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Happy Sunday ⛪️

20220109 14:15 NYC

Charisse here, taking a break from creating content to Praise the Lord today.

Reminder to:

Take.

your.

butt.

to.

church.

okbye!

-Charisse of bycharisse

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hellogoodbye

20220109 12:22 NYC

Your Welcome 💋

And...

For your little ones 👧

Now that the vibes are taken care of 😌 Let's get into this!

Charisse again, creating content for yall beauts 🥰

I had such a pleasant day today ☁️ I cried, I rested, and then I awoke to a sermon. I was so moved that I went into my phone and even drew a few things. 🤗

I dont always give myself the permission to prioritize creating, as vital as it is to my health, so I was so thankful for not giving it a second thought and just doing it today.

Truthfully, I can get carried away and forget to leave the house when I create so that ~may~ be one reason why I've been so resistent to make it a habit, 😅 as beneficial as it might be. I'm gonna work on that though. 😬

I got cleaned up, dressed up, and took some fresh air afterwards. In a good mood, I strolled around the neighborhood, made some phone calls to family, and took in the beautiful chilly weather.

When you catch yourself mindlessly scrolling on social media, just get dressed up and go for a walk outside. I promise you it feels so much better the crouching over your phone for hours.

In no time, I was home with some "gifts" from my walk for the little ones. We chatted over some chips and laughed. It was short but such a good time honestly. 👩‍👧🥰 And if yall have little ones, you prolly know what I mean. Not only are they so lovable, they're hilarious, and so smart!

To wrap it all up, I was preparing to cook dinner until... I found so much food left over from last nights dinner! So you bet I reheated some home cooked dinner and savored the fuck outta that lol 😋

All in all, it was a great day. 😏

It was giving love, joy, peace, and all the above!

I'm so thankful.

Well, how was your day?

What did yall get into?

Did it contribute positively to your mood? Did it not?

Let me know in your replys or messages, I'd love to hear from yall!

Until next time, I hope yall have a great night! 😴🧸

kbye!

-Charisse of bycharisse

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It's Friday!

20220107 18:57 NYC

Content creator, Charisse, at your service.

Bringing you something from somewhere. 😄

Hope yall had a great New Year's Day and subsequent week!

As for me, I've been ill. 🤧

I miss when the days of the week signaled the coming of a break from the routine. Now, from the couch, it means close to nothing.

I'm doing some variation of what I did yesterday and I'm expecting the same of tomorrow.

I can say with 100% certainty that I'm also sleeping in early tonight.

If you also got sick during the holidays, I'm with you, but it's about time we get back to real life.

Idk where to get the energy from, but for sure, when I figure that out, we got this. 😁

(I've been listening to some coffeeshop music by the way. It's been a really great way to ease the stress of being sick, hope it can help you too!)

Take care of yourself ♡ And let's get after it tomorrow!

kbye!

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Doin the things 🫖🪴

20211222 17:23 NYC

Hey yall, it's me! Charisse, creator of content and all that jazz. 😅

I am going through my drafts and posts since my hasty return and boy are they not up to standards. 😄But, truth be told, that was the expectation when I posted them.

There was very little time and attention given to those posts as I was, and still currently am, handling urgent matters. And these are unusual times for me so the standards of usual times simply can't apply. 🤷🏻‍♀️ (look forward to some edits of these posts in the future though lol I also simply can't just leaving them like that 🙃 haha)

Believe it or not, the process of maintaining continuity in every post is actually time consuming and especially when I do not have access to a laptop with which to edit with more ease 😣 ugh, no bueno

At the end of the day though, I enjoy recording and sharing what has brought me joy and where I am currently at, so I hope yall enjoyed each new, albeit incomplete, post 😅 (that Nala quote was 🤯amiright? lol)

Well, Happy Holidays!

Hope you all are staying warm!🧣🧤Take care of yourselves!

kbye!

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Hey there!👩🏻‍💻

20211120 22:09 NYC

Content creator and creative, Charisse, here! 😊

Taking a break from my work search to thank everyone who made financial contributions to my blog this month. Thank you!

From the bottom of my heart, it was really encouraging to see the support.

I'd love to share wellness tips and creative updates on here full-time eventually so your support truly helps keep that dream alive ❤

Thanks again!

