December 2008
37 posts
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
oneafter909:
trappedintime:
1 // You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10...
Yes, yes Astrobarry you can shut up now. Gah.
PISCES (February 19-March 20): We’ve seen it approaching for a while now. The definitive moment when we finally must take action on whatever situation we’ve watched worsen, deepen, deaden, intensify, slip further down the hole, or turn ever more entrenched or hopeless… And at last, that moment has arrived. The signs are everywhere. Things will change—either through our courageous...
“I traced your face tonight.
With eyes closed
I memorized
you.
My fingertips...”
– “Trace” by Me. (via tylerknott) (via snowblind)
“Kittens are nature’s Lexapro. Except when you need to go to sleep; then they...”
– Paul Jay (via sterlingpowers)
Reblogged for truth. Sigh.
(via thewordunheard)
Oh, Astrobarry... stfU.
PISCES (February 19-March 20): The battle for conscious control of your life—and let’s be frank, Pisces, this is nothing less than a fight—shall not be waged away from public view. Delightful as it might seem to imagine taking care of all your emotional business in a secluded bubble, where nobody can steal glimpses of the heavy baggage you’ve been lugging around (and are hopefully in...
Dorothea Brande’s 12 mental exercises.
bebelestrange:callmecash: (From here.)
Dorothea Brande’s twelve mental exercises.
Note: she wrote these in 1936, so you need to adapt of few of them.
1. Spend an hour each day without saying anything except in answer to direct questions, in the midst of the usual group, without creating the impression that you’re sulking or ill. Be as ordinary as possible. But do not volunteer remarks or try to...
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– -F. Scott Fitzgerald (via outlaws)
(via spinninground)(via becausewhy)(via perfect-moments)(via expectoomuch)(via kendraspear)(via paganpoetry)(via laura9)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain (via phineaspoe) (via reckon)
“The bottom line is that it is heterocentric and phallocentric to define sex...”
– From here (via gauntlet)
PISCES (February 19-March 20): If our personality is functioning to generally keep our basest instincts at check, most of us will have an internal superego voice inside our heads that enforces rules, maintains impulse control and ensures we behave in appropriate accordance with social mores. Not surprisingly, that voice often sounds virtually indistinguishable from that of our mother and/or...
