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Washing Away

I’m not going to cry this weekend. Even though I feel like a tremendous, lonesome, failure. I am not going to measure my entire worth on someone else’s happiness and someone else’s fortunate path. I have a path, and I know that even though I don’t like where it is right now, it will eventually lead me to you. It will all be worth it, I just can’t feel it yet. Today, I washed all the red out of my hair. It feels funny to look in the mirror and see the color my hair is supposed to me reflected back at me like some sort of reminder, like, “you’re never to far from where you started from”. It feels strange, it seems completely the opposite of exotic- it feels mundane, nothing to set me apart but a pair of very unusually colored eyes peering out behind these glasses. Waiting for you. Wondering who to be. Will I find my way to you by standing out, or by standing behind?

Pumpkin Pie Baked Oatmeal (via The Pajama Chef)

I am posting this here because it sounds like possibly the world’s most amazing food. It is…well…it’s a pumpkin pie STYLE dessert. <3

So, I've had a huge problem over the past year. A lack of pumpkin. I have a ridiculous obsession with pumpkin. So this has been a very hard year. You see, there's been this canned pumpkin shortage… maybe you've heard of it… but basically, bad weather ruined the pumpkin supply last year and the providers just ran out of it before the holidays. It was very sad. Grocery store shelves were bare of that canned orange goodness. I hardly purchase an … Read More

via The Pajama Chef