Thought Caught By A Thread
C a t h e r i n e.
I'm 25 years of laughter and fear, and my fiancé makes me ridiculously happy.
I love summer plums and taking my pants off; I'm loud, honest, and an ambivert.
I post everything I enjoy or relate to.
If you don't like it, go away.
My life = doing anything and everything with Aaron, pretending to count calories but basically living off wine and ice cream, adventuring with old friends, and attempting to impress new ones.
For Christmas, I gave Jacob, Aaron, and @hethrgood the Kidnapped! Escape Room experience, which I had booked for us tonight at 7:30pm :) After dinner at Gustavs, we headed to @pdxescaperooms and got handcuffed and led into a dark room. We managed to solve all the puzzles and bust out of the serial killers kill room with almost 3.5 minutes to spare! Nothing like a healthy dose of adrenaline to spice up your Friday 😂
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This weekend has been crammed full of socializing! I start classes tomorrow, which means I basically kiss my friendships goodbye lol. So Friday night we had @raysehorn and @almond_rosha over for dinner, games, and spontaneous donuts. Saturday we had game night with @gallifreyansong and Brian, and then an impromptu 7-11 run after the power went out. And today we fit in a low-key Sundate - pho, the library, and a couple errands. Then we made dinner and had @graphicsbyte @krystallynnn and Patrick over for food and games. (Greg loved Krystal’s hair and was 110% certain it made him invisible.) Thank you to everyone who came to our neck of the woods and gifted us with your time. I love you all and I promise to see you in like 4 months. 😂😍
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Power outage smells nice. After the power vanished on us at @gallifreyansong and Brian’s, we lit lots of candles and hung out for a while. Now I’m home and did the same thing.
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Today was Christmas with Aaron, my Mom, her Aaron, Jacob, and Grandma Debbie. We had all of our traditional foodstuffs: Danishes, eggnog, coffee spiked with Bailey’s, and a lunch of quesadillas and chorizo & eggs. We had a great pile of very thoughtful gifts from one another. We had a ton of laughs, a few tears, and we even snuck a short game in with Mom at the end of the day. Then Aaron and I went home, ate leftovers, and watched “It’s A Wonderful Life” for the first time. At the tail end of Christmas, I gave the rat boys more sharp cheddar.
We wish you the merriest of Christmases, with love. It really is a wonderful life. ❤💚
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Merry Christmas Eve, my loves! Tonight was Christmas with Aaron, my Dad, Papa, Grandma Betty, Mary, Jacob, Tucker, Gabby, Madelynn, Kat, and Brian. We had turkey and prime rib and plenty of tasty sides. We also had a wonderfully loud gift exchange. Everyone got Tucker something sloth-related. Our cats made out like bandits this year, and our rats were brought cheese for Christmas. We got my Grandma a companion cat toy that meows and purrs, and we tricked Papa by putting it in a cat carrier. He thought it was real for a few minutes and was very flipped out. 😂 And my wonderful husband got my wedding band made for me - an infinity band with our two birthstones. We had an excellent, cozy, happy time with our family tonight. Now to curl up in new pajamas and rest before our Christmas exchange with my Mom tomorrow. 😍
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My first roasted turkey came out pretty well. Thank Goddess for a good recipe and getting to borrow the roasting rack, platter, and digital thermometer from Dad! The carcass is being cooked down into a soup for tomorrow night, so my house has smelled like tasty turkey for two days now. Lucky me!
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Our Thanksmas potluck was wonderful. Emily and Morgan arrived later in the evenung and stayed the night with us, and we got to have brunch with them today. Now we are home. Aaron and the cats are napping, and I painted my nails and watched Elf. Now I’m crocheting and watching The Great Christmas Baking Show. My grandpa’s 70th birthday is tomorrow, so we are getting together for dinner to celebrate tonight. Life is really good. 💜
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Adios, November. 🍁🍂🍃 Ornaments are slowly getting added to the tree, presents are being tucked underneath, and the kitties are in heaven with all the little tags and ties they sneakily try to play with when they think I won’t notice. This is the most prepared I have been for the holiday season, and I am enjoying every second of my stress-free season so far. 😍
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#noshavenovember is just a lifestyle now. 🙆
Body positivity can be difficult. Everyone has their own unique opinion on what makes themselves look and feel good, and what is acceptable to talk about. It means that there are many conflicting opinions floating around you at any given moment, and it can be hard to sort out how you feel about yourself from how others feel about you.
I’ve been reflecting on this, and wanted to take a moment to talk about this small bit of body positivity I’ve implemented. I’ve never liked body hair removal processes. My skin is really sensitive, and I can’t escape a skin reaction no matter how or where the hair is removed. It’s embarrassing and painful. Sometime after I cropped my hair, I also stopped shaving. It was a tiny rebellion that most people wouldn’t notice. I didn’t expect how freeing and comfortable in my own body it would make me feel. I occasionally do shave, depending on how I feel. But I no longer shave with a sense of expectation.
I get a lot of comments on my body hair. More than I expected, to be honest. It’s a harmless nonaction, really - by not shaving, the only person I directly impact is myself. And it’s been a positive impact. I’ve been raised to take pride in my choices and to not be browbeat into a choice based on others opinions. This has been no different - when I get a negative comment, it doesn’t bother me the way I think people expect it to. I just can’t see a reason to be ashamed of something that has radically improved my relationship with my own body.
I know body hair is a weird thing to post about, but in my reflection I realized that I would have done this sooner if I hadn’t felt that I needed to conform to society in some regards. I’m a weird soul, and sometimes it sucks to be weird. When you make a choice that sets you apart, it’s sometimes difficult to then be proud of that choice.
I’m just posting because if there’s somebody feeling like they want to choose a weird thing, I hope they can find their own bravery to go on with it. Loving yourself is important, and difficult, and not talked about enough. And if some curly armpit hairs are what you need to get to that happy place, grow ‘em!
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Tonight I am watching movies, crocheting, and sipping pumpkin spice tea with my kitty for company. This is the life.
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Our pumpkin carving results with Kat and Brian: 10/10 would stab squash together again 😍
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