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this is the money garf. reblog for untold pasta and riches to come your way

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100 Reasons NOT To Kill Yourself

1. We would miss you. 2. It’s not worth the regret. Either by yourself if you failed or just simply left scars, or the regret everyone else feels by not doing enough to help you. 3. It does get better. Believe it or not it will eventually get better. Sometimes you have to go through the storm to get to the rainbow. 4. There’s so much you would miss out on doing. 5. There is always a reason to live. It might not be clear right now, but it is always there. 6. So many people care, and it would hurt them if you hurt yourself. 7. You ARE worth it. Don’t let anyone, especially yourself, tell you otherwise. 8. You are amazing. 9. A time will come, once you’ve battled the toughest times of your life and are in ease once again, where you will be so glad that you decided to keep on living. You will emerge stronger from this all, and won’t regret your choice to carry on with life. Because things always get better. 10. What about all the things you’ve always wanted to do? What about the things you’ve planned, but never got around to doing? You can’t do them when you’re dead. 11. I love you. Even if only one person loves you, that’s still a reason to stay alive. 12. You won’t be able to listen to music if you die. 13. Killing yourself is never worth it. You’ll hurt both yourself and all the people you care about. 14. There are so many people that would miss you, including me. 15. You’re preventing a future generation, YOUR KIDS, from even being born. 16. How do you think your family would feel? Would it improve their lives if you died? 17. You’re gorgeous, amazing, and to someone you are perfect. 18. Think about your favourite music artist, you’ll never hear their voice again… 19. You’ll never have the feeling of walking into a warm building on a cold day 20. Listening to incredibly loud music 21. Being alive is just really good. 22. Not being alive is really bad. 23. Finding your soulmate. 24. Red pandas 25. Going to diners at three in the morning. 26. Really soft pillows. 27. Eating pizza in New York City. 28. Proving people wrong with your success. 29. Watching the jerks that doubted you fail at life. 30. Seeing someone trip over a garbage can. 31. Being able to help other people. 32. Bonfires. 33. Sitting on rooftops. 34. Seeing every single country in the world. 35. Going on roadtrips. 36. You might win the lottery someday. 37. Listening to music on a record player. 38. Going to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 39. Taking really cool pictures. 40. Literally meeting thousands of new people. 41. Hearing crazy stories. 42. Telling crazy stories. 43. Eating ice cream on a hot day. 44. More Harry Potter books could come out, you never know. 45. Travelling to another planet someday. 46. Having an underwater house. 47. Randomly running into your hero on the street. 48. Having your own room at a fancy hotel. 49. Trampolines. 50. Think about your favourite movie, you’ll never watch it again. 51. Think about the feeling of laughing out loud in a public place because your best friend has just sent you an inside joke, 52. Your survival will make the world better, even if it’s for just one person or 20 or 100 or more. 53. People do care. 54. Treehouses 55. Hanging out with your soul mate in a treehouse 55. Snorting when you laugh and not caring who sees 56. I don’t even know you and I love you. 57. I don’t even know you and I care about you. 58. Because nobody is going to be like you ever, so embrace your uniqueness! 59. You won’t be here to experience the first cat world emperor. 60. WHAT ABOUT FOOD?! YOU’LL MISS CHOCOLATE AND ALL THE OTHER NOM THINGS! 61. Starbucks. 62. Hugs. 63. Stargazing. 64. You have a purpose, and it’s up to you to find out what it is. 65. You’ve changed somebody’s life. 66. Now you could change the world. 67. You will meet the person that’s perfect for you. 68. No matter how much or how little, you have your life ahead of you. 69. You have the chance to save somebody’s life. 70. If you end your life, you’re stopping yourself from achieving great things. 71. Making snow angels. 72. Making snowmen. 73. Snowball fights. 74. Life is what you make of it. 75. Everybody has a talent. 76. Laughing until you cry. 77. Having the ability to be sad means you have the ability to be happy. 78. The world would not be the same if you didn’t exist. 79. Its possible to turn frowns, upside down 80. Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive. 81. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Be your own hero. 82. Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. 83. One day your smile will be real. 84. Having a really hot, relaxing bath after a stressful day. 85. Lying on grass and laughing at the clouds. 86. Getting completely smashed with your best friends. 87. Eating crazy food. 88. Staying up all night watching your favourite films with a loved one. 89. Sleeping in all day. 90. Creating something you’re proud of. 91. You can look back on yourself 70 years later and being proud you didn’t commit 92. Being able to meet your Internet friends. 93. Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate 94. Sherlock season three. 95. Cuddling under the stars. 96. Being stupid in public because you just can. 97. If you are reading this then you are alive! Is there any more reason to smile? 98. being able to hug that one person you havent seen in years 99. People care enough about you and your future to come up with 100 reasons for you not to do this. 100. But, the final and most important one is, just, being able to experience life. Because even if your life doesn’t seem so great right now, literally anything could happen

