a little girl drinking through a straw from a white cup ALT: a little girl drinking through a straw from a white cup

Her face the whole time:

*boys’

noooo

My 8yo niece went to a bday party she was NOT invited to (it was my son’s bff) at a bowling alley

This girl figured out how to hack the score board, adjusted her score to 190, & set all of the boy’s (again, boys she does NOT know) scores to 20-40

Then cackled as she retold the story 😂

So proud 🥹

A non-exhaustive list of people who are incredibly funny and easy to talk to and I’d love to hang with more:

@kat.lol

It was so good

It was perfection! I was supposed to bring it for a picnic but it didn’t make it 😂 having a coffee picnic instead

Two pieces of avocado toast..one with goat cheese, pears, honey, and toasted walnuts, the other with cream cheese, smoked salmon, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, pickled onions, and dill. Both on sourdough and in a to go box and heavenly-looking

Food excites me, period. But, pretty food? In a to-go box?

Yeah I’m about to Cookie Monster this thang in the parking lot 😂

We already know! 😂 one day, though, the answer will be yes

JIRA giving the comments I wrote yesterday a relative date of “last month” is-

why, man? 😭

And we wouldn’t have had ✨Mark Erikson✨! We’re so lucky to have you 💕

I told my mom - even though I hate that I went through certain things, I understand that I HAD to go through them in such awful ways bc if I didn’t, I never would have changed/moved on/tried something else.

I am a puddleeee Salma 😭😭😭

Truly, thank you for this 💕 thank you for valuing me as a complete person, and not just a “tech account”

I get told a lot that I’m always positive/optimistic. When I think about it, it’s because I’m reflecting the same love and light that’s been breathed into me since before I was even born

I’m glass-half-full because the ones I love most are always pouring into me. 💕

said “..and could you IMAGINE that? I couldn’t. Imagine what it’s like to be YOUR mom. Imagine how proud I get to be ALL THE TIME. I have 4 intelligent, successful, good looking, [she kept going] kids..I am so grateful every day that I can say that”

Whew girl. I’m lucky to be so loved

My mom came by yesterday to bring some food she made me

We got on the topic of the roughest year in her young-adult life, and she was like “we have to be grateful that XYZ happened, because you wouldn’t be here if I didn’t go through that”

And then she

1/2

Haha not even joking when I say I had like 4 cups today 💪🏾

I’ll write a blog post about this soon. Gotta collect the fragments of my mind first

A big observation as I’m learning more Java (coming from a JavaScript background)

At first glance, a lot of Java looks familiar!

.filter, .map, Array…I was so ready to just jump in because they look like the methods I’ve BEEN using on the front end

But no. no. NO.

They are NOT the same.

🎯🎯

They’re everywhere! Everyone who interacted on this thread, for example

You can also start by *being* that positive person 💕

Yes! And no real ethics standards around this either.

The more you’re addicted, the more money the social media company execs have..so they are really only incentivized to make you more and more outraged in order to make their products stickier

Yeah, it has been MISERABLE having an incredible friend who is enthusiastic about life, relentlessly pursues his wildest ambitions, and makes me belly laugh 😭

And I know this isn’t the point, but I absolutely LOVE this photo of you and @marisamorby.com 😍😍

You two are my favorites

Whew, this post is gold! I had a similar moment a years ago where it suddenly struck me that I keep falling into these bouts of depression largely bc I was actively *looking* for bad things. I asked myself “why do you WANT to be sad?”

The answer was - I don’t. So I changed

years ago I had this really uncomfortable moment where someone called me out for being so negative & suggested I could maybe have a vastly different experience if I focused my attention on different things

I made a silly-feeling change & it literally made me into a different person in the best way

The book is “New Happy” by Stephanie Harrison btw

people you follow (i.e. if you follow people who follow negative people), your daily mood is literally being influenced by hundreds of people you don’t know

You can generate more happiness for yourself just by following more positive people and by posting more positive thoughts

I’m reading a book about happiness and a point about social media’s impact on happiness stood out to me:

People whose algorithms contain a lot of negative content are much more likely to post negative content AND think negative thoughts (and vice versa)

Since your algorithm is influenced by the

You totally get it! I’ve actually been *trying* to learn Java for a couple of years now, but since I didn’t have a forcing factor that made me apply the knowledge consistently, I keep forgetting what I’ve learned

This is the game changer

🙌🏾🙌🏾