This. And whilst I haven't not been me, for some while I haven't been all of me, or all that I could be. Time to put my bum in gear and start shaking things up a bit, methinks!

Many thanks, Medusa!

it’s worth a try!
 

Here I go quoting myself again! LOL


So, I am still DOING ALL THE THINGS! (some a little more than others, and some not at all, but myriad ways in which I am taking better care of myself these days).

As much as I hate to admit it...because it's vapid as fuck and doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of "All that is important"...I have some new things making me very sparkly lately:

* My best girlfriend sent me a HUGE package of skin care. Expensive shit that I would NEVER buy for myself because I am just not that girl. She also included a pile of Christian Dior eyeshadow palettes, ColourPop lipsticks, Chanel eyeshadows, and a mound of other random skin-care things.

* The last time I was in Atlanta for Thanksgiving I went ape shit in a great little consignment store and found SIX new pairs of boots and shoes. All new. All crazy expensive originally. All MINE. Because I WILL spent $9 on a pair of ankle boots that were originally $200.
(Can you tell that getting a good deal makes me feel sparkly?)

* Picked up a gorgeous scarf clip made by a Queer artist so that I can now pin my cheetah-print scarf in all manner of glam fuckery. My pin is a replica of a DEATH'S-HEAD MOTH and it's just amazing.

* I busted out my beloved knee-length cheetah print faux fur coat and have been wearing it all over town, feeling sassy and happy.

* I subscribed to Arwen's magazine, "The Cartomancer", and am loving it.


Things I am doing for myself that are not about new stuff:

* I decided not to attend my "family" gathering on that one side of the family for the second year in a row. Self-care is sexy and all.

* I got rid of a huge piece of furniture and 2 more bags of bullshit. I also took another huge bag of stuff to consignment.

* I'm still doing therapy with my amazing, savage, badass therapist and I feel so light and free and plugged in.

* I look in the mirror every day and feel such gratitude to love myself and my life like I do.

My gasoline on the fire has been (as you can see above) a bunch of random things but damn, it's all making this girl pretty sparkly again. Starting to feel myself come out of that "I'm exhausted and my job is trying to murder me..." place again.

Also? Plans to make me dance. Big plans. Secret plans. PLANSSSSSSS.

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Also? Plans to make me dance. Big plans. Secret plans. PLANSSSSSSS.[/QUOTE]

I want to do this again! Dance!

affirmation
 

"I don’t cower
I don’t kneel
I am never ‘less than’
I don’t beg
I don’t shrink"
—Mollena Williams

What is lighting me up today?

My own competence at my job. I just solved a pretty significant issue that has been in the hands of several different people and I feel pretty good about finding a practical approach that worked.

Also? I might be wearing some cheetah-print leggings and a white tank top with my hair in a messy topknot, fuzzy socks, and freshly-manicured eyebrows.
It might be feeling pretty sparkly. :hangloose:

THIS. i have reinvented myself SOOO many times in my life. i’ve lived SO many lives. i hope one day to settle into the final ME and be the best ME i can be. But then again, i don’t mind always discovering a new ME.

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I'm still in pj's with unwashed hair chatting with my Butch and I am still every inch a femme.

WOOOOOOTT!!


There is some MAJOR gasoline on the Femme Creative Fires today (capitalized for appropriate reverence because I KNOW y'all know what I'm talking about!)

I have had a huge burst of creativity over the last 24 hours (and yes, partly fanned by getting a new machine that actually works at the speed I need it to) and have made some major headway with some personal projects that have been bothering me for a while.

Also had a huge epiphany about the direction of a creative project that has been hanging around the spiderwebs of mind for a while and finally feeling the momentum to make it work.

As Tori Amos said, "iieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!"

Consider the fire stoked:

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Had a poster of something very similar to this quote in college. Absolutely love it!

Gratitude....
 

I dreamed last night about all the 'bright lights' (Femme's) in our online community..... and how each one of you have influenced my own personal growth in my own Femme life.

Let Your Light Shine.

Be Fierce, let your fire burn brightly.

.....Glow.....


<3 <3 <3

I had some custom kicks done as an ode to Femme Visibility! :unicorn:

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