Shifting in the Hot Seat
51: they'll tell you I'm insane
Rewrote my June 7th post, so it’s more of a reflection of that time. It was a little too spiky.
Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn Ya
You know when you get ready in the morning and don’t apply mascara because you know you’re gonna cry that day? I do this when I have therapy or a hard conversation planned. Why waste the time and the product when I know it’s going to just run down my face and make me look insane?
Well, I didn’t wear mascara for almost the entire month of June.
June was a hard month. A lot happened that made me put this bumper sticker in my online shopping cart. But unlike my last villain era, I am not feeling destroyed emotionally; only restrained. In fact, I don’t even think I can call this a villain era anymore, as that is not how I’m feeling.
When the world started labeling Taylor Swift as a “psycho serial dater girl,” she responded with her chart-topping song “Blank Space,” which spent 7 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and even made history when Taylor became the first woman to replace herself in the chart's top spot.
When you’re feeling the heat from all angles, it’s inspiring to see how someone else has dealt with their own hurts. Sure, I would love to have comebacks as successful (and catchy) as TSwift, but I’ll settle for writing something I’m proud of sometime in the future. For now, I’m turning to song-writing too, as well as collaging, painting, and— this week, with my Crafty Gals— beginner’s embroidery.
But I think I am doing pretty good given the circumstances. (You can judge yourself from the painting I included for Show & Tell.)
Call Me Captain Backfire
“Oh, I’m never speaking up again.
Starting now
Starting now
…
One more thing!”