#gawd the pinterest board i have for them

[gardenofearthlydelightss]

i ship lottienat EXCLUSIVELY as lottie from the modern timeline x young natalie. i don't care about the logistics. sue me.

[cosmiccannibalcamille]

Short Story Time!

Fun fact: in addition to be a snarky-yet-savvy astrologer and astrology writer, I also write fiction. And I recently wrote an astrology satire of "Romeo and Juliet". It's a 3-act short story, written as a journal, with lots of astrology and humor. Enjoy!

Tales of the Leo New Moon

7.28 – ♌ 🌑 

Something marvelous happened today. Actually, it was both marvelous and tragic, like the movie Glitter. (Well, that film was just terrible. Tragic, even.) Today’s new moon in Leo was lighting up my natal Mars and Jupiter in Leo. 

One time, Deidre, my Capricorn mentor, said that when you have a new moon positively aspecting Mars and Jupiter, you’ll encounter a potential sexy lover (Mars) / potential guru (Jupiter)—and OMG, was she right!

OK. I was at Whole Foods with my Taurus BFF Vani, even though I was adamantly against being so. I mean, Ivywild, CO has so many more amazing places to hang out than a freaking grocery store. And tbh, I had a lot better places to be than at a grocery store on a Thursday morning. Especially on this Leo new moon. 

“You say that now,” Vani said with a slight tone of mocking as she parked her car, “but just wait until you see the hot guys working here.”

Hotties at Whole Foods? She must be joking. 

Except she wasn’t. Vani was right: Whole Foods was teeming with hot guys. They were everywhere– in the produce department, in the front end, getting grocery carts—I mean, it was a feast of sexy fellas, an outbreak. Gorgeous guys in their jeans, button downs, and black aprons were hustling through the grocery store, rolling crates and stock carts, looking FINE as WINE. I could hardly believe it.  

“See what I mean?” Vani said, noticing how my jaw had dropped at this wondrous sight.

“Yes, I do,” I said slowly, still aghast. 

It had been so long since we had been around this many good-looking guys in the flesh, I almost forgot what a hot guy really looked like. (Almost. I mean, I still had my Pinterest boards of Tom Hiddleston and Robert Downey Jr. pics to stare at on lonely nights.) Anyway, Vani and I did as we normally do: we started flirting with nearly every guy asking them their zodiac signs as we pretended to shop for stuff we knew we weren't gonna buy. 

Vani took 15 minutes chatting with a Scorpio barista whom she said was “sexy AF” as we ventured away from the Whole Foods cafe. (Tbh, he was not sexy. He looked like Bill Gates with a short-fade haircut. Talk about ew.) And it was when I was finishing up a rather saucy conversation with an Aries about peach jam and nectarine jelly, that I stopped short. 

The hottest guy I’ve ever seen was standing in the produce section, stocking cucumbers lettuce, and other green things. He looked like an Adonis against the backdrop of lush greens and bright-colored veggies, a demi-god in a modern-day Eden… He had ocean-blue eyes; an angular–yet-slack jaw with just the right amount of groomed scruff; full lips, gauged ears, and –best of all –a man bun (gawd, I love man buns). And he was dressed in a blue flannel shirt over a white v-neck and jeans, just like an Urban Outfitters model… 

He was an Adonis, and Urban Adonis. 

“Oh my gawd, Vani,” I said, grabbing her arm, “look at him.”

“Ooh,” Vani said, giggling slightly, “what do you think his sign is?”

“No clue,” I said slowly as I continued to watch the guy. 

Then he looked up and– OMG it was incredible. It was like he was looking not at me, but through me, and like he was just as amazed and impressed by me as I was him. 

Emboldened by this and also hella curious about his sign, I marched over to where he was stocking cucumbers and lettuce to talk to him. Something swirled in the air as I did so, like a magic spell was being cast or a thread of fate was right then being sewn between us.

We stared at each other in stunned and expectant silence. Well, sorta. Internally, I was yelling at myself to say something–anything–when this genius one-liner came out: 

“Er–What’s your sign?” 

Urban Adonis leaned back and stared at me, and his bright blue eyes flickered with something I couldn’t read. Like, I couldn’t tell if he was taken aback, freaked out, or thankful that I had gotten to the point. (He had to be wondering about my sign too, right?) 

After what felt like hours of us sitting there staring at each other in the produce section like a couple of wide-eyed, open-mouthed Precious Moments dolls, Urban Adonis tilted his head and gave me this deliciously playful-yet-wolfish look. Then, he spoke.  

“What’s your sign?” 

OMG even his voice was hot. Seriously. It was like a choir of hunky alto and baritone angels had come together to produce the heavenly sound that was this Adonis’s voice. And I was so taken aback by the gorgeous sound emanating from his chest that I… 

Well, I stammered quite a bit, actually. 

“N-no,”  I stuttered, my stomach giving a nervous jolt, “I—I want to know your sign.” 

Urban Adonis didn’t say anything. He folded his arms across his chest and gazed back at me. This sent my pulse racing and I felt myself flush with fever. 

“I’m a Gemini,” I said.

“A Gemini,” he repeated slowly, as though tasting each letter of my zodiac name. This nearly set me ablaze and melted me into a puddle. 

Growing impatient, I again asked: “So, what’s your sign? I mean, when’s your birthday?” 

My tongue tumbled over the words as though they were thick oatmeal. WTF? 

Urban Adonis’s brilliant blue eyes widened once more. He bit his lip, holding the lip bite for several seconds as he gave me a quick once-over. This sent little tingles up and down me.

“January,” he said, “I was born in January.”

January? WTF did he mean by January? 

“What day in January?” I asked, trying to hide my confusion. 

“The 26th.”

OH DEAR GOD NO. 

This was the moment when my world came crashing down. This was the moment when all that sweet meet-cute crap turned sour, when the marvelous turned tragic. 

“So, you’re an Aquarius?” I croaked.

Urban Adonis gave me a wolfish grin. “I guess I am.”

I nodded and smiled like you do when you hear horrible news you would have preferred not to hear but can’t let the other person know that you think the news was horrible.  

How could this hottie with a body be an—Oh, I can’t even say it. It’s too tragic: the most gorgeous guy I’ve ever seen, the potential love of my life, was born under the one sign I will never be able to date (besides Scorpio).  

7.29 –  ♌☽ ☍ ♄ ♒ + ♃ rx  

Aquarius? Urban Adonis is an Aquarius?  

How can a guy as gorgeous as Urban Adonis (and who is so obviously into me), be born under the ONE sign I can’t stand (besides Scorpio)? Why? Why does the universe hate me?

I mean, OK. Of course I got Urban Adonis’s digits yesterday and he, mine. I also got his name–Tyler–but I have no intention of ever texting or calling him, let alone seeing him again. 

How can I when he’s an Aquarius? 

