Yes, it is just cbat on repeat

1/8?? What kind of dream job do you have?

How on earth are you reading while lying on your stomach??

Anecdotally, I had a quenching desire to lie on my stomach after giving birth. Like, I was exhausted and sleep deprived and you could have told me that this would kill me and I’d still sleep on my stomach in the hospital. I later looked it up and apparently lying on your stomach helps with the back formation of the uterus.

So you telling me venus doesn’t look like a cheesy pizza?

I assumed it was because it helps develop fine motor skills. Also bright colors and contrasts are a visual stimulant.

You wouldn’t believe how surprised I was that you could just buy them as a regular person. Somehow it felt like only doctors are allowed to have these. You can’t have that at home.

Well, we do now, but it feels wrong.

I often regret a lot of decisions and long for the paths I didn’t take. Then I remember that I was very likely to take a path that would have gotten me killed. Be it through rape, accident, suicide, or - most likely - by drinking myself to death. My life right now isn’t what I thought it would be, a lot of things didn’t turn out as I had yearned for, but it is a nice life and I am so grateful. So when I get sad about the missed opportunities, I try to humble myself and be grateful and impressed by what I have achieved. I didn’t die. And if I think about what deep pit I got out of, then my “life career” is so much steeper than a lot of people’s. Going from the mariana trench to the coast is quite a climb, even if you’re just at sea level at the end.

Damn that reminds me how I felt like things ought to, have to, must and will absolutely change with the pandemic. Lo and behold, 6 years later, we’re back to the same old shit.

I assumed we’d realize that we went too fast and too far. That we need to work together to get over this, cooperate, help one another. That there are things that matter more than corporations. I naively assumed that in times of global crises like this, we would get closer together and put aside all that shenanigangs. Slow down and realize that if we just tune it down nature will come back, the planet will heal.

Obviously, quite the opposite happened society wise, and even in terms of medical policy we are back where we started.

We are currently having Covid. How we know? We still use home test kits. When I told people we tested positive today they are so surprised that we even tested. They are even more surprised I am keeping my daughter home since she has no symptoms but a cough.

Everyone is surprised that I wear a mask when I pick my healthy daughter up from kindergarten when I have a cold and my spouse can’t pick her up. People are surprised I am cancelling a dentist appointment last minute because I have the flu and conjunctivitis. People are back to going to work with a flu. For fucks sake.

Can I suggest putting some frozen kale or spinach in it as well? For extra veggies and taste. We basically cook that every week and I love it. Granted, I put a tad more effort into it (stir fry onion and garlic and tomato paste before I add rice, lentils, greens and broth) but it’s basically the same.

Also try adding soy sauce, smoked paprika, and liquid smoke. Just a drop but it does wonders. Yeast flakes are also great.

As someone who’s actually had this problem (in an urban area) and actually solved it

That’s honestly quite remarkable

Idk wtf 🌚 means

Well I mean I can’t really hang out at a playground without a child, let alone climb stuff there. There’s an age limit (at least where I live) and you cannot hang out there without a child 😅

Same for a very cool museum that has a whole floor dedicated to amazing stem experiments. But you can only go there if you accompany a kid age 3-8. They send teenagers who come on their own away, let alone grown ups.

I can’t bike on the sidewalk. I much prefer biking on the sidewalk. I have to bike on the sidewalk when I have my kid with me.

Where I agree is wearing cutesy glitter stuff in my hair. I should have done that much before I had my child as an “excuse”.

For real, having kids is like a free pass to do things and go places you would be too embarrassed to otherwise or simply not allowed to.

I am so, so sorry about your loss. I’m glad to hear that you were able to feel a beacon of hope last year, and that this painting was a way for you to cling on to it and feel it a little longer. I hope you find a way to keep holding on to it, and through that hope find the courage to not give up and try to support change instead whenever you can and have the strength and energy to do so. But I can’t even imagine how hard that must be. And most of all, carry the love you had for your mom in your heart despite the grief, and the disgust and hate for the system that led to her demise quicker than it had to be.

I hope you don’t mind if I save that picture of yours.

Making an AI meme of Luigi as a Saint is one thing.

Making a painting and having it casually displayed in your room is a whole other level.

Also, I can’t believe it’s already been a year.

Thank you for the tip! Unfortunately they don’t seem to sell in Germany :(

• Anything that comes from animals. I am actually no fan of organic food at all, but over here it is the easiest way to guarantee at least somewhat better standards of care for the animals. I wish they would feed them GMO tho and iodine supplements were allowed but ok. We rarely buy animal products so paying 16€ for two chicken breasts only hurts like once a year

• coffee. My coffee is expensive, but my spouse tops it with his caffeine free version of the same brand that is about twice the price.

• yeast flakes. I am, at this point, basically unable to cook anything savory without adding a shit ton of yeast flakes and smoked paprika to it. Freaking yeast flakes all the way.

• almond butter. I am going through way too much almond butter and it is fucking expensive. My excuse is that it is still healthier to eat a glass of almond butter within three days than to eat a jar of nutella or chocolate. Banana on corn waffles with almond butter has become my standard sweet snack and makes me feel less gross than candy. Also works well with heartburn.

Man, I sound like some crazy eco chick. I swear nothing in our house has a moon face pattern on it.

Wait this is not photoshopped?

Just want to say I love comments like yours. I love when people know their stuff about the bible (or other holy texts) and can put it into a reflected context. Thank you

I have to admit it did a lot for me and I can’t believe I am saying that. But I literally just looked at this map for two minutes, trying to figure out what it was that caught me off guard.

Maybe inverting made South Korea look less like a peninsula “down there, hanging”, and more like something “up there, that people want to climb”?

Maybe it’s because I am not used to seeing this orientation and it’s refreshing and hence I look at it more closely than subconsciously thinking “meh I know what countries there are and what’s depicted”?

Like, this shouldn’t make sense, it should not make a difference, why does it make a difference to me, I don’t get it.