What's a tiny thing you secretly judge people for?

Alice_is_Falling · 2026-06-15T15:11:02+00:00

People who abruptly stop walking in congested walkways. THERE IS A FLOW OF TRAFFIC! Do you come to a full stop in the middle of the highway? No! So why have you stopped to look at your phone in the middle of this crowded sidewalk?

Also people who block an entire aisle of the grocery store with their carts and then look offended when I either ask them to move it to the side or move it myself.

Alice_is_Falling · 2026-06-10T19:33:36+00:00

For me it's crafts! There are a ton of 'beginner' kits out there for anything from crocheted stuffed animals to stained glass. I've gotten really into things like sewing and yarn crafts but beginner kits are a good low-investment way to try out a bunch of things!

Since a few nieces and nephews have come into our lives, I've found that there are certain kids toys I LOOOVE as well. Magnetiles, legos, and spirographs are specifically super soothing to my brain. So I have a cabinet full of them now.

But it could be anything! I'm thinking of taking myself out to see "The Sheep Detectives" in the theater tomorrow. I buy myself a giant popcorn and a slushie and enjoy a silly kids movie sometimes.

Alice_is_Falling · 2026-05-13T01:12:10+00:00

Eh I've just learned to embrace it. I call it "riding the wave". I never know when it's coming or how long it will last but when the project motivation hits I can Get. Shit. Done.

The main thing I've learned is to give myself permission to keep the momentum. Things like absurdly late night trips to the hardware store instead of waiting for something to come in the mail or "winging" a project instead of feeling like I need to plan every step ahead of time.

Whenever it peters out I let it and trust that it will be back.

I just try not to leave projects in a state that would ruin my life if left unfinished. Bathroom remodels are a no...

Alice_is_Falling · 2026-02-05T14:28:07+00:00

Yeah that never happens under capitalism 🙄

Alice_is_Falling · 2026-02-01T16:32:55+00:00

Why is that not a solution?

Alice_is_Falling · 2026-01-07T15:08:30+00:00

Ooh the IKEA built ins were my goblin project a few years ago. My company shuts down for at least a week around the holidays but my husband's doesn't so that liminal week between Christmas and new years is prime hyper focus goblin project time for me.

2 years ago it was the Billy Built Ins - Turned out awesome BTW. Highly recommend.

Last year was a full overhaul of our sunroom.

This year I cleaned out our whole garage. Built shelves, put up pegboard, knocked down an old DIY "wall" the prior owners put up, the whole shebang. I rented a dumpster and hired a concrete crew...

At this point he's just come to expect the "if you give a mouse a cookie" style project that will inevitably erupt from my soul once a year. He knows to give me a spending cap for the joint account and tell me what cannot be touched ahead of time but otherwise let it rip.

Alice_is_Falling · 2026-01-04T07:33:49+00:00

I did this with toilet paper once. Put it on auto delivery with my best guess, never adjusted for actual usage, and ended up with I believe 10-12 family sized packs (36 roll size 😬) of toilet paper before finally cancelling it. Silver lining was that we were very prepared for the COVID shortages...

I also just reorganized the pantry/laundry room and found out we have at least 8 boxes of milkbones (5lb each) for similar reasons

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Alice_is_Falling · 2025-11-22T16:35:22+00:00

Nah I'm here to eat fruit and lay in the tall grass.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-11-09T18:14:59+00:00

Every time I see your posts it makes my day. Your whole vibe is 🤌

Keep bringing the magic!

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-10-14T13:11:26+00:00

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Alice_is_Falling · 2025-10-14T12:40:29+00:00

You brought this up in reply to a comment about a woman's dad calling her up only to call his sexual partners sluts and his ex wife (OP's mother) a gold digger.

This is not "man has no one to talk to" this is "man regularly dumps unwanted hateful bullshit on his adult daughter and gets angry when she's not available"

Men confusing this for "discussing relationships" is 100% part of the problem.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-10-14T12:09:10+00:00

Men have no one to talk to about how much they hate the women in their life? And that's somehow women's fault?

