and i'm back on this beautifully rainy-ish saturday afternoon to let y'all know that it's totally okay to do a couple more things you may be all like, really?? about. payment in the form of no-payment, please. this is just what i do! (unless someone wants to pay me?)
let us begin!
1) it's totally okay to spend your friday night eating pizza with a bestie, come home by 10pm, youtube videos on how to clean make-up brushes, fucking clean yr make-up brushes like a grown-ass woman-champ and then finish the night by throwin it allll down on this week's nymag's crossword puzzle like YOU DON'T KNOW ME 79-DOWN I AM YOUR GOD TONIGHT!! while an episode from season 1 - 30 rock plays out from the netflix app on yr iphone. wtf! that is a bomb-ass night any night of the week! fuck friday night or saturday night pressure. external pressure is for physicists! (science joke). i used to feel cRaZySeXyLoSeR if i didn't go out and flip tables and scream in stranger's faces on the weekends (right?) but now i believe it's totally okay to spend those nights doing the things i need and want to do, especially when that includes taking care of myself in small ways that add up to big ways! did i mention i had a face mask on the whole time? because i did!! i was clearing out my pores too, you guys! last night just totally ruled. i have more fun this way, i wake up on saturday morning basically high-fiving my soul and science just called, told me that he loooved the physicist joke above and then confirmed that i slept even better than a baby because babies don't hit things outta the park like i just did, you know?
(1a. it's totally okay to google "external pressure physics" to make sure your joke about it in the previous paragraph makes sense. and then to reference that joke again. and now again.)
2) it's totally okay for me to let you know once again that you should absolutely, 100%, without a doubt, fuck the haters. also, please know that no one is really thinking about you as much as you are thinking about you (weird, right?). i know so many of us who allow the imaginary thoughts of random strangers to stop us from doing the things that we want, can or should do, and i just won't take it anymore!
example: this morning i went on a run for the first time in like, two months. it was haaaard. i was hot-messing it all up and down these streets and sure, random others were looking at me for a second as i passed them panting, crying, begging-them-for-a-mercy-killing, but honestly?, i bet they didn't even think about it/me/the situation one bit. i bet they were thinking about their dog peeing on their fav shoes that morn or how their boss totally laughed at their joke the other day and how awesome that felt - whatever. i just bet they weren't all that concerned with me in the way that i was concerned with me, you know? i'm just super glad that i went for the run because for a long, long, long time these imaginary negative thoughts of random strangers would stop me. fuck that!
and okay, even if they were thinking about me, i bet it was either a passing "ohh poor girl, good luck with that!" OR maybe even a "good for you! you go get it, girl!" if it was a negi thought, 1) that person is just a walking negi-vibe and who cares, DISREGARD, and 2) wait five seconds because (especially here in new york) you just gotta know that in less than two breaths time that negi thought got replaced because all of a sudden a guy on an eight foot tall tricycle wearing a clown nose is air-horning his way through a speech on the illuminati and although he is obviously batshit crazy, he is kinda making sense? and then you go home and google things that scare you.
so just do it, you know? this applies to running, singing, dancing, creating, writing, whatever! i'll repeat one more time: fuck the haters!
and finally,
4) it's totally okay to have a really loud laugh. just know that if there's one thing this world always needs more of it's laughter so let it ring out like the bells of freedom!
have a good saturday!!
xo , DANIELLE
Showing posts with label it's totally okay. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
it's totally okay #1
i'm trying something new! in addition to, or perhaps instead of?, my random unsolicited advicements (not a real word), i think i will also be randomly posting some it's totally okay's which is exactly what it sounds like - me, letting you know, out of the kindness of my heart combined with my undying love for you, that it's totally okay to do certain things that you may not be so confident to do.
are you ready? it's totally okay if you're not because we just gunna go ahead anyway like right now omg here we go!