“Oh, Vani,” I moaned, “How could the universe have forsaken me with this–this disaster? I feel I’m a sailor lost at sea, with nothing steering my sails!”

“Stop being such a phlegmatic Pisces Moon right now,” Vani said, which I took great offense to; mostly because I didn’t know what she meant by “phlegmatic”, but it made me think of that giant Mucus character from those Mucinex commercials. Is that how my best friend of nearly 23 years thinks of me, as an obnoxious anthropomorphic ball of phlegm? 

Anyway, it wasn’t my fault. Today’s transits had me feeling like that vile phlegm-ball (figuratively and literally: I was quite stuffy, today). First and foremost, Jupiter, the planet of luck and opportunity, stationed retrograde mere hours after yesterday’s new moon (that would explain why my luck with Urban Adonis suddenly took a turn for the worse.) Plus, the Moon was now moving towards an opposition to Saturn. My horoscope from astrology.com said that transit imparted feelings of overwhelm and restriction and I was likely to face an emotional crisis. And boy was it right: This Tyler-Aquarius stuff has me in dire straits.    

Vani came over to my place to comfort me. Actually, all she really did was sit on my bed flipping through Linda Goodman’s Love Signs (I know she was looking at Taurus-Scorpio compatibility. She got that barista’s number yesterday even though I told her it was a bad idea) while I paced my bedroom, mourning this tragedy for the 800th time in the past 24 hours. 

“So he’s an Aquarius,” Vani said, putting the book down, “what’s the big deal?”

“I’ve never gotten along with an Aquarius, that’s the big deal!” I cried. “Remember Keith from our high school English class who loved Swedish death metal and Heart of Darkness?”

Vani gasped. “Ew. He’s an Aquarius?” 

“YES! And we hated each other,” I said, adjusting my glasses. “It’s all my Leo placements: Mars, Jupiter, Ascendant! Leo and Aquarius are opposite signs. Why do you think I tell you and every other Taurus to stay away from Scorpios?”

She thought for a moment. “Because you got spurned by a Scorpio, and have become incredibly biased towards the sign, and really, any other sign besides yours and mine?” 

“That’s not true,” I huffed. “I don’t have any astrological biases. I tell you to stay away from Scorpios because they’re your opposite, just like Aquarius is Leo’s opposite.”

“Even so,” Vani said, sounding unconvinced, “you’re a Gemini, not a Leo. Aren’t Gemini and Aquarius compatible?” 

“In theory, yes,” I said, “If Aquarians didn’t suck. I mean, have you seen the list of notable Aquarius celebs: Michael Bay, Guy Fieri, JOHN TRAVOLTA. Um, ew, ew, EW. More like John T-Revolting amirit?”  

(OK, Travolta was hot when he played Danny Zuko, but that’s about it.)

“That one ex-Navy mechanic I dated for a week was an Aquarius, and he was a freak,” Vani said, sounding convinced. “There’s not enough foundation in the world that could cover up his weirdness. Second conversation we had, he talked about butt plugs and X-Files. He’s now a mortician. That says it all.” She shuddered. “But they can’t all be bad, can they? Tyler seemed very charming. What does his birth chart say about him?”

“I don’t wanna look!” I bellowed, covering my face. “Knowing my luck, he’ll be 50% Aquarius and 50% Scorpio, and I can’t face another disappointment like that. Not again.” 

“I don’t know, you got his birthday and his phone number. I wouldn’t say that’s a disappointment,” she said, patting my leg. “Besides he wouldn’t stop staring at you the whole time you two were talking. Who cares if he’s an Aquarius? He likes you, I’m sure of it.” 

As Vani returned to Love Signs, I sat on my windowsill and gazed outside. 

The Moon was barely a sliver above the mountains, and pale stars speckled the night sky. Warm lights from all the bars and buildings a few miles yonder broke up the darkness. 

The worst, most shameful part was that, even though he’s an Aquarius who may have some Scorpio in his chart, I liked Tyler. A LOT. He was charming and playful and sooo freaking hot. Still, he’s an Aquarius, the sign opposite my Leo Ascendant, which placed his Sun on my Descendant. Which is–oh, let me explain. 

The Ascendant and the Descendant are two of four critical angles in the birth chart. One’s Ascendant (or Rising Sign) is the zodiac sign rising in the eastern horizon at the moment we take our first breath; this sign is sooo important because it rules the 1st House of the Identity and how you operate in the world. It’s basically the front door of your horoscope. Whereas the Descendant is opposite that; its sign describes the qualities of your open enemies. They possess the qualities you lack (and vice versa), which creates subconscious animosity (like the animosity that exists between Kylie and Kendall Jenner.)

It’s so hard to guess a Rising Sign. Really, you need the whole chart, but in order to know Tyler’s Rising Sign and his whole chart, I’d have to ask him what time he was born, which meant I’d have to text him, and I was firmly against texting, calling, or ever seeing him. 

Still, I was curious… There was something about this guy, Tyler. He was more than just a hot guy. I mean, Whole Foods was teeming with hot guys yesterday, but Tyler and I were drawn to each other like magnets. Still, I wondered why… Why did I find him so intriguing? 

It had to have something to do with fate–or, at the very least, astrology and our astrological compatibility. I mean, how else would you explain how two people could be drawn to each other in an instant?   

Quickly, I reached for my phone in my back pocket and without really realizing what my thumbs were doing, I texted Tyler:

Hey, this is Camille :). Weird question, but: Do you know what time you were born?

And it happened as soon as I sent the text, like a message from heaven, he replied with only three words (and an emoji):

3:30 a.m. Why? 😏

Without replying, I inputted his birth data into the chart generator on astro.com, and–

OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG.

7.30 – ☾ ☌ ♃ in ♎ 

This is unreal. Honestly. 

Today, The North Node of Destiny is aligning with Uranus the Awakener sometimes known as the planet of electricity and ah-ha moments. And boy, did I feel awakened and electric! Like, I feel light as air yet bubbly at the same time and led to a massive discovery. (Seriously, I felt like I was drunk this morning–but in a good way! Like, I was drunk with delirium or something.) And it wasn’t just the transits that were causing this. No, it was the fact that…

“He’s my soulmate!” I beamed as I traipsed into my fave botanical shop, Metaphysicum, where, after passing shelves of herbal teas, bath bombs, soaps and spritzes,  I would find my Capricorn guru and former astrologer-turned-herbalist, Deidre. 

She sat behind the counter in the middle of the store, putting labels on a few small dark vials. There were dried flowers, sprigs of herbs, and a strong scent of citrus and rosemary. 

“I just mixed up this essential oil for energy and positivity,” Deidre said, apparently ignoring me and my MAJOR, LIFE-CHANGING NEWS. 

“Smell.” 

She handed me a vial, and I took a whiff. Suddenly, I felt even more energized. 

“What is it?” I asked in awe, momentarily distracted. 

