Ah hell, now I want pancakes real bad.

It’s a good read! I recommend catching the backstory on the linked pages!

Oh this is about importing asian lady beetles and not the normal native red ones from the USA?

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A powerful statement in therapy that still hits me when I think about it. “You don’t stop being someone’s child.” (I’ll leave it without context, the context would be too painful and personal, so read that however you want.)

Just reposting, not the author!

Had a tamer but similar hill near my home growing up. Loved speeding down. It ended in a lot filled with gravel. Fortunately the day I spun out on the gravel lot was coming from a different, slower direction. Developed an extremely bad case of road rash all over one leg. When I realized what might have happened if I’d been taking the hill instead, that I probably would have broken my legs or worse, I stopped going down that hill. Realization of mortality can be like a bucket of ice water sometimes.

I bought a garmin specifically to help me navigate moving on my own halfway across the USA. It was my first time moving out. It was my first time on such a long drive by myself. Lots of firsts. (I actually forgot my phone back home, since the garmin was its own device, I was more focused on having that than my cheap ass phone. Wound up pulling into a Walmart to buy a Tracfone lol)

Prior to that I used MapQuest a lot

I got all the way to the last level once… but never beat it. The lava level man.

Another extremely compelling episode, I love these.

In order, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Pokemon, Digimon

Omelettes. So versatile. So good. Of all the combos I love bacon and mushrooms in my american cheese omelettes best of all.

Pancakes are a close second.

Learning to flip things in any cookware is still a work in progress for me, but it always gives impressively better results when I can manage it, so it’s something I want to master!

This one’s new to me; I love it!

I find that also cuts down on how much your eyes water (for the onions)

Pasta water as an emulsifier was also a huge technique for me :)

There have been many times I’ve passed on something because it had a subscription fee but would have bought as a one time purchase. I feel like everyone’s forgotten that it’s an option.

I’m with you on the confusion because it’s like… I don’t feel the need to act this way, why do other people? What drives them that, in a void, they resort to these thoughts and behaviors? Is this who they really are, or is it an act, like doing an evil playthrough in a game. “I want to because I can here, and I can’t anywhere else?”

Last time I asked that the only thing they liked was that I briefly held a job that wasn’t related to the field at all. It was working at a library. “I thought that was neat.”

That was it. Nothing else was noteworthy.

First one is a screencap from Overly Sarcastic Productions. I sadly don’t remember where the second one came from.