1. it's totally okay to go see your favorite band, buy one of their sickass t-shirts and then straight up wear it the next day at brunch with the girls. no need to hide it or wait for a 'cooler' time. the next morning is as cool as it gets! that show was f'n awesome, you basically had a spiritual experience, you only fucked up singing the lyrics once, LET IT BE KNOWN! it's totally okay to be genuine and earnest and enthusiastic over the things you love than to be the negi, annoying, arms-crossed, totally-over-it opposite, i promise you this.
2. it's totally okay to not respond to a text or an e-mail right away, especially one that upsets you or causes you anxiety. we think things always have to be handled immediately but word up children, they don't! you can totally sit with something, think and talk it over with other people and respond at a later time (a few hours? days? whatever's needed!) instead of react right away. omg. did i just slamdunk your world into a thousand million pieces?? (plz don't answer right away.)
3. it's totally okay to listen to the same song on repeat for days at a time! do it til your heart is ready to move on or until your roommate has a kinda really scary meltdown all like IF I HEAR THAT FUCKING SONG ONE MORE TIME I SWEAR I'M GUNNA.. whatever comes first!
and finally,
4. it's totally okay to be "that guy" sometimes! i know, i know, no one wants to be "that guy" but check it: when i was 20 i was going through an insane led zeppelin stage. at this time, i took a train ride across the country by myself. i was wearing a robert plant t-shirt, listening to zep the whole ride (3 days) while reading hammer of the gods. i was totally "that guy" but guess what? I OWNED IT and subsequently HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK. i had sex with a 30 year old LUMBERJACK from MONTANA while the train passed through the midwest. he bought me A CHICKEN FRIED STEAK. i learned MAGIC TRICKS from a dude who claimed to have a ROCKET JETPACK at home. (why was he on a train if he had a rocket jetpack? #unansweredquestions) this guitar-wielding hippie would play "ramble on" every time i walked into the lounge car. they fucking loved me. they all called me "zeppelin girl' and i was! but it worked because i worked it. so go for it. do your thing. be "that guy" if it means owning the shit out of life.
xo forever
dani
are you ready? it's totally okay if you're not because we just gunna go ahead anyway like right now omg here we go!
1. it's totally okay to go see your favorite band, buy one of their sickass t-shirts and then straight up wear it the next day at brunch with the girls. no need to hide it or wait for a 'cooler' time. the next morning is as cool as it gets! that show was f'n awesome, you basically had a spiritual experience, you only fucked up singing the lyrics once, LET IT BE KNOWN! it's totally okay to be genuine and earnest and enthusiastic over the things you love than to be the negi, annoying, arms-crossed, totally-over-it opposite, i promise you this.
2. it's totally okay to not respond to a text or an e-mail right away, especially one that upsets you or causes you anxiety. we think things always have to be handled immediately but word up children, they don't! you can totally sit with something, think and talk it over with other people and respond at a later time (a few hours? days? whatever's needed!) instead of react right away. omg. did i just slamdunk your world into a thousand million pieces?? (plz don't answer right away.)
3. it's totally okay to listen to the same song on repeat for days at a time! do it til your heart is ready to move on or until your roommate has a kinda really scary meltdown all like IF I HEAR THAT FUCKING SONG ONE MORE TIME I SWEAR I'M GUNNA.. whatever comes first!
and finally,
4. it's totally okay to be "that guy" sometimes! i know, i know, no one wants to be "that guy" but check it: when i was 20 i was going through an insane led zeppelin stage. at this time, i took a train ride across the country by myself. i was wearing a robert plant t-shirt, listening to zep the whole ride (3 days) while reading hammer of the gods. i was totally "that guy" but guess what? I OWNED IT and subsequently HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK. i had sex with a 30 year old LUMBERJACK from MONTANA while the train passed through the midwest. he bought me A CHICKEN FRIED STEAK. i learned MAGIC TRICKS from a dude who claimed to have a ROCKET JETPACK at home. (why was he on a train if he had a rocket jetpack? #unansweredquestions) this guitar-wielding hippie would play "ramble on" every time i walked into the lounge car. they fucking loved me. they all called me "zeppelin girl' and i was! but it worked because i worked it. so go for it. do your thing. be "that guy" if it means owning the shit out of life.
xo forever
dani
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