Walking by a jewelry store and admiring diamond earrings:

Friend: Maybe he’ll get you those for Christmas

Me: I’ve been asking for a new potato peeler for the past five years, so I’m guessing that’s a no

@Saltssaltgirl

You know what's funny about this (not haha but actually sad)?

I've wanted this charm on a silver snake necklace for so many years now but it is engraved with "I fall in love with you every day" on the back so I won't buy it for myself and can't ask my son to buy it for me.

Sigh. I love it.

@Waitnwallflower I hope this year you are surprised in the best way possible 🫂

@Saltssaltgirl it won't be 2025, that I'm sure of.

@Saltssaltgirl and, Gawd, that made me cry. Thank you.

@Waitnwallflower I sense good things are coming for you…because you’re you.

@Saltssaltgirl
I am deeply flawed and fuck up sometimes

@Waitnwallflower@beige.party @Saltssaltgirl@mas.to We are all deeply flawed, all works in progress, and we all fuck up sometimes.


The 20-year SF webcomic Schlock Mercenary had an in media res book, "The Seventy Maxims Of Maximally Effective Mercenaries". Maxim 70 stated, "Failure isn't an option. It's mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do."

Acknowledge the fuck-up ... and go on.

@zakalwe @Saltssaltgirl

Maybe I'm extra fucked up.
Just a thought.

@Waitnwallflower The best advice I've ever been given is "Talk to yourself as a kind friend would". That voice telling you you're fucked up - that voice is not your friend and does not want what's best for you.