My favorite gif ever

I used to have underwater tea parties too

Like this!

Awwww, Shit!

love this.

Bamboo Bones

I've been a casual Against Me! fan for the past few years and I've enjoyed almost every song I've heard from them. I guess I overlooked this song "Bamboo Bones" when I got their album a while back, but for some reason it's resurfaced and I can't stop listening to it. It's so damn catchy! I'm a total sucker for harmonies as it is and the harmonies on this song hit my sweet spot. It's been on repeat on my ipod for two days straight. I don't know. I just love it.

I also liked this

From here:

Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem. Sometimes the smartest choice is giving up.

• Give up trying to be cool.
• Give up wanting to be a famous musician, artist, architect, thinker, writer, whatever-it-is. Maybe it’s smarter to make your purpose to have an impact, instead.
• Give up trying to be perfect.
• Give up keeping relationships with people you don’t really like.
• Give up trying to be important. (Focusing on community is usually more fulfilling.)
• Give up achieving a lot of ego-driven goals.
• Give up trying to be super-focused. Sometimes the most compelling ideas come from the most messy, unexpected sources.
• Give up trying to be indie.
• Give up caring about owning a lot of cool things, which keep you distracted from acknowledging that you don’t like what you’re doing with your life.
• Give up trying to have a perfectly organized workspace and a zero inbox.

 With that said, there are a lot of ways we think we’re doing good, but we’re really not.

• Give up trying to be super happy all the time. Instead, settle for being peaceful.
• Give up needing a reason to share your love. Being alive is reason enough.
• Give up trying to be everything to everyone.
• Give up caring about being the smartest, best and fastest. At least don’t let your ego get caught up in it.
• Give up trying to be ultra productive, especially if productivity is making you miserable.
• Give up caring about having a respectable job, a respectable resume, and a respectable life. Replace following a template, with freestyling life.
• Give up trying to constantly improve yourself. Sometimes too much self improvement can cause you to lose sight of the present.
• Give up trying to always find interesting experiences and interesting things to do. Alternatively, be interesting and be interested.
• Give up trying to live up to the expectation of yourself.

Trying to make things happen all the time creates a lot of unnecessary anxiety. It’s stressful trying to deny what is.

Most of these problems only exist within our minds. They’re not real physical problems; they’re simply psychic, imagined obstacles.

It’s interesting how we seem to have so many problems, so many dilemmas. But most of the time the answer to solving them is doing nothing. Giving up.

I've taken a lot of these philosophies to heart. Sometimes it feels good to give yourself permission to just be.  

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life

Dorothy Dix's Dictates For A Happy Life (via mollylambert)

First. Make up your mind to be happy. Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable. It is up to you. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. If you can’t go to the opera, you can turn on the radio. Nail on your face the smile that won’t come off, and after a bit you will find that it comes naturally.

Second. Make the best of your lot. Of course, you’re not everything you want and things are not just right. Nobody is that lucky. Even the most fortunate have a lot of crumpled rose leaves under their forty mattresses of ease. There isn’t a single human being who hasn’t plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

Third. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Don’t think that everything that happens to you is of world-shaking importance and that somehow you should have been protected from the misfortunes that befall other people. When death robs you of one you love, or you lose your job, don’t demand to know of high heaven why this should happen to you and grow rebellious and morbid over your sorrow. We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

Fourth. Don’t take other people too seriously. They are not so much, anyway. Don’t let their criticisms worry you. You can’t please everybody, so please yourself. Don’t let your neighbors set your standards for you. Don’t run into debt trying to keep up with the Joneses, or bore yourself to death trying to be as intelligent as the Highbrows. Be yourself and do the things you enjoy doing if you want to be comfortable and happy.

Fifth. Don’t borrow trouble. You have to pay compound interest on that and it will bankrupt you in the end. It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. There are none of us who have not lain awake at night petrified with dread of some calamity that we feared might befall us and that we felt would shatter our lives if it should occur. Generally it never happened, but if it did, it was not so bad after all and we survived it without serious injury. Enjoy today and let tomorrow take care of itself. There is no sounder adage than that which bids us not to trouble trouble until trouble troubles us. The only good that worrying ever did anyone was make him thin. It is grand for the figure but hard on the disposition.

Sixth. Don’t cherish enmities and grudges. Don’t keep up old quarrels. Don’t remember all the mean things people have done to you. Forget them. Hate is a dreadful chemical that we distill in our own hearts, that poisons our own souls. It takes all the joy out of life and hurts us far worse than it does anyone else. There is nothing so depressing as having a grudge against someone. Nothing makes a home so miserable as for the family not to be on good terms. Meeting someone you don’t speak to will spoil any party. So if you have an enemy, forgive him and kiss on both cheeks, not for his sake but simply because it is to making you unhappy and uncomfortable to be stirred up in wrath against him.

Seventh. Keep in circulation. Go around and meet people. Belong to clubs. Travel as much as you can. Have as many interests as possible. Have hosts of friends. That is the way to keep yourself cheerful and jolly and thinking that this is the best of all possible worlds.

