highkey want a boy who’s taller than me and has messy hair and nice eyebrows and is strong enough to lift me and carry me when I’m tired and is intelligent and can carry smart conversations and calls me beautiful and treats me right in front of his friends
These are methods I use to help me keep information in my head or to help me memorise faster and be done with studying sooner so I thought I’d share them.
I hope these tips were helpful. Good luck studying!
if you ever call me annoying, even if it’s just jokingly, the chances of me ever speaking to you again are slim to none because I’ll be so afraid that every little word or sound that comes out of my mouth will aggravate you and make you cringe and hate my existence
me: says i hate boys
me, upon seeing a boy smile/duck his head/roll up his sleeves/run them through his hair: shit,,,
18/03/17 // Study space featuring daffodils because I was having a rough day so Mum brought me flowers to cheer me up when I’m working.
A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life.
Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.
this fucks me up every single time
I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.
After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.
She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.
Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.
The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.
The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.
Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.
I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.
This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now
I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it?
a pallet of ramen noodles
I hate ramen noodles tho
hmmmmm
bees?
Are you suggesting that I eat bees for a week
This is roughly what I make sure I have in my kitchen all the time along with rough estimates of local prices (MN). I buy a lot of things when they’re on sale and stockpile them.
instant oatmeal packets with fruit in them - $3 probably and this can be breakfast all week and maybe even a lunch or dinner too since you usually get 10 packets
bag of rice - $2-3 depending on size. 1 cup dry rice makes enough for about two meals depending on what you add in. if you get cheap rice, rinse it before cooking
canned beans - usually under $1 per can - mix the can with your rice and you have a meal. chili-spiced beans will make bean tacos. Rinse non-spiced beans before adding to anything.
Tortilla - usually around $3 but you get like 8-10 of them. Tacos, wraps, and quesadillas are all fair game here
lettuce - $2 max around here, either a head of something or bagged precut depending on preference, use as a salad or on tacos
protein other than beans of some sort - probably $5-7 for meat, $2-3 for eggs. sometimes I can get bags of frozen chicken breasts in this price range and each is usually 2 meals if I add in a bunch of veggies. fry/scramble eggs and add to any of the options.
your favorite stir fry sauce - $3ish
vegetables - $5ish. literally anything that you can 1. fry in a pan and 2. you’ll eat. fresh carrots are usually pretty cheap. get frozen if it’s cheaper and you’re strapped for cash/prep time on this part.
alternative to stir fry: pasta (~$2), fresh tomatoes (~$2), cheese (~$3).
cheese and fruit if you have extra - look if your store has loyalty cards for free that you can load coupons on for cheese there’s always one it seems like.
ahh thank you!!!
Reblogging because there’s never knowing who’ll need it.
Adding also: the single most nutritious food on earth is potatoes in their peel. Potatoes + some milk and butter = everything you need. They don’t last all that long, but they’re fairly cheap and the quickest cheat to “How do I not fuck my body up.”
(Cooked potatoes’ll last a while in the fridge. Potatoes nearing the end of their useful lives? Cook them to half-done first, figure out what to do with them later.)
Easiest baked potatoes: slice thinly but not paper-like, spread like cards, brush with oil (a silicone baking brush is totes worth the little it costs), spread salt and pepper (a little less than you think you’d like), cover with foil, stick in oven or toaster-oven at 150C for 40min. (If you have the patience, at that point click up to 180C, remove the cover and add 10-20min.) Reheats well, lasts in the fridge longer than it’ll take you to nom.
Dead-Animal-Free Whole Protein: some legumes + some grain. AKA rice and lentils, or rice and beans. (Maybe some fried onion for flavor; onion’s cheap and stays good a descent while. Fried onion makes everything taste better and keeps forever in the freezer, so frying up a bunch and keeping portions is not a half-bad idea.) (If going for the beans option - lentils are cheaper around here but fuck if I know what it’s like in your area - dump some tomato sauce and oil in; canola or soy are best health-wise, and far cheaper than olive; avoid corn.) Oh, what does instant couscous go for in your area? It keeps for fucking ever, it’s usually cheap, and it takes well to any and all added taste.
If you get to choose, black lentils taste the best and need the least soak-time (0-20min), green lentils are best for cooked stuff and red lentils are best in soups. (Red lentils + potatoes + root vegetables of choice + spices; cut into small pieces, cook, run through the blender if you wanna [stick blender’s awesome], freeze in portions.)
When possible, get instant soup mix. Get the good instant soup mix. (The kind that’s not made primarily of sugar, yeast or both. The rest is optional.) Dump 1/2tsp (or more, but start on the low end) into couscous, or chicken, or sprinkle over potatoes being stuck in the oven. Whatever. It’ll make most cooked-food-type things taste better. And again, lasts forever on the shelf.
this is a very good post but why are we glossing over the fact that the alternative to ramen is bees
i have it on pretty good authority that bees are not an affordable eating alternative to ramen.
Seriously, bees are expensive
Trufax.
And speaking as someone who is also living off oatmeal, beans, and brown rice, if you need recipes, I have them!
Today I made 16 bean soup with chicken sausage and it was crazy good and I got 8 servings out of the one batch (froze half). I usually get the cheapest beans I can find, and GOYA bags of beans are usually $1-2. I soaked them overnight,rinsed them, and threw them in a gallon lidded saucepan with 2 boxes of chicken stock (also on sale for $2), two bay leaves, sauteed green pepper, onion, and celery, some garlic from a jar, about two tablespoons of dried herbs de provence,and the “fancy” bit was adding $6 bourbon and apple chicken sausages. You can actually sub veg stock for chicken and skip the sausage and make it vegan and it would still taste great.
