Jael Addison

Mommy ~ Vintage Enthusiast ~ Makeup Lover

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

I love this store: https://t.co/S6iAT19F2Z online French cosmetics in the USA! https://t.co/xrezrfdNzf

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In a strange event on April 19th, 1995, McArthur Wheeler executed a bank robbery while wearing a disguise consisting of lemon juice smeared on his face. His rationale was rooted in the belief that lemon juice, commonly used as invisible ink, would render him undetectable by CCTV cameras. With confidence, he even grinned at each camera he encountered during the heist.

However, later that same night, the police apprehended Wheeler. The moment of reckoning occurred when they presented him with the CCTV footage, leaving Wheeler utterly astonished. He expressed his disbelief to the officers, uttering the baffling words, "but I wore the juice."

This outlandish episode involving McArthur Wheeler has earned its place as a renowned case study in the realm of psychology. It notably contributed to the unveiling of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias wherein individuals with limited competence in a particular task tend to overestimate their abilities.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

This is why she’s our Queen

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Lucille was not for the play play

[Native Santa Cruz @NativeSantaCruz]

It’s obvious that Wednesday has been jealous of Tuesday getting all the weather attention and has decided to do something about it 😕

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

@LOFT has the stupidest exchange policy and now I may not be able to get the items I want in my size just because im a new loft cc customer and I haven’t received my loft cc yet 🤬

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Bazinga

[Weight Watchers @ww_us]

Congrats @adidas on losing 163 lbs!!!

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Flew to El Lay for mommy/daughter @conangray concert 💗 Met up with @jenn.thereault too!! Super fun show and the Greek Theatre is fabulous 🎉
#conangray #greektheatre #losangeles #mommydaughter @ Greek Theatre https://t.co/YLhhnrYLv7

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

#fbf to having lunch at @goldengirlskitchen!! Such a fun experience and the food was amazing 👌🏻 If only there was a permanent restaurant I’d be a happy happy girl 💗💗 @ The Golden Girls Kitchen https://t.co/ScpF6WggH5

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Love that when friends come over for the 1st time, they say “It’s like you live at Disneyland” lol yes that is the reason we bought this house

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Just posted a photo @ Anaheim Convention Center https://t.co/sOQVuRM2Jz

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/9Js85xFrdG

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

@MarlenaStell I was diagnosed almost four years ago. Thankfully I have an amazing neurologist and have remained stable without major relapse since my diagnosis

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Home https://t.co/1NWbyJVI92

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Another busy busy month…moving + anniversary getaway + kids stuff 🫠🫠 https://t.co/VJ13J26PgT

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Survived our first 20 days of the 2022/2023 homeschool year 😰 new curriculum is always fun to figure out and sound like i know what I’m doing 🤪

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Ready to hibernate until Spring 🫠

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/63emFbA8TO

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

Next week we’ll be living in a different house…so weird…but it will be Our house and something I never thought would happen living where we do 🥰

[Jael Addison @_jaeladdison]

In case you forgot fifty hundred times today like me…it’s only Monday