Wallflower 🌺 - Pumpkin Spice & Spite🎃

My babies got baths, so now they get cookies #DogsOfMastodon

Just got myself pissed off about that Thursday conversation about how I am rated exceptional at work, and have been for years, which is restricted at my work (about 10% of total, I think, within a large company), and somehow this still yielded a 0% raise because I'm already over my salary cap at level. 'No worries, though, we gave you a one time stipend that is less than 0.1% of salary.' Last year I got an 11% raise. This year the CEO more than doubled his millions of dollars in salary while everyone else got a 0% raise. Fuck these billionaires, yo. Fuck being held down.

Reminder to look up during your autumn

Reminder to look down during your autumn

Humble brag It's been a few years but I may have finally figured out what my butterfly bushes want from me. Nothing. 😅 They are very happy to not be watered even when I'm under stress thinking they must be thirsty. All three of them are finally happy this year and I did not do anything but cut away spent flower spikes.

This is OPI turn on the Northern Lights @401matthall@mastodon.xyz I don't think the camera is capturing the purple tones well. It is deep purple, almost black purple in certain angles/light. 3 coats bc my nails are long (would not look even where the nail extends above my finger without 3 coats).

I'm taking this as a win since it isn't raining or spitting on me and there is variation in the grey.

Is this a thick trunk tuesday kinda pic or a mushroom monday kinda pic? Oh, wait. #FungiFriday

Surrounded by so many little friends today. 💓

Sometimes flowers just don't even look real. I love these. 🥰

From winter

I've noticed a pattern since I've had to go back into the office. Little to no sleep each Tuesday night. I think I hate seeing people that much. By day 2, I'm like "omg wtf how"

I am just so happy 🥰

That time I zoomed in on the sun at sunrise, turned day to night, and set the world on fire. June 2025

It's been a bit since I've done this for my amusement. What lives in the wood of my cabinet?

Happy new week, friends.

Wren pointed out to me yesterday that I'm in some sort of sensitive state. True. Several days now. Not sure why I am in my feels. Maybe. It's really, I mean, I am really, starting to *bug me*. I keep having these fighting thoughts. I hear so many wonderful voices and then I hear a few very critical of me voices from my past. The critical voices are outnumbered but louder. That then has me weighting things as I try to process through it. I am clear on me. I do think I'm a good person, so this is not my hangup. I know I am loved by a few. I know newly this week that a lot of people I work with want to keep me in their life in some way. I don't think I know what my hangup is. Why, maybe, I let those critical voices have a megaphone? How do I tackle those shits and take away the megaphone? Why I can't accept people appreciating me or caring about me without thinking about and refocusing on the people who told me they did not like me in some way and then wondering what I did wrong...? Maybe more or something else? Anyway. I'm in my feels. No I don't want to talk about it more. That was enough said. I can walk away from it now today.

Sometimes when I'm hissing and peacocking, like my son taught me, to get past the geese, I wonder if he was joking and just wanted me to look like a fool.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I feel like I need to ask him for more cowbell... I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. My new go to flirt.

This girl looks too skinny to me. Normal for maybe a warm winter to come? Sickly? Elderly?

Unicorns are real ✨️

Broken can be beautiful

Can you image holding onto a flower petal and a bud to suspend yourself? Being able to fly is pretty freeing.

I just looked up the definition of the "formative years" and well...it says less than 8. I disagree. My "formative years" were definitely more like 12-20. Maybe this was just when I decided I wasn't taking someone's word for anything and was going to do my own research. My data hates me, for that matter, but its fine. Good things to come.

I like butterfly butts and I cannot lie

Love... https://youtu.be/kU8OJAOMbPg?si=utxpf3zS-wOSuT0E

@alexpsmith@beige.party After 20yrs of working from home 2 to 3 days a week, they now require 4 in the office, at a minimum of 8 hours in each day. I feel so drained and my efficiency is hit. It is such a backwards move. Once I get to leave for my new role, I will get to do 3 in office, 2 at home, which I can do/manage.

Y'all I'm being asked to opine on proposals that would essentially manipulate AI for advancements in marketing. Meaning, "consumers see AI as expert" now, so get the AI engines to link to your product when responding to certain queries for increased visibility and perceived superiority. Capitalism further manipulating. The enshittification continues. People allowing themselves to become ... dumber.... I cannot even ethically comment on this request. I just want to say "No, stop this." I hate everything because I care too much about so much.

It is pouring and I'm expected to get out of my car 😒

Good afternoon, friends 💙

In the backyard this afternoon. 🩷

The weather apps have no idea it is currently pouring... I was about to leave again.

Good day, friends. 💜💛💜 #SilentSunday

@alexpsmith@beige.party yup. And narcissists.

This made me laugh. Across the sac 😁

Time to go into the office

Happy Friday! 🧡

Happy hump day!

It's true. This girl wants to have fun. I wanna be the one to walk in the sun. I just wanna have fun.

Oh It's kinda creepy how I look half dead from the neck down. Happy early Halloween? 😂

Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abused https://youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg?si=WEDrANueCk7dwqBV

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world Gosh, I would love to watch him deliver the "Dumbass" line to so many

Happy Thursday 😊

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world You would think that would be appreciated, not frowned upon, because it makes him more relatable which often improves influencing potential.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world Cool And learning he is not a trumper makes it even cooler.

Happy new week 🧡

Pinning things about me, things I think about, I guess like an #introduction. I can't be defeated because I'm too determined to be happy, smile, laugh, and love. I like long reflective walks. If I ever find my forever partner and commit, it should be among the trees. The strength, the endurance, being larger than life but still small relative to the universe, all symbolic of something greater than me. Love isn't always on time. People are sometimes assholes and won't/don't apologize or don't mean it when they do. Some people are cowards. (Don't be a coward.) Fear motivates us or holds us back. I prefer to push. I am afraid to tell people that I love them, *other than my son, who tells me that I say it too much*. Everyone else that I've told leaves. If I don't say it, I fake safety. I mean, what is love, anyway? Just deep appreciation. I deeply appreciate you. I can manage this. My feelings are easily hurt and I shouldn't be averse to muting or blocking on the fedi when someone gets out of line or disparages me for no reason but because they decided to do it. I hold grudges when someone makes no effort. I try. I try again. No one tells me what to do. I can be fun. (When I wanna.) I like pretty things. I see beautiful things everywhere I go. The fedi is a beautiful community.