things i think about while powerwashing 159

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Congratulations my esteemed subscribers :) , you have made it past the darkest ten darkest weeks of the year.

To be honest, these ten weeks have not been the easiest for me. Work stress and customer deadlines have piled up — long hours, big decisions, getting stunlocked into six straight hours of meetings. With greater power has come greater responsibility. And right behind the responsibility comes the self-doubt. Am I doing well enough? Am I even an interesting person? Am I just sentenced to work forever?

Even in these times when I’m feeling like the walls are closing in on me, I try to be grateful for things. Things like my big beautiful cat Simba, or a weekend of sushi-making and latte-pouring with friends. Or getting competitive at the shuffleboard hall with my coworkers during our offsite! Or even belting out Bring Me to Life in front of my CEO during my offsite.

To be honest this blog post was originally going to be an exploration into why I think I have gotten more boring over the span of the last two years but that got instantly derailed when I got this Instagram post about making it through the ten darkest months of the year. And honestly, I needed that.

Now I pass this positivity on to you my esteemed subscribers! Go forth and have a week, but before you do that think about something YOU are grateful for. And if you would like you can share that in anonymous subscriber news!

museum of the week

My trip to Philadelphia was very eventful (for various reasons) from waiting around for my friends to run pass me during half-marathons and marathons to esteemed subscriber Harish Bhaskar Sai and I’s Uber drive gunning it to the bus station to even some strange encounters with my AirBnB host. But amidst all this chaos, I had some time to stop by a quirky and fairly fun museum: the home of Benjamin Franklin.

Nestled in what I can only assume is the layout of Franklin’s original home, the museum was strangely empty with half of the floor seemingly under construction of some sort. His life was nevertheless laid out before me, with this cute little squirrel to show me around and direct me to these very strange videos.

Franklin, was undoubtedly not only a very important man to our revolution but clearly a silly guy at heart. Also rich, but also very silly. Only a silly guy would have something like this glass instrument thingy around, or write a whole book about “his sedentary lifestyle, his love of chess, and his overeating and drinking. My man was a GAMER.

The museum is honestly just a quirky bit because what serious museum would group the invention of swimming fins in with these other life events. Like why? This is a 10/10 recommend you guys all to go, it's interactive enough to be fun but also informative enough to not feel like you're wasting your time!

anonymous subscriber news

I thought Doc Martens were supposed to be comfortable. Why are they not? I thought that was like the whole point of those Doc Martens boots lmfao.

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• anon is doing it for the look: the perpetual blisters i have from wearing doc martens in the snow this winter have been and will continue to be worth every bit of pain
• anon’s dairy disaster: So I made salt bread and it required a horrific amount of butter
• anondible: I started listening to podcasts while walking

animal of the week

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As you can see, we are CLEARLY working our way through the backlog. This one brings us all the way back to Singapore with esteemed subscribers Magdalene Lam showing us this white peacock. MAJULAH SINGAPURA INDEED

a white(?) albino(?) peacock we found hiding from the rain in sentosa! MAJULAH SINGAPURA

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