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5 things I wish I had known when I started knitting

1: it takes over your wallet

2: it takes over your house

3: it takes over your free time

4: it takes over your ability to sit and do nothing

5: it takes over your LIFE

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Our Agleams are growing. Mom mastered the wrap and turn to conquer her first short rows today. #agleam #momandmekal #sharppointysticks #knit #knitter #knitlife #knittersgonnaknit #knittersofinstagram #knitstagram #knittersofig #knitting #nevernotknitting #instaknit #igknitters #knitters #yarn #yarnlove #knittinglove #alwaysknitting #castonallthethings

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You are definitely worth the trouble. That is, as long as it is an enjoyable knit/pattern/yarn combination aside from the mistakes.

i wonder if the “sweater curse” affects relationships with oneself as well? i had to completely unravel mine because a) i fucked up raglan angles, and b) i want it knit on 4-mm needles, not 3-mm (HUGE difference, so much softer). but as i am 38 cm in, i’m beginning to think, am i worth all this trouble??

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Boyfriend Sweater Curse

I’m wanting to make myself and my husband sweaters. I had heard about the boyfriend sweater curse back in the early stages of our relationship. We are not superstitious people (we got married on Friday the 13th!), but this was something we weren’t willing to risk.

Fast forward 6 years to now as I am working through knitting and crocheting Christmas gifts for the knit-worthy people in my life. For my husband, I was planning on only knitting him a pair of socks, but when I knit my dad a cowl, I had him try it on since he’s the only guy available at the time. He stated that he wanted the same pattern of cowl and a hat to go with it if I had time, because it would be great for skiing. I promptly made him both and even though I made multiple visible mistakes (but not terrible) in the hat (forgot to do the middle cable stitching in half of the cables), he reassured me that he loves the hat and doesn’t mind.

I’ve been waffling on whether or not one of my relatives is knit-worthy, so I tried to find guidance from the interwebs. I found this great guide where you add or subtract points based on different things and end up with a score. There are multiple levels of scores that correlate to how knit-worthy the person is. (Are You Knit-Worthy? on Tabitha’s Heart) The relative scored 80, so they are in the “neither worthy nor unworthy” level. The top level that is for scores of above 150 points gives you permission to knit that person a sweater or something intricate. I already knew my husband was totally knit-worthy (we might not have made it this far if he wasn’t), but I was curious as to what his score was. 370! Okay, time to reconsider the sweater.

I searched in the Ravelry forums for posts about the boyfriend sweater curse. Even though the comments I have been reading are over 10 years old, they are giving me some great insight as to why I can knit him a sweater! He is actively supportive of my yarn habit (more than just letting me buy what I want. When we’re in an LYS on a vacation, he tends to get to talking with the shop owner and sometimes I have to wait for him to get done after I have already spent a while deciding on what to buy. Heck! About a year or two into dating, he took me to our LYS when I had had a bad day and bought me nice yarn! He also bought be a project bag from birdlegbags that I was waffling on whether I wanted to spend the money on or not, but really wanted. This year will be the second time I go to the local yarn festival (Wool Gathering at Young’s Jersey Dairy). He has offered to join me. When I said I would like to get a spinning wheel and learn how to spin, but it’s a lot of money, he responded by saying that he’s okay with spending that much on one as long as it looks awesome as well as being very functional. At the beginning of June, we went on vacation and he chose where we were going based on the resort that has a fiber farm on the grounds where you can hold one of the angora rabbits! (Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa in New Hampshire)

I also read a few tips as to get around the curse. Have a few other people knit one stitch each. Make a mistake. Involve him in the process. I don’t know if I’ll have anyone knit any on it, but I will likely make a mistake that I won’t catch, knowing my track record. I will most definitely be involving him in the process by having him choose the yarn. I might want to keep it a bit of a secret as to what the pattern looks like, so I might show him sweaters similar and see what he likes. I know he likes some cabling, only a little on his socks, but I don’t know about his sweaters.

tl;dr: My husband will be getting a knitted sweater that I’ve made, hopefully by Christmas 2019. He will be involved in choosing the yarn and the pattern.

