Kittens and Catastrophes

Computer Game (Theme from The Circus) - Submitted by: fastman27

Starting a conversation by informing the other person that you KNOW their feelings, and you are acting based on the feelings you assume they have, without giving them a chance to tell you what feelings they ACTUALLY have… No one likes this!

You may have learned it from your parents doing it to you, in which case I can only imagine you didn’t like it either, but you still internalized it as an acceptable mode of communication because we are always internalizing stuff from our parents even though we don’t like it. It’s kind of a quintessential passive-aggressive parent move: “well, you never want to help me, you don’t appreciate everything I do for you” etc. It puts the addressee in the position of defending themselves and their actual feelings instead of inviting them to SHARE those feelings.

most people outside nz don't know there's multiple kiwi species. the pukupuku/little spotted kiwi is the smallest species. these are chicks, but they don't get a ton larger.

(left to right: great spotted kiwi, north island brown kiwi, little spotted kiwi)

me, outside at night, the moment our headphones die

Oh, she’s never eating for us again.

Also I don’t think I told Tumblr, but Holly Mop stole my niece’s beanbag chair. We have tried her with lots of different dog beds over the years and she’s been ambivalent about most of them. But my niece’s $50 beanbag chair that lives up at the cabin?

That’s hers now.

My FIL keeps referring to it as Princess Holly’s Throne.

And she cried so much when they tried to leave without it, my MIL brought it home with her for us to keep. The dog stole the wean’s chair and won.