE WAFFLE IRON.

damnit.

back to square one. 

queercakes replied to your post: i’m going to another wedding at the end of the…

Did they only apply at a fancy store? I get so bummed when people only register at a fancy store.

they registered at FOUR places, and all the cheap stuff is gone. i was invited late [they didn’t know if i’d be in the country, so i told them not to invite me because it would throw off their seating and everything. they got enough declines and i got my plane tickets so i got invited yesterday], so all of my other poor friends already got to all the good stuff.

BUT joy of joys, there is a waffle maker on their registry and it’s only $23, so i am getting that and a cheese grater and splitting it with my friend who is also going and now i get to put a pun in the card about having a grate marriage. LUUUUULZ.

i’m going to another wedding at the end of the month and i am looking at their registry right now and so far the only thing i can afford is a wooden spoon or one cereal bowl. the bowls are $28 a pop. i know they don’t expect me to buy them anything because they’re lovely people and everything, but it’s their wedding and i love them so i want to get something. 

wooden spoons, here i come.

i was lying in bed daydreaming [can it be daydreaming if it’s at night?] about opening a vintage shop one day. i’ve thought about it a lot recently because i think i have a good eye and i know what things are worth. 

so alex sez to me he sez, ‘just do it.’

i hadn’t really thought about that possibility. 

i think it would take me a few years to accumulate the kind of inventory that i want, but i do think it can be done. maybe i will…

after staring at photos of lisa edelstein and finding her unbelievably attractive, i have decided to stop hating my hips. 

i ended up putting the aspartame food away and just leaving the articles out on the table. i know mother-in-law will read them because she’s interested in the subject. not sure about father-in-law.

not that it matters, and now i’m going to get reblogs saying, ‘GOOD THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IN THE FIRST PLACE.’ or i might just see a bunch of passive aggressive posts about how people ‘hate it when people make a statement and then take it back’ or something. 

nom-chompsky:

teamlaurenwins:

i gathered all of the things in the kitchen that contained aspartame, put them on the kitchen table, and then printed off 4 articles about how poisonous it is and highlighted all of the most important information. 

in my in-laws’ case, they make a lot of money and could very easily buy healthy, natural, and organic food all the time. i mean that. they have no excuses. neither of them is particularly healthy, they get minimal exercise, and they eat sugar-free products because they think they will lose weight. it’s ridiculous. 

aren’t you a guest there? if one of my guests went through my kitchen and printed off a bunch of articles about my shitty food, idk if they’d be guests anymore.

and really, the only excuse anyone needs for not eating ‘healthy’/organic/natural and not exercising is “i don’t want to.”

i wouldn’t consider myself a guest in this house. we live here, albeit temporarily. we do all of the housework and the shopping [not the stuff with aspartame in it, obviously- or high fructose corn syrup]. we clean up after them, and they really sort of treat us like shit. it’s not like we have a relationship based on mutual respect. i’m really glad that nom-chompsky can reblog me and say i’m a guest and then EVERYONE decides to reblog and tell me what a bad guest i am. i am not here for a long weekend. i live here. 

they’re health conscious people in general. or rather, they want to and try to be. they go to wellness conferences, buy magazines about ‘whole living,’ are constantly reading books about cancer free diets and keeping their pre-diabetes in control and how to make the most of their lifestyles. they WANT to be healthy and they THINK that they are. this is not a case of ‘we eat/drink aspartame because we know what it does but like it so fuck off.’ they feel like they HAVE to because somewhere along the line, they were told sugar is evil and will make them ugly and fat. they also scold us for eating anything with sugar in it and try to slip their artificial sweetener into things all the time. 

by the by, a lot of people who don’t follow me or know my situation have reblogged me, and one person asked why i didn’t explain it to them in less asshole terms. my answer to that is: we have. so many times. alex has been having this conversation with them for years, and they’ve cut back on some stuff, but they don’t read labels. i mean, my father-in-law is a vegetarian but buys like…soup mixes with chicken broth in them. and it’s not because he loves chicken. it’s because he doesn’t read labels. they just don’t do it. 

i don’t really mind if people on tumblr are judging me for being judgy. 

i gathered all of the things in the kitchen that contained aspartame, put them on the kitchen table, and then printed off 4 articles about how poisonous it is and highlighted all of the most important information. 

in my in-laws’ case, they make a lot of money and could very easily buy healthy, natural, and organic food all the time. i mean that. they have no excuses. neither of them is particularly healthy, they get minimal exercise, and they eat sugar-free products because they think they will lose weight. it’s ridiculous. 

a blogger that i have been reading for like 2 years COMMENTED on my blog today. on two separate posts. she’s a chef and she said she wanted to try one of the recipes i posted. OH MY GOD I AM SWEATING.

bettyinthebush:

singlemanlytear:

littlehonda:

I got 96/100 on this very scientific Self-esteem Test. It didn’t flat out say “Good for you but you’re probably not all that great, I mean, come on” but you could tell it wanted too.

I got a 71.

Apparently I am not as obnoxiously cocky as everyone around me thinks I am.  THANKS PSYCHOLOGY TODAY.

I got a 71 too. Twilight zone music!

i got a 71 too. apparently even though i truly believe i am terrible in social situations, the fact that i am cocky enough to say ‘if people don’t meet my expectations, they aren’t worth my time’ makes me ‘healthy.’ or something.