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Cherry's Attempts at Functioning (FINALLY OPEN??!??!?)
Cherry's Attempts at Functioning Hello! My name is Cherry and I'm a card-carrying member of the "adulthood starts at 30 generation." Unfortunately for me, adulthood needs to start, like, now. I'm moving out in June, and I need to have my shit together by then. I need to get better at feeding myself, and I have a lot of cleaning to do. So within this thread I will try to track my successes and failures in the hopes that the opinions of people on the internet will motivate me to stop being a shitty pissbaby. I've got some progress-tracking posts below for major things, but I'll also post about less-major, daily things. |
Domestic Shit My attempts at being Martha Stewart. Current Project Bler. To Do ListCompleted Projects |
Fooding I like to eat! Things I've MadeRecipes to Try |
Reserved for Something, I Guess! |
Will I Ever Use This Post? Who Knows! |
Aight, I have time to actually do stuff now that I'm done with college (until August), so time to get this under way!
Basically, I'm moving out in June. By that time, I need to have gotten rid of all the extraneous crap I have so that I actually can move into a little apartment with my guy. All that extra junk I held onto because living in a big house allowed me to do so has got to go. And while I'm at it, I need to get better at basic domestic habits that will, like... keep me alive. Cleaning and making food, primarily. So I'll use this thread to track some of my notable successes in cleaning and fooding, in the hopes that having a little team to cheer me on will make me feel better and thus more likely to do more work in the future. [ninja] So... Hellooooo. |
*hoots* You can do it!
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FOOD!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...44fdd96759d7b2 Got inundated with delicious-looking pictures of ramen on tumblr (the dangers of following many food blogs...), so decided to amp up my previous attempt at it. Okay, it's just instant ramen, but I'm making do with what I have. [lol] Made up a pack of ramen with a vegetable bouillon cube because vegetarian. Steamed the veggies in my pretty new rice cooker/vegetable steamer, fried an egg (okay, a little too much on the edges - I was trying to do it sunny-side up so it would look prettier for this photo, but I'm not used to frying eggs that way so things got a little messed up), and garnished with a little green onion. Completely embarrassing bastardization of Japanese cuisine, but it tasted good! And satisfied my craving for pasta. |
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I was going to say, your egg looks a little toasty! I bet it was delicious, though, wasn't it? For recipes that involve an egg in soup, I like to poach the egg instead. Most of the time when we would make soup, or a jjigae (Korean stew), we would just crack an egg on top of the soup just before serving. Typically the soup is so [explicit] hot that the egg had no problem cooking, and the texture went along beautifully with the soup and noodles. I also love egg drop soup, which is the same thing with the egg stirred in as it cooks. I moved twice in the span of a couple months, so I had ample opportunity to flush out anything I didn't feel I absolutely needed. I'm still whittling down my closet, but I have a couple hangers of all the things I wear most often, a bike trainer, desk, bed desk, and humidifier. Pretty easy to transfer, right? And you can do it! Growing up isn't so bad. |
I considered poaching, but I wanted the yolk to be solid. You can probably poach an egg until the yolk isn't runny, but, well... that didn't occur to me. [ninja]
Never considered using a hot soup to cook the egg! That's pretty smart! Oh man, I'm kind of jealous of how few things you have... That's kind of weird to say. [lol] Honestly, I like my things, but I just have so many things. Even if you're only counting the things I really love and want to keep, I just have so much. I'm kind of a knick-knack lover, so I blame that. [cry] |
I tried very diligently not to collect a lot of things, and make it so that life would be easier for me if I decided to move or had to clean up on short notice. My mother liked to send me boxes of things she either a) found in the house or, b) bought for a dollar so she bought all of them. On the upside, I never had to buy new laundry detergent or spatulas for about two years. The downside--depending on how you look at it--was that I wore a lot of mismatched clothes, shrunken sweaters, and had a million magazines and cookbooks. Don't get me wrong, I still have a lot of things, but I've got those neat little cubby shelves so everything goes in a bucket.
