never give up, never surrender.

having friends who are younger than you helps inoculate you against ageism towards younger people.

Hello everyone! Sorry for not posting for so long…

tips start here:

Having a sleeping eye mask

My room can be kind of bright at night, which can make it harder to get a proper sleep. Wearing a sleeping mask is a great fix! I can’t sleep without one now without it feeling weird.

Water tracker app

Having a water tracker app is a great way to make sure you’re getting enough water throughout the day! I personally use waterllama, but there are plenty of other options

Tongue scraper

Morning breath? Gone. Also great for getting bacteria off tongue (sounds gross but trust me it’s good)

Having a planner

I LOVEEEE having a cute planner! Maybe it’s just because I love being organized, but I just love writing down all my plans in it. I’ve seen lots of people using hobonichis if you’re looking for one!

Planning outfits the day before the function

This has saved me so much stress and time wasted. It’s way easier to come up with cute outfits when you’re not under pressure.

Having designated playlists

Having a playlist for anything, cleaning, cooking, driving, studying, getting ready, reading, whatever, is so fun! It makes these little moments feel so much more special and curated

The co-pilot was a local and knew all the local airstrips

...including the decommissioned 10,000 foot military runway they ultimately chose as their destination

...but because it had been decommissioned, was now utilized by a local go-kart club for racing

...which, on that day, was indeed having a great time racing go-karts on the old runway

...and because there was no way to alert the people on the ground and the plane’s approach was utterly silent (NO ENGINES) with kids in go-karts were whizzing around on the runway, the final approach was, shall we say, alarming

...until a parent looked up and noticed a giant fucking airplane getting bigger and bigger

OH GOD HE’S LANDING HERE

Thus within seconds the whole area was cleared by frantic parents

Plane lands perfectly, but without power they had to drop the gear via gravity and the nose wheel failed to lock into place

Front gear collapses

Plane screeches to a halt, and because they landed at a go-kart event pretty much every dad has a fire extinguisher, so they manage to extinguish the small fire caused by friction

The only minor injuries were due to passengers jumping from the emergency exit slides, which dangled off the ground due to elevated tail height

A hive decided to take up residence under the second step to my house so I'm constantly stepping over them. But they've been extremely chill and just watch us go by. They were gathering outside the hive, on the step, and were watching every move I made the other day and I'm really curious what their little bug brains were thinking. Is there anything I can give them to make friends?

you can give them water! make sure they see you filling it so they associate you with good things. make sure it's a shallow dish with pebbles in it so they have lots of footholds and don't drown. if they're already pretty chill, they clearly don't associate you with threats and will adapt their behavior to your routine anyway

if a wasp is NOT comfortable with you being nearby, it may turn to face you, lower the front half of its body like a dog, open its mandibles and hold them open, flip its wings up into an angry 'V' shape, or a combination of several of these! if they do this, just stop what you're doing and take a couple steps back to give them some space until they calm down.

if a wasp is actively trying to drive you out of an area, they'll do a flyby first where they just kind of fly by or near you slowly with maximum wingflaps engaged! they may or may not splay their legs out for this depending on species. they may do the flight in repeating patterns or just whizz by your face also depending on species, but if a wasp is flying weird near you you can safely assume it would like you to leave right now. exit the way you came.

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list