u/brielikethechee

i stayed up all night last night hanging a curtain rod on the smaller window, moving the narrower curtains over there, and putting a double rod on the big window with wider curtains in the same color plus lighter sheer curtains on the back rod. the curtains i had up before just weren’t wide enough, and without blinds there was really no way to let light in without also giving everyone outside a free tour of my living room.

i’m not sure if this is just one of those changes that takes time to get used to, if i picked the wrong color for the sheers, or if i should have just left everything alone. part of me thinks the sheers should be a little more off-white, more like the color of the nugget chunk i’m currently using as an ottoman.

i’m definitely not done decorating in here yet. i still have a rug to put down once the baby playpen is set up, and eventually i’m adding more pillows with sage and maybe rust accents, plus a small leather recliner, a floor lamp, and a large floor mirror. so this is not the final form.

please talk me off the ledge before i take the curtains down from the small window, remove the double rod, and undo all the work i just did because i’ve stared at it for too long.

found these in my mulch in ohio while weeding. the way i literally reached down to pick this up thinking my flower bed had somehow produced a carrot, realized very quickly that it was not lol.

it broke off and was hollow, immediately got fungus vibes, but had for sure never seen these before. so i googled “carrot looking fungus”, ended up finding even more of them after learning they start as little “eggs". which is pretty weird because when they open and grow into the phallic-esque carrot thing, they leave behind this yellow film/goo that looks exactly like yolk. nature can sometimes be stranger than fiction.

they’re a type of stinkhorn. they start to smell bad and leave a weird brown goo on top to attract flies, which spread the spores around. unfortunately, i also got that goo all over my fingers, which is how i learned never to trust a random mulch carrot (or orange penis?) again. really cool, but also really gross. i had to get in the shower before posting this.

found these in my mulch in ohio while weeding. the way i literally reached down to pick this up thinking my flower bed had somehow produced a carrot, realized very quickly that it was not lol.

it broke off and was hollow, immediately got fungus vibes, but had for sure never seen these before. so i googled “carrot looking fungus”, ended up finding even more of them after learning they start as little “eggs". which is pretty weird because when they open and grow into the phallic-esque carrot thing, they leave behind this yellow film/goo that looks exactly like yolk. nature is disgusting but kind of impressive.

they’re a type of stinkhorn. they start to smell bad and leave a weird brown goo on top to attract flies, which spread the spores around. unfortunately, i also got that goo all over my fingers, which is how i learned never to trust a random mulch carrot again. thanks nature, really cool, but also really gross. i had to get in the shower before posting this.