Since my last post I've been going through a tough time. As I described on my BMC page, I lack the financial resources needed to even just stay afloat now. I've been feeling frozen, making less and less art and scrambling for some semblance of wellness when I am usually the one helping others get to theirs on here.

I felt compelled to forget tumblrbycharisse all together, but the more I doubted myself, the more it lit a fire in me to have faith and try again.

So here I am!

I'm believing in this little project.

I'm believing that people are appreciating my written work and willing to pay me for it. I'm believing that my effort to provide this service will not go in vain or be undervalued. I'm believing that with time and dedication this blog will blossom into something undeniably resourceful for creatives. I'm believing that someone, somewhere in this world, is reading my posts right now and feeling seen. I'm believing that sharing my experiences as a creative is making someone feel less isolated in their struggle and feel less guilt and shame.

As I am aware that there is a long way to go before tumblrbycharisse can become a significant source of income for me, I am diligently looking for additional work, sprucing up my resume with the help of indeed, and organizing myself by adhering to a strict wellness routine.

If yall are in a similar boat, feel free to click through to those links and join me on this mission towards financial stability! 😄

We got this babes 🤗

Check back in with yall soon!

kbye!

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Good Day In My Mind🌾🌷

20210428 23:30 NYC

Your content creator, Charisse, here on a lively Wednesday evening.

(being fully sarcastic about that)

Feeling pretty far from home.

It's a feeling that comes and goes but has been overwhelmingly prevalent in recent years.

I can psychoanalyze this but I'm not gonna do that. I'm just gonna feel it because sometimes that's the part we forget has value too.

This feeling of being far from home is unnerving at best and disorienting at worst. I just want to go "home" but I dont know where that is. I don't know if it's a person, a place, or a memory I'm longing for, but what is undeniably clear is I'm disorganized without it.

Wherever this "home" is that I long for in these times, is a place where I can rest my mind, where I can cry things out and be validated, where I can relax my body, where I can play and laugh, where I can just be without a second thought.

Where is home for you? What makes it home for you?

These are unprecedented times and I know there are many of us feeling a bit lost. I hope yall find a pocket of time to go "home" and recharge your batteries bc we all need that every now and then.

Much love to yall ♡

kbye!

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How's Everyone Doing?

20210427 23:10 NYC

Hey, it's your content creator, Charisse, here!♡

I had such a rollercoaster of a day! Sheesh.🥴

But it was all worth it in the end when I got to see my crush irl 😌🥰

My day started with the increasingly loud and irritating noise from my upstairs neighbors. Today's Special on the noise menu was sounds of sharpening metal against the floor boards. It came in at about 3.5 hours in duration with 10 min breaks every 20 mins. On the side of course, were the regulars: stomping, chair dragging, and the dropping of heavy objects.

I'd say my blood pressure is reaching new heights this week for sure. What's in store for tomorrow I wonder? What terror will come upon me then. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. Stay tuned to find out!

I played my music obnoxiously loud on my headphones to combat the usual startling noises, and to combat today's new maddening noise. But, as always, it just drove me crazier.

Luckily, I was able to find some peace somehow and I actually made it through an episode of Why Are You Like This. (It's such a cute show honestly, but it isn't as gripping as other shows I've watched on Netflix. I'm on episode 4 now so let's see if that changes.🤷🏻‍♀️) And from there I moved on to Youtube... and so on and so forth.

My day was getting better. So what did I do? Try to make it even better of course! 🙌🏼🥳

So there's this guy that caught my eye in a nearby restaurant a few weeks ago. 😅 I was too nervous to order from there previously for that reason specifically but I was feelin ballsy tonight. Plus, the likelihood that he'd be the one taking the phone orders and/or delivering the food was so low in my mind I thought why the hell not. The menu looked soo appetizing too.

Well...thanks to my luck, he was the one doing both 😉 LOL

Needless to say I was lowkey elated. And when he delivered the food and called me 2 versions of beautiful my day was pretty much made.

So yea, I hope that yall out there are taking risks for your happiness too, because sometimes even when everything else isnt going your way a little bit of happiness goes a long way.

kbye!

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Good Evening Yall🌿🎸

20210426 22:51 NYC

Hey, it's your content creator, Charisse, here, vibing heavy 😌.

