Love it. This is one of the most real reads in a long time. As you know I particularly relate to the drinking my body weight in wine.
I hate ugly too and decided I’d get a nutritionist to kick me up the arse and sort me out, interesting timing as I did that 3 days before I went on a holiday to again drink my body weight in wine. Fly home tomorrow so will need to dig deep on the motivation front without looking in a mirror.
Very relatable Nic, especially being the messy one, and hating the ugliness of the mess— and the curtain argument thing, though I typically have the curtain argument in my head to avoid the actual friction and/or buy curtains or rods I think will work and leave them staged somewhere in the house until I hate them and need to find new ones.
I have fantasies of turning our little detached garage into a studio/library/garden/she-shed but am too intimidated by contractors and the thought of justifying the expense to my partner to request bids so I don’t. This want too, shall pass. Or fester into resentment, either way. 😘😘
Me too. I'm going to curate a list of UK based writers who are fucking funny. All the US ones seems to go on about politics here that I have found so far....yawn.....and totally, like, not funny.
a) I'm obsessed with The Slight Edge. He shares that my actual philosophy has to change before anything else can.
b) There's nothing wrong with a well-placed em-dash if the rest of the writing is true. True as in true writing. ChapGPT is the greatest horror of horrors, and screams in the face of all things creative and all things human. We seem to be looking at more and more ways to be lazy humans. Which might be funny if it wasn't so scary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg&t=4776s
c) I'm doing a 100-day project, and part of it is Julia Cameron's morning pages. I could read 100 days of you writing like this. But then again this was going to be your beautiful year of doing nothing :)
I like your formatted answers. If there was an emoji at the start of each I would be suspicious.
a) I will check him/it out. I am presuming this is a thing on Substack but I like the way you leave me guessing.
b) I will click the youtube link. Then won't watch because I only have a 3 second concentration span, thanks to overly long Chat GPT posts that mean that I now know what TLDR stands for.
c) Ahh, you misunderstood. This is my year of living beautifully. Painting has been part of this. Writing is definitely part of this. Writing like this frees me to just live my life and be me, knowing full well I'll be served up plenty of content for next week's post. Would like to learn more about your 100 day project - message me :)
d) Never ever do I. I try. But there's too much to lean forward for.
OMGosh I'm literally, and yes I'd pay for that adverb, laughing out loud.
a) no not on Substack. Read his book The Slight Edge. All sorts of brilliant and sort of what I feel Atomic Habits and A Changed Mind were born from. Ooh another bloody brilliant book that I'm obsessed with is Stillness is the Key, by Ryan Holiday. Which you will poo poo given the word Stillness, but Nic, it's good. Everything Ryan Holiday is good.
b) you can skip to the bits you want to watch if you click on "more" in the description.
You cannot abide ugliness? Yeah, me too. At the moment, if I could kick myself into action, I'd probably do something about it. Don't even have heat as an excuse not to. But, anyway, I love your line: "Today I did a plank to get skinnier and my boobs were longer than my arms." And going to the gym? Loved all of that too. (Especially as I'm someone who has to join a gym soon.) If you're not already published (in a book, a series, a column, a podcast) you should be.
That phase of your life, transformed many 1000s of lives, dont be too over it 🤣 as it was super super life changing at our end 💪. Loving your writings now, hilarious and yes dark but weirdly addictive
So glad you are over that phase, as your humour is brilliant. I ordered a book that had been praised as "so funny". It wasn't. You know why? She tried too hard. Every sentence was supposed to be funny. It was forced. There was nothing organic about it. No story with laughs here and there. And it's been published! (Go figure!)
I laughed out loud and was annoyed that my dogs barked unceremoniously at hikers passing by because I had to pretend to tell them off when actually I feel secure knowing no one would attempt a break in; it did however pause your flow - (🤣) but miraculously you retrieved it. Mxx
I’m glad I made it into the good corner and not the naughty corner 😂 I’m currently fighting the need to have ChatGPT write me some angst so I can come back in here and post it to you! 😂
Ha ha ha - this is like Adrian Mole but for perimenopausal women…funniest thing I’ve read in a long time…THANK YOU 😂😂😂
I had more fun writing it than you did reading it so everyone's a winner.
Ah Nic I fucking love it. Please don't stop
I don't think I can...
Love it. This is one of the most real reads in a long time. As you know I particularly relate to the drinking my body weight in wine.
I hate ugly too and decided I’d get a nutritionist to kick me up the arse and sort me out, interesting timing as I did that 3 days before I went on a holiday to again drink my body weight in wine. Fly home tomorrow so will need to dig deep on the motivation front without looking in a mirror.
Curious about those dragons…..
