Mariah... but not like Mariah Carey

jeralyndwile:

“Like many women I know, I had always been more concerned with being liked than with liking. What would happen if I stopped arranging my behavior around attracting the other person? I changed the way I dressed for a date—still choosing clothes that looked good but not more revealing or frilly than I would normally wear. I tried not to fill the pauses in the conversation, thinking instead, This is uncomfortable—for both of us. I fully answered questions about my work (I write about community and race and identity and…thrift shopping!) and my interests (I garden and dabble in masonry and…thrift shop!), including those parts that I imagined might not appeal to my dinner partner.
I also reconsidered the way I looked at my dates. It’s hard to see a person accurately when there’s even a sliver of a chance that he might turn out to be the person with whom you share children and utility bills and a bed for years on end. What you want so often blocks what’s actually there. And what’s there on the table between you is two luggage racks full of baggage—a Samsonite sundae piled high with hopes, dreams, disappointments, losses, and longheld ways of understanding the world. We’re all products of a particular time and place, family and religion, history and culture, coincidence and physical attributes. To listen with openness and say what you mean across that mass takes concentration and presence of mind. No time left to worry about whether you should have worn the Manolos.”

———Lise Funderburg, in her article Are We Having Fun Yet?….Basically her try at dating after divorce.

kathlellen:

Does anyone remember the Garfield Halloween special with the pirate ship??

So way scarier than the Great Pumpkin or any of the other shows that were taped on the same VHS I had as a kid.

Agreed!  It was definitely the scariest movie I watched as a child…  I tried to find it on netflix and it wasn’t there :(

girlwearsmascara:

Sending out a “bff alert” to five of your besties letting them know you could be in a potential situation where they will be needed; and every single one responds to say they are always there for you.

I love my friends.

katiepalooza:

Love or hate Dooce, Heather knocked it out of the park yesterday. I was almost crying at my desk from laughing so hard.

I read this last night and was also crying.  I love Jon.

Just saw some guy on campus wearing heelies. Like, a 20 year old just rolling along with wheels in his heels. So very odd.

Can I just say that it’s pictures like this that MAKE MY UTERUS DO SOMERSAULTS IN MY STOMACH.

BABIES.  I LOVE EM.

(from Dooce, obvs)

bblove:

Her voice makes me happy … Makes me want a hot bath and a big glass of red wine.

Adele, Make You Feel My Love

I know you
Haven’t made
Your mind up yet
But I would never
Do you wrong
I’ve known it
From the moment
That we met
No doubt in my mind
Where you belong

I’d go hungry
I’d go black and blue
I’d go crawling
Down the avenue
No, there’s nothing
That I wouldn’t do
To make you feel my love

The storms are raging
On the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
Though winds of change
Are throwing wild and free
You ain’t seen nothing
Like me yet

lefan:

think4yourself:thedailywhat:via

Take Two of the Day: Looks like the Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V twins just found themselves a play date! Either that or a mortal enemy.

isabelthespy:

mliaverage:

Today, I realized that the Clapper does not only respond to clapping, it also responds to any exceptionally loud noise. It may be a bit noisy around here, now, but lights come on when I scream ‘Lumos!’ and that’s all that matters. MLIA

GPOWY - “Mariah and the crazies have a Dance Party in the bar” edition

peterwknox:

amyyy:

“British artist Stephen Wiltshire is currently attempting to draw the Manhattan skyline from memory. since Monday October 26th. Wiltshire began filling in an 18 foot canvas at the Pratt institute, Brooklyn. The drawing is expected to be complete by Friday. You can follow his progress through the live webcam here.

Wiltshire diagnosed with autism at the age of three displays an unusually powerful
photographic memory that he has applied to rendering city scapes. He can look at the subject of his drawing once and reproduce it accurately with photographic detail, down to the exact number of columns or windows on a building. He memorizes their shapes, locations and the architecture.” - Design Boom

(via scottnot, quelowat, gregenemy, theamazon, & maybeitsallok)

reallykatie:

well i think we can all relate to that, no?

Coastie Song (What’s a Coastie?)

lauraemily:

Betrayed Girlfriend (Orange Cat) gives her deadbeat boyfriend (Black Cat) a piece of her mind.  (Subtitled)

“I was a virgin…WAS!!!!!”

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thecooknook:

the olsens are doing a line for jcpenney.

What did I tell y’all about JC Penney? They are steppin’. up. their game!

(via graceinsmallthings:meredithnyc: mariellie:)