I had a pretty great day today to be quite honest. I took my situation, accepted it's parameters (I really need to stop using this word😅), and made do with it.

I fed myself, cleaned up, dressed up, did my makeup, then *boldly* set up my tripod to record myself drawing😝. LOL Yes, I have the audacity to think that the world needs a recording of my drawing process.

My skills have inherent value, babe. I swear. 👀 I feel it in my soul.

So anyway, in a few hours I got some vitamin D, some fresh oxygen, 2 drawings started and even a little photoshoot that passed the vibe check😘😄.

It was productive in the best way possible. What it produced was happiness and purpose, and isn't that what we all seek of our days at the core? So of course I was elated.

Now, to seal the deal, tonight we're having this pink moon situation-illumination peaking at 11:33pm (23:33), and you KNOW I'm going out with my camera to see that! 😂

It's been a great day and I'm grateful for every second I've had of it.

It's nice to see, in real time, how acceptance can result in peace. It's truly something worth practicing. The ROI is incredible, take it from me.🌿

Have a great night yall! I hope yall catch the pink moon!

kbye!

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Happy Half-Birthday to Me!

20210425 19:45 NYC

6 months wiser and I've got the stress belly to prove it 😂

It's your content creator, Charisse, here 🖐🏼 and this time, on a special little milestone of mine. My 26th and a half birthday!

Ever since I was old enough to realize that my birthday was always going to be too late in the season for the picnic birthday celebration of my dreams, I fantasized about having a birthday in the warmer months. I toyed with the idea of a fake birthday for a while until I kept forgetting the exact date I landed on and decided that I'll just suck it up and keep trying to think of clever ways to make the most out of my autumn birthday.

Then one day... as I was reflecting on my progress in the last quarter of my new age, it clicked! My half birthday is the perfect! birthday alternative. I will never forget the date and, while it isn't peak picnic weather, it's picnic permitting! and I can totally work with that!🥰

Spring had also been steadily climbing the ranks in my favorite season order so it just made perfect sense!

The first year I fully acknowledged my half birthday in 2018, I was turning 23 and a half. I threw myself a little celebration because no one else would. I invited some family that I knew would love to celebrate me on any given day 😂 and I didn't have a picnic but I had cake and that was good enough for me!

24 and a half was when my pinic birthday dream finally came alive! My old friends didn't come through but I picnic shopped my little heart out and got to spend it with a new friend I made ♡ and honestly it was everything.

2020 really busted my half birthday momentum. Not more than 2 weeks prior to my 25th and a half, I was laid off due to the pandemic. Sure I could've done a zoom thing but I was NOT in the quarantine house of my dreams. It was bad vibes all around and I wasn't in the celebratory headspace. Absolutely nothing transpired lol

Now it's 2021. I'm 26 and a half yall! And all I've done is sit in my room, stress, and repress. LOL. I swear this isn't just what getting older is like. This is process. Is this year going to be another bust? I THINK NOT! 😝

I've always been pretty good about making my own fun so let's see what I do with the remaining <4 hours of the day 😌.

This is your sign to make your own happiness!

Celebrate yourself when no one else will because YOU DESERVE TO BE HAPPY JUST AS ANYONE ELSE ON THIS DAMN FLOATING ROCK !

DONT STOP LOVING YOU BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE KNOWS HOW TO !

LOVE YOURSELF PROUDLY AND SHOW EM ALL HOW ITS DONE !

kbye!

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Hey! 👀How's it Goin?

20210424 21:10 NYC

Your content creator, Charisse, here, as per usual 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Ugh, how to start this... 😅 Well, for context, it's Saturday-

Saturday, and all I wanted to do was sit on my stoop alone. No book in hand, sketch or otherwise, just me, in my coat, among the soft winds, and in my skin.

And as I sit here, I cannot shake the feeling that this is wrong! That I should run back into my apartment because, for not having anything to do, I don't deserve to be outdoors.

But this is totally harmless! This is something I totally can do- its not illegal. But socially, it's just strange. And that's enough to send my anxiety through the roof...

Its strange that I wouldn't rather be with another person, it's strange that I wouldn't rather be doing something else, its strange that I'd choose to sit on what is essentially the floor on a really nice day on a Saturday and that I'd choose to do that and do it all alone too.

