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Posted in The Surge: January Crates & Collector's Set Posted 4 years ago
So much love!! Ahhhh!!!!

Posted in New here Posted 4 years ago
Welcome! The avatars here are absolutely adorable!
Posted in Hello! Posted 4 years ago
Hey there! Welcome- Your avatar is looking awesome!
Posted in Hello all! Posted 4 years ago
Welcome! Happy New Year :vivi-celebrate:
Posted in The 50 Book Challenge Posted 4 years ago
Ugh... I didn't quite make it. I was 4 shy.

I'll make it my goal again this year.
Posted in Word of the Year Posted 4 years ago
@kitalpha hart: It was at a time when my job was introducing and implementing all these new initiatives. I’d spent half a year fighting it and thinking they were stupid (they still are), BUT that got me nowhere. I was being reprimanded and viewed as someone who wasn’t a team player. So, I decided to just jump in head first into their stupid programs and follow them to a T. Even though I knew the ideas were terrible, ineffective, and counterproductive. I “drank the koolaid” and joined them in their madness. I am now enthusiastically supportive of every new nonsense that comes my way in my profession- even if it’s dumb. Haha after that year of that phrase, I’m now viewed as a team player and team leader.

@khadijacandy: I love it!

@jolly: careful with that one! I find that every single time I start working on patience, the universe gives me ample opportunities to practice.
Meaning I find myself in more and more situations that require patience than usual. 🤣
Posted in Word of the Year Posted 4 years ago
@totalanimefan: I mean... consent is always important 🤣
@inatlaka: I really like flow. It sounds so smooth.
@koneko: consistently abundant! I can get behind that XD I wanna be consistently living in abundance!
Posted in Word of the Year Posted 4 years ago
When I worked at a summer camp, we would be sorted into one word teams and that one word would be our team focus and guide for the summer. One year it was Joy and the next year it was Grace.

I loved the idea and adopted it for New Year a long while ago. Then I started seeing lots and lots of other people doing it too. I’m sure the camp I worked at adopted the idea from other people.

Anyway, over the years, I’ve chosen a word/phrase and let it be my focus for the year.
A few that I’ve utilized are Joy (multiple years), Play the Game, Drink the Koolaid, Fearless, etc.

I try to let the word or phrase find me. Maybe I hear it a lot in different contexts. Maybe it just floats through the air to me or maybe sometimes it just smacks me in the face and feels right.


This year, it just came to me when I woke up. I wasn’t thinking about a word, I wasn’t actively searching for the right one, I just woke up to it.

My word this year is....




Consistent



A nice, boring word. But I need it. I need consistency in my life. I need to BE consistent.



Do you choose a word or phrase for the year?
If you do, what did you choose for 2020?
Posted in Solstice at Hogwarts Posted 4 years ago
Ahh.. loopholes!
Delicious, delicious loopholes.
Posted in Christmas Haul Posted 4 years ago
FUN FACT- Bath and Body Works and VS are owned by the same company. If you watch their sales, you’ll notice their semi-annual sales are released at the same time. If bath and body works has a huge sale, chances are VS will too.


Ahem, anyway- my big gift this year was a kitchen aid stand mixer in yellow. She’s so pretty 😭😭😭
Posted in Voltra's Secret Santa 2019! Posted 4 years ago
@amber lynne: Wow! Thank you!!
Posted in Christmas Eve And I'm Cooking Posted 4 years ago
Whatcha cooking?



I cook dinner pretty often, but I order those meal kits that send me everything I need. It takes the “have to see humans at a grocery store” down to a bare minimum. XD
Posted in The 50 Book Challenge Posted 4 years ago
@shadami: It's called Damsel by Elana K. Arnold.

Like I get the feminist message she's got going, but if a teenager is picking up this book, it's totally going over their heads.




So, it's got scenes about graphic sexual assault, rape, self-harm, suicide, physical and mental abuse, and animal harm. According to another review, his male anatomy was mentioned no fewer than 19 times (although the different ways they describe it is pretty funny) and her breasts, 25. All of that in a little more than 300 pages.
There were a few times that it was so graphic that I went back and checked my library app to make sure it was YA and sure enough it was. Not that I have a problem with adult themes... as long as they are in adult books. Had this been marked for adults, I wouldn't have felt so disgusted by it.
Posted in New blood spill on isle 6 Posted 4 years ago
Oh gosh... blood is so hard to get out of the carpet..

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