neurodiversitysci:

runcibility:

thewightknight:

fthgurdy:

kimbureh:

you know I once googled how very organized housewives kept their homes super clean. And one thing they suggested was, if a task can be done in less than 2 minutes, do it right away.

And I have to think about this very often when depression tells me to delay doing things, if it tells me something is too much work right now etc.

If I can do it in less than 2 minutes I can do it no matter how exhausting it seems.

That’s what I tell myself. And it works!

I get more done and after 2 minutes I usually realize the pain doing this thing is not so horrible as my brain suggested. And then I keep going and expand the task and get real work done, holy shit

That’s…. actually brilliant. Two minutes is so short, it’s relatively an easy amount of time to FORCE yourself to work on something, even when you’re just completely deflated.

What works really really well for me is to compound annoying tasks that don’t require much thought with something actually pleasant. It took a long time to find the actual pleasant thing, but with audiobooks I can actually end up looking for chores to do because I want to continue listening to the book, and it doesn’t combine well with anything except the most mindless work.

That’s how I cleaned my bathroom top to bottom two weeks ago, after barely being able to pick up empty loo rolls from the floor for…well, months.

That’s how i’ve kept my house “company ready” for over a month now, a major accomplishment for me. I’m having guests over in a few hours and I’ve spent the day farting around on tumblr and taking walks out in the gorgeous weather instead of stress cleaning for the entire day.

That’s why I try and make the bed every morning. It’s a thing I can look at that’s neat and tidy and doesn’t take long at all, but helps me feel like I actually DID something.

That moment of accomplishment is sometime just enough momentum to push through the syrup of depression.

This works especially well in combination with what @jumpingjacktrash calls “junebugging.” Just don’t make my mistake and try it when you’re already running late to go somewhere.

babydogdoo:

secret-soup:

cincosechzehn:

jedi-giraffe:

gothtigger92:

liho907lilo:

Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:

The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.

The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.

Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.

Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business. 

This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.

Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday

ok fellow millenials, it’s time to kill black friday

LET’S KILL BLACK FRIDAY

This goes double for Thanksgiving. More and more places are opening late on Thanksgiving; Gamestop is opening at 3 PM on Thanksgiving. My employer is and always has been open 24 hours on Thanksgiving.

Sometimes going out is unavoidable, please be as kind and understanding to the people forced to work as possible.

xuxudrops:

astranemus:

“For example, we often hear that necromancy was outlawed because it was a devilish practice that depended upon the power of Satan for its effectiveness. What you do not hear is that necromancy was an aspect of ancestor worship, and that part of outlawing it involved making it illegal to bury your family members on your own land. Suddenly, you were required to bury your dead in Church-sanctioned graveyards. This effectively removed one of your most solid claims to ownership of your ancestral land. It was no longer the place where you could prove your forefathers lay buried. It made it easier for authorities to come along and kick you out of your home and take state ownership of the land your family had left to you. This also supported the ultimate goal of breaking up family clans, and the political power and wealth that often went along with them.”

— Aaron Leitch, Folk Tradition and the Solomonic Revival; At the Crossroads

Law and witchcraft.

molegria:

ink-phoenix:

foxanddanapetrie:

bemusedlybespectacled:

wholock-rab:

youarelookingatthis:

jolivet:

youblowuponesun:

jolivet:

holmes-sweet-holmes:

urbancatfitters:

do u guys understand how creepy the pledge of allegiance is though like every day when ur a kid everybody just chants how great america is every morning it’s creepy

You do that every morning???

EVERY MORNING.

wait

wait

is this a real thing i thought that was just in the simpsons

no son

Wait, other countries don’t do this.

*whispers* Not even Russia

I remember when my dad had a conversation with me

because I asked him what the Austrian pledge of allegiance was (because he’s from Austria)

and he said “we don’t have a pledge of allegiance”

and I said “why not?”

“honey, think about what training your children to mindlessly pledge to a flag, without really knowing what they’re talking about, sounds like to Austrians”

“oh. hitler.”

“exactly”

RE FUCKING TWEET

Same w/ Italians. No Italians will ever display the flag unless the soccer national team is playing

we’ve seen a surge of flag pride in Brazil over the last few years, parallel to the surge in white nationalism and fascist ideas. now I get heartburn when I see our national colors (:

thebibliosphere:

frankenuff:

thebibliosphere:

I have had approximately zero sleep cause my brain was so worried about sleeping in and missing this early morning appointment, that it decided that anxiously staying awake instead was the better option. Thanks brain.

Mine does that. Then the alarm goes off, and brain decides that this is what it was concerned about, and now that it’s happened we can sleep.

That is Exactly what my brain does too. I hate it.

And then Brain spends the entire day meeping mournfully to itself about how sickeningly and cruelly tired it is, and sleep now pls oh pls only to decide, come bed-time no, not tired now, will chase brainweasels for hours so there, meanie.

Why can you not just listen to me in the first place, brainmeats?  We would all hurt so much less if you would.