#knitting #sweaters #knitting for husband #sweater curse #knitworthy

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Condom filled with tea

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Normalize bare faces in ALL settings. Makeup should not be a requirement for beauty, professionalism or hygiene. Normalize the idea that if applying makeup isn’t enjoyable there’s no reason to be wearing it. Then destroy the elitism within makeup culture and destroy the idea that makeup as a hobby requires spending a lot of money.

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““I’m going to speak to a group of women today.” said my mom. “I had it on my vision board. And in the picture, the audience was even a group of women!” Although a vision board sounds like something that I would be all about, it’s something that I had never done until this year! Over the summer, I did a lot of planning and goal setting. I reevaluated longterm goals, wrote to-do lists for short term goals, and knew exactly what I wanted for the upcoming school year. However, I always thought vision boards were a little… cheesy. Dream It Alive Then I found this website, Dream It Alive. I liked that I could create the board online, instead of dragging out scissors, glue, and a stack of old magazines. I also really liked that it gives you a checklist of different areas of your life (much like Feng Shui), so that your dreams/goals can be balanced! Once you choose an area of life, you follow the link to several stock photos that could represent what you envision for yourself. OR you can upload your own… which I probably would do next time. Goal Writing For each photo, you write a short goal 1-3 sentences. Then you do what is possibly my favorite part: You select the feeling/emotion you will feel upon completion of this goal. I like this exercise because I have never thought about that before. Why is this goal important to me? What emotion will I feel once I’ve completed it? It really helped to put things in perspective. Then you can select whether your goal is private or public. I set all of mine to private, just because it felt weird to have them public. (I don’t mind sharing with you, though!) Board Arrangement I tried and tried, but I couldn’t find a way to rearranged the photos once they were on my board. They will “stack” from the bottom right corner and end at the top left corner. If you complete all 10 categories, your layout will stack in this order: -Bottom Row: Right Corner, Middle, Left Corner -Middle Row: Right Side, Right Middle, Left Middle, Left Side -Top Row: Right Corner, Middle, Left Corner I tell you this because I deleted and remade it a ton of times to get my photos in the order I wanted :) Once you have your board, you can save/download it etc. for a small fee. Or you can just keep it on the website (for free) and go back anytime you want. You have your own account, which allows you to edit your board whenever you need to. You can even mark goals as “fulfilled” and keep a list of accomplished dreams, which I really like! I definitely feel like seeing these goals every day is keeping me focused! :) Have you ever created a vision board? Did you choose online or a physical one at your home? Did you feel like it helped you reach your goals?! Follow Organized Charm on Instagram for daily productivity tips!”

— http://organizedcharm.blogspot.com/2018/07/creating-online-vision-board.html

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the bar is set very very low

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Bobble bobble bobble bobble bobble.

I’m still bobbling along. I’ve restarted this hat 4 times so far which was a pain but at least I have perfected my bobbling skills. Technically these are actually nupps but bobble is much more fun to say. 

Also, you know you’ve done a good job of spinning when the ladies at spinning group don’t believe that you spun it. Even after they saw you spin it.

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I’m going to need this as nice yarn for a sweater is out of my budget but I want to make sweaters.

If you have cashmere taste and a Red Heart budget, this is a friendly reminder that acrylic yarn can be softened very easily by

Prewashing your skein in a lingerie bag with fabric softener and warm water in the washing machine & dryer

Soaking your finished project in a bath of cheap hair conditioner and warm water in your kitchen sink

I know there are a lot of yarn snobs who might talk a big game about how “terrible” acrylics are so, here. Have some tools to prove them wrong. 💜

#yarn #acrylic #soften yarn #cheap #large projects are expensive

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More coordinating tools and yarn! Pattern is Coraline in the Wine Country, yarn is red heart boutique unforgettable in the dragonfly colorway, and project bag is from addi’s bags.

#crochet #yarn #shawl #hook #blue #purple #blue and purple #turquoise #dogs

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from your friendly neighborhood librarian:

all books are good books.  you are not a “lesser reader” if you only read manga or comic books or a “better reader” for reading academic heavy texts.

reading is reading no matter what it is, be it a graphic novel, a romance, a classic, an audiobook, a picture book, a cookbook, fanfiction, fucking whatever, read what makes you happy

reading is supposed to be fun and don’t let elitism sap any joy out of it

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where! has! my! passion! gone! I had it abundantly when I was a child, and I must have dropped it along the way, but I cannot figure where!