Glad to have you along for the dragon-rides...x
Very relatable Nic, especially being the messy one, and hating the ugliness of the mess— and the curtain argument thing, though I typically have the curtain argument in my head to avoid the actual friction and/or buy curtains or rods I think will work and leave them staged somewhere in the house until I hate them and need to find new ones.
I have fantasies of turning our little detached garage into a studio/library/garden/she-shed but am too intimidated by contractors and the thought of justifying the expense to my partner to request bids so I don’t. This want too, shall pass. Or fester into resentment, either way. 😘😘
Right there with you sister.
Hilarious … and you’ve made me realise I want to experience more in life to allow me to use this word 🤣
Which word, there are a few here and now you’ve got me curious which one was the deal-breaker?
It was Hilarious - I need to actively seek out more hilarious content to balance out the BS that’s fed to me by the algos ☺️
Me too. I'm going to curate a list of UK based writers who are fucking funny. All the US ones seems to go on about politics here that I have found so far....yawn.....and totally, like, not funny.
Hmm, so much I could say.
a) I'm obsessed with The Slight Edge. He shares that my actual philosophy has to change before anything else can.
b) There's nothing wrong with a well-placed em-dash if the rest of the writing is true. True as in true writing. ChapGPT is the greatest horror of horrors, and screams in the face of all things creative and all things human. We seem to be looking at more and more ways to be lazy humans. Which might be funny if it wasn't so scary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg&t=4776s
c) I'm doing a 100-day project, and part of it is Julia Cameron's morning pages. I could read 100 days of you writing like this. But then again this was going to be your beautiful year of doing nothing :)
d) Are you leaning back???
I like your formatted answers. If there was an emoji at the start of each I would be suspicious.
a) I will check him/it out. I am presuming this is a thing on Substack but I like the way you leave me guessing.
b) I will click the youtube link. Then won't watch because I only have a 3 second concentration span, thanks to overly long Chat GPT posts that mean that I now know what TLDR stands for.
c) Ahh, you misunderstood. This is my year of living beautifully. Painting has been part of this. Writing is definitely part of this. Writing like this frees me to just live my life and be me, knowing full well I'll be served up plenty of content for next week's post. Would like to learn more about your 100 day project - message me :)
d) Never ever do I. I try. But there's too much to lean forward for.
OMGosh I'm literally, and yes I'd pay for that adverb, laughing out loud.
a) no not on Substack. Read his book The Slight Edge. All sorts of brilliant and sort of what I feel Atomic Habits and A Changed Mind were born from. Ooh another bloody brilliant book that I'm obsessed with is Stillness is the Key, by Ryan Holiday. Which you will poo poo given the word Stillness, but Nic, it's good. Everything Ryan Holiday is good.
b) you can skip to the bits you want to watch if you click on "more" in the description.
c) Love everything about that.
d) CB epitaph "Don't Try."
You cannot abide ugliness? Yeah, me too. At the moment, if I could kick myself into action, I'd probably do something about it. Don't even have heat as an excuse not to. But, anyway, I love your line: "Today I did a plank to get skinnier and my boobs were longer than my arms." And going to the gym? Loved all of that too. (Especially as I'm someone who has to join a gym soon.) If you're not already published (in a book, a series, a column, a podcast) you should be.
Thank you Rose. I do have a published book. But it's a very serious one. I'm over that phase of my life now.
That phase of your life, transformed many 1000s of lives, dont be too over it 🤣 as it was super super life changing at our end 💪. Loving your writings now, hilarious and yes dark but weirdly addictive
Thank you, I am so glad it was part of my life.
So glad you are over that phase, as your humour is brilliant. I ordered a book that had been praised as "so funny". It wasn't. You know why? She tried too hard. Every sentence was supposed to be funny. It was forced. There was nothing organic about it. No story with laughs here and there. And it's been published! (Go figure!)
Funny is in the ear of the beholder I think…
Possibly. But I stand by my observation. Anything that is forced reads like it is forced. (My opinion, anyway.)
I laughed out loud and was annoyed that my dogs barked unceremoniously at hikers passing by because I had to pretend to tell them off when actually I feel secure knowing no one would attempt a break in; it did however pause your flow - (🤣) but miraculously you retrieved it. Mxx
😂😂😂😂😂
I’m glad I made it into the good corner and not the naughty corner 😂 I’m currently fighting the need to have ChatGPT write me some angst so I can come back in here and post it to you! 😂
I prefer the real you :)
That's great news with the tiny dragons in the rose bushes :) I'm sure they'll be the type to bring good luck, so maybe feed them love?
We’ll find out in next week’s installment. I feel a couple of them might be baddies…..
Have you read the novel “When Women Were Dragons”? 🐉 They can be good baddies. 😉
No. Goes to Amazon and orders.
Oh no! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that all will turn out well!!!