“Lemon, rosemary, peppermint, pink grapefruit and sweet orange,” Deidre said. “It’s been a tricky blend. Oils can complement each other or combat each other, but the nose and the body will tell you if something isn’t right…”

“Um, ok,” I said. WTF was she talking about?

“This blend is for vim, vigor, and energy. Lately, I’ve found myself to be lacking both.” She gave me a once-over. “Though you don’t look like you need any more of either.”  

Oils complement each other and bring out notes you may not have ever sensed

“This is true,” I said coyly, barely able to stand still

“Why are you bopping around like Tigger? Is this about the barista?” Deidre asked, sounding bored AF.

“No, Vani’s the one who likes him,” I said, taking a seat even though I didn’t want to sit. “This is about something–or, I should say someone else.

“And he might just be the most splendiferous someone else I’ve ever met in my entire life: Eyes like the ocean…sinewy, tatted forearms, neck and god knows what else…and a man bun to boot. Ugh, how could I have been so, so blind to Water Bearers before? How could I have not seen that one would match with a Twin Lion-Fish? In my natal chart he is my complete opposite, yet he also balances me entirely. Oh, astrology is a fickle thing, isn’t it?” 

Smiling, I turn to face my Capricorn guru. Surely she would understand. 

“What the hell are you talking about?” Deidre asked, sounding annoyed. “Speak English, or I won’t keep up.”

“I’ve fallen in love with the enemy, my Capricorn friend,” I continued, “an Aquarius.”

“Oh, for god sake,” Deidre groaned. “Weren’t you just enamored with a Sagittarius from a Marijuana dispensary? What was his name, Ross?”

“His name was Roz. Like I would fall for someone named Ross. Ew. And he didn’t sell weed, he worked at Natural Grocers,” I corrected. “But I’ve forgotten all about him. I now love someone much more handsome, much more electrifying, and so utterly perfect for me. Plus, he works at Whole Foods.”

“Ugh,” Deidre groaned, “you Geminis are so fickle. Before the sun even sets, you’re falling for someone new. How many more of these grocery store Ganymedes will there be before you see that for you, love has nothing to do with your heart, and has everything to do with your eyes?” She shook her head. “You see a hot guy and BAM he’s your soulmate.”  

“That’s not true,” I said, stung. “It’s when I find out a guy’s sign and look at all the harmonious aspects in our compatibility chart that I think he’s my soulmate. Duh.”

Deidre can be so crusty sometimes.

“Besides, why are you chiding me for loving my Aquarius soulmate?”

“You, my friend, are doting,” Deidre said, “you’re not loving.”

“That’s not true!” I countered. 

Well, maybe it was a little bit true. Tbh, I don’t know how anyone could fall in love with anyone in less than a week, but I couldn’t tell Deidre this. After all, she’s the cynical old earth sign and I’m the spritely, I-believe-in-love air sign. Right?

“How have you reached this conclusion that this guy is your soulmate, if you just hated him yesterday?” Deidre asked.

“I didn’t hate him,” I argued, “I hated his Sun sign, but I don’t hate it anymore. I realized that Aquarius is a perfect match for a Gemini like me, especially when talking about an Aquarius like Tyler.”  

When I looked up his chart, I was ASTOUNDED by what I saw. Every freaking planet in Tyler’s birth chart–Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars–aligned perfectly with mine. (OK, maybe not perfectly perfectly,  but they were close enough: I’m a Gemini Sun, Pisces Moon, Leo Ascendant with Venus in Cancer and Mars in Leo. And Tyler is an Aquarius Sun, Taurus Moon (#howhot) and a Gemini Ascendant with Venus in Capricorn and Mars in Aquarius; ergo: WE’RE ASTROLOGICALLY MADE FOR EACH OTHER)

“Deidre, if you’d only take a look at our synastry chart, then you would see how well this Aquarius balances me–”

“He doesn’t balance you,” Deidre interrupted. “True compatibility is based on favorable Venus-Mars, Moon-Venus, and Sun-Venus contacts.”

Blah, blah, blah. She just wanted to rain on my parade.

Honestly. Deidre can be so old sometimes. (She must be at least 53). Plus, she’s an earth sign, which means she’s crusty and pragmatic and BORING, and she has no clue what she’s talking about because she’s obviously forgotten what it’s like to have fun. 

Still, I wasn’t backing down.

“Here,” I said, nearly slamming the birth charts on the counter, “read it and weep in humility and joy, for you’ll soon see how wrong you are. Tyler and I have perfect astrological compatibility. Where I have fire, he has air, and where I have water, he has earth.” 

Reluctantly, Deidre took the birth charts and gave them the same judgmental stare she gives me. It was several moments before she spoke again. 

“Hm,” she said, “maybe you’re not so far off, young waverer. These alignments of both your planets and astrological houses do show potential for pure love.” She put the charts down. “Even if he’s your enemy.”

“Well, on that account,” I said, nearly jumping off my seat. “I have to go tell Tyler–”

“Don’t tell him anything yet,” Deidre interrupted. “They stumble that run fast.”

I was too excited over Deidre’s confirmation to bother figuring out what the hell she had said. If only the old and crusty Capricorns listened to us Geminis more often; they would learn a thing or two about life, let me tell you. Besides, I’m the one with a soulmate, aren’t I?

[homostuck-edits]

k one i love ur edits like gawd damn !!!! explodes mind !!!!! n i also LUVVVVVV ur fantrolls, designs impeccable fresh as fuck!!!!! u have any more of em??? cuz i'd love to see u always hit hard :)

hi!!!! first of all thank you so so so much!!!! i cannot express how happy this made me!!!! i’m so happy you like their designs :))

second of all YES! i do have more fantrolls but i’m gonna take this chance to talk about them all very briefly. ALSO! my fantrolls don’t live on alternia OR repiton! they live on their own little planet i made in my head

perrii perish, a goldblood with a pocket knife collection and one too many enemies at only age 7 (~15). second fantroll i EVER made and my favorite little gal

oenone mohana, a jadeblood who designs and sells dresses and is way too generous for her own good. classic pushover sweetheart. my very first fantroll! ever! i’ve had her for years :)

falona cadark, a fuchsiablood who’s basically just cleo from clone high if she was a fish. she’s very undeveloped compared to the last two, but i’ve had her for just as long!

i have others too, but they don’t have toyhouse profiles yet because they barely even have designs!! i can offer you a pinterest board filled with ideas for them, though! designs are actually super hard for me and the ones i have now are just evolved from super old but similar designs! trust me i am trying so hard to make designs for my other fantroll concepts

BUT ANYWAYS tysm again!!! this is very sweet of you to say and i appreciate it a lot :)

[clingymickey]

Hey happy friday! Question time is back, sorry to have been so absent! Here are your questions:

1) Where are you at with religion? (out of the gate swinging lol!)

