With my cat around, I’m never the only one who wants to take a nap. And late at night when I’m still awake searching for another thought, the heaviness doesn’t lift, but it does feel shared, like a mutual solitude. Here’s to being a cat lady, parasites or not, like Edward Gorey or Patricia Highsmith. Cats are for people who want to be alone with company.

-Su Wu

http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2012/storyboard-cat-lady/?ref=fp_blog_title

surisburnbook:

Another day, another photograph of Louis Bullock owning preschool. My only qualm is that his name is written in black Sharpie on his lunch box, as if he is some middle class school child and not The Louis Bullock. Either get your things monogrammed or just expect that people know who you are.

surisburnbook:

Another day, another photograph of Louis Bullock owning preschool. My only qualm is that his name is written in black Sharpie on his lunch box, as if he is some middle class school child and not The Louis Bullock. Either get your things monogrammed or just expect that people know who you are.

…tears are just the worst unless they’re the kind that spring to your eyes when you are so touched, your happiness has to borrow from your sadness. Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
thesparklequeenjolene:

Black rainbow Sephora Nail Bling! (with an added sparkle top coat of course!)

 These look so good! 

thesparklequeenjolene:

Black rainbow Sephora Nail Bling! (with an added sparkle top coat of course!)

 These look so good! 

Aim high.

I’m really contemplating adding “watch a marathon” to my life list.  Not RUN a marathon but WATCH one.  I don’t think I need to point out all the things that are wrong with this.  I know I should be ashamed of my lack of ambition but I just think it would be really fun and exciting to cheer for runners as they pass.  For now I’m not going to examine why I’m satisfied being achievement adjacent rather than an actual achiever. 

Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved. Those three things haven’t changed from my childhood. I know what I love, still, now. That’s a confidence. If you don’t know what you love, you are lost. — Haruki Murakami, interviewed in The Guardian. (via thebronzemedal)

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Mess, party of 1.

I reblogged the universe tonight.  I haven’t been on Tumblr in a long long time.  Good to know people are still posting videos of animals doing ridiculously adorable things, reblogging emo quotes and uploading photos of their breakfast.  

Speaking of people photographing their meals, somehow this always makes me feel like these people have their shit together.  Not only did they have time to make breakfast for themselves but they had time to take a picture of it and post it on the internet.  I’m going to assume they ate it too, and not in their car out of a red Solo cup with a plastic utensil like I usually do.  Their coffee is piping hot in a mug that’s so big and colorful it might as well have been served by Jennifer Aniston at the Central Perk circa 1995.  Every food group is somehow represented on their plate.  

I hate these people and I also want to be them.  I secretly hope that they crop their photos just so, in order to hide the disaster that is the rest of their home in the background.  These are not my people and yet, I will click through photo after photo after photo because it’s all so shiny and calm.  I will read every issue of Real Simple magazine for the very same reason.  My envy knows no bounds.  I should probably try and find my people instead.  Anyone know a blog where someone posts pictures of their soaking wet hair or the bed creases on their face as they dash out the door every day for work after hitting the snooze button 45 times?  No?  Maybe I should start one.  I’ll call it 365 days of a mess.  

Two things I love a lot: The Amish and mug shots.

robotbabysitter:

Amish mugshots

Two things I love a lot: The Amish and mug shots.

robotbabysitter:

Amish mugshots

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word.

word.

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