I have recently embraced not giving a fuck and deluding myself into thinking this makes me look like some kind of eccentric mad genius. "Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th, entering the town of Twin Peaks..."
I talk in my head, I narrate everything I do, I talk out loud in the car and in public and in the house... I think part of this is because of how much time I spend alone?? Who cares though thinking is so much easier like this.
I do this all the time.
Like, more often than I'm actually talking to people.
I have ADHD, and frankly, just a lot going on in my head.
When I say my thoughts out loud, they become more real and tangible.
It's a lot easier to focus on what I'm thinking if I'm saying it to myself, so I say everything to myself out loud. The other day my boss walked in on me - working a shift along - monologuing to myself about an artist I was listening to on my earbuds.
I didn't even apologize.
Damn straight I'm talking to myself. This is important stuff.
I only use it to listen to my own voice. Like I literally just used it yesterday because during one of my work meetings, there was an echo and I kept hearing my voice after everything that I said, and my voice sounded so god-awful that I needed to like practice talking into my phone
Libby is and forever will be THAT GIRL and I recently discovered you can subscribe to basically any magazine via the newsstand feature. I am really enjoying flipping through NYmag and trashy celeb mags like Us Weekly on my phoneโit feels like all the guilty pleasure of scrolling though social media but infinitely more fun and less draining. I also like reading food mags and the New Yorker!
this movie really defined an entire formative era of my life. I was an awkward frizzy-haired tween with glasses when this came out and I saw so much of myself in Mia. my best friend and I had the soundtrack basically memorized (Aaron Carterโs cover of Itty Bitty Little Pretty One lives rent free in my head, as does Miracles Happen by Myra). the love interest Michael (aka Robert Schartzman of Rooney fame) imprinted on my eros and continues to influence my type in masc women to this day. the movie also led me to the (superior if Iโm being honest) book series, which played a HUGE role in shaping my taste and sense of humor and interest in pop culture references