2) Do you make playlists? If yes, do you arrange them by time period (this is what I do, a new playlist each season essentially) or do you have playlists for different moods/purposes?

3) Irl are you shy or more outgoing?

😘🖤

Hii Howl!! I missed you so much 🖤 Don't you dare be sorry for being absent!! I immediately saw the blue circle from my inbox and my howl senses were tingling...no literally I was like IT MUST BE HOWL!! Anyway it's Question Friday time!!

1) Not a totally super religious person, like I don't really attend church services much you know that kinda thing but I do believe that there is some one out there, planning eveything and stuff. Gawd my parents and grandparents would be dissapointed in me if they saw me now 😩. In the wise words of Ian gallagher (well not quote-on-qoute but sort of?) "Religon is a social construct.'

2) I don't, unfortunately, I just think they take too much time? I just listen to this one playlist- another person made - on shuffle, pretty much. My new year's resolution is to create more playlists and pinterest boards 😌

3) I think that depends to who I am with. If its someone I'm meeting for the first time,I can get super shy and small talk is my behated. But! If it's with my close friends or family I'm super outgoing. Oh where's the party? at my place bitch. Need me to order from not one but two restaurants? sure sure I have no problem.

[dancekickboxcardio]

I am not about setting the tone of the day.

I am about getting things done ✅.

I need a pasta 🍝 dish. Shall I make two kinds? It’s time consuming 🕰. Don’t give much thought 💭. Fine. I need another recipe 🗃.

I would love ❤️ this but I have no canned tuna 🐟 yet from BJ’s. However, I am frying my tilapia. I believe that is the small package. Grocery 🛒 ads.

I think 🤔 I want this but I have to separate the protein from 🐓 the carbs and greens 🥬 to measure 📏 what I am consuming. My gawd, my life is not ran by health goals 🥅. That’s kind of in your best interest more than how did she spend her little allowance 🛍? Yeah, I can make a lot more money 💵 than I am receiving. I am poor. So did your problem exist before I paid 💰 you and fired you or your best interest advisors fail to obtain you what you (they) actually need? Sorry 😐, I don’t need what you are selling. Try match.com. I mean realistically you are rich with a small makeshift store how are you suppose to send four kids on what kind of a salary is that to a low class public college. No really. If you want to be honest that you think 💭 the rich kids will let you eat what you don’t have the money 💵 to pay for. Try Notre Dame. It’s like free off loading. I feel that they have the impression that these girls and boys exactly does exactly what they do ingratiate and get by and hang on until they can get what they didn’t have the skill, capacities, capabilities and resources to honestly obtain. Criminal Minds. No, Criminality in desperate situation or perhaps their thing. Right, it’s totally applicable to them the oh I am well to do. Then, rub it in our faces. Where the hell is your Tiffany bracelet? 💎 Oh, you don’t shop at Rack? We know. You mean you don’t dine out 🥘. Vie, they have no money 💵 for grocery. My bad. Totally my bad 😈.

Another protein from last week 📆. I feel pumped ⚡️ and that’s on no food in 🍴 my stomach. I should have something. I really believe in it’s power to boost or really keep you going and successfully complete tasks 🖊✔️.

[skiasurveys]

431

Did the best moment of your life happen at summer camp?

-never went to one

Do you get tired of fakebook? lol

-idk why i use it so much but i don’t mind rn. but i get tired of so many ppl who give their opinions that’s really sooo rude

Are you a poser on facebook or are you real?

- don’t rly share too much on it jsut funny updates and selfies lol

Are you a people pleaser?

- yeah

Do you get irritated a lot?

yup

What’s something you’ve realized about yourself lately?

-i am a victim

Do you know a lot of idiots?

yeah hahah me

Do you want a puppy or a kitty?

kitty lol

Do you hate that some people are stuck-up?

yeah duh i hate people who think they’re better

Would you rather be poor and humble or rich and snooty?

i guess poor and humble

Do you know any humble rich people?

of course!

Do you hate the millennial stereotype?

i do because it’s so annoying. u can’t do shit without ppl assuming you’re a spoiled millennial

Do you think everyone should have a right to live, and by that I mean live a comfortable life?

- yes of course! i think it’s stupid some ppl don’t get basic human needs bc they’re poor

Does your religion or spirituality teach you to love your enemies?

-yup

Do you love your enemies?

- not love

Do you struggle to love your enemies?

- yeah it’s hard to love someone who hurt you

Are you bothered by things that have been done to you in the past?

-yeah

Do you hate bullying?

-yes but i don’t think it will ever stop.

Do you get bullied frequently?

-not rly. i did when i was a kid

Do you often wish you could go to sleep and not wake up until something good happens?

-hahaha yeah but you can’t do that

How many people do you know who are suicidal?

-a few

Do you read advice columns?

no

Have you ever used a dating site?

-yeah that’s where i met my bf

Do you want a fairy godmother?

-no

Do you enjoy watching talent shows?

-not really they’re boring af

Which cartoon character would you want to play you in a movie?

-what

What is something you do not understand?

-racists

Do you know anyone who is spoiled?

-yeah i do

Do you think cars are ugly?

- some are nice but i’m not a car person

What is your favorite musical?

-don’t rly have one

Have you made a lot of huge mistakes?

- a lot

Are you ok?

-no

Do you ever feel God’s presence?

-sometimes

Do you believe in angels?

-yeah

What is your favorite magazine?

-no

What color hair did your favorite Barbie doll have?

-blonde ?

Who were you rooting for in the very first season of American Idol?

- never watched that show really

Do you believe in miracles?

-yes

Have you ever been to a tea shop?

-yeah but i hate tea

If there were a tea shop in your city, would you go to it?

^

Do you still have your Christmas decorations up?

-nah

How many pairs of jeggings do you own?

-none now.

Do you have any memories that are painful?

-quite a bit

Do you learn from your mistakes and move on, or do you do the same things over and over again?

-sometimes repeat

Do you make a habit of taking risks and stepping outside of your comfort zone?

-nah i usually stay in my comfort zone

Is your life boring?

-honestly yeah but i’m okay with that for now. i wish i had more stuff but i’m ok with nothing lol

What is your favorite thing to follow on tumblr?

-honestly i don’t rly have one i am only on this hell site for the memes and to answer surveys

What are your favorite Pinterest boards?

-depends

Is your Pinterest profile cluttered?

-no i have it organized

Do you wish you owned more board games?

-i don’t rly like board games

Do you wish you had visitors more often?

-no

Do you hate the economy?

-yeah

Do you hate our culture?

-nah

Do you live in the USA?

-no thank gawd

What accent do you like best?

-i don’t have a fav like the scottish one sounds cool but idk

Is there a guy you wish you hadn’t let slip away?

-not really. there was one guy i went on one date with and then ghosted when i dated my ex and sometimes i wonder what my life would’ve been like if me and that dude dated but i don’t think i let him slip away lol

What are some things you would like to do this summer?

