What giving up gives you, and where giving up takes you
So lately I've been seriously chilling. Chilling so hard I'm basically getting bored of chilling. I went from babysitting 33 hours in one week to literally just being home for 2 weeks.
I made pavlova, maybe one of my best, with mango, kiwi, toasted coconut, and lime whipped cream. I made that TikTok feta/cherry tomato pasta, so good. My sister gave us 3 cases of jalapenos plus some habaneros, they had so many donated to the local but couldn't use them all, they were mostly overripe and we threw a bunch out. So my dad and I had an assembly line going prepping many trays of jalapeno poppers to freeze. And with the rest we're dehydrating some, and fermenting some to make hot sauce. And I made guacamole. And crepes with banana and nutella. And to top it all off I made a layered carrot cake. It was my first time doing a frosting a layered cake so it was not perfect, I didn't cut them as flat as they should've been and my icing was a tad runny, but overall it was delicious and it was fun to challenge myself. I topped it with toasted pecans and coconut and cinnamon. A+ flavour and texture.
A texted me so I may do some after school babysitting for her, just a couple hours here and there, so that should be absolutely doable and less stressful. She also wants me to keep helping out with dishes and cleaning. That's what I would do when the kids were making me so mad I just had to walk away. She never asked me to clean but it just was something I could focus on to clear my head. My parents would laugh like that's not how I clear my head at home, obviously. My room is still a catastrophe.
I've been trying to workout more, biking every other day or do, or workout/yoga videos, even just doing a good floor stretch every day is helping.
Today I did a good organize of my nail polish and nail art supplies, so that was productive. And I vacuumed the basement. My parents are having a small gathering tmrw night to play cards. So it should be nice to see my sister and Derek, at least.
Oh! Last weekend I bought a digital ticket to watch Jimmy Eat World's Clarity stream, so good! They played the entire album, it's the 3rd in a series of shows but I just heard about it the day or 2 before. I watched it twice, I loved it. I've been listening to the album a lot lately. There were 3 major concerts for the 'elder emos' that weekend, this one, Dashboard, and Get Up Kids, but the Jimmy Eat World one seemed the most important one for me to support. I love when bands play their whole album. Like I LOVED when Bombay Bicycle Club played I Had the Blues... all the way through back in December.
Mostly I've been playing a lot of GeoGuessr, listening to a lot of tunes, watching movies... that's about it.
I've talked to my Grandma a few times since my last post which has been good, not sure why I was so anxious about it.
Lockdown is over, but like... is it really? I guess I'm just really into being at home, and I have the luxury of staying at home. Parents and I get on each other's nerves and my dad's political rants are getting to me. But nothing new there.
It's been a weird week musically, I've been very nostalgic, check out the Gob and Billy Talent and Blink haha.
I made pavlova, maybe one of my best, with mango, kiwi, toasted coconut, and lime whipped cream. I made that TikTok feta/cherry tomato pasta, so good. My sister gave us 3 cases of jalapenos plus some habaneros, they had so many donated to the local but couldn't use them all, they were mostly overripe and we threw a bunch out. So my dad and I had an assembly line going prepping many trays of jalapeno poppers to freeze. And with the rest we're dehydrating some, and fermenting some to make hot sauce. And I made guacamole. And crepes with banana and nutella. And to top it all off I made a layered carrot cake. It was my first time doing a frosting a layered cake so it was not perfect, I didn't cut them as flat as they should've been and my icing was a tad runny, but overall it was delicious and it was fun to challenge myself. I topped it with toasted pecans and coconut and cinnamon. A+ flavour and texture.
A texted me so I may do some after school babysitting for her, just a couple hours here and there, so that should be absolutely doable and less stressful. She also wants me to keep helping out with dishes and cleaning. That's what I would do when the kids were making me so mad I just had to walk away. She never asked me to clean but it just was something I could focus on to clear my head. My parents would laugh like that's not how I clear my head at home, obviously. My room is still a catastrophe.
I've been trying to workout more, biking every other day or do, or workout/yoga videos, even just doing a good floor stretch every day is helping.
Today I did a good organize of my nail polish and nail art supplies, so that was productive. And I vacuumed the basement. My parents are having a small gathering tmrw night to play cards. So it should be nice to see my sister and Derek, at least.
Oh! Last weekend I bought a digital ticket to watch Jimmy Eat World's Clarity stream, so good! They played the entire album, it's the 3rd in a series of shows but I just heard about it the day or 2 before. I watched it twice, I loved it. I've been listening to the album a lot lately. There were 3 major concerts for the 'elder emos' that weekend, this one, Dashboard, and Get Up Kids, but the Jimmy Eat World one seemed the most important one for me to support. I love when bands play their whole album. Like I LOVED when Bombay Bicycle Club played I Had the Blues... all the way through back in December.
Mostly I've been playing a lot of GeoGuessr, listening to a lot of tunes, watching movies... that's about it.
I've talked to my Grandma a few times since my last post which has been good, not sure why I was so anxious about it.
Lockdown is over, but like... is it really? I guess I'm just really into being at home, and I have the luxury of staying at home. Parents and I get on each other's nerves and my dad's political rants are getting to me. But nothing new there.
It's been a weird week musically, I've been very nostalgic, check out the Gob and Billy Talent and Blink haha.