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Links for your Friday:
- Debate the merits of sexting with your best friends
- Find out who your famous birthday twin is (Mine is gymnast Dominique Moceanu!)
- Make a concrete vase
- Bra-less?!! Yes??
- Celebrate four friends who are about to turn 100 together
- Get 3 months of Skillshare classes for just 99ยข (I have like 17 on my list)
- Make a natural cleaner for spring cleaning (like laundry detergent!)
- Check out the woman who's partying like it's 1939
- Read Brittney's amazing birth story!
- I have two new cross-stitch patterns for sale on Etsy: The X Files and Gilmore Girls
- These plant cozies! Omg!
- Learn how to support a friend who's trying to get pregnant
What's happening around here:
I'm so glad Sea World is going to stop their captive breeding program! I never saw Blackfish (because I know what my anxiety triggers are), but I followed the reports of cruelty in the news. I feel this uneasiness about zoos and aquariums seeping into my consciousness, and I don't think I want to go to them anymore. Our friend Ludi, while visiting from her home in France, remarked with shock that anybody still goes to aquariums in this country! I think I'd like to start seeking nature in, you know...nature.
I'm taking a lot of pleasure from knocking these books out, one by one, without starting anything new. I finished Pride & Prejudice last week, and then sobbed my way through the Keira Knightley version on Netflix. I think I'm finally the perfect age to have read that book. It was so funny, and relatable, and heartbreakingly perfect.
I go through these phases with blogging (my major creative outlet) where I'm just all of a sudden...out of ideas. My brain just stops. Sometimes it's because of other stuff going on in my life, stress or whatever, that means there isn't enough room for managing day-to-day stuff and feeding and growing the creative parts of my mind. Last week was one of those phases. Where basically all I could do was go to work, walk the dog, and maybe do a load of laundry, and really wasn't up for challenging myself. But I sure love the flood of new ideas that comes at the end! And listen, these phases aren't new (or necessarily bad), but what is new is a lack of pressure that I used to feel (from myself) to keep creating on a schedule. Now it's just like...okay, probably no new posts for a week. That's fine. The idea-flood will come back. Give yourself time and space to peacefully live this lull.
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