-tan

What are some things you love about spring?

-the weather, flowers i guess?

Are you feeling optimistic today?

-not really

When was the last time you did something that made you feel stupid?

-me everyday tbh

Do you hate social classes and inequality?

-yeah

Is they’re anything that you’re questioning if you’re allergic to?

-nah

Do you believe everyone should be treated with respect when you first meet them?

- yes they should but it depends on the context

Do you hate that nobody cares?

-about what

What websites shut down that you miss?

-myspace

What were your favorite websites when you were a teenager?

-animation source, tumblr, youtube and deviantart

What was the best class you took in high school?

-art

Are you happy?

-not overly

Would you ever enroll in a college class just for fun?

-if i had the money

Do you feel free to be yourself?

-meh

Do you stand up for yourself when needed?

-no i need to learn to do that

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Successful methods to PPC advertising

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Successful methods to PPC advertising

Do you ever land on a page and it has tons of PPC advertisements? These advertisements may include text, images or—gawd—video. I don’t mind video advertisements except when they constantly flash. While some of these advertisements may be from affiliate marketing, many reflect pay-per-click advertisements. This is when a business pays a fee to the website owner in order to get traffic from their website. Essentially, they are telling the website owner: we want your traffic. If you are wanting to try a PPC campaign, I recommend you try the following techniques.

First and foremost, have a call-to-action. This is where you ask the customer to do something. Click here to get a free sample of the product….click here to sign up for sign up for the webinar…click here to get a free first chapter of my upcoming book. You get the idea. When they click on the advertisement, it takes them to a landing page. This landing page should include what you promised them in the call-to-action. If, for any reason, your site should be down or you mislead them—this is going to damage your credibility.

PPC advertising also allows you to target your audience well. Think about your product and who would use it. If you are unsure about this answer, get on message boards or in Facebook groups. Give away products in exchange for testimonials or reviews. You have to be that poor fellow holding the “mattresses for sale” on the street corner in order to make a sale…at least for a little while. Once you know your target audience, use keywords and phrases to draw them to your business. But remember that this doesn’t come easy. You may not get the right keywords the first time. So, keep track of the words/phrases that did (and didn’t) bring in your customers.

You also must have a budget. A typical PPC can cost about $5-20 per ad, dependent on which social network or search engine you use. But if you don’t track your keywords and your hashtags that you’re using to target your audience—well, you could easily run your campaign into the thousands. Create a spreadsheet of this information. How many visitors and sales did each keyword bring in? If it was successful, keep it. If it was unsuccessful, get rid of it and replace it. Research strong keywords and hashtags you can use for your business. This is going to help you succeed in your business.

Don’t forget to put your advertisements across the board on social media. Your target audience is not just on Google or Bing. Go BIG! Place your advertisement on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. These are the top 6 social networks in my personal opinion. Buy ad space on a blog from bloggers that are within your niche. Upload your advertisement to Youtube. Have your advertisement everywhere people may see it. Don’t forget you can put your advertisement in e-mail newsletters as well. The only issues I foresee with this, however, is that the cost may skyrocket. Each space in which you place your ad will be an extra expense, but a budget for it and it may draw in customers to your business.

Finally, don’t forget about Yelp. This primarily works if you have a physical business that customers that visit. But, keep in mind, this is how the majority of businesses are found. Want to find a sporting goods store? Log on to Yelp. Want to find a park, greeting card store or a store that specializes in rare books? Yelp likely has it. If you advertise on Yelp, your store or businesses rise to the top of the results. People will see your advertisement before all the others and (hopefully) look at it before all the others as well. PPC advertising is hard work, but in the end, it’s going to be worth it.

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The one with all the camping

Bucket lists, that pretty piece of paper filled to the brim with things we want to do, places we want to see, fears we want to conquer…most of them end up resembling a pinterest board full of pretty things and then there’s that ominous deadline of to do before I die which kinda really lessens the chances of us ever doing any of those things, what with most of us vying to be a better procrastinator than the other…BUTT if you have mad urges and a restless spirit and if your throw in some crazier than thou friends into the mix then CHEEEHOOO!!! You cupcake are gonna be ticking things off that list faster than your chubby hands can touch the base of that big tub of gooey caramelized popcorn!! And that is eggactly how we ended up going CAMPINNNGGGGGGG!!!(Hopefully your heads are still reverberating from the screechy echo that made).

Now y’all gonna be like, “Oh gawd, she’s gonna bore us with more gibber gabber about her trip and tell us how to set up a campfire without roasting off that perfect perm and how to not get entangled in your own tent and not to follow the poop trails with little grizzly bear bells in them”. BUTTT WEIGHT, I’m not gonna do that folks. Instead I’m going to bore you with swoon-worthy accounts of my camping trip which was completely poison ivy and bear attack free.

After a week of mid terms which were seriously messing with our long periods of doing nothingness, that brochure from Campper** was a godsend, it was just the kind of break we were looking for, a camping trip to Mankulam (near Munnar, Idukki), by the waterfalls overlooking never ending hills with bonfires and tents , all those goody goody treats my childhood backyard camping trips with moms shawls (masquerading as my tent) didn’t have.

We set off at about my post breakfast siesta time so we could make it in time for the complimentary lunch(raising eyebrows in that cool way).  The drive was along narrow roads, the hillsides lush and glistening under the sun, baby monkeys playing peekaboo and miles and miles of unending tea estates. Three hours and winding roads,  Ashik in the driver’s seat and the horrendous no siesta situation got to me though and I was a woozy nauseous mess by the time we got there but as soon as they opened their gates I was pretty gung ho about camping again.

We got out of the slightly stuffy and air conditioned insides to the fresh, breezy and clear air of the mountains, a welcome relief for us city dwellers. We oohed and aahed at the view, entranced by the witcheries of the misty mountains, the beckoning breeze and the trees dancing to their music, bubbling little brooks sparkling blithely nearby, the adorable homely tents and wait….the sounds of a roaring waterfall!! Wowieee!! EXPECTATIONS??? EXCEEDED!! We had our qualms about camping after our last “incident” and we dared not expect anything more than a plain old vanilla flavored ice cream situation but these guys gave us an ice cream sundae with our pick of toppings and a smear of chocolate!!

Ain’t the view pretty?? 

The gorgeouus waterfalls at our campsite!!