The biggest hassle for me were the books. I distinctly remember shouting "I'm getting a Kindle so that I NEVER HAVE TO PACK BOOKS AGAIN!" They're unbelievably heavy. TT___TT |
Yeah, books are a huge problem. I like looking at them, but... gah, they take up so much space! I might have to convert to digital someday, but converting my entire existing library would be a huge expensive pain. It'd be either that, or lose a bunch of titles. But why pay for something I probably won't read again? But why lose a book I might want to reference in the future? aaaaaahhhhhh
It's hard for me to not amass knick-knacks. I'm a really visual person. Staying in a room devoid of any decorations at all nearly gave me an actual panic attack once. Pathetic, I know. Bare walls and empty surfaces just kind of freak me out, and I can't get comfortable or feel at home. So in my room, every surface is crammed with little trinkets and every wall has multiple things hanging on it. Lots of shelves for even more trinkets. And I mean, it's not like I don't care about them and they're just worthless junk - I really love them. Looking at them makes me feel happy, calm, and at home. The problem just becomes that as I buy more, I run out of room for all I have... So there's a lot up in the attic. And while an apartment would have more space than my bedroom alone, it's still... a lot of stuff. And it's all so different that it can be hard to make a cohesive "look" out of. I can look at pictures from magazines or what-have-you and see a decorated surface that has, say, only four things on it. And I think "wow, that looks so nice! Less is more!" but then when I try to do it... I just keep jamming more things on there. [lol] So I guess my battle plan should be... get rid of all the knick-knacks that I definitely feel ambivalent about. Then when I move, only put out the ones that look nice and try my best to be sparing (might have to have the guy help me with that one >>). Once I can convince myself that that truly looks better than my usual clutter, either put the rest in storage or give it to goodwill. And ugh, clutter someone else gives you is the worst! I'm vegetarian so family members are always giving me vegetarian magazines or clippings of veg recipes, or just a regular magazine with the assurance "there were like three vegetarian recipes in here! check them out!" I appreciate the thought, I really do, but... ugh, I don't have time for this! And most of the recipes are so dumb - I've got one here next to me that is literally just baking cauliflower and then putting paprika on it. That's it. But there's no bacon, so I've got to have it. :/ |
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It's kind of curious the way you describe your room, because it's a bit how mine looks. I painted stripes on my wall; these big broad teal and white stripes on one wall and it looks a bit like it could be a circus tent. The cubby drawers are varying shades of brown, like the carpet, and teal, to match the accent wall. I have these blocked yellow covers and pillows on the bed, a million posters on the walls and ceiling, plus some cutouts for art and homework that I've tacked in some odd places. I had all these leftover paper lanterns from New Years, so I hung them all over the ceiling, and I have some prayer flags draped between those, with stringed lights that are usually the primary source of light in the room. Even though it can be very stimulating to wander into, I'd like to think there's some kind of order to the chaos, hahaha. Take that in contrast with my sister's room, which is very stark, and very white. Very modern. Oh, hahaha, that's kind of cute! And from what I had always noticed, 'vegetarian' meant 'covered in cheese' from all the recipes I saw. It kind of grossed me out and I just cook what I want on my own, or pickle a couple things and eat them over rice. For holiday meals, mashed potatoes are pretty popular, right? We were using a couple potatoes, then mashing a lot of cauliflower as the 'potatoes' and no one knew the wiser. It's so creamy and delicious! I'm afraid I don't have any organization ideas or solutions. Mostly it's that I have the same problems on occasion, and have a tendency to collect things or not throw them away. I'm one of those "I can fix this," kind of people, so I have a lot of projects. |
Oh wow, your room sounds really neat! If you have pictures, I'd love to see them. [:)] I'm a string light fiend too. I've got... well, technically 5 up in my room, but I don't really use all of them. The first one I got... well, it's hard to describe, so I'll show a picture of something similar
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...AL._SY355_.jpg I put those above my curtains and that was it for a while. Then I put a short strand of white ones wrapped around this weird double pendant light fixture I have (but don't use because it's kind of ugly - kind of like this but worse). Then I got two loooooong strands of blue ones that, combined, go all the way around my room. Then my boyfriend got me these little purple flower-shaped ones for christmas last year, so I put those up so they hang in front of my curtains. Now it's an overload. [lol] But I usually just have one strand of the blue ones on, and then the white ones because they provide a pretty good amount of light, which my room is lacking (on account of the major light fixture being tacky and never used). I generally see two types of vegetarian recipes. One is the really weird, crazy, "fancy" ones that call for a bizarre combination of ingredients (like, I don't know, pecans, apples, and brussel sprouts) and always include a few crucial ingredients that are impossible to find and are super expensive once you do find them. The other kind is essentially "have you tried eating a vegetable?" Basically what I outlined above with that silly baked cauliflower with paprika recipe. Here's your recipe: eat a vegetable! Cook it, maybe! Put a spice on it? Okay! Yeah, thanks... couldn't have come up with that on my own... [stare] |
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