But I'm not so fortunate.

If I had good friends, I would absolutely! want to be doing other things right now with them. And even if we were to sit on my stoop exactly as I'm doing now, I would absolutely! also prefer doing it in their company than doing it alone as I am currently.

But I don't have good friends now and that's just a fact of the matter.

It's where I'm at in life right now and that's okay with me. I'm not in a rush to make friends, I'm not in a rush to be in company. I quite like my own company. And at this stage in my life, this is exactly what I need. I need discretion. I don't need to be making plans with just anyone. I don't need settling.

If it takes getting used to doing this every night to finally have the healthy relationships I've always wanted, I'll do it. As strange as it is. Because I want the next company I have to be company that I feel safe in. Company that I feel heard, seen, and loved in. I think we all deserve that.

I hope you find the bravery to face whatever challenge you're facing this weekend. And that you find the courage to see it through, with or without someone to cheer you on.

You got this😌!

kbye!

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Word to the Wise 🧐

20210423 23:49 NYC

Your content creator, Charisse, here with some sage advice.

Do not start "flipping" through photos and videos of you and your ex. 5 hours will pass and you'll look up and the sun will have already set, your body will have already started reaching into your calorie reserves, and the light from your eyes will have gone down a few notches.

Just don't do it. Kay babes? 😅 It's for your own good 😘

(okay, but if you *must*, have a timer set or have a friend to keep you grounded in the real world bc that shit's a timewarp.)

Fell into the trap myself today and boy, oh boy, I don't even feel like I exist anymore. 😂

Heading off to sleep now. Hoping my body and soul will be one again in the morning!😝

kbye!

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I Can't Stay Away 😅🤗

20210422 21:50 NYC

Your loyal content creator, Charisse, here 👋🏼

I really enjoy posting these and it appears I can't stay away at this point haha so again, this is a free form post until I figure out the parameters of this blog.

That said.

I had an awesome sequel to yesterdays day, and it was better than the first let me tell you! I took it up a notch and wow, the rewards were astonishing. I felt soo good about myself and gave myself some time to relax. Ah, relaxtion, that beautiful luxury who's appearances in my life are few and far in between 😬 but are welcomed and so appreciated each time.

Another thing I'm doing is I'm whitening my teeth using those strips that come in a box. I skipped a day yesterday but I'm back on track with it today, feeling good 😁. I really liked the results from this whitening pack when I purchased it back in December so in February I purchased it again and spaced out each session by a week or two for general upkeep. But after the kind of weeks I've had since February, I needed to get another box and redo the thing properly🤷🏻‍♀️

If youre interested in whitening your teeth at home, I recommend you browse the Target website because there are so many to choose from. The site also provides some very useful information in the details so use that tto find the one the best suits your needs and your lifestyle. Be it the gel, or the strips, or just a toothpaste, make sure its right for you.

I think the takeaway for today is:

Hit that challenge each day and each day you'll know a bit more than you did the day before.🙃

Have a great night yall!♡

kbye!

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Back at it Again! 👟

20210421 19:27 NYC

Your content creator, Charisse, here, checkin in!

It's been a day. And a day it has been. That's for sure.

I'm proud of myself for all I've tackled. It may not have had the most positive outcome, but it definitely has informed me plenty and that's a win in my book.

Ah, it's amazing what starts to fall into place when you're brave enough to open your eyes.

Pleasant to know there IS a rhyme and reason for why I have been feeling the way I have, it didnt just come out of thin air.

(Btw, I haven't yet decided the parameters of this blog content. That's still up in the air atm so bear with me 😅)

I'm getting familiar with this type of uncomfort and I'm not avoiding it. It's reality, its truth.

Does fantasy feel better? Yes. and No. And truth feels like a No. and Yes.

I think the main difference is one sharpens your mind and the other sharpens your imagination.

Up to you to decide which needs attending to most in your life atm.

Keep on keepin on. Stay strong yall.

kbye!

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Hey Yall! 🎸

20210420 18:50 NYC

I feel like today's been 3 days long 😅 but, hey there! It's your content creator, Charisse, here!

