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(Formally sweetnessbent2 from 🐦) Tasty northern tart who likes the strange and the sad. Might get a bit cheeky. • https://f1fteenkeats.tumblr.com/ ❄️ 🇪🇺 🍉 (she/her)
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· Jan 17
📌 "Seize my heart out of its fantasy, direct my heart from the fiction of secrecy, you who know the secrets of every heart, whose mercy is to be the secret of longing. Let every heart declare its secret..."
I'm not well enough to drink a bottle of red wine tonight but I am going to allow myself an indulgent Chinese food delivery before I start to work on bucking up and planning for the future I have not the one I wanted.
March 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm not well enough to drink a bottle of red wine tonight but I am going to allow myself an indulgent Chinese food delivery before I start to work on bucking up and planning for the future I have not the one I wanted.
I got excellent feedback but did not get the dream job (I came a close second). It was always a bit of a wildcard option but I still feel extraordinarily sad and will just let myself feel sad until I rediscover my enthusiasm for the original plan.
March 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I got excellent feedback but did not get the dream job (I came a close second). It was always a bit of a wildcard option but I still feel extraordinarily sad and will just let myself feel sad until I rediscover my enthusiasm for the original plan.
High anxiety day today is not fun 😮💨 Waiting to be put out of my misery re: dream job so I can get to the business of being Very Sad for a while and then move on. Can't concentrate on anything much. Thank heck for beta blockers. Errrrrrrrrrrrh.
March 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
High anxiety day today is not fun 😮💨 Waiting to be put out of my misery re: dream job so I can get to the business of being Very Sad for a while and then move on. Can't concentrate on anything much. Thank heck for beta blockers. Errrrrrrrrrrrh.
I haven’t heard about the Dream Job yet and so have (sensibly I think!!) decided I did NOT get it and am making an enormous bowl of sad person pasta and having a bath, not at the same time. The good news is that I really do think my tonsils have turned a corner at last 🙏🏻
March 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I haven’t heard about the Dream Job yet and so have (sensibly I think!!) decided I did NOT get it and am making an enormous bowl of sad person pasta and having a bath, not at the same time. The good news is that I really do think my tonsils have turned a corner at last 🙏🏻
My tonsils are deswelling for the first time in two weeks. Penicillin is amazing 🥹
March 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My tonsils are deswelling for the first time in two weeks. Penicillin is amazing 🥹
Am at last furnished with antibiotics and an anaesthetic spray 🙏🏻 I now have separate timers for when I can eat, when to take penicillin, and when to take paracetamol and nurofen 🥲 I’m going to need a lot of vitamin c and salads and natural yoghurt after this.
March 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Am at last furnished with antibiotics and an anaesthetic spray 🙏🏻 I now have separate timers for when I can eat, when to take penicillin, and when to take paracetamol and nurofen 🥲 I’m going to need a lot of vitamin c and salads and natural yoghurt after this.
It’s been 15 days of swollen tonsils now and it’s all starting to look a bit bacterial after all so I’m in town awaiting another pharmacy appointment. I’m getting a bit miserable about it now tbh! I’m not sure this two week solid regime of paracetamol and nurofen is very good for me 🥲
March 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It’s been 15 days of swollen tonsils now and it’s all starting to look a bit bacterial after all so I’m in town awaiting another pharmacy appointment. I’m getting a bit miserable about it now tbh! I’m not sure this two week solid regime of paracetamol and nurofen is very good for me 🥲
I’d say the interview was 95% really positive and successful (if a bit gruelling). It’s out of my hands now and hopefully I will find out by Monday. I am KNACKERED omg 🥲 Thanks for all the good luck!!
March 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’d say the interview was 95% really positive and successful (if a bit gruelling). It’s out of my hands now and hopefully I will find out by Monday. I am KNACKERED omg 🥲 Thanks for all the good luck!!
I’ve had an enormous & nutritious breakfast, two coffees, one large freshly squeezed orange juice, two cold & flu tablets, two nurofen (for good measure), and a propranolol. Now camping out in a coffee shop 5 mins from the venue. I think I am interview ready (and may need to go to A&E afterwards).
March 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I’ve had an enormous & nutritious breakfast, two coffees, one large freshly squeezed orange juice, two cold & flu tablets, two nurofen (for good measure), and a propranolol. Now camping out in a coffee shop 5 mins from the venue. I think I am interview ready (and may need to go to A&E afterwards).
I still have some lingering UGH feelings from this cold/tonsillitis bout BUT I have been awake since 4.30am and am now on a train to Edinburgh for maybe the most important job interview ever. I want it so bad 🥹 I’m fuelled entirely by cold & flu tabs and lucozade pls wish me luck 🙏🏻
March 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I still have some lingering UGH feelings from this cold/tonsillitis bout BUT I have been awake since 4.30am and am now on a train to Edinburgh for maybe the most important job interview ever. I want it so bad 🥹 I’m fuelled entirely by cold & flu tabs and lucozade pls wish me luck 🙏🏻
One wonders how this wasn’t picked up earlier, really. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn
Planet now has 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets in the solar system combined
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
One wonders how this wasn’t picked up earlier, really. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Pretty sure I just cured the last gasp of my tonsillitis with a grab bag of salt & vinegar Discos.
March 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Pretty sure I just cured the last gasp of my tonsillitis with a grab bag of salt & vinegar Discos.
