SPIRITED AWAY
2001, dir. by Hayao Miyazaki
i pray in 2022 women stop creating their own pain through forcing relationships with men that don’t care and invest their time in things that actually offer them nurturing, growth, and fulfillment
the biggest lie i ever told & how my husband came to protect it
for years i have lived this lie telling everyone i am allergic to peanuts because i hate the smell of peanut butter and it makes me gag and makes my throat feel gross after eating it and so i don’t really like peanut butter that much but whenever i used to tell people i don’t like peanut butter they’d get all defensive like “peanut butter is amazing how do you not like it?!” and then i’d have to go into this whole thing to defend my taste buds.
but then i got tired of it and started telling people that i’m just allergic to peanuts because that way it’s not my fault that i hate the smell of peanut butter - it’s now like i’m a sad little baby who will never get to taste peanut butter ever in her life and everyone feels sad for me.
but the problem is that i really love peanut m&ms and so now i can only eat peanut m&ms when i’m at home in secret. the only person who knows my lie is my husband. and so at work this evening we had a small celebration for someone and they had peanut m&ms and i really wanted some but obviously couldn’t eat them in public because then people would know my peanut secret.
and so when we got home after work my husband tipped his jacket over and emptied his pockets and at least thirty or so peanut m&ms fell out of his pockets and he whispered, “i was sneakily accumulating them all night for you because i could see the pain in your eyes.”
and if that isn’t love then i don’t know what is.
hey if ur reading this and ur in a bad spot mentally or anything i hope u feel better soon and have a good day
I found a copy of my mom's favorite book from childhood! It's called Striped Ice Cream and I'm gonna wrap it in plastic and then some foil and bury it in a gallon of Neapolitan.
And I'll say "look, mom, I got you that striped ice cream you're always talking about!" and convince her to serve it up for dessert.
I'm gonna wrap a layer of waxed paper around it too, so that the marker doesn't rub off and it's easier to fish out. I'm not sure how I'm gonna excavate the ice cream, exactly. I made a template. I'm hoping to like... cut around it and then peel back a layer about an inch deep that I can just put back on top.
Mom thinks I'm at the park with the dog but I'm out in the garage burying a children's book from the 60s in a gallon of ice cream. This is one of the weirdest ways I've ever wrapped a present.
Well, shit.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
Now to work on smoothing the top a bit. It's not going to be perfect but it'll still be a good surprise.
"What have you done to this ice cream??"
AND THEN MY DAD TOLD HER IT WAS A BOOK BECAUSE HE WAS TOO EXCITED
You know who else is excited about this ice cream based enrichment puzzle? MY MOM.
Happy Mother's Day!
ICE CREAM BASED ENRICHMENT PUZZLE
[...] Botswana and South Africa alerted the world to this variant, but it was found among travelers who reportedly flew in from Europe. And it was subsequently found that the variant was reported in the Netherlands a week before the announcement from Africa. How do you feel about the world reacting by banning travelers from southern Africa?
We were saddened. For me, personally, I felt that after two years into the epidemic, clearly as the global health community, we could be responding better and coordinating better.
How do you reward the countries that alert you of a potential dangerous pathogen with travel bans? My country was put on a red list, and I didn't feel good about that.
We know the repercussions. Flights were canceled, goods were not coming into the country, a lot of businesses lost millions. And our vaccine supply was being threatened because of delays on the way. Quite a trail of destruction.
So it was a roller coaster for us. On the one extreme, we felt [we were] contributing to the world in a small way. And on the other end, we felt, is that how you reward scientists or scientific progression? [...]
I love this mental image of this quietly horrified and righteous 6th grader just being like ma’am you can’t do that
6th grader:
All the kids at the same time “ OOOOOOOOOO”