I did what I though was going to be a ballet workout yesterday. It just turned out to be floor exercises and I quit the video after about twenty minutes. But the little I did of the workout REALLY worked my butt and inner thighs. I think I’ll have to give it another try and just mentally prepare myself to be simultaneously bored and challenged.
As an aside, it’s important to keep celebrities and influencers accountable for the products they endorse, and the company they keep. I’m sure Kendall was a part of the creative discussion behind this ad and was probably thinking this would speak to our generation but all it does is ooze privilege and I’m not here for it.
It’s unlikely she was involved in the creative discussion. The actors (even celebrities) rarely ever take part in that. Still she would have seen the script before it was shot.
Regardless, Pepsi had taken down the ad and apologized for “missing the mark”. They also apologized for involving Kendall Jenner.
As a prize for a month of successful potty-training, two-year-old Sophia Benner picked out a doll she loved at a local Target — but when she and her mother got to the checkout, a cashier tried to talk her out of her purchase because Sophia is white, and the doll she picked out was black. Sophia’s mother, Brandi Benner, described the incident in an Instagram post on Saturday.
Benner wrote that she was about to respond to the cashier when her daughter jumped in with a succinct, and perfect, explanation. “I immediately became angry, but before I could say anything, Sophia responded with, ‘Yes, she does. She’s a doctor like I’m a doctor. And I’m a pretty girl and she’s a pretty girl. See her pretty hair? And see her stethoscope?” Read more.(4/4/2017 1:15 PM)
I just saw this yesterday and it made me think two things:
1. Yeah, a lot of those, “Don’t worry, cashiers aren’t paying attention to your items!” posts are flat-out lies. Especially in the Georgia, it seems. I can’t go through a line that isn’t self-checkout without a cashier making a comment about something I’m buying. Like, “I always wonder what people use these for….” How about it’s none of your business, Becky. This is why self-checkouts need to just become the norm. I’m sick of human beings, bring on the robot revolution.
2. Well…at least in this case an overly chatty/nosy cashier found herself on the receiving end of a teachable moment. Though whether or not she actually learned anything is anyone’s guess right now.
^^^ can confirm that in GA, cashiers will almost always talk to you about something you’re buying. I do self checkout whenever possible.
I also hope that cashier learned something. I would have been pissed, too. 2 year old wisdom to the rescue.
Black children have to settle for white dolls all the time and no one blinks an eye. But god forbid a white child should play with a black doll. Oh the horror.
I don’t even have words except that protests aren’t trendy or fun. This is exactly what rich white people think protests are like.
I used to work in advertising. I cannot imagine the meeting where this idea was pitched and approved. Everybody must have been 65+ and white. It’s the only thing that makes sense for this awful, tone deaf, insulting travesty of an ad.
I ended work early today. I’m working on an order and it’s frustrating me.
I have some fresh cows milk and I’m thinking I’m gonna make some cheese today. I’m gonna try adding some herbs de Provence. Let me go see if I find a recipe.
I spent all morning trying to figure out a solution to hosting the images on the homepage of my website now that Dropbox no longer has public folders for free accounts.
I even looked into paying for it, but $10 a month just for that seemed kind of ridiculous when I was sure I could find a workaround. Which I did. I used my Google Drive instead and found site to generate a permalink. I also had to futz with the HTML code to get the slideshow up and working again but I figured it out. It’s up and running again with no broken links. Yay!
I feel pretty damn accomplished all things considered. I’m gonna go make myself some breakfast lunch now and then head into the studio.
“I see that the word ‘duffer’ is defined as ‘a person inexperienced at something, especially at playing golf,’ “ Barry Blitt says, about his cover for this week’s issue.
I’ve never made these in silver before but by special request here we are, faceted rose quartz nuggets with sterling silver.
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Man USPS has really been fucking with my business lately. It’s been taking forever for them to deliver my packages.
There really isn’t anything I can do once it leaves my hand either. It’s not like I can call them and get a person to help me. I have a package that seems to be lost in the system right now. I’ve filed a search request. I’m hoping it yields a positive result. But they’ve been fucking up a lot lately and it’s pissing me off.
