I would not have considered pork and tofu to have an affinity. Tofu here was mostly for vegetarian food. But kimchi jigae and ma po tofu are from different places and both combine pork and tofu, so delicious that now if I get ramen I also get pork belly and tofu. I'm completely converted. Pork and tofu are delicious together.
Honestly I find this to be true. It's not like starting over, my body wants to return to fit & skinny, it's easier for me. Just like they say bodies remember fat they remember fit.
Orgasm can help a migraine too, or occasionally cause one. In unscientific terms I think of it as all the blood going to the other end of my body. Sinus drugs and migraine rescue drugs are vasoconstrictors, so it makes sense.
Sex can also be a release of stress though, and sadly, relaxing after stress is a migraine trigger.
I have an electric bike for short trips but do enjoy driving my 6 speed car, and it's 12 years old, paid off for 7 of those years. I cannot imagine it's better to get another car and get rid of mine.
Can't imagine I am unusual, either. It's just a really big fleet and will take time to change.
And yeah this is probably my last but I will miss the vroom vroom and shifting the car myself.
My brother had a funny story about this. His friend worked in IT and was doing one of those system things that take all day and take the system down. He wasn't supposed to let anyone in the building during this. So an executive comes to the door, his key card doesn't work, he buzzes the bell. The guy inside answers, and says he can't let anyone in. Exec says "Do you know who I am?" and the employee responds with a tentative "well, do you know who I am?"
Yes, it's Tik Tok. And it's music older than I am sometimes. But mine listen to everything, like I do. I took the youngest to see Inhaler and also to see Young the Giant. Taking my husband to see Cannons, and also got him into country music, he used to hate it but if you turn off the commercial radio and just find the good stuff it is still being made.
The 2 bands both my older set of kids (millennials) and my younger set (GenZ) wanted to see when they were middle school age were Panic at the Disco and the My Chemical Romance, I always thought that was funny. Like it's middle schooler music, I think I would have loved it too.
The fuck? Fontaines DC, Tyler Childers, Janelle Monae, Leon Bridges, I have never stopped finding new music I love. This graph makes no sense. Modern music is so good. Old music is so good. I do not have a preference for any particular time period when it comes to enjoying music.
I think I believe this too. I have birthed 4 kids. 2 tech wizards, one average, and one who the computer hates. They just don't work for her like they do for me & the average kid. I think the difference between average and the tech girls is interest and effort, but the difference between average and the one who has bad luck with them does not seem to be explainable in the same way. And it's not a creative/logical split either.
Mind and body are very tightly bound (that is how placebo works) I don't think you are wrong to be wary of speaking disease into existence. The only sinus infection I have ever had, came after reading a particularly vivid and detailed article about how they start. Like my body was following along.
I do give my work computer enrichment activities to keep it happy. Listen to music so that it can have music, browse occasionally so it doesn't have only work to work on. I get far fewer problems than my teammates do, so it seems to work even though it's superstitious nonsense.
Yes. Cats here should be indoor cats. Even in the city there are raccoons, coyotes, alligators, dogs in people's yards, and CARS. I let them out briefly and supervised, sometimes, to catch a lizard if they are watching them out the window. Or as others say, occasionally on a harness to wander the garden, and eat a little grass.
Obviously that's not always possible, there are feral outdoor cats that sometimes show up, the city has a spay/neuter and release program for those.
I mean, that is gardening though. I can't baby things (well, except the jaboticaba I'm trying to bonsai), I just plant things and figure out what works. Winners stay and eventually you get a garden.
Okra and watermelon love the heat here, and the trees do fine. Most food plants I grow in winter though. Well from October through April.
There's a range of actual volume, my boss I cannot hear half the time because he is quiet but a couple of coworkers have voices that really carry, it's not exactly volume or not just volume, it's throw.
Talkative we are, overall. Not everyone of course, but there is a lot of talking.
And pushy and curious we are, overall, too. I think that can read as loud too.
If you are rich, you can self insure for everything. Home insurance costs us 4k a year on average, for 25 years now. They insure up to about 300k. No claims. Do that math. If I had a half million to escrow, no way would I be paying that. I would just hold onto enough to rebuild and let it make money.
Health insurance like I carry should also cost a lot less than it does, but I guess it's the same kind I would have if rich, high deductible but insured against very high cost events.
When I was poor, though, no health insurance and overall we paid less every year, than I pay for insurance now. Yes even the years I gave birth and even the years there was an emergency room visit, not carrying insurance was cheaper than having and using it. But the problem with that here is that unlike home insurance, the possible cost of care is essentially unlimited without any insurance. You could get some disease and end up with tens of millions of dollars of bills. It ought not be like that but it is.
I can't. One of my job requirements is that I need to work someplace I think is at least neutral, or is good. So far it's only been neutral and I am ok with that.
I do think some people can be a force for good in a bad place but I am not strong enough to do that.
Edit to add an example - I heard a story about a guy working in corrections - a prison warden - who was working to change the system from punitive to remedial, and had reduced recidivism by a huge amount, like it's 5%, compared to 50% in most of the nation. I think he is a good person in an evil industry (the American prison industry). Randy Liberty. Not kidding, that is his real name.
For me this has been a curve not a slope. Hard childhood, getting better in later middle age, expect a harder time later but so far things have been easier.
So I think "it gets better" is a reasonable thing to say to kids having a hard time. It can get better.
Old old? Yes I agree. Even healthy old people, your friends are dying around you, it hurts.
I would not have considered pork and tofu to have an affinity. Tofu here was mostly for vegetarian food. But kimchi jigae and ma po tofu are from different places and both combine pork and tofu, so delicious that now if I get ramen I also get pork belly and tofu. I'm completely converted. Pork and tofu are delicious together.