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I’ve been lurking the Unfuck Your Habitat tumblr for what...

May 1, 2012, 6:57 pm
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Sink - UNFUCKED!


Right side of the shower!


Left side of the shower!


Toilet!

I’ve been lurking the Unfuck Your Habitat tumblr for what seems like months now, since I am a self-diagnosed Chronic Clutterer.  Living at home has some benefits - our kitchen doesn’t get gross since I’m not the only one using it, and trash goes out weekly - but it seems like the properties that I’m in charge of tend to get…well…horribly neglected.  I don’t think I’ve given the bathroom a good scrubbing in what seems like forever.  Dust and hair get everywhere, which is the case when you’ve got two chicks with long hair using it on a regular basis.

So today, Karyn and I decided to take matters into our own hands and unfuck the hell out of that bathroom.

Step one involved going to Target and picking up some Magic Erasers, a new shower caddy to maximize shower space, and a new trash can.  Now we’ve got one for recycling and one for trash trash.  Aww yeah.

After three hours of Magic Eraser-ing, scrubbing bubbling, showerhead installation, vaccumming, both failed and successful drain volcanoes, and taking necessary sanity breaks, the bathroom now earns the No Longer Fucked seal.  I even took pictures of both sides of the shower so you guys can see that I am Not Fucking Around.

Cool and not so cool things:

  • Magic Eraser took three year old pink hair dye out of the walls.  Seriously.  I thought that was there FOREVER.  It also took all of the dust from around the toilet and cleaned the paneling which, as far as I know, may never have been cleaned as long as this bathroom has been in existence - at least fifteen years.  I love you Magic Eraser.  If I marry you, will I be Mrs. Eraser?  Or can I just go by Magic?
  • Drain volcanoes do not work in the tub due to our weird, weird plumbing that angles weirdly under the tub itself.  The zip-it won’t snake in due to weird plumbing as well.  The plunger and hot water seemed to work a bit, but I fear that some foaming snake cleanser may be in order.  I honestly don’t know what our options are now otherwise…now it’s time to bring out the BIG GUNS.
  • In case anyone was wondering, my bathroom book du jour is Jonathan Ross’s Why Do I Say These Things? and it is the best.  Also, I promise the toilet is clean, I had just finished scrubbing the lid and wanted to revel in its majesty.

Thank you, Team UfYH!  I CAN DO THIS.  Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a bed to make.  At 10pm.  Aww yeah.

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Frank Turner - One Foot Before The Other But I place one foot...

May 2, 2012, 7:40 am
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Frank Turner - One Foot Before The Other

But I place one foot before the other
Confident because
I know that everything we are right now is everything that was
That Wat Tyler, Woody Guthrie, Dostoevsky and Davy Jones
Are all dissolved into the ether and have crept into my bones
And all the cells in all the lines upon the backs of both my hands
Were once carved into the details of two feet upon the sand


Chills.  Absolutely getting chills.

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Oh man.  THIS GAME.  This was the very first computer game I...

May 2, 2012, 9:49 am
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Oh man.  THIS GAME.  This was the very first computer game I ever owned.  My dad went out to Egghead Software and bought this for me and Reader Rabbit 2 for my sister.  We installed it on our brick of an IBM laptop that Dad got from work and I’d play it for hours and hours and always get afraid that the space monsters would eat me if I couldn’t get the math problems right.

I downloaded it for abandonware a couple weeks ago and played it and realized that, 25 years later, there are no space monsters in that game, and there’s no way they could have even eaten my character.  Good job, self.  Setting up a lifetime of panic over mathematics that only my 11th grade precalc teacher could fix.

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I can tell if someone is a good dancer just by the way they...

May 2, 2012, 3:37 pm
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I can tell if someone is a good dancer just by the way they smile.

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The Cramps - Fever (Peggy Lee cover*) Sun lights up the day...

May 2, 2012, 4:25 pm
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The Cramps - Fever (Peggy Lee cover*)

Sun lights up the day time
Moon lights up the night
I light up when you call my name
and you know I’m gonna treat you right

* Okay okay if you want to get technical it’s a Little Willie John song but Peggy Lee made it famous, c’mon dudes you should know that

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May 2, 2012, 4:33 pm
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Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.