I feel really tired today and I don’t feel like working at ALL.
That jazz festival I did was really tiring. We got there around 3 and left after midnight, it was a really long day. I spent most of Sunday in bed either napping or catching up on Being Mary Jane. That grocery trip tired me out too.
When I have to spend all day selling at a market I’m always completely exhausted the next day. But I have an order to mail out (a pair of earrings and I haven’t even made them yet) so I can’t take the day off. When do I ever really take the day off anyway I always end up working even when I say I won’t.
Next week is UpMarket and for the first time ever I’ve cancelled my booking. There’s a huge festival that weekend and I just want to be free to enjoy it. I made enough money on Saturday that I can miss it. I feel relieved not to have to worry about it.
I’m at the supermarket waiting for them to put out the roast chickens. There’s a whole bunch of people waiting here too. Apparently none of us want to cook today.
Also? I had no idea the supermarket was so crowded on a Sunday. I always come during the week. Not me and this again.
I woke up angry from a dream I was having and then my mind proceeded to rehash an argument from ages ago so my morning had started off with me wanting to yell at someone. I don’t like how I’m feeling. Gonna try to go back to sleep and restart my day cause ugh getting up mad sucks.
I got home after midnight from the Jazz thing and took a shower and got in bed. Chris and I caught each other up on the day and he’s spooning me now and aside from the fact that I love to cuddle, his body heat on my back right now is so incredibly soothing. My husband’s belly is therapy.
The problem with suicidal thoughts is that they’re not just there when your sad. You’ll be there, chillin, reading a book or talking to a friend and you’ll think ‘This is nice. But do you know what would be better? Death.’
@lumos-vs-nox This is referred to as “mild suicidal ideation“ or the desire for suicide without substantial action behind it. It often happens when someone deals with prolonged mental health issues and suicidality at a young age. When you’re young, we go through a period where our neural pathways completely rearrange- the things that happen to us at that time will influence these changes. In a way, suicidal ideation becomes an ingrained coping mechanism. A sort of “well at least suicide is always there for me”. Your brain is part-muscle, it remembers things, it learns, it’s super great at adapting, this is just a reflex. It doesn’t mean you are weak, it doesn’t mean you aren’t in recovery.
thank you for posting this, you turned a feeling many people have into words!
this is what healthy people don’t get
this is so important SO IMPORTANT
and i didn’t know this until right now and it like changed my whole outlook on my illness and recovery
This Jazz on the Greens thing has been really cool. Our tent is all the way at the back but we’ve been really enjoying the performances. The sales have been alright too.
– I’m going to this jazz festival to sell my stuff today. A friend of mine booked a tent and he’s letting me have one of his tables (he sells jewelry too). Of course they are late.
– I went out with my boys last night, Gary and Roger. We went in the studio and had a jam session, and later went out for some beers. We met up with a bunch of other musicians and talked shop for the rest of the night. I felt so much in my element. I miss my guys, I don’t see them nearly often enough. They’ve been my best friends for over twenty years. I should really make an effort to see them more.
– I’ve been watching that show Underground. It’s good. Part of me is really tired of seeing Black people portrayed as slaves though. I know these are important stories to tell, but how does it help move us forward if we keep sticking to the same narrative? It’s not the beginning of Black people’s history. There were so many glorious, advanced African civilizations. Why can’t we ever tell those stories? Yeah you know why. Steupssssssss.
– I wonder sometimes if people think I’m full of it for identifying as Black. I’m mixed, very mixed, going back generations. Sometimes I feel like a fraud saying I’m Black. But what the fuck is mixed? It’s not a race. It says nothing. I dunno…
How far in advance do you need to order something personalized like that? Thanks.
I usually give myself about three days to work on an order (just in case I have a bunch to do at a time). Shipping to the States takes about 2-3 weeks with registered mail. Two day shipping is also available.
I haven’t made one of these in a while. They make a really lovely gift 🎁 .