Eighth. Don’t hold post-mortems. Don’t spend your life brooding over the mistakes you have made or the sorrows that have befallen on you. What is done is done and cannot be changed, but you can have your whole future life in which to make good. Not all the tears can bring back those we have lost, but we can make life miserable for ourselves and those about us by our unavailing weeping. Quit beating upon your breast because you haven’t as much money as you used to have. Don’t be one of those who never get over things. Have the courage to take misfortune on the chin and come up smiling.

Ninth. Do something for somebody less fortunate than yourself. Minister to other people’s trouble and you will forget your own. Happiness is a coin that we keep only when we give it away.

Tenth. Keep busy. That is the sovereign remedy for unhappiness. Hard work is a panacea for trouble. You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

I try to do a lot of these, but it's nice to be reminded.

Check My Baby Out!

SO STOKED FOR THIS!

Sneak Peek

I haven't officially announced this yet on Shmitten Kitten, but my beer with Sly Fox is coming out soon. Very soon. In fact, it's already available in the Sly Fox Pub. It will be available in almost two dozen bars and restaurants in Philly shortly and here's the first review I've read of it. WOW! I haven't even tried it yet but now my excitement is through the roof.

Cheers!

My Birthday Will Be Like This

but in reverse:

Guys

The League is now streaming on Netflix. YESSSSSSS!

And so it's written

Awwww.

Birthday Haircut, Y'all

You can't really tell, but it's bouncy as shit.

I look like an old-timey convict in my dress. Let my BIRTHDAY WEEKEND COMMENCE! (That rhymed!)

Ha!

“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”

- Stephen King"

via Ned Hepburn

Serious Sweet Collection

Brilliant.

Deep Thought Graffiti

Fuck You, Facebook

THIS is what you think I'd be interested in?

Oy vey.

My Spirit Animal

Sue Lyon at the 1962 premiere of Lolita

I'm Just Letting You Know That My Birthday Is In ONE WEEK

via

My Sunshine

Gonna visit this little peanut in one week. Can't wait to kiss those cheeks!

Well Said

“Each time I sit down to write I don’t know if I can do it. The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.”

- Don Murray, [via] (via merlin)"

From Extraface. I like this quote. It's apropos to my life right now, BIG TIME!

This is pretty cool

Congrats to my friends at the Frisky for their 3rd Birthday! I was especially stoked to see Shmitten Kitten in there as one of the top 40 people/places/things that they'd like to thank.

What's remarkable about this is that out of all the women's blogs listed, we stand out because we're such a small operation. I don't have a full, paid staff and I don't have huge advertisers like the other blogs they list. But, the fact that we're recognized up there with them is an AMAZING compliment. Thanks, Amelia and thanks, Friskiers! What a thrill!

Perspective

Wait

 So am I hot or not hot? I don't get it.

[Update: I wrote him back. Oh, Internet. You never cease to amuse me.]

I Could Stare At This For Hours

Here is popcorn, popping.



It looks like an angel taking flight. DEEP!

WORST DESSERT NAME OF ALL TIME!

Uh, no thanks!

via

This is Cool

director swap | Arrested Development by Wes Anderson

“This is the story of a wealthy family…”

via upshot

It's A Numbers Game

It took me three years to get to a million hits on Shmitten Kitten.

And, it took less than three months to get to a million and a half.

Wait for it...

 
WOOOHOOOOO! HOLY SHIT.

Sam Rockwell

Put him in a crusty hoodie and plop him in a record store and BAM! you're basically looking at my high school sweetheart. This is freaking me out. It's like looking at a ghost.

You've Been Warned

 

It's true!

I Love This

Anything by e.e cummings gets an automatic reblog. He's my favorite poet. The way he's so playful with language and punctuation inspires me. Truly.

Girl, You Know It's True

via me!

This is actually super cute

Really.

Truth

How Have I Not Heard This Song Yet?

"Mustache In Your Face" by Pretty. Shiiiiiit, this is good! '60s Psych like whoa.

HOLY SHIT!

STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES!



Family Ties Ties

I Love Ya, Shorties

Stand proud, my little homies. xoxo

WINNING

Mr. Sheen Is The Gift That Keeps Giving

The Frisky re-posted my steez. They said I have an active imagination. They have no idea.

GUYS!

I just got namechecked on The Daily What. WHAT?

Cool. This is one more strange thing for a guy to find when he Googles my name before our first date.

Just saw that my man Mr. Stump is playing Philly in April

He's playing at the Troc on April 8th and I'm about 99% sure that not only can I get on the list, but hopefully secure backstage passes too. This will probably be the best night of my life, FYI you guys.

It's too bad that he doesn't drink because I'd love to hit the town with him and sling back shots of tequila til we're wobbly. Hey, A GIRL CAN DREAM!

Maybe Shmitten Kitten can sponsor the after-party somewhere and he can hang out and deejay? BRB. Gotta make some phonecalls while I jump up and down and do cartwheels.

At this point

it's like shooting funny fish in a funny barrel.