May 2, 2012, 5:07 pm
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Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.

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Laura (iwishuponstars) tagged me in this!  I would post the rules but I am lazy and don’t feel...

May 2, 2012, 8:00 pm
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Laura (iwishuponstars) tagged me in this!  I would post the rules but I am lazy and don’t feel like writing new questions, but I do like answering them.  SORRY EVERYONE.  If you really want questions to answer, reply to this post and I’ll write you some!

1. What is your favorite kind of tree?
Maples.  Sure, they’re boring, but my yard is full of them and it’s been a constant source of good energy in my life.

2. In your opinion, what is the worst song(s) ever?
What’s that one that’s like “I wanna love you like a love song baby” or whatever?  THAT ONE.  Oh man I cannot STAND it.  I don’t even know who sings it.  One of the Disney Channel people, I think.

3. What’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said/done to you?
I really have to think about this one, because I never remember the nice things. .__.  Can I get back to you?

4. If you could have an exotic pet, what would you choose?
SKUNK.  No doubt!  I’ve always wanted one, and even asked a teacher once if he could get me one, but he could only get them in bulk.  Boo.

5. What is your favorite flower?
Another tough question!  I love the smell of gardenias, but they’re kind of ugly.  Lilies and orchids are also really pretty.

6. If you were a Burlesque performer &/or pinup model, what would your stage name be?
I used to say I’d go as Veronica Danger but now I’m not so sure.  I am always open for suggestions.

7. What is your greatest achievement/proudest moment of your life?
Graduating with my master’s degree in geoscience.  Now if it could only get me employed…

8. In your opinion, what is the worst movie(s) ever?
I don’t know!  I don’t watch movies I don’t like, and the only movie I ever saw and paid money for that I’ve outright HATED was Pineapple Express.  I think I’ll have to go with that, then.  It was just…unpleasantly unfunny.

9. If you had to dye your hair one of the colors from the rainbow, what would you choose?
GIVE ME BACK MY PINK HAIR AND NOBODY GETS HURT OK

10. What is the ugliest fashion trend/item ever?
Crop tops.  On anyone.  I do not want to see your stomach, I don’t care what size you are, just…NO.

11. What are your top 3 obsessions?
Currently?  Monster High, UK-based panel shows, and Frank Turner.
Ever?  Pokémon, tattoos, and being alive.

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I can’t even write anymore.  Every phrase I conjure up ends in some sixth-grade rhyme scheme. ...

May 3, 2012, 12:00 am
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I can’t even write anymore.  Every phrase I conjure up ends in some sixth-grade rhyme scheme.  I’ll get one or two good lines, maybe even a stanza, and then someone slaps me with a metaphorical rhyming dictionary.  What the fuck happened?

[[MORE]]

Commedia del’Arte

I’m drunk on lust and wanting
I’m selfish and obscene
I’m good at burying my feelings
And living in assumed reality

But when being enters fantasy
It leaves me in the lurch
Where wanting and wishing throw me down
I’m stunned and paralyzed

I’ve got no choice but to shake it off
As Columbina, I take the stage
I’ll slap on a face like Pierrot -
The show must always go on.

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The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil Pleased to meet you,...

May 3, 2012, 9:13 am
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The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name

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6:59 AMI’ve been toldthat people in the armydo more by...

May 3, 2012, 5:11 pm
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6:59 AM

I’ve been told
that people in the army
do more by 7:00 am
than I do
in an entire day

But if I wake
at 6:59 am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.

- Shane Koyczan

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jtotheizzoe: Pursuit of Light “Water and stone. Flower and...

May 3, 2012, 5:51 pm
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jtotheizzoe:

Pursuit of Light

“Water and stone. Flower and bone: home.”

From the terrestrial to the celestial, from the atomic to the tectonic, discovery is all about pursuing light in some way, isn’t it?

NASA has given us many gifts: Knowledge of this planet and many worlds beyond. At a time when many of their missions, and our sense of wonder and inspiration along with them, are in jeopardy … they remind us of how illuminating science can be.