While my heart was doing a triple flip they brought in the complimentary lunch (I should stop saying complimentary right?). The owner’s grandmamma had cooked us up an amazing traditional Kerala meal much to the great skippety doo daa of our hungry tummies. She even sent us a huge bunch of bananas from her backyard thinking either that it’d be a nice wholesome snack for weary travelers or she just spot on guessed that we’re a bunch of monkeys. While our insatiable hunger was being soothed with the wholesome food, plans were bing made for us by the sweet people at the campsite. They were all ready with a jeep and loads of towels and some more bananas, ready to whisk us off to Some “secret” spot nearby…After an an unforgettably bumpy ride in an indestructible jeep with an amazing driver on a road which was more uphill than your average Joe steepy ones( the jeep was basically making its way up a non-existent hillside path), we finally got to our very own private multi-million dollar Jacuzzi/ shower/hot tub/…..faainnee…we didn’t get there but what awaited us was a secluded waterfall with pristine clear water, cold enough to make your teeth chatter, deep into the woods cloaked by a deep silence only broken by the sounds of our revelry.

How we got there: And we made several stopovers on the way, by rivers and hanging bridges and we even rode through a rivulet…

My very own sauna….If this were mine forever I’d take more baths…

Us water babies goofing around….

As much as I love places like Athirapally and the lot, I hate the tourists, the snack munching, giggling, loud, overly dressed up tourists. It sorta takes the joy out of going places. This, this was a different cup of tea by itself, covered by dense foliage, no prying eyes, the clean freshwater… We splashed about and frolicked to our hearts content till dusk and headed back to the base camp.

What awaited us was pure magic, as dusk turned to shadowy darkness and our tv-addicted eyes adjusted themselves, we were greeted by a bejeweled sky.

Calvin sure got that right…They’re like little bits of magic strewn all across the never sky…We just sat there, stargazing, losing all sense of time, normalcy and reality seemed a figment of our imagination. I for one was all warmed up inside being surrounded by some of the best people in my life and open starry skies and entrancing music, it was way better than all the dreaming  of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings I’m prone to doing at all times to the annoyance of everyone I know.

Our reverie was broken by a shout out to go check out aanakulam, a sort of teen hangout spot for elephants. Driving through the same places we went by daylight was just super spooky at night, the friendly mountains now took us back to instances from The hills have eyes and that my dears is not something you want to recall when you’re out at that time   on stranded hill roads.

When you’re pee-in-your-pants sacred think of funny puddy tats

We got to Anakulam though without any blood curdling incidents but it turned out to be a disappointing night ride coz there were no huge herd of elephants at the watering hole only a lone baby elephant who was pretty shy what with all the noise we were making and the glaring headlights of our jeep . But we were told that locals have  have seen a herd of 90 on certain moonlit nights, I guess we’re not the lucky kind. Sigh…But we got to take a nice snack break to quiet our rumbling tummies from the little tea shop nearby and we went back as a happy troop humming old tunes and thinking happy thoughts.

B y the time we got back we were ravenously hungry and gorged on the flavorsome and gravilicious chicken curry and fluffy rotis   meanwhile, the men were busy setting up the bonfire. Soon there was a blazing fire and we were drawn towards it, what followed was a night of mirth and frolic, with dancing and games of charades (which I lost miserably) . The embers turned a pretty shade of glowing reds and oranges, and there were tiny spurts and burps of flames trying to lick our little toes which were getting all warmed up…there’s something about fires which wakes up sleeping dragons and roaring phoenixes and unfulfilled dreams and they all march on with blazing spirits in your mind and these thoughts lingered on in my mind as the fire died out and I was back to bracing myself against the cuttingly cold winds which came in with their whoosh noises, rocking the dear pine trees and our little tents back and forth.  

There were yawns and shivers and sleepy eyes from the most of us and we turned in for the night. We were lulled to sleep by Mommy nature herself, the misty moonlit night, the chilly breeze and the roaring waterfall humming it’s night song, the cicadas chirping away to glory…the best sleep I’ve gotten in ages I’d say.

Our very own tent!! And yea… us smiling away goofily….

Sadly, there was no beautiful sunrise to wake up to, coz most of us sleepyheads never woke up in time for that and those who did missed out coz it was way too misty but we did squeeze in a morning walk before breakfast to the waterfalls and got a closer look at the valley with its rivulets and forests.

Morning walks and loads of sunshine …

Soon the sun was up in all its fury, the heat getting a bit prickly while we were in a rush to pack up and head back to our humdrum lives in the city. The drive back was with a bunch of subdued reminescy  people in the car who only had Moti’s moms biriyani to look forward to but then again biriyani makes everything better…

Coz happiness is biriyani!!

Camping out at Mankulam is something I’ll never forget, what with it being my first time and it certainly was an amazing one at that and I can’t wait enough for the next time out on my own in the wilderness, with haunted woods and unstable tents and  grizzly bears and no plumbing. What funnn!!! If anyone’s ready to brave the wild with us just shout out to us and we’ll be there bags, tents, grizzly food and all!!

A bunch of happy campers!!

Before you go-go: For all you wild wanderers looking forward to camping, ring up camper or mail them. They’ll whip up an unforgettable camping experience for you and your chums and all you have to worry about is getting your lazy asses to the campsite!! Get those monster trucks out, or your cute rides or RENT a car but do go for you’re sure to have loads of fun!!

Check out the link if you’re up making some memories!!

https://www.campper.com/

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Weekend 🎊. I am back. I am tuned to New York Times while I write ✍🏾 my thoughts 💭 down on my iPhone 📱 X. I wonder what fun things 😍 I am going to do today. Yes, I am full of life, energy ⚡️ and excitement 🤩. It is a huge difference from the past few days and I can definitely tell I am better. I don’t need Advil. My nose 👃🏾 has a thick mucosal drainage and that’s ok. My immune system has been fighting whatever it is that compromised my bod. I have to shower 🚿. I haven’t in like days. Wawames just walked in. I have to pack 🧳 for the holiday 🎄 trip 🛣.

I was looking to starting slow on my first day back at the gym 🏃🏼‍♀️ 💪🏾. I am eager to see familiar faces and bid them the Merriest Christmas 🎁 as I take my leave for New Jersey and New York. If we stay in a hotel 🏨 which I have not asked, there is a gym 🏃🏼‍♀️ 💪🏾. Otherwise, I am stuck and can not get my system going in the next 5 days. I did say I have to pack 👗 right. I may not have new outfits with tags 🏷 but I have two unopened scarves 🧣. I have two new earrings 💎. That’s it. It’s ok. My priorities ⚠️ have somewhat shifted to my serious academic work at health club 🤦🏼‍♀️. It’s a personal me time and I work on issues such as coming up with the most inquisitive thoughts 💭 from efficiency 📊📈📉 to psychological underpinnings 🧠. I have made a schedule 🗓 of what I want to do today. Sadly,

I am a no go 🙅🏼‍♀️. My Mom is in early and she gave me the bad news. I have no time to prep and be dropped off 🚘 to work on my fitness 😕. It was a little bummer but I took it optimistically and know there are many things I can get busy ✍🏾🗒 with today. Allowance 💵 week 🎊🙏🏾. That’s my hands like an athlete 🎽 sliding together ready to perform my shopping 🛍 habit 😏. I was going to wear my new Zella’s 👖 today. Let it go 😏. What am I going to do today. Let’s brainstorm 🧐.