“In Inuit folklore, the evil spirit Idlirvirissong looks like a clown with a funny nose, but if you laugh at its dance it will slice you open, put your intestines on a plate, and feed them to its dogs.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
Trump has microwaved my Cornetto of hope | Stewart Lee
The gadfly-minded abuser has openly threatened Greenland, Ukraine and Europe. He, and America, are the enemy now
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“In Inuit folklore, the evil spirit Idlirvirissong looks like a clown with a funny nose, but if you laugh at its dance it will slice you open, put your intestines on a plate, and feed them to its dogs.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
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Fix Your Heart or Die: The Startling Empathy of David Lynch
Fix Your Heart or Die: The Startling Empathy of David Lynch
The films of David Lynch are strange creatures, but to focus only on their most ungainly appendages is to willfully ignore their equally beautiful qualities.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Fix Your Heart or Die: The Startling Empathy of David Lynch
Sharing some of my favourite spicy memes for international women’s day 🧵
March 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Sharing some of my favourite spicy memes for international women’s day 🧵
There simply isn’t an outerwear option appropriate for this weather.
March 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
There simply isn’t an outerwear option appropriate for this weather.
Last night I spent ages researching the five (!!!) people who’ll make up my interview panel for Dream Edinburgh Job next week to figure out what to slip into my presentation and responses to endear them to me professionally 🕵🏻
March 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Last night I spent ages researching the five (!!!) people who’ll make up my interview panel for Dream Edinburgh Job next week to figure out what to slip into my presentation and responses to endear them to me professionally 🕵🏻
Pink lucozade on ice is getting me through this VERY BORING failure of my tonsils to withstand a simple cold.
March 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Pink lucozade on ice is getting me through this VERY BORING failure of my tonsils to withstand a simple cold.
I should offer all these pushy ‘meet now?’ dudes on Fab with their hotel rooms a visit complete with tonsillitis and plenty of smooching.
March 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I should offer all these pushy ‘meet now?’ dudes on Fab with their hotel rooms a visit complete with tonsillitis and plenty of smooching.
I feel awful and am bored of being ill.
a cartoon of spongebob and squidward standing in front of an order here sign
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob and squidward standing in front of an order here sign
media.tenor.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I feel awful and am bored of being ill.
Much to my shock and awe, the five separate online calculators were correct and my bra size is VERY different. I feel like I’m allowed to buy more since most of my existing ones don’t fit properly now 👉🏻👈🏻
UGHHHH I have a discount code for an online lingerie brand and five separate online calculators have told me the same result so I'm just doing it. I will try them on with an impeccably clean body and can return them if I need to.
Bra sizing is truly a dark and enigmatic art. Having lost some weight this year, I've spent 30 mins this morning grappling with a measuring tape and have decided I need to go into town and try them on because I simply don't believe what these websites are telling me about my boobs.
March 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Much to my shock and awe, the five separate online calculators were correct and my bra size is VERY different. I feel like I’m allowed to buy more since most of my existing ones don’t fit properly now 👉🏻👈🏻
As a rampant dater I love this advice (and am eagerly awaiting pt2).
Bit radical, but, you know what works on me? Curiosity, flattery, kindness, respect.
And filth, before -too- long.
Bit radical, but, you know what works on me? Curiosity, flattery, kindness, respect.
And filth, before -too- long.
"It’s hard to put yourself out there. It’s a challenge to be vulnerable. But you do have to do it if you want to get a date."
NEW BLOG! Remember when I said I'd do test #dates with blog readers & give feedback? Someone volunteered!
Meet Jack!
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/test-da... #dating
NEW BLOG! Remember when I said I'd do test #dates with blog readers & give feedback? Someone volunteered!
Meet Jack!
www.girlonthenet.com/blog/test-da... #dating
I had a test date with a blog reader, and here's how it went
I offered to have a test date with a guy and then give feedback on where he might be going wrong in dating interactions. Here's part 1 of what happened...
www.girlonthenet.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
As a rampant dater I love this advice (and am eagerly awaiting pt2).
Bit radical, but, you know what works on me? Curiosity, flattery, kindness, respect.
And filth, before -too- long.
Bit radical, but, you know what works on me? Curiosity, flattery, kindness, respect.
And filth, before -too- long.
Bad news: my tonsils have the ‘itis 👎🏻
Good news: I have been invited to interview for the dream Edinburgh job 👍🏻
Now begins Operation Recover From The Itis.
Good news: I have been invited to interview for the dream Edinburgh job 👍🏻
Now begins Operation Recover From The Itis.
March 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Bad news: my tonsils have the ‘itis 👎🏻
Good news: I have been invited to interview for the dream Edinburgh job 👍🏻
Now begins Operation Recover From The Itis.
Good news: I have been invited to interview for the dream Edinburgh job 👍🏻
Now begins Operation Recover From The Itis.
Honestly you can’t flipping move for doms on the apps these days. Whatever happened to straight up sluttery.
March 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Honestly you can’t flipping move for doms on the apps these days. Whatever happened to straight up sluttery.
There’s a KK/Wax mixer event I could feasibly go to in April but all their advertising features super young/fit/cool people and I can’t help but feel this is done mindfully despite all their talk of inclusivity and wotnot 🤔
March 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
There’s a KK/Wax mixer event I could feasibly go to in April but all their advertising features super young/fit/cool people and I can’t help but feel this is done mindfully despite all their talk of inclusivity and wotnot 🤔