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A group of curious preschoolers visits some beehives in Stockholm

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my favorite work memory from this store will always be “hey remember when the subway inside the store closed down and they let me take a bunch of their shit for free and now it lives inside my house?”

my life is a joke

#literally the dream

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Abandoned buildings

#now that’s art

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beautiful girls named ⚠️ Severe Weather keep messaging me

#modern day sirens

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Due to the Unfortunate!

We are deeply out of Onions!

#this hits every note for me #the Burger King which is my F3 (Favorite Fast Food) #the dramatic language #which is absolutely warranted because ONIONS 🧅 ARE SO VITAL YALL #also this is a sign #I shall now eat Burger King 🍔 👑 #try to stop me I dare thee

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Me, getting tired while hiking this weekend:

“Oh no, my go-brain is bigger than my go-body.”

#words got hard when my feet stopped making normal sized human steps and started only making tiny steps even when I said no to them

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me: so..... see anything interesting lately?

the many eyed creature living in my basement: YOUR LAUNDRY IN THE WASHING MACHINE. IT WAS DONE CYCLING 4 HOURS AGO

me: oh shit i forgot thanks

#cryptids are friends not spooks 😱

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reblog and put your "soap and candles" gift in the tags, like the simple thing someone can get you if they don't know what to get you that you will always be excited about

#nice pens like fine point sharpies or nice markers or whatever #blank notebooks (bonus points for large pages with college rule) #also literally anything that will be a practical improvement on my day to day (like the laundry baskets my girlfriend just got me!) #also literally anything that I routinely buy and will use anyway: like dish soap or coffee creamer #my brain goes: wow! they care about the burdens I carry enough to carry one for me <33

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Apple and Blueberry Crumble

#oh hell yeah #the good part of my childhood

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stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot) it was on the driveway got out of the car and accidentally (didn't know it was there) stepped on the plum (warm) (on the ground) (it had fallen from the tree) barefoot (no shoes) wearing long pants (too long) (need to hem them) plum viscera got on them (the pants) unexpected plum on the driveway (hot plum) (97 degrees out) already super hungover (throwing up all morning) (should not have been driving at all) and I stepped out of the car (black car) (97 degrees out) and onto the plum (unexpected) (didn't know the plum was there) and it burst (plum nightmare on my only good pair of sweatpants) still we find ways to keep ourselves going from day to day

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Aerial view of a volcanic crater. Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Photo credit: Chris John

#it is a wok and the oil is melting in the middle #throw some onions and garlic in there

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Likes and dislikes I picked up specifically due to my current job, that I had no strong feelings about beforehand:

Dislikes

1. Red and white wool items. The red will color bleed. It is true color run can often be corrected, but oh honey. Also any heirloom wool items in which the dyes have not been chemically set.

2. 100% Silk Tommy Bahama shirts. Most Tommy Bahama shirts press out beautifully but those silk bastards are tricky.

3. Puff irons. Who the hell designed those??? It wasn’t OSHA, I know that. The number of times I’ve burned myself on that thing isn’t even funny.

4. Linen. I mean, if everyone involved is cool with wrinkles and mild discoloration then I love good quality linen; it’s sturdy and great. But trying to make WRINKLE FREE LINEN?!?!?!?! Girl.

5. Sweat stains on silk. Impossible to remove. The salt ring will not become water soluble, NSD be damned. Steam does not “flush it out.” Vinegar is laughable. Repeated solvent cleaning has extremely limited success. Hydrogen peroxide 3% is just a slow oxygen bleach, and will discolor the hell out of even cream colored silks.

6. Combination wool and silk items. Who in the ever loving hell designed those one piece dresses with wool skirts and silk tops?

7. Styrene beads.

8. Johnny Was items. They’re cute, but the designers use the worst, most flimsy and expensive fabrics (lots of silk, very delicate velvets) to pair with the heaviest (cotton-poly) embroidery and it just never unwrinkles after cleaning. That embroidery thread shrinks, and you can’t fucking tension it out after without ruining the fucking silk it’s sewn on!

9. Cashmere. More specifically: people who buy such a light and soft and loosely woven fabric and then expect it to hold up well to repeated wear and cleaning, and never develop small holes or stains that can’t be removed without damaging the fabric.

Likes:

1. Carbona. Carbona, my belovéd, my one, my only. I live and die by Carbona. I will hardsell Carbona products all day every day because they actually are fantastic and work exactly as they should. Beautiful and amazing. Carbona works on RED WINE. 🍷

#things i’ve learned working at the laundry

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snow day

#and I know I should be going home

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#yes #good colors

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#cryptids are friends not spooks 😱

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one important thing that Must be understood about interpersonal relationships is that you have to stop interacting with people who love you like they’re one slip-up away from leaving you. you have to trust that the ppl you love mean what they say. you have to believe that when they say “this hurt my feelings,” that they’re also saying, “can you please love me this other way next time?” and you have to wrap your head around the fact that even if you don’t understand Why someone loves you, you can accept that that they do. true, honest, & open love does not function like hp in a video game !!!!!!

#that’s how the light gets in #it’s l💗ve

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Stain treating is kinda like religion. It doesn’t really matter what you’ve done to get a stain out: If you tell anybody about it, their grandmother would have done it differently.

#things I’ve learned working at the laundry