Pursuit of Light is promotion for NASA, but it’s also promotion for thinking big, and embracing that “Ahhh” feeling. Full screen, HD, sound up. 

Share it with someone you love, and stay curious.

(↬ Bad Astronomy)

Because science, that’s fucking why.  This is gorgeous and awe-inspiring and it reminds me why I got into this gig to begin with: we have so much left to learn.

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Sue Perkins is perfection.  Biggest girl crush.

May 3, 2012, 8:36 pm
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Sue Perkins is perfection.  Biggest girl crush.

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New life goal: to be too dishy to effectively impart knowledge like Professor Brian Cox.

May 3, 2012, 10:02 pm
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sailorsblues: thisisyourwake: Jawbreaker-Sluttering (May...

May 4, 2012, 8:44 am
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sailorsblues:

thisisyourwake:

Jawbreaker-Sluttering (May 4th)

Flattered that you think I warrant ugliness.
Gutters drain west, mud made a mess of us.
It’s time to leave this place.
I’d saw through your wrist to find a better trap that fits.
I’d saw through your traps to find a better you.
A part of you that lasts.
I saw through your trap and into my own wrists.
Saw we were through, red ribbons spill to blue:
A sight to sore your eyes.
I got this dress.
I’m hiking it around this waste of laughter.
Slow dance alone with no one to the sound of four hands clapping.
Congratulations to you both, I hope someway you’re happy.
If there’s a moral to this story then I wish you’d show me.
Hair in the blood, fly in the disappointment.
Rubber, I’m glue.
I’ll write the book on you.
It’s sticking to my face.
You need a little less than what you take for granted.
This is the sip that’s drinking back from you,
Blacken out your eyes.
You need a little more suppression of you appetites.
This is your honeymoon, in separate rooms,
It’s neither sweet nor bright.
I made a word to give this state a name, this game a guess.
I call it “sluttering.”
It means as little as your little test.
You are your worst revenge.
Your very means, they have no ends.
This is a story you won’t tell the kids we’ll never have.
If you hear this song a hundred times it still won’t be enough.

the ultimate jawbreaker day!

happy birthday to my feline best friend.

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DAMN.

May 4, 2012, 8:55 am
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I am a feminist.

May 4, 2012, 9:30 am
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introspectivestardust:

As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.

As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes”, I am a feminist.

As long as women have to face the rational fear of being sexually assaulted every time they walk home past dark while men don’t, I am a feminist.

As long as misogyny exists in any country in this world, I am a feminist.

As long as women are being raped, then stoned to death or forced to marry their rapist, I am a feminist.

As long as companies promote men to manager when there are women who are equally as or better qualified, because they find that men look more authoritative, I am a feminist.

As long as women (her choice of clothes, her friendly nature, her weakness, her choice to drink alcohol) get blamed when men rape them, I am a feminist.

As long women’s opinions on online social networks are dismissed with phrases like “tits or gtfo”, “get back to the kitchen”, “are you pms’ing?”, I am a feminist.

As long as dressing like a women is degrading for men and as long as men are insulted with phrases like “you throw like a woman”, clearly implying that being like a woman is shameful, I am a feminist.

As long as both men are women are expected to work, but taking care of children and the household are still largely considered a woman’s job, I am a feminist.

As long as boys and girls are treated differently, expected to act differently, and surrounded by different toys and colours from the day they are born, I am a feminist.

As long as topless women aren’t allowed in public unless they’re on the cover of a men’s magazine, I am a feminist.

As long as women who have sex frequently are generally told they are “sluts”, “lacking self-respect” and “lacking morals” by both men and women, while men who frequently have sex are “just being men” and it’s “natural for them”, I am a feminist.

As long as there are places where women have to pay more for health insurance than men, I am a feminist.

As long as men experience situations with equal gender representation as female-dominated, and don’t consider a group discussion equal unless there are significantly more men then women participants (as has been proven), I am a feminist.

As long as there are men who think it’s their wife or girlfriend’s duty to have sex with him whenever he wants, I am a feminist.

As long as the word feminism (“the movement aimed at equal rights for women”) has a negative connotation, I am a feminist.

As long as misogynist people exist, I am a feminist.

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