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I can’t believe we really thought Miley’s crazy phase was the can’t be tamed music video

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logic

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guys… I don’t know if you know this but… if you wake up early… there’s so many more hours in the day

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I love using my incisors to cut and tear & my molars to crush and grind

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A few years back, I was a waitress at a breakfast diner. On the menus there are pictures of omelettes. The omelettes pictured are yellow.

It’s 11 at night, I get the last table before closing, and it’s a girl my age. She asks for tea and an egg white omelette. So I bring over her egg white omelette, and she starts screaming. Why? Because it’s not yellow like in the picture on the menu, it’s white, so something must be wrong. I explained that the yolk is what makes omelettes yellow, and she didn’t want egg yolks. She’s still mad, and yells again. And then realizes she could eat while she’s yelling, so she does, and I get to watch her chew with her mouth open while she rants about eggs. I’m exhausted and dying inside. She finally stops. I ask if she wants a refill of tea, and she says yes. She’s quiet for the rest of her meal, for which I am very grateful.

After she paid and left, I collected her receipt. On it, she wrote in all caps “I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW EGGS WORK BUT IT WAS YUMMY.” She left a $20 bill on the table as a tip. She also left some pills in a bag that my manager sent to the police, which were identified as some sort of amphetamine. 

Don’t do drugs kids, you’ll forget how eggs work.

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About an hour ago, I was in Walmart looking for my conditioner because today is wash day for my hair. As I’m looking for my product, this older white lady approaches me and she says, “Excuse me, miss. Please don’t be offended by this.” And usually when white people tell me not to be offended, 9 times out of 10, whatever they are about to say is going to be offensive af.

Anyway, she follows it up with, “My husband and I just recently won our custody battle with our foster daughter and she means the world to us. She’s a beautiful African American girl and her hair looks a lot like yours. But I’m afraid because I don’t know what to do with her hair. It’s a lot different from mines and our other children and we are at a total lost. I’ve tried looking up the YouTube videos and my husband went to the braiding shops so they can teach him how to properly braid her hair, but he’s still pretty new and it will be a while before he gets used to it. Do you have any tips you can give me? If you don’t have the time, it’s okay, really! I just needed a little advice because I want her to look beautiful.”

Y’all. swear I almost started crying on aisle 6. So for the last 30 minutes, I spent my time talking to her and what products to use and how to properly detangle and comb her hair with the proper tools and what not to do with natural hair. And I showed her a bunch of easier to follow natural hair tutorials on YouTube and saved them for her. (I also had to create a YouTube account for her so she could save it for later.) but omfg, she was so sweet, and I could tell that she listened to every single thing I had to say and she took little notes on her little notepad.

And what really filled my heart was the fact that her husband actually taking classes from African braiding shops. And she showed me a picture of him wearing a little sweater vest and loafers in a little shop surrounded by beautiful black women showing him how to braid black hair and even the lady he’s braiding on is guiding his hands. And omfg. Bless these old white people and their black daughter who I know have new loving parents because they are willing to step out of their comfort zone just to make her feel and look beautiful.

I really hope our paths cross again one day, Mrs Cicilia. 💖💕

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me, after seeing captain marvel:

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“But antidepressants changes your brain chemistry!”

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hardest thing to learn during recovery is….. some of your misery is your own fault. you have to actively choose to stop wallowing in your own pain & start to recover. that means stop being self deprecating, start taking care of yourself, start eating healthy, start taking your hygiene seriously, even if it’s hard. & it is hard! but you must.

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Literally just romanticize your own life. What’s stopping you. Who will care. Commit to enjoying things. 

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ok im gonna go on a minimini rant rn so just ignore

i love queer eye a lot, and ive been watching a lot of interviews, and I’m disgusted at how the producers of this show will force the fab five into uncomfortable, possibly dangerous situations without seemingly caring for their wellbeing? tan was asked if he was a terrorist twice, nearly walked off the show but continued, but he was just expected to continue helping these men? the episode with the tr*mp supporter, when they get pulled over by the police man, they werent told that this was fake, the whole cast except for them knew it was fake but they did not and it was such a scary and stupidly ignorant prank to pull on someone, especially with karamo driving and having to get out. karamo and tan rightfully refused to film the next day i think, but still they had to continue, then bobby, after telling the production team straight up when he got cast about his trauma with his religion and how he refused to do anything to do with a church, was FORCED to renovate a building for a church. and they tried to tell him it was just a community center. just. the disrespect i cannot beliiieve. i am disgusted by the amount of times they have been blindsided by ignorant things like this and expected to get on with it and if they walked off and refused to keep going i would not blame them at all. i getwhy they dont reveal who it was who called tan a terrorist but at the same time i dont want to be watching and loving someone in the episode, unknowingly knowing that im supporting a person who thinks like that. and tan, karamo and bobby deserve better than to have to deal with it.

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Anti wolf heck collar

“The purpose of the collar is to protect the dog wearing it when it has to fight the wolves. The collar base protects the dog’s throat and carotid arteries, while the spikes are intended to deter bites to the neck or even injure wolves trying to do so.”

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spending 90$ all at once: bad

spending 30$ three days in a row: somehow not a problem

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