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About Thistle

Queer, neurospicy, chronically longwinded oversharer. 40s; they/them. ✍️📷🐈📚🥾🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈😇💖🐍

KonMari Wrap-up: Lessons Learned

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Thistle

I’ve learned quite a bit over the last few months, and have talked about many of those lessons through multiple posts now. Though I’m not entirely done with the Great Tidy-My-Life Project, this will likely be my last KonMari post**, … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday #5: Deferred

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Thistle

To be honest with you all, I am not well. Not by any stretch of the imagination. For months now, I’ve been sleeping poorly, attacking myself with food/wine binges, and having complete emotional breakdowns that seem to come out of nowhere. … Continue reading →

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Honor Girl, by Maggie Thrash

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Thistle

This is a graphic memoir recounting Maggie Thrash’s time at a Christian girls’ summer camp in Kentucky. She was fifteen and had never suspected she might be a lesbian. Then an encounter with a camp counselor that summer causes infatuation … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Comment Issues

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Thistle

After an extremely rough week emotionally and a few nights of very little/poor sleep, I don’t have much to bring to the table for this morning’s Sunday Coffee. I thought I’d take a quick moment, then, to address a WordPress … Continue reading →

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KonMari, Part VI: Storage

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Thistle

There are a couple of main principles to storage espoused in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: Store only after all disposal is done. Stack vertically instead of horizontally. Don’t keep things tucked away in places you’ll never see or … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday #4: Invisible

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Thistle

With this whole KonMari project going on, I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness lately. Happiness and decision-making, happiness vs functionality, happiness in body image, etc. Today I want to discuss happiness, clothes, shame, invisibility, and PTSD. True Confessions Choosing and … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books on my Fall TBR

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Thistle

I’ve been listing my top ten seasonal TBR piles for the last year, and not once have I read more than 3-4 books off the list. Heh. Maybe this will be the season I break that pattern – especially since … Continue reading →

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Gentlemen and Players, by Joanne Harris

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Thistle

St. Oswald’s Grammar School for Boys has withstood so much, from curriculum modernization to the dwindling of funds to a series of scandals buried as deep as the Board of Governors can dig. Roy Straitly has been teaching Latin there … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Bountiful (2)

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Thistle

Well. I had no idea when I typed up last week’s Bountiful post that this would be another very bountiful week! I admit to being quite grateful for it, as it’s also been a kinda wretched week in other ways, … Continue reading →

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KonMari, Part V: Sentimental Items

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Thistle

The last culling segment of the KonMari method, in my Great Tidy-My-Life Project, involves sentimental items. This was a pretty quick segment for me, and not nearly as difficult as I expected it to be. Supposedly, this is because by now, … Continue reading →

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