My little sister's new boyfriend got a tattoo for her about a month ago and he wanted matching tattoos so he decided to get uh. The tattoo on her ankle of her ex boyfriend's name that she hasn't gotten covered up yet
She broke up with him but I also just got the same tattoo
OK my dad also got it
DYLAN!
It took five months but we finally convinced my stepmom to also get it
My fucking manager got it
HEY CALIFORNIA PEOPLE!
HURRICANE ADVICE FROM A FLORIDIAN!
Make sure you've got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don't want fried in case of a power surge.
Don't tape your windows, it doesn't help and you'll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that's not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don't go in your attic. You'll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can't hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
What the fuck?
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Ngl, "tropical storm in death valley" was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Drainage on our roads is shitty in SoCal, don't attempt to drive through water deep enough to touch your bumpers and don't attempt to walk across moving water, water only as deep as your ankles can knock you down and sweep you away.
Predicted wind speeds are similar to strong Santa Anas, so lock things down like you would for that, though keep in mind that yeah the combination of heavy rain and wind leads to more felled trees than just wind.
Take photos of the inside of your home now; flood insurance fucking sucks here and if you're in a possible flood zone you want as much documentation of your home and belongings as possible in case you need to make a claim.
Freezing water bottles also means you've got a lot of ice in your freezer if power goes out, and safe potable water once it thaws, so freeze bottles of water to have something to keep your fridge and freezer cool and store more water regardless of if you want cold water.
fill your bathtub/ large containers/ buckets with water so you can flush the toilet if the power goes out. you can check the water level by popping the top off the tank
don’t walk through any standing/flood waters afterwards. they’re nasty and can hide downed power lines
unless there is an emergency do not drive through floodwaters. your car will stall
the horrid red spaghetti from "hang fire": vhs edition
Like, a thousand years later, I learned / found out / realized what this stuff was, and I have a personal story:
So, okay, back when I first watched Trigun in 2001, I thought that this was just some weird Planet Gunsmoke food, like the future had different foodways, including, apparently, putting some kind of SPAM in spaghetti. I thought it was weird, but whatever.
Cue Pandemic 2020. Our adult nephew was staying with us during the lockdown to keep him from being lonely in his little apartment - so my partner, him and I were a little family of three geeks. This will never happen again as said nephew died this January unexpectedly (not from Covid, we think it was a random heart-thing). Anyway, his name was Matt and one of the things that he and I shared was a passion for interesting food-shows.
He turned me onto a live-action Japanese show on Netflix called “Samurai Gourmet.” It was an adorable little comedy-drama about a salaryman who was forced by his company to retire and didn’t quite know what to do with his days, especially at lunchtime because he’d always relied on the company-lunch. He starts exploring restaurants in his area and has other adventures in which he discovers the joys of food. He likes Samurai books and kind of has a guiding imaginary Samurai-spirit who encourages him to be brave. At least that’s how I remember it, I haven’t watched it since I watched it with Matt.
One of the episodes had the main character going to a little cafe and ordering “Spaghetti Naopolotain” (I misspelled that, but can’t find the spelling). It was made with ham / bacon, onions, green pepper mushrooms and ketchup. Matt and I both went “Ketchup?!” and were sure that it was a mistranslation from tomato sauce. I looked up “ketchup spaghetti” online / or the name of the dish - something like that and found out that it was absolutely real. The history behind it was that someone at a hotel in Japan was suffering a scarcity of regular sauce and substituted ketchup and it was a hit. I found a recipe to make it (very simple) and... well, we tried it and it is GOOD. It hits differently than standard spaghetti because of the sweetness of the ketchup, and of course, the ketchup makes it a extra dark-red.
And upon seeing the mess I made in the kitchen upon first making it, my brain had a FLASHBACK to Trigun - and this scene. And I realized “Dude, they were eating Spaghetti Naopolotain all this time! Why didn’t I know of this dish? What other cool food-secrets are you hiding in your anime and manga, Mr. Nightow?”
Dried rock-hard toma-meat in Badlands Rumble, by the way, is apparently like bonito / a specific type of dried tuna commonly flaked off for soups. (I watched a Youtube video once where someone made a knife out of the stuff).
Looking for financial literacy advice? You have two options:
- Aging libertarian who tells you that she can't take gold bullion in the divorce. (She can)(He lost 235,000$ in crypto)
- Unblinking pantsuit woman who actually unironically believes she has psychic business powers. (Generationally wealthy)
Diabetes isnt the 'ate too many sweets disease'. It just fucking is not. It's your body slowly losing an integral function needed to nuture and energize it. Its your pancreas shutting down, its your blood cells rejecting your attempts to feed itself, its not enough insulin to go around. Its you slowly getting colder and weaker, gorging yourself with healthy food and getting next to no benefit, its being so exhausted you cant sleep. Diabetes used to kill, straight-up KILL. So no, I don't think I will be laughing at your diabetes joke.
Do you know why diabetics eat so many sweets? Because we need sugar, and we need sugar FAST. Everyones' bodies rely on sugars for nutrients and energy, and in a non-diabetic body sugars get absorbed at a normal rate using your normal amount of insulin into your normal red blood cells. This happens to healthy carbs, superfood vegetables, and some proteins!
Diabetics dont have that luxury! Without medication, our body is in a constant crisis where we need more sugar and the sugars that break down the fastest are sweets! But then they dont all get absorbed, then the unabsorbed sugar hangs out in our bloodstream then gets flushed out, and then we still need more. All those healthy things break down too slowly for when we're in a crisis, and then we STILL dont absorb all of it! And I'm only talking about type 2, type 1 cant absorb anything at all because they dont have any insulin!
You cannot healthy eat or diet your way out of diabetes. You cannot lose weight out of diabetes. Once you get diabetes, even if you manage your symptoms perfectly you HAVE diabetes. You have a chronic illness. And that means its time to see doctors, get on medications, and practice self care.
And sometimes self care means you eat dessert first while dinner is cooking so you have the energy to finish cooking. Sometimes that means eating many small meals to match your body's absorption rate. Sometimes that means eating at midnight so you have the blood sugar to sleep.
Im just tired of diabetes being seen as a joke or only something you get if you're 'bad'. And diabetics? I love you, talk to a nutritionist about diabetic eating, and don't forget your meds.
I just remembered I forgot to water the seedlings in the greenhouse so I went back outside, and I was too lazy to look for the small watering can for seedlings at this hour so I just knelt down near the fish tank and took some water in my cupped hands and started tossing it towards the seedling tray on the table behind me
—only the fish are starting to be very friendly by now, as soon as they see me they come wriggling happily to say hi and check if I have a little insect or some other snack to give them, and suddenly I found myself accidentally catching a friendly little fish in my cupped hands and throwing it in the air behind me. I literally realised what I was doing as I was doing it
I have bad reflexes usually but this time I jumped up and flailed around desperately and managed to catch the little guy mid-flight!!!!
The fish was very confused but unharmed 😭
(sorry for the poor stick drawings, I felt I could not adequately convey our mutual jolt of surprise and terror with words)
