Seconding Michael Franti & Idles.
Michael Franti said he used to make political music to try to improve the world but decided music that made people happy made the world happier more directly.
Idles are like your asshole friend who refuse to let you beat up on yourself. They are so good.
Deep penetration, hee hee.
Red light therapy is reasonably well proven at this point, it’s not magic but can have an effect.
One year on my birthday, years ago, my mom gave me a gift in a jewelry box. I was inwardly groaning, but when I opened it, it was memory for my computer. Which was a thoughtful gift, and a funny way to package it.
Way ahead of her time I guess.
Shivering does nothing, rubbing my hands together just makes my arms tired. When it’s not cold just cool, I can exercise (like go run up and down the stairs) and build internal heat. But not when it’s really cold.
When I was pregnant I couldn’t get cold, it was nice, I think that must be how a lot of people feel - I had a heater inside me. I wasn’t really too hot in the summer even pregnant, could still be still and cool, but not too cold in the winter at all.
No tengo una plancha.
I have never had an iron, just wear knits mostly, natural fabrics. If absolutely necessary, will steam them, but only a couple times a year.
My mom didn’t iron much but she did have the board and the iron. Some of my coworkers do iron their stuff.
My mom talked about staying up late to hear the black radio station because everything on the radio was so boring. She ran away from home to see Elvis!
You live in a different world, with streaming, you can listen to so much music. I can remember before that - we at least had community radio with volunteer DJs who played different stuff but top 40 radio literally played about 40 songs on repeat.
I suppose your grandkids will also consider whatever you think shocking music to be boring too
I can cool right down by being still, when it’s hot.
Can’t do the inverse though, when it’s cold I’m just cold.
I went to a zoo, it sucked and had only one exhibit.
It was a shitzu
And
Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?
He had no body to go with!
This was my experience as well, everyone had calmed down and just staying in shape put me in the better looking bucket. Duck to swan thing, I didn’t get to feel that when I was young so it was kinda nice.
Oh I had a friend who was a cheerleader, she stayed with her high school boyfriend, he had a bad health crisis, recovered but she then rethought her life and became an artist, sort of dropped out of participation in anything that didn’t really make her happy. Has done fine, too, not starving or anything, they are still together, or were last I saw her.
Me personally? I could probably make it years on beans, rice, and greens if I had to. Collard greens, rice and beans, oil and spices to season them, and onions.
So glad I don’t have to, but if I had to choose that would be it.
I thought I’d hate working from home, it wasn’t too bad. Then they made us hybrid, I thought oh no, worst of both worlds, it wasn’t that bad either. I went back to the office full time because I don’t have a home office and wanted to reclaim that space.
It’s pretty much the same job but teams meetings suck even more than in person meetings, and training new people too, worse.
What I do not like is a commute. I live about one mile from work so don’t even have to drive most days, if it was farther the calculation would be different.
My family loved me working from home because I did more of the cooking and housework, it kind of intensifies that inequality I think.
So I think personally I didn’t get much benefit from working from home but it was not nearly as bad as I thought it might be, if I had to I would.
I would be shocked if grapefruit flavored red bull contains any part of grapefruit the fruit.
Watch his Tiny Desk Concert on NPR, it’s amazing. Arena shows are just arena shows, the music gets a little lost in all the rest of what’s going on.
I really do not like homework for little kids, they are in school 8 hours, that’s time for a study hall and recess, they aren’t going to forget how to read overnight, and don’t have enough free time as it stands now. So much of what little kids need is time to develop, not just academic instruction.
From 12 yo or so, sure, but school should be fewer hours then, like college, classes for lecture and questions, and work done outside class. 2 of mine had high schools that worked like that, with a long study hall period because school district mandates on campus time, and those two were the most successful in college, and so far also in career.
Fermented pickled radish is glorious. Just a salt brine, and time. I put a tight lid and shake daily until they are done, a weight or airlock works too.
ETA
More specifically, in case you want to try it. About 4% salt brine, loosen the lid most of the time, tighten to shake it. They will get sour. When they taste the way you want them to, refrigerate them. I always store them in the refrigerator after making them, because of the loosey-goosey process I use but start with clean jar (dishwasher or boil it) and don’t reach in until you are pretty sure they are done, have never lost a batch to mold. I think it’s like tepache, radishes must have a good strong bacteria/yeast balance so they take over quick enough. Good with fennel seeds or dill or mustard seeds.
We have hard wood floor not carpets, have dogs so it’s never going to be some “you can eat off the floors” situation. We run a Roomba thrice daily, my shoes are kept in the bedroom so that’s where I put them on/take them off. So in general it’s the big open room with the kitchen/dining and living room and lounge area that are shoes on spaces, but I am not generally tracking gravel into the house. Y’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?
The Roomba vac makes an enormous difference, I CAN walk around barefoot without feeling grit on my feet. But it doesn’t bother me that the floor is not pristine, no. And cooking feels safer in shoes.
In other people’s houses I do whatever they want, obviously, but I would never tell someone to take off their shoes for my floor’s sake.
ETA: I asked my husband and he said “up north people take their shoes off at the door in a mudroom and put on house shoes or socks because they have wall to wall carpeting and it gets filthy so fast.” I don’t have a mudroom just a front door.
Hayes Carll sings, in his American Dream song - “Nothing changes, even when it wants to” and that struck me pretty hard.
Older-
Emmylou Harris the whole Red Dirt Girl song, my goodness but particularly “she loved her brother, I remember back when he was fixin up a '49 Indian. He told her “little sister gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again.” Well he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come.”
@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world my kids absolutely LOVE that Vincent song. It’s so good, straight through.
I have never tried to be feminine, and believe strongly that “womanly” is the sum total of what women are and do, we define it every day by being ourselves. “Feminine” to me is the things people would do to impersonate a woman, if an alien came to earth, for example, and was performing to try to be like a woman - the outward behaviors and paint and hair and all.
So no, and I think it’s nothing to fret over. I want to be myself and help define what womanhood is, not chase after some stereotype. I’ve never felt particularly feminine, but do feel very attached to being female bodied, enjoyed being pregnant, nursing, love having sex as a woman. Just don’t see any point to stereotypical “femininity” or “masculinity” those are unnecessary, and actively harmful in some cases.
That’s not as profoundly bad as I was, nor my nearsighted child, and I had a work colleague with -12 who got her vision corrected with Lasik.
I had the Lasik in my 20s for a -6 prescription and got, not perfect, but good enough vision to only need thin, light glasses.
When I was profoundly nearsighted I got really good correction with contacts, hard contacts gave me supernaturally good vision, but glasses never did. Even now I can’t get perfect vision with glasses, it’s just good enough.
You are farsighted? Two older ladies at my work had to get cataract surgery and in the process, their vision was corrected. Do get a second opinion, but it is true that you may not be able to see perfectly through glasses, I never could. Well enough to work, to read, and to not get headaches from squinting all the time, though, I don’t feel disabled by my sight.