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My dog is the coolest guy around. I highly recommend him. He is a Siberian Husky named Niko, we think heās roughly a little over 3 years old, he has a really human sense of shame, and he loves babies and kids. He loves holding hands and when you pet his belly he literally pets you back (another human thingā¦ unable to just accept love without paying it backā¦). Any time he walks into a room or sits down or lies down or buries his head anywhere I clap like heās a stunt cast guest star of a TV show.
Feb 24, 2022
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š¶About a year ago I woke up slightly hungover on a beautiful Fall Saturday with *literally* nothing to do, so I zombie stumbled out for coffee around noon and, long story shortā¦accidentally adopted a three-month old almost-pomeranian puppy on the way home. Soon it was Winter and the world was cold and dark and I (tired and probably still hungover) was like, āHoly fucking shit, Iām SO sorry everyone in my life / Iāve made a terrible mistake / this dog is a fucking asshole / Iām sorry he peed on your bed and Iām sorry he ate your new shoes and Iām sorry he bites your face, Gramma.ā Fast-forward an indistinguishable amount of time and incalculable number of soiled beds and heās now a perfect little angel baby bear and the coolest living thing I know.
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Heās 16 lbs and truly believes heās the size of a Malamute, has a beautifully bitchy husky way of talking back for no reason, loves to snug, and - can you believe - heās almost 9 years old! Also, when heās feeling awkward, high-fives build his confidence and itās incredibly cute. Tiny hype man.
Apr 7, 2024
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šJohn Swartzwelder is the funniest writer in the world. I donāt know that I could write about him and do him justice, but he was a longtime Simpsons writer and then started self-publishing books that are so incredibly joke dense it will blow your mind. Hereās a quote from The Time Machine Did It, one of his many books following a strange detective named Frank Burly: āWhen I first became a detective I had tried solving crimes the way mystery writers do: coming up with the solution to the crime first, then working back to the point where you don't know what the hell is going on. But for some reason every time I tried that I ended up locked in a closet.ā
Feb 24, 2022
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šMy friend recommended strength training to me because I was always in a ton of pain because my muscles (lack thereof actually) did a bad job of holding up my loose (?) bones (I have RA), so I started strength training and it has made sooo much of a difference in terms of my energy and joint pain and general health. Itās also very mentally empowering to not feel extremely feeble and frail at all times of every day, and I think being in a more science-based strength training situation helps me prioritize feeling strong and not worrying so much about an aesthetic result.
Feb 24, 2022
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š¹I started playing piano when I was a kid and I got an electric keyboard when I moved out to LA. I like to sing and play so thatās mainly why I got it. Last year, I decided it would be nice to get back into classical piano again ā like Debussy, Bach, whatever other classical composers are probably in the public domain so I could get sheet music for free (a life hack of mine personally is to get stuff for free). Practicing an instrument has been actively the most meditative I can ever get. Focusing on something else with my hands that I have to engage with in a tactile and focused capacity has done wonders for me to not think the dumb thoughts I think all the time, like ādoes my dog know what the TV is, or does he think itās just a crazy windowā.
Feb 24, 2022