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Do it, Doug.

@willfully-wandering-blog

This life doesn't owe me anything.
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How to Create a Work/Life Balance

Get a cat.

Make sure said cat is happy.

Snuggle said cat.

Wake up bleary eyed.

Feed cat.

Make coffee.

Make bed.

Take a shower.

Remember you made coffee, drink nectar of the gods.

Eat a boiled egg.

Brush teeth, floss.

Gently pick up cat, load in vehicle of choice.

Take cat to work.

Make a list of priorities for the day.

Completely disregard them.

Remember you haven't eaten anything by around 4PM.

Ignore the intriguing, yet frightening sounds of your stomach.

Realize you haven't seen cat lately.

Proceed to freak out.

Find cat sleeping in the hottest spot of the shop.

Cry with relief, and exclaim to anyone within earshot that you do in fact have the best cat.

Ever.

Think about food again.

Remember you're broke, because you buy a beer at the local pump house nearly every night.

Curse yourself for the second time this week, because you didn't pack a lunch.

Oh shit, forgot to process payroll.

Oh shit, forgot to pay that bill.

Fuck, you forgot about rent coming out of the account.

Did your business taxes cost THAT much?!

Why did you agree to this?

Weep into fur of this magnificent creature who always knows when you're about to break down.

Compose yourself.

Oh shit, forgot to finish customer's repair.

Work until 12:30 in the morning finishing it.

Gently pick up sleeping cat, load in vehicle.

Drive home to a depressing soundtrack.

Gently unload cat into home.

Write this post.

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“There are times in life where the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose.”

— Melly (via ambiguities)

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aarondav1s

My grandpa recently sent me some film from his travels over the past 40 years. I had no idea he had ever spent time shooting and was blown away by his compositions.

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Learning How to Live

It's an adventure, it really is.

So many thoughts just pushing against each other in my mind, just learning how to survive

How to live with myself

How to treat others

How to be in a relationship, I've forgotten it all.

I ruined something, someone that I loved

If only you had known me now.

They say hindsight is 20/20

Fucking christ, what I wouldn't give

But maybe it's not meant to be, and that's okay.

I love what I do

I do what I love

And sometimes I regret it

I'm locked in, I'm done

This is what I do

But how do I have a balance?

How do I be my own person?

How do I treat others

How do others perceive me?

I'm not a good person

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kale-amity

New Lover-Josh Ritter

I can’t pretend that all is well, it’s like I’m haunted by a ghost There are times I cannot speak your name for the catchin’ in my throat, There are things I will not sing for the sting of sour notes. I feel like a miser, I feel low and mean For accusing you of stealin’ what I offered you for free. Still it baffles the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be. I don’t know who you’re with these days, might be with someone new And if you are, I hope he treats you like a lover ought to do. But whoever makes you happy, it don’t really matter who I’ve got a new lover now, I hope you’ve got a lover too. Praise the water under bridges, the time they say will heal Praise the fonder, that still grows on the absent heart and fields Praise be to this pain, these days it’s all I seem to feel. Perhaps the fault was mine Perhaps I just ignored who you’re always gonna be, Instead of who I took you for. I’ve been treated worse it’s true, still I expected more. But I will not chase your shadow as you go from room to room, Droppin’ handkerchiefs and daggers, smokin’ guns and other clues For what someone did with someone and who did what to who. I’ve got a new lover now, I hope you’ve got a lover too.
I hope you’ve got a lover now, hope you’ve got somebody who Can give you what you need like I couldn’t seem to do. But if you’re sad and you are lonesome and you’ve got nobody true, I’d be lying if I said that didn’t make me happy too.
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laudawg
““When I was younger I would write a lot of love songs before I really knew what it was. Then I was thinking the other day about how you carry around all the songs that you love in your life. And you carry them around and then in one specific moment a song will make more sense than it ever has and you feel like you’ve been carrying around this loaded gun the whole time just waiting for it to go off. It’s the strangest thing.””

— Josh Ritter