(1) Read a book 📚

(2) Twiddle 📲

(3) Shopping 🛍 plan, like what do I want to spend my little “paycheck.” Vie, it’s allowance 💵. Stop 🛑 dreaming like you have to earn what you need. Isn’t that what normal people do? Work for their living. I am like living ✨ and everything handed to me. This is so “frustrating.” I say this because I know my potential and value. I love 💕 where I am and I feel that I am doing important work. However, I entertain like a devil’s advocate what my life could be. It’s not crushing because I know where my heart ❤️ is and I concede. I am already a strong head as we know it. Funny 😆 how my temper is not met with masculine inability to handle what they do not understand with care and love 💕 and affection 🤗. It’s like I am coddled and engage in a communication of negotiation and explanation of what it feels 😦. My gawd, are you lucky 🍀.

(4) Watch TV 📺

(5) Pinterest 📍

(6) Study 📖

(7) Journal 📓

Yeah, it’s true I am the queen 👸🏼 of walking in delicate situations. That is like one of my gifts 🎁 . A great conciliator. It is also my weakness to understand and take so much. It is the worst of situation and I still have that tolerance and patience. What do you do? Be a royal 👑 mess.

You definitely can tell that I am in good health. I am joking 🙃, I am thinking 🤔 of the stuff that I want to do and must do and have that strength to actually do it.

I am still not sure what happened like how I got the strain of bacteria 🦠 or virus. That’s why I vigilantly clean 🧽 my mat and foam roller. I need to kill the microbes. Perhaps, it was already in me. I miscounted as usual when I do not think 💭 it through like I don’t pay attention and give a damn. Quick thoughtless spitfire. I was only sick 🤒 three days. Monday why didn’t I go? I only had 5 hours of sleep 💤 . Perhaps that late night 🌌 and lack of proper amounts of sleep 🛏 pushed the threshold of immune system defenses low. It still doesn’t point the vector. Where did I get it from? I went to the hospital 🏥 twice over the past seven days. I went Thursday to get a blood 🩸 draw and I went Monday to get the rest of my lab 🧪 completed. It was unsuccessful Monday and I only touched the door 🚪, the sign up stuff 🖊 and sat 🪑 on the waiting room. So how? Maybe it was already in your system. Yeah. I emailed📧 my doctor 🥼 and I have to check what she said esp who shall explain the results on my tests. I happily 😃 cooked 👩🏼‍🍳 even if most is perfectly burnt. I watched TV 📺. I was on my phone 📱 doing stuff and slept 🛏. I didn’t get to study 👓. Yes, you did. Right. I was pretty good in answering question raised by professor 👩🏻‍🏫. I am excited 😜 to continue today. I would like to plan next year. I have reminders on how I want to live 2020.

I love 💕 my seafood 🦞 casserole 🥘. I try not to eat 🍴 everyday. Thank God, breaded 🍞 fish 🐟. Yes, I have panko and regular bread 🥖 crumbs on my grocery list for next week 🛒. I shall be out of town.

When I woke up Tuesday I knew something is off. I can barely wake up for being weak. I had no fever 🤒 or headache 🤕 but I had no energy. I feel sick. I had muscleaches. I slept 🛏 and rested because it was imperative. I had chills. I drank tons of Advil 💊. I don’t believe I did anything but being stuck in bed 🛌 which is a surprise because I maybe ill 🤧 like almost every week after flu shot 💉 but I was functional and not totally unable to do a thing. Eating 🍽 was a chore. Yet I had to put nourishment in me. If not, I won’t have fuel ⛽️ to fight off the infection.

I feel like I finished Neruda Tuesday not Wednesday because I wanted to get over the Jerusalem book 📚 and I didn’t until Thursday. Right. I read Tuesday. I cannot tolerate being stuck in bed the entire day. I should change my sheets.

I had no caffeine ☕️ in my system for the past two days Wednesday and that’s ok. I don’t need that supercharge 🔌 because I wasn’t going to power 💥 through my day. I have no strength and energy. There is not way I am going to push the limits of my protective body mechanism. I noticed that I have an appetite. That’s good. But I am eating more than usual like I am craving and my diet was so uncontrolled. I had a sweet 😻 time with Jamesicle 🐈. Sparky is being a sweetheart today. He went up to me, leaned on my back and would like to be carried 😯. Hmmmmm.... love 💗 without having to dispense a treat 🍭. I wished I had finished the book 📚 but I was living life as I usually do. A cat 🐈 is talking. I love 💕 it. I am always distracted. I don’t know 🤷🏼‍♀️ about you but sometimes you want things exactly as you conceived it. I just pulled down my curtains. Lights in 🌞. But I was consciously telling myself to not be perfectionist and exactly how you want it. Life is not going ever to always be your way. But when it does, you see your ends. You adjust. I mean I wasn’t so frustrated that my new gym bags 💼 , the ones I like are all sold out 🏷. My gawd, the Roksanda was the perfect one. My second choice Betsey Johnson was gone the next day. Now what? Well, it wasn’t too hard of a choice if I should get a full price 💲💲💲💲💲💲Lululemon. Be honest with yourself. You only have three hundred dollars 💵 . Would it be less different if you get the carry on on sale? Right. It doesn’t define who I am. In fact it makes me respectable that I am not passing off what my little stipend can only afford. I don’t make these grandiose claims and when I do not have a show for it, I go around town making false claims to placate my juvenile tendencies 🙄. You are adulting. Ugh 😑, I know. Oh, there were $20 bottoms by Zella’s to Gottex so I am cool 😎. Spend $150 what’s supposed to be for coat 🧥 on them. Horrible in a sense. But who tells you precisely how to live your life. Those who are not happy 😃 and problematic or without in theirs.

I definitely was improving Thursday. I was greatly enthused 😃 when I completed ✔️ the Jerusalem book. I haven’t shared my musings 🖊 on passages that I highlighted by camera 📸 on the book. It checked off my 12 books for 12 months to complete the year 📆. I was feeling good and pat myself in the back because I did something good and I actually reached one of my annual goals🥅 , yay 😀 🎉. Oh, I shall put my impression plain. Wait a second.

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It is a very heavy text considering that it wasn’t like a 300 pages literature. It was packed. I follow where my heart 💓 leans, the thread 🧵 which guides it and I stumbled into a perfect transition, Canterbury Tales. I was surprised 😮 to see myself delving into religion and realizing how my upbringing has some influence on how I see it. I wasn’t livid violent at each slights and insults. I was very calm and try to see what’s going on. You need to be less reactive and stand on what is right not on the tides of push buttons. It takes a certain strength to build yourself. It takes another to sustain peace ✌🏾.

