What’s the vibe this week? (January 26 - February 1)

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This thread is for the week of January 26th to February 1st, 2020 . The thread will automatically close at 11:59PM on the 25th and a new one will take its place.

Not being able to eat real food is cruel and unjust. There’s leftover orange chicken and rice and bratwurst in the fridge and it’s all MOCKING ME. THIS TOOTH HAS ONLY BEEN OUT FOR TWO DAYS. My mom wants to have hamburgers tomorrow and I wanna cry.

Also, KHIII Re:Mind has thoroughly mucked up all my plans for the fanfic I’ve been plotting out and I’m quite upset about it. While I try to salvage that, I’m trying to cope by adding to my collection of DnD OCs and revisiting an unrelated fic idea I had last fall.

and oh god my jazz music theory class has a quiz on Tuesday oh god I missed the first day because I wrote down my schedule wrong and it feels like I missed a whole half of a semester I’m gonna die

I had a 16 hour training for work this weekend. Both days having to be up at 7am, and having tech issues out the wazoo (it was delivered over Skype).

I feel very prepared now but also exhausted and probably too excited to go to bed without an alarm set

I just finished reading All We Have Left by Wendy Mills. It’s a YA novel about 9/11 that’s part of my research project. I definitely like it above some of the others I’ve read for the project, but I still have so many more to go

I also started watching You tonight. So far it seems like a natural progression for Dan Humphrey.

God I hate webinars

I am going to a Nier concert on Wednesday that I am very excited for. It’ll be incredibly somber around the venue though; the concert is playing at the Microsoft Theater…which is right across the street from the Staples Center where the Lakers play. The entire city is mourning Kobe and it’s going to feel closer to a funeral hall than an entertainment district this week.

Other than that, I have Death Stranding to play. (I’m enjoying it thus far, outside of the story being real uninteresting)

Joe and I are trying out HelloFresh over the next few weeks. We’re not intending for it to be a permanent thing, but we eat like shit right now. We want to add more variety to our diets, but it’s really difficult to find new recipes, shop for them, make them, then find we don’t like them. If we can get just one or two new meals added to our rotation, I’ll be happy.

Somehow I went from only having work and an interview this week, to being thoroughly booked until next Wednesday. It’s objectively better than doing nothing all day, but I would still like at least one day to be able to sleep in, lol.

Somehow it was simultaneously the easiest but most painful money I’ve ever made

LUCKY. lmk if they announce a new Nier.

But yeah, I could only imagine how somber that area has to feel right now.

What’s in your usual rotation if you don’t mind me asking?

A lot of trash tbh. It’s pretty shameful, but it’s a big goal of mine this year to get on track with our diet. I gained like 20lbs over the last few years that I’m really determined to lose (I’m five pounds down!). I’ve also been dealing with acid reflux and these weird terrifying chest burps that I’m sure are caused by my bad diet, so fixing our diet I’m hoping will also take care of that.

Once a weekish we’ll make pasta or tortellini with Alfredo sauce. I’ve been trying to add chicken to it lately to get a little protein in there and make broccoli with it too. Really I’ve been trying to make broccoli or green beans at least every other night (I steam them then saute them with some garlic and pepper). We eat a lot of brown rice; we make it in bulk in our instant pot then heat up the leftovers as sides through the week. We’re trying to make chicken more often too and not just buy frozen chicken. Those are the only frequent dinner meals I can think of… Other than that it’s a lot of variants of bread and cheese, which is probably why I’ve gained so much weight lol.

Part of the problem is that Joe and I both grew up as picky eaters, so a lot of the process is just exposing ourselves to new foods. For most of my childhood we were poor and had to cook dinner for ourselves, so I ate a lot of frozen kid crap. The strategy lately has been replacing foods we eat with healthier versions (I made a pizza with cauliflower crust tn rather than using naan like I usually do), add veggies to the meals we usually have, and making the healthy foods we do like more often (I’m trying to make smoothies in the morning more often).

It’s maybe something I should write about in #lifestyle. It’s a huge undertaking and I’m pretty ashamed of the way we eat. And it’s not just for losing weight reasons that I’m trying to change – we’re generally just trying to be healthier, the weight was just a wake up call. We also want to have kids (in the distant future), and we don’t want to raise kids that also eat like shit. We want to be able to model healthy behaviors and not die at 45. It’s just such an expensive and time consuming process.

Double post but the job I really want just opened applications, and the deadline is the 10th. So on top of all the homework I let build up today, I’m going to be updating my portfolio and gathering transcripts and recommendation letters and generally freaking the fuck out

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