#excuses!

“In fact,” Echo continues on, still not looking him in the eye. “I used to tell Roan, if he wanted to defeat Skaikru, he needed to make sure the two of you were separated. You two on your own tilt one way or another. The only way to outsmart your people was to divide and conquer.”

 “You… you never told me that.”

She places a hand against his cheek. “I’m done dividing you.”

I've been so hideously inactive. As I am filled with excuses, I have prepared a list. Excuses are my natural specialty. That and complaining. I can make an excuse for anything. Even things that aren’t me.

My mobile is so screwed up, it's winter, and I have been behaving and not shopping. (Also Tumblr made me mad. Not like, the people surprisingly, but the actual tumblr page being thing itself. It was making searching impossible.)(No offense.) (Unless you’re Tumblr itself.)

I still have plenty of cactus, which I'm barely overwintering, and so many orchids. I missed at least seven in my count.

Mobile hasn't updated my dash since like MAY or something, It also eats some of my posts, occasionally spitting them out weeks later. I... only post via mobile. (For the record, the post it won't load that is stuck on top is a reblog from Kihhi.)

Garden puppy Link is full of demons. These demons are really cute and love moving all the plants around where they see fit. Also tearing them apart and breaking pots. Also he's HUGE and is not aware of this. Once Link is legal age he's starting his landscaping business. In hindsight, I should have expected a dog named Link to break pots.

I've actually been working fulltime! ...Which means I get home really late and it's dark. I'm a lead floral designer and eh. I feel I could de better, and I'm also worried I'm the main designer. I did go to design school though, and like, no other floral designers have. I'm still not healthy enough to do the kind of design I went to school for, but hey. I spent the first few years out of school being sick as hell and it's getting better. Also Valentine's is coming, please send help. Like, more designers would be great. I get paid to play in flowers all day though.

I've been attempting to save money! So much money saving. (Not really.) I'm trying to buy a new car. My car is thirty now. I mean, it's awesome, people literally jump out of their car in traffic to tell me hi, which is actually terrifying, and it's a goddamn tank, but I dream of decent mileage. (I had one of those randomly exploding airbags they have all those recalls for and I'm legitimately HORRIFIED of modern cars.) My car and I have had so many magical adventures together, including finding people trying to pick up people with it, people trying to pick up ME with it, finding people taking pics with it, and being asked to sell it at least once a week. Anyway, I need a newer car and I have a decent amount of money.

I haven't been going to the nursery very much. For multiple reasons. I have less space since THINGS, I have a PUPPY and it makes me really sad.

I've habitually always gone to the nursery all the damn time since I was little. (I used to have one INSIDE my neighbourhood as a child, it was a literal block away.) My relatives got sick and I needed to take care of them, and I got unrelated sick. Eventually they died and I spent more time at home. Finally I found out what I was sick with and decided to resume doing things and went flowery shopping by my home as I was progressively getting better. An employee there apparently had the same life rearranging disease wherein I can't enjoy most the everything I love (I was so happy when they thought I had porphyria like you don't even it was so easy) and eventually I fell in really serious for reals love. I found a reason to behave and get better and someone to relate to, but one of us decided being healthy wasn't worth tiptoeing around life and being sad, and uhh, it wasn't me. Vi vanished, and I stopped shopping religiously because like, I was in this soul crushed devastation, and then I got a puppy. (This isn't why I got a puppy, no. This is why I keep spending SO MUCH MONEY probably though.) Said puppy decided destroying plants is SO MUCH FUN, so like, less plant shopping everywhere else too. Eventually I was all, no, need plants, horrible soul crushing be damned, and it was so hideously painful, and apparently, our mutual friends thought we ran off together. Noone knows where Vi went, and they were all hoping I knew. It's been nearly two years and I'm still absolutely devastated, and everytime I go shopping there it makes me so hideously sad. At this point I really don't think I'll ever honestly get over this, and never want to feel love again for so many reasons. And planty things really remind me of it.

Also Lowe's has random level plant quality. Sometimes it's glorious and sometimes it's how did you kill a spath I don't even. Anyway, I've been buying so many orchids because I can do that at the grocery store. Also I've been having much better luck with orchids than previously expected.

I want a new phone. I want one bad. I actually have an Amazon phone. Like, all sorts of people are like wtf is that phone real? Once I encountered Peter Noone and he was mystified by it and interrogated me. It's weird. Anyway, it's goddamn near indestructible. It's been buried, thrown, dropped, bounced on concrete, spilt things on it. So many things. if I get another phone it will implode the moment my filthy little hands touch it out of fear. So for now no updating for my goddamn app.

Also it's winter. That too. IT FROZE AN ENTIRE DAY. I'M SURE MOST OF YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED THAT FOR SOME GOD FORSAKEN REASON BEFORE, I'M ASSURED THAT'S NORMAL BUT THAT HAS LITERALLY NEVER HAPPENED TO ME. Like, if you’ve ever read A Hundred Years of Solitude, and he touches the ice and says it’s the greatest invention of our time, that’s me. I do not subconsciously accept that ice happens naturally. (No, I have never experienced snow.) This weekend was seriously the coldest I've ever experienced in life and it was terrible. Days over 105 are so much better than winter. It seriously also went from like 80 to 30 in one day, bless u Texas and your terrible excuse for weather.

Excuses! Excuses! Excuses! Just another blessed excuse! Matthew 11:16-30

It all starts with Matthew 11:16-30.

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses! Just another blessed excuse!

Martin Luther says, ““Everything that is done in this world is done by hope,” yet when it comes to getting ‘er done don’t we often say, “The dog ate my homework. I have no sharpened pencil. There isn’t enough time, isn’t enough money, seems too risky.”

Don’t we always an excuse?

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