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The Epic Battle between my Delusions of Grandeur and my Crippling Self-Doubt, part two million and sixty-five
If you’re anything like me you know exactly what this is like. Half your brain goes “You could totally model for Addition Elle/write for xoJane/dance burlesque and dominate the scene because you are a queen/maybe do something adult with your life like trying to fix your massive piles of debt!” and the other half goes…
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For the record I totally fail at homemade toothpaste
I tried one of those home toothpaste recipes that’s baking soda and clove oil and coconut oil. Because I figured it might work better than just swigging clove oil and whiskey in the hopes of relieving my wisdom teeth pain. It didn’t. It was like brushing my teeth with salt. Which, by the way, will…
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And then we hung up so he could sleep and I could find a remedy for toothache that didn’t involve whiskey, because ow, my liver
Conversation with Ogre via Skype following the make-up session after our fight, during which he said he’d feel bad about going to bed while I was still upset, so he was determined to Skype with me until I felt better, and then he asked me if I was going to blog about our fight and…
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[quote of the day] September 5th, 2013
If you gave a good goddamn about the health of fat people, you’d shut up about our fatness. You are destroying our mental health — and that can kill a person just as surely as anything else. —Marianne Kirby, “This Fat News Anchor is Mad — And Not Going to Take Being Bullied Anymore”, xojane
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Dear Translink: You suck. Sincerely, all the non-rich Vancouverites.
Welcome to Vancouver, the most expensive city in North America. Now more expensive!
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Kat & Wolff will be at Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day
Hey, you know what’s in 10 days? Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day! And Kat & Wolff will be there, vending. Formerly Nanaimo Pagan Pride Day, it’s changed its name to reflect that it’s the main Pagan Pride event on the Island. People from all ends of Vancouver Island come to Nanaimo for it, and at…
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Amoeba Cat and the Ogre go on a road trip (and see some kittens; also — Reading Rainbow)
[content warning: mention of disordered eating and fatphobia] This past weekend was the BC Day long weekend (I believe the first Monday in August is the long weekend across Canada, with Province-specific holidays; I know it was Alberta Heritage Day as well as BC Day, f’ex), so I got to spend four days at the…