New Habits [NOT 26/5/22]

26/5/22 brightersideoflife 27

Hi, friends!

Happy Thursday, we’re almost to the weekend.

I’ve started stretching again. I used to stretch most days, but sometime early on in the pandemic I just stopped for no rational reason.

So what’s new in your worlds? Any new habits you’re working on?

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27 Comments

  1. ive taken up not holding my tongue….its liberating

    ive already alienated a few family members (no…climate change is not a hoax just coz its not warm today you fucking dipshit…and no refugees getting homed are not the reason we have a housing shortage…you’d have to be some kind of moron to think that…oh wait…forgot who i was talking to)

    and my boss now avoids me (yay) as he came to me with a whole motivational speech about me needing to speak up more or nothing will ever get done to improve things

    to which i replied i have spoken up repeatedly and nothing got done..so why bother

    • but tbh…what i need to do is break some old habbits….at the very least smoking needs to go

      i mean…its ridiculously expensive….i know i’m killing myself with it…

      how am i still justifying it?

      well….its an extremely effective conversation killer for one…sorry…stepping out for a smoke back in 5

      but yeah…its a bad habbit i need to break before it kills me….or worse…really fucks up my bank account

        • that actually is part of the reason i still smoke…..ive still got 30 years left till i retire

          (allegedly retire coz i dont think theres going to be pensions much longer)

          is there still going to be a world worth living in 30 years from now?

          do i really want to grow old in this shitheap?

  3. Not related to the topic at hand, but related to the “open” part of the NOT-

    In addition to Steve Kerr last night, there’s also the Miami Heat telling their fans to call their Congresscritters AND telling them to get registered, and then get out & VOTE this fall;

     

     

  4. I haven’t been living under a rock but I didn’t grasp the impact of the microchip shortage and ripple effects of the pandemic and inflation on the supply chain of cars. I started shopping around for a Toyota Sienna or Highlander (I know Toyota is evil but they have the best hybrids). There are zero new hybrids available and the wait-list for the Sienna is 1-2 years now. So I looked at relatively new pre-owned cars and they are 1.5 x the price of a brand new car! 60k for a used minivan (if I placed an order for a new one, it would be 40k). Fuck.

  5. After Covid, I’ve been tired, lazy & completely unmotivated.  I’ve actually forced myself to work out twice this week & feel so much better for it.  I hope I can keep it going but we will see.  I’m also proud I actually called my Texas sister instead of just texting her for her birthday.  We talked for about an hour & I learned my sisters nicknamed me Switzerland since I don’t take sides in the family fights.  Nice to hear but not easy to do without a fucking ulcer!

    • Herrlich! My heart is filled with Sehnsucht for Bayern.

      I actually found the lyrics online to confirm that I wasn’t missing something in this catchy and delightful ditty (rhymes with titty.) No, I wasn’t. The interesting thing about this song is that after the first couple of months of a halfway decent high school German program every American student should be able to understand every word, and should be able to do translation into English and from English back into German, so simple is the vocab and the sentence structure.

      Once mastered, the student should eventually be able to work their way up to Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), Wittgenstein’s more accessible diary entries, and the basic theories underpinning most Freudian teachings.

  7. Mostly, I just have an old habit I can never seem to break… picking at my lower lip until it bleeds. It gets worse the more stress I’m under, so, as you can imagine, it’s a mess right now. Aside from *waves hands around* all of everything in the world, there’s personal stuff. Other-Husband tore his ACL and then lost his job because of it. Soooo… yeah. Bills are coming in fast and we have to pull money out of thin air :/  Thank the gods that rent is covered.

    In good news, I made tropical rice pudding tonight. Leftover rice, a can of condensed coconut milk, brown sugar, vanilla, a handful of shredded coconut, cinnamon/nutmeg/allspice blend, and 3 mashed bananas. It’s amazing.

     

  8. I’m stretching a lot right now as well, thanks to both Covid and a pulled hamstring muscle. I’ve never been flexible, and the older I get I think the more I pay a price for that. So stretching/yoga/plyo from here on out. Oh, and balance exercises, after watching my dad decline. Old age is fucking brutal.

  9. On a muuuuuch more ridiculous front, apparently *sometime* during the last few months, when Lily & i have been “back & forthing” it up to Dad’s, Rocket (my roommates’ cat) has decided that all of *my* socks “are now belong to cats!”

    That little shit steals ALL of my socks, carries them around the house, then drowns them in either *his* water dish, or the one he & Lily share.

    For some dumb reason, it is only my socks that he feels a need to do this with….

    And today, he found the bag where I’d hidden the last batch, after I (re!)washed them…

    There were about 10 socks in various stages of soaked, all over our kirchen/living room floors, my roommates’ bedroom floor, and my bathroom floor, when I got home from work late this afternoon🙃

    It’s hilarious, when it’s not annoying a.f! (that *annoying a.f* part mostly happens when I’m trying to get dressed for work in the morning, and can’t find even *two* socks of the same type to wear… I don’t bother actually *matching* my pairs of docks–i just wear two from the same type/multipack… but he keeps stealing so many, that I don’t even have *non-matches* of the same brand/type, unless I ACTIVELY hide all my socks!🙃😆😂😱

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