How to take care of a cat stuck in a tree the russian way.
I’m 85% sure the subtitles are accurate.
The chaos, the gross negligence, the completely unnecessary destruction of property, the massive do-not-give-a-fuck attitude, and yet it all paid off somehow, I have never seen something so Russian in my entire life!
There is no better delight than the perfect cup of coffee in your all time favorite mug. Usually, our favorite mugs are staples, we can’t live without or adorable ceramic ware, which instantly makes us happy. Manchester based designer Jenni Waldrop from Fuzzy and Birch decided to make snarky and hilarious mugs, along with t-shirts, pillows and other goodies for those of us who speak fluent sarcasm.
If you’re not a morning person and wished that work meeting was a simple email, you will give into Waldrop’s sense of humor and decide you can’t live without your morning tea or coffee in one of her clever written mugs. If you want to wake up and tell the world exactly what you’re feeling every morning, peak inside her Etsy shop.
Girls, we are wolves.
We hide our fangs behind innocent smiles and red lipstick.
Girls, we are dragons.
Our voices carry the heat of our injustices and pain.
Girls, we are fighters.
Bullets and knives can pierce our skin but not our souls.
Girls, we are human beings.
We crack, we fall, and we bleed.
But we always, always stand back up.
when you allow a man to talk about himself he’ll call you real, genuine, earnest… he’ll start to develop feelings for you simply based off the fact that you give him space to brag about his accomplishments and relieve himself of mental durress… he develops feelings for you bc you’re like a sponge to him that he can fill w/ his worries and ego and squeeze out when he pleases. but as soon as you begin to talk about yourself or try to claim space for yourself is when the lack of attraction sets in! when you come into your own that’s when they back off. when you feel, they freeze. you move, they refuse to budge. that is just so wild
A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic.
Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband – they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day.
Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9×13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.
Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy. Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour.
Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick. Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.
Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.
So I tried this recipe.
And it is GREAT.
It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.
OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???
“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”
I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT
NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU.
Also:
Dear ______:
Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future].
My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.
should it be an email? or like a physical letter?
email, you want to send it within a few hours at max after the interview if you can so it’s fresh in their mind who you are.
Confirmed! I interviewed for a job right after arriving in NY. The interview went incredibly well, and I went home and immediately wrote a thank you letter and put it in the mail. I had a super good feeling about this interview.
I didn’t get the job.
However, a few weeks later, I was called in to interview with another editor in the same company, and I did get that job. I found out later from the initial editor (the one who didn’t hire me) that he had planned to offer me the job, but since I didn’t follow up with a thank you letter, he assumed I didn’t really want it. He offered the job to another contender–but when he got my letter in the mail shortly after the offer had already been made, he went to HR and gave me a glowing recommendation. It was based on that recommendation that I got called in for the second interview.
So: send an email thank you immediately (same day!) after the interview. If you’re feeling extra, go ahead and send a written one too. OR go immediately to a coffee shop, write the letter, and return to the office and give it to the secretary.
Either way, those letters are important.
Pro tip: If you really want HR to develop a personal interest in your application, publicly thank them on linkedin. Just make a short post telling your network about how X recruiter really went above and beyond to make you feel welcome, or about how be accommodating and professional they were, or whatever. Make sure to use the mention feature so they’ll get a notification and see it.
Flattery will get you everywhere… and public flattery that might make its way back to their manager, doubly so.
Obligatory plug for one of FreePrintable.net’s sites: ThankYouLetter.ws. They have a whole section with interview thank you letter templates, and a page with specific tips for interview thank you letters. (There are also tons of other letter templates if you browse around a bit.)
Extremely positive. I would like to own a pigeon or two one day, when I am living in my cozy A-frame cabin with a shaggy dog, a highland cow, a vegetable garden, a path leading down the rocky cliff to a series of tide pools brimming with life that I draw and describe in my journals every day, a fish-smoking shed, a rabbit hutch, and a secret glade where the elf queen comes to let me braid her hair and listen to sick jams on the radio with me.
Anyway yeah I like pigeons.
Oh and also. Every seven weeks, I go out riding under the moon upon a bone-white steed, carrying a lantern carved from a radish. Its hypnotic light leads travelers into the bog, where I raid their pockets and then leave them to the creature that lives there. In return, I am blessed with peace and prosperity.
As small as the world 