Oh and I’ve been doing steel-cut oats. I don’t buy the name brand ones, I just pick whatever store brand/generic I can get for less than $4. They take about ½ an hour to make, but they’re super tasty and I make 2 cups of dried oats at a time with dried cranberries and that’s breakfast for 4 days at least.
I’ve also been making black bean soup, red beans and rice, and curried potatoes and chick peas. I got 100 quart and pint take-away containers from Amazon for $20 and they all stack neatly and are perf for one serving of whatever.
Additionally, depending on where you live, whole rotisserie chickens are something like $4-$7 and are easily 4 - 6 servings of protein and on TOP of that, if you stick the carcass in a ziplock bag and then the freezer you have excellent soup makings. Using bones in soup literally squeezes all viable vitamins and minerals out of the suckers. Soup made from lots of bones is great to keep around if you get sick, it’ll feed and sooth you relatively easily and as you get better you can add noodles. ON TOP OF THAT, a quarter to a half cup of soup broth added to a lot of dishes also adds those nutrients PLUS flavor.
don’t forget Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4 A Day
Yall are clutch for this lmao cuz ima need this for about the first month after I move
Reblogging cause who knows what your followers are going through rn
Okay, but here’s the thing about eggs. I can get okay (cage free, not organic) eggs for $2-3 per dozen. Eating 2 a day, that’s 6 days worth of eggs for $3. I happen to get great eggs via our local co-op for about $4 per dozen because I can, but even at that, they’re still a bargain compared to most protein.
Here’s why eggs are good brain food… Not only do they have a huge variety of nutrients in the yolk, and good protein, but they also contain lecithin, which is an emulsifier, but also a good source of choline, which your brain NEEDS to be happy. I take supplemental lecithin because without it, when I wasn’t eating many eggs, I was having a hard time feeling joy. Lecithin is a goddamn miracle and eggs have a lot.
Choline is a precursor to neurotransmitters.
For cheap protein, there’s a reason that WIC foods used to be pretty much eggs, cheese, peanut butter and milk.
Peanut butter lasts a long time. You don’t use a ton at once but it’s filling. You can use it to up the nutrient content of a bean soup or as part of a sauce on rice. (nut butter or sunflower butter + nutritional yeast + curry paste is a huge flavor boost to food.)
Rice and beans are staples for a reason. You can go pretty cheap there and boost them with flavor from things like green onions (We have four people here who like them and I get 2 bunches per week and cut a few fresh into almost everything I eat. $1-$2 per week for a ton of flavor and extra green). Parsley and cilantro are super cheap. A tub of salsa is pretty cheap, and goes a long way.
A block of cheese can be grated, frozen, and used as a convenient add-in for months. Rice, beans, cheese, salsa, green onions… a) complete and b) cheap and c) tasty.
I used to put a bunch of beans and water in the crock pot with some melted cheese and garlic and salt and make a soup that was thick, nourishing, tasty, and would last for days.
Chicken is the most cost effective meat 9 times out of 10. Every once in a while pork goes on sale, and turkey gets absurdly cheap around the holidays, but year-round, whole chicken is a hard value to beat, and if you tolerate rotisserie, Costco is probably still selling whole birds for $5, I haven’t looked in a while but it’s actually cheaper than you can buy a raw bird. I’m just allergic to something they do to it? IDK?
Anyway… if you know someone with a Costco membership, our Costco, for example, will sell about 5 pounds of chicken thighs or drumsticks for <$9, in prepackaged bags of 3-4 per bag. At Trader Joes you can get drumsticks like, 5-6 pieces for $3. Roast ‘em. Eat them as is or pull the meat off and add to rice.
Beans, eggs (its usually better to get 18 and they go quicker than you think), and peanut butter are absolutely necessary if you’re trying to eat cheap. Another great source of protein is cans of tuna, I get a 4 pack at price chopper for like, $3. Chicken breasts are the most expensive part of the chicken almost everywhere. Good alternatives are liver, most sausages, and frozen meatballs (get the store brand).
Most grocery stores will have big tubs of instant oats, I’ve seen them as low as $4 and it lasted me 4 months. Have with some milk and that’s a well-rounded meal.
Vegetables are the hardest thing to get when you’re broke. Honestly, canned and frozen veggies are the best way to get them. Frozen vegetables will last you A While and canned will probably last forever, and they are only slightly less nutritious than fresh (despite what magazines will tell you). Cook them up however, but curries and stir-fries are the best imo, and you can add eggs.
If you’re really really struggling, ramen is actually a good choice. Buy a couple 6-packs and add 1 or 2 fried eggs. It will keep you fuller than just the eggs alone, and costs basically nothing.
Instant oats, a peanut butter sandwich, and ramen with eggs every day will run you about $5 a week ($20 a month), assuming you can get the big tub of oats. It’s far from healthy, but its liveable
Week 1 - Assess/Declutter
Week 2/3 - Work To break old habits/ Implement new ones, Set goals
Week ¾/5(?) - Mental/Physical
eclipse // all time favorite study playlist
cappuccino // calming love songs aw
milky way // perfect for studying on a rainy day
pluto // a big mix of everything and anything
jupiter // underrated mac miller songs
lunar // chill playlist for any occasion
mercury // hits from the one and only queen
