Stray Messages

And it's a relief to let someone outside know how cavalier I can be. More importantly, how it's not about being cavalier at all. It's only playing house; a joke is a hypothetic pretend-world where I can rehearse the horrible facts looming in my consciousness without taking on all the consuming, negative emotions.

Sometimes I think I don't miss her as much as I just missed the chance to make it up to her.

"waiting on the world to change" is the truest thing anyone has ever said about me

Serves 2-4 ... ... ... Mince one clove of garlic

"I don't very much believe in blood," said Samuel. "I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can't make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig."

You don't, touch me/'cos if you did then baby I would touch you too

Reason to drink coffee black: when your puppy makes you spill, the floor isn't instantly sticky. Reason to get a puppy: when you spill coffee you can blame it on her clueless ass.

But These Things Also- Edward Thomas

Games to play with your 4 month old retriever mix: "did you move my hair tie or is that poop?"

Get in the dog's chair, become the dog's chair.

Yeeppp. Did that with a 9 year old. no regratz.

a top concern for the year

My parents dress like 5 year olds

Why can't women answer the question "what are you wearing?" on the red carpet with something less than glamorous? I wish everyone would say what hair extension and push-up bra they all got on, why not? Amy Schumer catches so much flack for being funny or *normal* about the perspective of women or things that affect women where a male counterpart would get praise or at least no criticism. By the way, calling a mention of tampon use "gross attempt at humor" perfectly demonstrates the (usually male) inability to deal with all things menstruation-related. Boi, bye.

Once on a first date a guy said “oh I’m being facetious” but from the context it was pretty clear he meant factious. I didn’t call him out on it but I totally should have.