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Chris and I have this friend and every time we’d hang out with him he’d ask us if we’d seen the latest meme except he’d pronounce it “meh-meh” and we’d crack up and correct him every time but he was always drunk so he’d never remember and it became this standing joke among us. Then one time we corrected him and he was sober and now he always pronounces it right and it makes me really sad that we reached the end of the era of the “meh-meh”.
closely related to sharks but with long, flat bodies and wing-like pectoral fins, mobula rays are ideally suited to swooping through the water – here off the gulf of california – yet seem equally at home in the air, so much so that they have earned the name “flying rays”. mobula rays can reach heights of more than two metres, remaining airborne for several seconds.
mobula rays are quite elusive and difficult to study, so biologists are not quite sure why they jump out of the water. theories vary from a means of communication, to a mating ritual (though both males and females jump), or as a way to shed themselves of parasites. they could also be jumping as a way of better corralling their pray, as seen with them swimming in a circular formation.
what is known about mobula rays is that they reach sexual maturity late and their investment in their offspring is more akin to mammals than other fishes, usually producing just a single pup after long pregnancies, all of which makes them extremely vulnerable to commercial fishing, especially as a species that likes to come together in large groups.
Today on the public holiday I slept in til 9, played video games and then went into the studio and did some work. Chris was out all day on the land and came home exhausted. I’ve been in bed since 8:30 and I am damn tired.
I’m old aren’t I? This is what old people do. I mean all I need is a lawn so I can yell at people to get off it.
Just finished working on the fairy house collection. I made five new designs for the 2017 collection and can’t wait to start playing around with glaze ideas! Next up will be glazing all those new hand built cups and tumblers I made last month. #ilovemyjob #fairy #fairytale #fairyhouse #fairy #faerie #fae #fairygarden #fairygardens #fairyparty #pottery #ceramics #handmadewithlove
Tomorrow is a public holiday here. I’m trying to decide how to spend my day. I could work, which sounds very appealing cause lucky me I love my work. I could do some needed cleaning but blech. Laze around watching tv all day. Or play the most recent Assassin’s Creed I got. It’s old but new to me. Hmm. Oh yeah also catch up on sleep.
There is a guy that is 4 or 5 houses down from me who will sit in his vehicle with the windows down. From outside it’s really not “that” loud, but it will still vibrate the walls in my bedroom. Some houses are just so weird when it comes to acoustics.
yeah that’s kinda why I just bitch about it here. I’d never dream of telling them not to play their radio or anything like that. they’re not being unreasonable. at least not about that. (this is the wife of the neighbour who co-opted my parking spot for a year)
I kinda have this rule that if I’m playing music loud that at 10pm the volume halves, at 11 it does it again and then it’s off by midnight, or in ear plugs. That way at least my neighbours can get to sleep no matter how I’m feeling and I’ve told them they can text me to turn it down.
Benefits of living in a house over anything closer together I guess.
it’s not really that they were blasting music. the acoustics here are weird and there’s a part of their house that’s open and the sound comes directly into our bedroom. unless they’re whispering we can hear them like they’re inside our house. so ANYTHING will be invasive.
I was inspired by #shibori a style of Japanese tie dye. I think I got the effect pretty close! .
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You never know how the colors are going to come out… this one reminded me to lava or fire 🔥 .
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So… a new blog followed me today (an actual real person thankfully) and tumblr just decided on it’s own to follow back. I know it wasn’t me because the blog was NSFW and I don’t follow those. So… yeah… thanks I guess?
Every time I see that ad with the chick on the surfboard I automatically think it’s me because she’s vaguely Hispanic/Indian looking and well, surfing. Of course I haven’t surfed in years and she actually looks nothing like me but that’s apparently how self centered my brain is.
Are any of you watching Big Little Lies? It is excellent. I thought it was a sort of Desperate Housewives-ish when it started but it goes very deep. And the acting is superb. Next Sunday is the last episode. I cannot wait to finally get all the questions answered.
