No Lies. Was Bullied Constantly In My Youth All The Way Up Until I Graduated For Being Fat, Having Glasses,

No lies. Was bullied constantly in my youth all the way up until I graduated for being fat, having glasses, and had braces in there, too. Add to that having an eclectic fashion sense and life was hard for me. As an adult, and after getting out of an emotionally abusive marriage, being hit on and told I'm attractive has been the absolute mind fuck of the century. I still have the eclectic fashion sense, but I also get to dye my hair and act how I want without fear of possible abuse. I'm now mostly unapologetically me, and it's a beautiful thing, and also somewhat bewildering to behold.

I had a discussion with my mom tonight about the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday and found out exactly how much audacity the local Chamber of Commerce has.

You see, my mom works for the town library, and the library, as a member of said organization, was asked to wait to provide free eclipse viewing glasses until the Chamber had the chance to sell some for a profit.

The asking price?

$50!!! Fifty fucking dollars!!!!

For the cardboard piece of shit glasses that you can buy at the Wal-Mart 4 pair for 5 bucks or get for free with an Eclipse slush at Sonic!

The fucking audacity!

We are in the path of totality here and will be in it for just under 4 minutes, so the price of everything has soared for the weekend, including hotel rooms at our 2 just barest of okeyest hotels, has skyrocketed.

The price on those hotel rooms?

Starts at $675 a night this weekend. Starts there!

That, and most of the surrounding area hotels are sold out at those prices. We are not metropolitan, just rural with a little bit of industrial mixed in. We should not at all be able to command that pricing.

One of the local churches wants fifty bucks to park in their parking lot to watch it, and a few other places around followed suit. Private residents want anywhere from ten to fifty dollars to park on their property.

The gas prices here are up because of a predicted peak in use. There's an Eclipse Festival at the fairgrounds this weekend, with bands playing all weekend, and the pricing on it seems to be the only reasonably priced thing in the entire racket.

Our entire city collectively lost their minds in a money grab over this eclipse thing.

Assuming equal technical prowess, well, I'm picking Trip for the eye candy. But also, for the polite Southern gentleman thing. Since I'm a lady Captain, he's probably gonna put up less of a fight with me.

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#Digital Library

This is definitely not a google drive full of the sleep stuff from the Headspace app, including sleepcasts, music, and wind down meditation, that normally costs 17.99 a month, no siree and you definitely shouldnt share this with people

I feel like this is a photo from a post nuclear disaster movie. It's more likely just a photo from tornado season, or just extreme straight line wind.

It's my 7 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