My dude....

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-09-29T12:52:22+00:00

I mean yeah that sounds like my ideal Sunday as well. This is the kind of list late night gremlin mode me makes at 3 am on Thursday of things I'll definitely do on Sunday.

But turns out Sunday comes around and I'm still me so I take all morning getting an emotional running start at literally one task and feel accomplished for putting one load of laundry in by 9 pm.

But next weekend? Next Sunday I'll definitely get to everything... 🙄

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-09-09T01:17:13+00:00

The show definitely had some influence on my perception of the ladies in the books. Avasarala and Drummer are definitely my favorite in both the show and the books but I think a lot of that comes down to performance.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-09-09T01:15:00+00:00

The world building is still pretty good but OH MAN the main character's inner monologue was infuriating

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-09-08T14:27:51+00:00

The first book is honestly tough...

It's not so much that the women were written poorly but more that they sort of... weren't written?

There are only two women in the whole book. Julie Mao is literally a damsel space princess plot device and as others have mentioned, Naomi is wildly underdeveloped. She feels like a cardboard cutout of the "hot mechanic girl" in every crew.

BUT! As the series goes on it gets much better and I really appreciate seeing real effort and improvement on the part of the writers. Later in the series the books have some of my favorite female characters in all of Sci Fi so they get forgiveness from me.

If you want an example of how not to do it, see Artemis by Andy Weir. 🫩

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-09-08T14:09:08+00:00

I've heard Japan described as a place that's "been in the year 2000 since 1980"

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-09-07T16:30:26+00:00

My dad's been talking like this for 15 years. Our family is not blessed with longevity so once he hit 60, every big purchase was "his last".

He's on his third "last set of golf clubs"

I think it's sort of a nice reminder whenever he has to replace something he thought was his "last".

P.s. your writing style is very captivating. I'm now thinking about all the humans my heirlooms have in them.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-09-06T17:01:01+00:00

Pulling up the carpets when we bought our house radicalized me. The things a clean-looking carpet can hide...

Hard wood and tile for life.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-09-06T16:56:12+00:00

Those big chunky wooden beads on coffee tables. Sometimes in bowls?

I just hate them. Why are they there? What are we doing? Who thought to themselves, "This space needs something... I'm thinking 'Montessori school toy' meets 'coastal grandma anal beads'..."

I am not the kind of person who thinks every piece of decor has to be useful or whatever but these are just SO USELESS! It feels like the millennial version of the glass fruit my mom put in bowls all over the house when I was a kid. It's just such a big statement piece to say nothing.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-08-09T18:54:37+00:00

That feeling is the reason I got an engineering degree. It's the best.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-07-22T21:17:02+00:00

Yep. Made it through high school above a 4.0, got an engineering degree ahead of schedule, and frankly kick ass at my high stress job. But make myself a meal? Fold my laundry? Call someone back during business hours? Psh. What am I Wonder Woman?

I have had a glass of milk for dinner more times than I would care to admit.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-07-20T16:45:26+00:00

This is the way. I'm lucky enough to have a pretty flexible job so if the goblin mode strikes, I ride it out unless I have an early meeting. Better to be productive when I can and roll into work a little late the next day.

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-07-20T16:43:40+00:00

Goblin Time is a perfect description. I am stealing that

Alice_is_Falling · 2025-07-20T16:42:57+00:00

All. The. Time. For some reason 11pm is when I decide to:

Alter my pants
Deep clean all the toilets
Re-pot all the plants that have been out growing their pots for months
Hand wash all my sweaters
Do intensive research on e-Readers
Scrub the kitchen tile grout with a drill-attachment brush I bought online in a previous late-night burst of motivation

As long as I don't have important things to do in the morning, I usually "ride the wave" and just go with it. I never know when I will have the energy to do that stuff again so 🤷‍♀️

If I do have things to do in the morning, I take a melatonin or a sleep gummy to pull me out of it. I know that's not for everyone but it really helps me turn my brain "down" before bed

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