Brittany


Herbalism//Baker//Vegan

Reclaiming crafts as fine art. DIY everything. Feminism, body and sex positivity, equality for all.
I like package design and I like tacos. I live in Boston and sometimes I get mouthy.

Posts tagged dear diary

Jun 13

I started working out again in the mornings, just a little easy yoga and Pilates but I’m like damn. Even if it does nothing to help me get healthier/stronger/etc it sure makes me feel more positive about the day.


Also I made a big pitcher of lemon water today, A+, very refreshing.


Jun 7

Settling in to the old heavy melancholy again but at least this feeling is recognizable, dependable, and most importantly predictable.


Jun 1

I’ve seen and done so many things and frankly the enormity of a lot of it has been lost on me in the moment and I often look back and wish I’d appreciated the grandness, and excitement, and exhilaration of it all much more. I spend most of my time restless and bored with my current situation and wishing for new things, anything, something shocking or awful, just something—anything to make me feel again.


I wish I’d reminded myself more that money isn’t real and fuck it. I wish I’d spent less time focused on dead and decaying relationships and more time appreciating people who would later turn out to be so valuable to me. I guess what I’m saying is that I will never, ever, do that again, and maybe that’s positive but its feeling awfully nostalgic right now and I think I need to go bake some cookies and fucking cope.


May 27

Me

Instantly likes every picture of plants that exists on the internet but believes I couldn’t survive outside of the city.


Mar 20

Thoroughly freaking out

about all the events I agreed to do with Sweet as the South coming up in the next few weeks. Can I bake that many things in one weekend? Am I even going to make money off of this? Being jobless, I certainly can’t afford to LOSE money. HOW DO YOU PLAN FOR AN EVENT? How many treats should I bake?! I’m feeling very nervous and hopeless about this whole endeavor and kind of wanting to hide in a hole and never come out. I feel so out of my element. HALP.


Feb 25

Pushing through depression to accomplish my goals is maybe one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.

Sometimes it’s all that I can do just to not let myself throw in the towel, let alone push things along and further the bakery. I think I take set backs in the business much harder than the average person but dammit I’m trying.

There’s a lot of starting and stopping and taking breaks for my mind to catch up to my ambitions and I worry all the time about whether or not these breaks are going to eventually cause the business to fail.


Jan 7

How do you make friends as an adult with people who you think from afar are super cool when you have no real reason to talk to them?


Dec 19

I *may* have just

gotten a job at a vegan pizzeria as a part time baker and driver. And I’m so nervous/stoked that I feel like I might throw up or pee myself or both at the same time.


Dec 16

I keep fantasizing about quitting my job because once I do I’ll be able to

  • bake everyday
  • find time to do yoga/ go swimming/ find a place to rock climb/ get healthy
  • volunteer more (at animal/farm animal shelters, for LGBTQ organizations, the Boston Rape Crisis Center)
  • attempt to actually get my distro (idea) off the ground
  • SEW/EMBROIDER/CROSS-STITCH/ALL OF THE THINGS I LOVE
  • be happier and look for better jobs

ALSO: To continue my weekly list making of positive things:

  • had an awesome Saturday comprised of working the B9 DIY flea market, eating Sabertooth Bakery sweets all day, & dinnering at Veggie Galaxy with friends
  • had a whole week where I only worked three times, two of which were doing something I actually care about (see above + one day of set up)
  • somehow managed to get a 98% on BOTH of my final papers for Positive Psych and Experimental Psych of Personality 
  • baked vegan gingerbread people TWICE this week AND made cinnamon rolls ^.^
  • ordered myself new Maya Organic jewellery that I’m SO STOKED on and have been checking the mail for every single day
  • was told to look out in the mail for XVXmas presents from faraway friends which has been making me doubly check the mail every day
  • opened one XVXmas present early and it was a holiday Descendents’ mug from Ryan that I love love love.

Dec 11

Everyday is more difficult to weather than the last and every morning I wake up feeling like vomiting and crying and retreating deep down back into the covers with my kitten. I just want to change my name and move somewhere else and start over. And get a dog.


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