I am not hungry 😋. It’s a Friday. I could expend my extra energy in thre treadmills and on the equipment floors . But I am cool 😌. I still have a lot of task 📝 to tackle. I am wearing my Apple Watch ⌚️ and esp yesterday to have like a monitor to tell if my heart beats are irregular. Like right not I am not at all uneasy 😬 and it’s not that my blood pumping organ was functioning erratically and strongly, I had some tightness in my chest. I may not have cellular function on it, but it shall alarm 🚨 when something is seriously 😒 not right and I can call emergency ⛑ medical 🏥 help in a jiffy. I can tell the huge calmed difference and on fit Americano ☕️ too. Shall I shower 🧼 with my new tech. What do I feel like doing? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Make it haphazard 🚧. There is literally like a book on it. Wait, let me pull it up.

I am like already living it. I am not alone 🔦.

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Gawd, I spend the last hour before going to bed 🛏 on my phone 📲 last night and I had difficulty falling asleep 💤 surprise. I was caught in the moment and didn’t really manage. I mean we all don’t have to be neatly aligned moving people. Meaning we are allowed to let go of the constructs that we put on ourselves. I think 🤔 what delineates healthier persons from those who can’t cope is they have that ability to fluidly accept things as they are and allow different manifestations of expectations. You guys, you really have to pay 💰 me over what I say. I guess I should put it in the accounting 🧾 bracket as doing good. I am generous but I am not going to let you guys walk over me as if I am not aware of my value 💲💲💲💲💲💲💲because you make me believe so or that you don’t actually have that idea 💡 or share that business sense 🤔 or perhaps exactly just that poach and pilfer. Instead of asking what is it seemed owed to you, what am I actually worth🤯 ? Big picture 🖼 you guys.

Jamesicle decided to 🐈 do his thing when he was little. To wake me up, he settles on my chest and starts kissing 😽 me. I had to push him aside many times. I had the worst 500a cannot go back to sleep 😴 and I need the rest. I got to be honest. My body is adapting to the straight showing up day in and day out to train 👟 . I think 💭 there is a new wisdom in it but the microbes 🦠 that lurk, the close busy confines, my physical exhaustion, sleeping 💤 late and cold 🥶 weather, I am feeling the toll. I wondered and brain 🧠 stormed with my BFF if going to bed 🛏 early is a great practice. I hate the thought 💭 because I feel like I didn’t do anything to my day. Don’t get me wrong ❌, I think the stuff I do at the gym 🏃🏼‍♀️ 💪🏾 is really important ⚠️ and they find me serious about it. I know. I am quite the thinker. I am too funny 😂 to watch. However, we have to keep tabs on habits really with some wiggle room for random and spontaneous to make sure that we are managing selves properly. We know you are rigid and strict as a cardboard alright. Pretty extensive too. I know I have adapted a different lifestyl. Can you tell? But some of the old me still creeps up and I catch myself. I am tired 😓. I am meeting the days that I am supposed to be in and do the work that I set out to do only today I have no schedule. I mean I have to meet Laura which I am thrilled 😁 about. I would like to reevaluate my goals and see what’s her take on it. She is great. I mean she taught me a better way to cardio ♥️ which I have put aside since Metcon but heck she made me see that I have to hydrate 💦 and I made that connection ➰ pay attention to your system 🦵🏾 💪🏾. Following, trial and error and putting your mind into it, without water 💧 you are indeed like a wilted 🥀 plant losing your strengths. Mmmmhm. Nutrition 🍽 is pretty big deal. So I was hectic and left happy 😃 yesterday.

They had line dance 💃🏼 after Zumba but my Mom and I had to leave because she has work. I was not slow about it too. I made sure I don’t keep her waiting. How about today I consciously tell myself to yes, mind the hours ⏱ but don’t overly make it run your life. Be there. I love ❤️ the Latin moves 👣 and I really enjoyed myself moving quickly with some hand 🤚🏾 forms and following the rhythm 🎶. I like it when the instructors do it because they add extra character let alone prowess to it.

I talked so much that I didn’t have enough to finish my lunch 🍴.

Gym fixture 🛋 knows everybody and has to stop 🛑 and talk and she already was limiting herself. I had glitters on my face yesterday. I decided to call them the sweat 😓 sparkles ✨. Silly 🙃 goose. I overdid it but I failed to take a selfie 🤳🏾. There never was a space where I didn’t end up saying hi 👋🏾 or chatting to people. That’s good.

Glitters made me do it. I was so primed by how I appeared that I was as bouncy as can be. Maybe that’s a little subjective. Well, I maybe straightface but the work I put in wasn’t exactly in high degree 📜 of instensity. Ok, performance wasn’t air tight. I wish I took a lot of machine pictures 📸. I relish at the different way of looking at stuff I use all the time and now 5 days in a week straight 📆. I thought that these could be better.

I had to be respectful of others space and make sure I am not impinging on their comfort. It is a sensical thing. I really have this eye that stops 🛑 literally, my brain processes 🧐the moment as special and I try to capture the scene.

I did two types of bike 🚲, treadmill and various machines. I am pretty good at logging in ✍🏾 what I do yet I have to reformat the sheets. I would like it very much when I get to the point that I can compare my scheduled activities 📅 and this is actually how I perform. Sometimes the difference really is in the amount of time I spent and the execution. For the most part, it is very close to the planned day 🖊. I decided that there shall always be coffee cup ☕️ shots. My thing. My signature. It’s like where was my espresso at the health club?

You get the picture. The days are shorter and it’s dark early 🌘. Yes, your eyes 👀 adjust, your brain adjusts, your system adjusts. They have great lighting in the gym. It has never become more important to show up, get going, keep running 🏃🏼‍♀️ and do stuff that makes you functioning or performing at whatever level you want for yourself or for that day. It is rare, but it shall not with the changes in my days in to enjoy 😊 the outside scenery. I mean it could get overwhelming in there. Yeah, wear your earbuds 🎧 . Busy. Find your zen 😌. Ugh 😑, did you mention daunting and intimidating. It is a feast for your fitness needs really if you ask me. Talk to a trainer. What did I want to discuss. Ah, apart from my pants 👖 that are falling off which I discovered last night 🌃 was indeed looser at the waist I am like, it’s bunch down hanging. I checked out the make of the fabric. I mean there is space where my legs 🦵🏾 are but it’s something negligible. But my back showing. Ayayay. The isometric hold is sort of a heaven sent 😇. Why do I say that. I get nauseous bending. Ok. However, if I hold on to the upright position for at least 10 seconds guess what. My “ear 👂🏾 fluids” get to adjust and I don’t feel like throwing up 🤢. I have mint 🌱 already in my backpack 🎒. The point is the trick makes a great miracle. I should like when I have compiled my data 📏📊📈📉 make it available. I should like measure myself too. I haven’t since last two 60 Day Challenge ago. I should get ready.