You may have noticed that I have shifted gears from self-help-y prompts following a wellness update to self-help-y prompts following long-form anecdotal accounts 🤷🏻‍♀️

There's a good reason for that see. Well, I didn't define the limits of this blog when I started it. It felt so right right off the bat with my first blog post that I believed winging it each day was just the way to go with this blog.

Now I feel differently.

While I do want to keep the energy in here high and I do want to encourage yall to take action and to be assertive. This is not how I want to achieve that.

Furthermore, as this is the 7th blogpost on tumblrbycharisse, we are on the last leg of this week, and to put a bow on good ol' Week One, I want to do a little reflecting on what this experience has informed me ab myself as a daily blogger♡

Well, to put it plainly. My writing needs improvements.

(It hasn't ever been my strong suit. It's why I chose to major in English actually... Too bad I didn't stay in college. I could've really turned this around 😄)

So, although I enjoy story telling and sharing what I believe can be helpful advice, in the future I will definitely be doing less of that. 😬

All that said, I'm going to take some time to figure out how I want to move forward with this blog.

In the meantime, I wish yall fresh air and sunlight!

kbye!

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We meet again, Friend 🥰🕊

20210419 23:00 NYC

Your content creator, Charisse, here. Floating on the clouds, toes dipping in the sky. I'm feeling light! ♡

Ugh, the vibe is so beautiful I could cry. Listening to *NSYNC so that could also be why... 😅

But wow, was today a day.

I finally rolled out of a funk that I was in for the entirety of last week. Cleaned up, fed myself, hydrated, and read aloud some tiktokfirmations 😂.

Currently, I'm in the middle of flat ironing my hair which makes me 🤗. I'll take any vehicle to quality me-time. Sign me up!

But the topic most on my mind today was belief.

Belief that your skills are unique, that your vision is special, and belief that you are THAT bitch.

It occurred to me that belief is a major deciding factor in how famous we have the potential to become.

A person that believes in themselves and what they have to offer, puts themselves in those rooms, puts themselves in those conversations, in those spaces. They do it and in such a manner that you can feel that they belong there bc they dont have a inkling of a doubt.

Fearlessness is knowing.

You know that song by Audio Central? Yea, well, I was thanking God that they believed in their additions to the original song. I was thankful that they listened back to it and were like, "yea it's THAT fire. we need to share this with the world." Now, all of us who agree that it's a vibe, get to enjoy it in our lives. All thanks to that simple belief in the project and themselves.

Believe in yourself so much until you KNOW you're THAT bitch, because you fucking ARE !!

We each fucking are!

kbye!

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Hey My Fearless Failures ! ♡🤕🙌🏼

20210418 12:05 NYC

Hello, it's your content creator, Charisse, here.♡

Today I wanted to talk about learning. I wanted to know what you know how to do now that you didn't know how to do in the past. But I realized I was more concerned with what you fought through defeat for to be able to improve in.

Most times we give up on things that we want to learn to do bc we are bad at it. And, either for a lack of the guidance necessary to improve, or the lack of motivation to let observation alone be our guidance, we give up on it and move on to learning something that we can more easily grasp, albeit it's something we don't deeply care to know how to do afterall.

So yes, you might have garnered a skill you didn't have before, but unless you were ever, at one point, terribly bad at it despite your deep desire to be good at it, that isn't that kind of learning I'm interested in encouraging you to reflect on today.

And in discerning that for myself, I found that the truest marker of engagment in that type of learning, is failure! So better than simply asking you to reflect on what you know today that you didn't know before, I'd love to offer you a different prompt.

Have you failed terribly at something in the past that you now execute expertly? And do you know how special it is that you can answer that with a yes? Seriously!! That's so absolutely special and you should give yourself so much congratulations for that.

As far as I'm concerned, as of yet- I'm not done learning yall😄-, that IS success in it's *purest* form.

YOU. ARE. SUCCESSFUL.

& Period!

It takes being a failure to be deeply sucessful. Take at look at the things you've failed at and didn't persist through. If you could know with 100% certainty that at the other side of failure you will finally be able to do that thing, would you fail for it again? Is knowing to do that thing deep enough for you?

Take your time and think about it ladies and gents!

I wish you will and happiness!

kbye!

-Charisse from bycharisse

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