As a 19 year old girl, I was shy and meek and very bad at standing up for myself. I worked at a Denny’s with a lot of creepy and rude customers, and one day a regular customer came in and he asked to borrow my pen. I was the only hostess on duty at the time, and the host stand only had one pen, which I very much needed almost constantly. We usually had more pens but servers would often lose theirs and come raid the host station for replacements. This particular pen was very excellent and I guarded the thing with my life… you all know the kind of pen I’m talking about, super ergonomic design and never runs out of ink and writes on any surface. This pen wasn’t going anywhere, not if I could help it.
Well anyway I told the customer, “oh I’m sorry, I’ve only got the one pen right now and I need it”. He said “don’t worry I’ll give it back when I’m done” and just took it. Well I sucked at standing up for myself and they drilled all that ‘customer is always right’ nonsense into our brains pretty well so I just resigned myself to having to track down another pen. (Not an easy task in that restaurant, there was some kind of black hole for pens there.)
Well another customer, a woman in her 40’s, saw the whole thing go down. After the guy had seated himself, the woman pulled a pen out of her purse, I thought she was just going to give it to me but she actually walked over to the guy, snagged my pen out of his hand, and smacked her pen down on the table and said very audibly “Respect her no.” And then she brought me my pen back. I was so touched by this simple gesture of coming to my defense that I paid for her lunch myself. The whole thing took less than 3 minutes but it honestly taught me so much, it taught me the importance of standing your ground, defending other women, and not letting men get away with ignoring your No. If a man can’t even respect a no on something as simple as borrowing a pen, how could he be trusted to respect you on even bigger issues? Anyway I just think about that incident a lot, the importance of standing your ground and not letting men feel entitled to take whatever they want. Bless that woman, I hope she is having a really excellent life.
On Sunday we went to an agri-tech fair held at the UWI campus. I got really excited when we drove past the building that houses my dad’s office when he lectured there. It hasn’t changed since I was a little girl.
I ended up driving through the area again today and saw some other buildings I remembered as a kid. That one place we all went to after I did my first communion. What we used to call the SCR (Senior Common Room) that goes by another name now where Dad would spend countless hours liming, playing cards or pool and forgetting to pick us up from school.
I love passing through St. Augustine because it’s where I lived as a child and the university grounds were like my playground. I have such wonderful memories of that part of my childhood. That was before it all went to shit, but that’s a story for another day.
“In a healthy relationship, your partner hears you out if you’re upset, and their goal is to avoid upsetting you in the future, not to debate whether you should have been upset in the first place.”
I just cut down four feet of sheet copper. All I can say I am VERY grateful for those heavy duty metal shears I bought a month ago. They were a great investment 👍🏽
So the good news is that I was able to buy a massive amount of sheet copper from a local vendor today. It’s much cheaper than buying it online and bringing it in AND I don’t have to pay tons of money in duty to customs.
The bad news is I asked the woman serving me to roll it up and she FOLDED it instead and I’m pretty pissed off about it because it makes it that much more difficult for me to use.
Just when you thought German chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit couldn’t have been any worse, it has been recently reported that President Donald Trump actually printed out an invoice for $374 billion—money Trump believes Germany owes to NATO, with interest—and handed it to Merkel during their closed doors meeting, The Sunday Times reported.
This is embarrassing for so many reasons. First, it’s just plain rude to invite a guest into your home and then hand them a bill. Emily Post must have written a chapter on this somewhere.
Furthermore, this is simply not how NATO defense funding works.
Angela Merkel’s White House Visit Was Way More Awkward Than We Knew
I’m here for “intimidating” girls. The “I thought you were mean when I first saw you” girls. The girls with “Resting Bitch™” faces. The girls that scare the men that try to catcall them. The girls that stand in their strong ass opinions. The girls that take no shit and get called a Bitch™ for it.
I love y’all and I hope y’all have a good day today.
A little something I was was finishing in the studio today… a Sterling silver #spinner #ring with three silver bands, the middle of which has a tiny 3mm moonstone. The band is flared so the spinners don’t come off. This is great for those of you who love to fidget! .
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Mission accomplished! Earrings for all the pendants! I still have to make the sterling #silver ear hooks and chains but the lion’s share of the work is done. I should be listing these on my website soon… -ish lol. .
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Enamel leaf 🍃 earrings before going into the kiln, right after they come out and after they’ve cooled down. The colours go through so many changes, I find it fascinating. .
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I was going to do a barre workout last night but I was in a crappy mood by the time I got around to it and did not feel like working out for an hour. Instead I found a short yoga workout that focused on my neck and upper back and did that. I reason it’s better to do twenty minutes of workout than nothing at all.
I have to say it’s been really nice to wake up these past two mornings without all the pain. My lower back pain is a constant but I didn’t realise how much tightness there was in my neck, shoulders and between my shoulder blades as well. No wonder I always wake up in such a bad mood. I’m going to keep focusing on my back for present time. It desperately needs care and attention.
My complete and total inability to keep anything clean or tidy for any amount of time is a symptom of my depression. I may never be able to do this. It’s important that I remember that and forgive myself when I clean something out (like my car) and it ends up trashed within a week.
Depression IS A DISABILITY. Requiring accommodations is okay.
Medications don’t make you better, they don’t cure your depression. They serve as an aid. Their purpose is to help you get to everyone else’s minimal level of functioning.
Depression can cycle through periods of inactivity. This doesn’t mean it’s gone away.
The reason I don’t feel like other people understand me is because … well … other people DON’T understand me. They can’t. They don’t have my disability.
Paranoia is par for the course.
Depression can and will interfere with your physical mobility. Forgive yourself when you can’t physically do something.
It’s entirely possible that I may never be able to live by myself. I can’t take care of myself. I need help to do it. And that’s okay.
As someone who suffers from depression and who experiences all these things as well I think this is important and needs to be reblogged. Depression is a very difficult thing, not only for people who suffer from it, but for everyone who knows a depressed person. My family doesn’t know how to deal with it, my friends try their very best to support me and I have tried to pretend I was fine until I was in ninth grade.
Everything makes so much more sense
Depression is a disease of the brain. The brain is an organ. When organs are not functioning properly, you are advised to see a doctor and get help. So why is it so hard to understand that the brain can suffer as well, and that we need help for it?
The brain controls the body. A sick brain means a sick body.
…. Shit.
This always makes me want to cry because it’s just so true but people keep telling me that I just have to “get my shit together” and that “everything will be fine”. No. It won’t. My depression started, when I was like 2-4 yo (we’re not quite sure) and I still have it 14-16 years later. It will never go away. I still can live a good life for sure, but at some points I will always need help.
The absolute worst part of this is when… The depressed person doesn’t know it. THEY don’t understand. HE thinks he is useless and just needs to “suck it up.” SHE thinks she is a dirty pig for only using paper plates and doing laundry once a month. And no one gets help because no one understands it is a disability yet.
this makes me feel so valid because i get very irritated and aggressive towards people i care about when i dont mean to be then feel like shit after for acting that way when i did not know it was because of my depression
Amazing mural by street artist @wd_wilddrawing – Details of ‘Knowledge speaks – Wisdom listens’ #mural in #Athens Owl symbolizes wisdom and at the same time is a symbol of the goddess Athena, the one that gave her name to the city of Athens. From the other hand owl as bird, is famous for its exceptionally good far vision, particularly in low light. Nowadays Greece, and not only, is experiencing a really dark phase and I think is time for us, in Greece and around the globe, to recall thus creature’s wisdom. #wd_wilddrawing #wdstreetart #owl #graffiti #streetart #streetartathens #athensartnetwork #mikroparisi @petit_paris_athens – #steampunktendencies #steampunk
@hopefulmisanthrope@mysevenkids the workout is a called Personal Trainer: Fitness For A Healthy Back and it’s available on Amazon Prime Video. I don’t know if there’s a DVD version available.
I did a one hour workout today that was focused only on back muscles. My back has been in a lot of pain the past few days.
I don’t know how I’ll feel tomorrow but tonight my back feels really good. I also didn’t realize how tight my neck and shoulders were. It worked all of that, arms a bit, and rose my heart rate some. At the very least I got a lot of relief from the pain. That’s worth a lot when you’re in pain every day. Tomorrow I think I’ll try barre.
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