#11 litres of water

[girl-bateman]

Booty shorts that say I ❤️ Water

[vskitty]

mini update: november 22nd

workouts:

full body: everyday full body pilates workout

arms: slim arms in 1 week - arm fat loss workout

fasting:

stuck to my fasting window (12 pm - 6 pm): yes

water intake: 3 litres

what i ate:

zone minutes: 15 minutes

sleep quality:

hours of sleep: 7 hours and 11 mins

quality: good

[sparklypinkflightsuit]

The Containment Diaries: Entry 12 - Final

Pairing: Virologist!Bob Floyd x Reader AND Aviator!Bradley Bradshaw x Reader

ApocalypseAU

Warnings: Pregnancy, Smut, Angst, Fluff, Gore, Medical and Military Inaccuracies, Death, Warfare, Guns, Alcohol, Swearing. I think that’s it?

- Entry 11 Here -

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18+ Only Beyond This Point

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For the next few weeks you got used to life with Anna around. She gained your trust and was eventually untied once she began to look healthier, all she’d needed was some food and water in the end. You gave her antibiotics to clear her infection and then she agreed to help you with the cure, as you believed she may be immune, and her antibodies would be what everyone needed.

You worked with the equipment you had for weeks on end, trialing certain things that either gave Anna a headache or just didn’t do anything at all.

You felt guilty for putting her through this as you had started to become close, her being the only other woman in the house, but she insisted she didn’t mind as it was for the good of humanity. The woman deserved a medal, or a Nobel prize once this was all over with.

That particular morning you had felt under the weather, rolling bouts of nausea had you constantly running to the toilet or nearest sink, and Bob had worried you’d contracted something.

“Maybe we didn’t filter the rainwater properly and some parasites got through. You mind if I do some tests?” He asked, rubbing your back as he held your hair out of your face.

Anna walked into the bathroom with a glass of water for you.

You shook your head at Bob, happy for him to do what he needed if it would stop you being sick.

Anna escorted you to bed as Bob went to get his needles, and gave you your water, which you kindly refused.

“Oh god I hope I’m not contagious.” You groaned weakly, laying back against the pillows.

“Does anything hurt?” She asked, sitting next to you.

“Yeah, everything’s a bit sensitive.” You closed your eyes and tried to breathe through the next bout of nausea.

Bradley and Jake had been gone a few days, they had gone on a slightly longer raid than usual, needing to expand their search vicinity in the hopes of finding more food and water. Rain hadn’t exactly been free falling as summer approached, only providing you with a couple of litres.

Things had been tense in the household, you still hadn’t been able to decide between the two men, and Bradley was beginning to grow understandably frustrated. You had argued a few times and each time it sent you into sweet Bobs arms.

Bradley had decided a raid would be good because it would give you the time you needed apart, and hopefully by the time he returned you would have made your decision. You knew you had to, it wasn’t fair, but you were heartbroken about it. Bob had admitted to being jealous when you were with Bradley, and how it ate him up some nights, but at the end of the day he’d just wanted you to be happy.

“You think it was the fish?” Anna chuckled, pulling you from your thoughts.

“God I hope not.” You breathed, resting the bottom of the cold glass against your forehead.

Bob walked into the bedroom and Anna moved so he could sit next to you.

“Sharp scratch.” He warned, and you nodded, looking away.

Bob took a couple vials of blood and kissed your forehead before he ran off to test them. Over the weeks you had collected almost every machine from the medical centre, a lot of them blood work machines to help with testing.

You didn’t understand the first thing about haematology but Bob had to study it extensively in school, and having done 4 years in medical school, could for all intents and purposes be considered your in house general practitioner.

Anna left you to sleep, and as soon as the nausea passed, you drifted into a deep slumber.

You dreamt about Bradley on a porch swing smoking a cigar, and Bob dancing with you in the living room. Your fever dream twisted into a multitude of shapes and colours before you were being shaken gently awake.

“Hey.” Bob smiled down at you.

“How long was I out?” You murmured, rubbing your eyes. You felt much better, but you were groggy.

“4 hours.” He chuckled.

“Sorry. I know we have work to do.” You sat up slowly, but Bob stopped you by gently pressing his hand against your shoulder, pushing you back down.

“Just take it easy Rue.” He said softly.

“I’m fine, I feel better.” You pushed back.

“Yeah you feel better now, but…” he sighed, biting his cheek. Bob chuckled and let out a wide grin. “You’re pregnant, Rue.”

You looked at him as if he’d just told you a bad joke, and laughed, “I’m sorry, what?”

“I tested your blood for parasites. I couldn’t find anything, so I decided to test it on the other equipment, and one of them picked up really high levels of hCG. You’re gonna have a baby Rue.” He chuckled gently.

You shot up in bed, your eyes as wide as saucers. You ran the numbers in your head, and choked out a gasp. You had overshot your period by 3 weeks.

“Oh my god.” You clasped a hand over your mouth as you looked at Bob with watery eyes.

Bob looked at you lovingly, and it suddenly had you wonderingly desperately whether the baby was Bobs or Brads. You had been intimate with both several times in the last few weeks. You had found it impossible to choose between the two, so had kept thinking maybe one more night with each would help you make up your mind.

Now you were really in an impossible situation. How were you meant to raise a child in a world like this?

“I have to go and work on the cure.” You mumbled, throwing the duvet off of you and barging passed Bob.

“Woah woah, slow down.” He followed after you. “The cure can wait a day or two!”

“No it can’t.” You spun around to face him, and for the first time Bob saw the panic in your eyes.

He nodded slowly, and the two of you went together.

A few days passed and you had begun to come to terms with the pregnancy. Bob couldn’t keep his hands off of you, and it made it hard to concentrate inbetween the urgent sexual desire you felt for him and the almost constant morning sickness. You did manage to work for a solid 5 hours a day on the cure, but any more than this and Bob was banning you to go and rest.

You and Anna bonded even more, she was excited to have a baby in the house, and promised to help you with the night shift. Between her, Bob, Brad and Jake, you reckoned you could get a decent amount of sleep once the baby arrived.

The day Brad and Jake got home, you were all consumed by excited anxiety. You ran to the gate and jumped into Brads arms, and he chuckled.

“Hey princess. I missed you.” He sighed into your hair as he held you.

“I missed you so much.” You cried. He pulled you away and looked at you, surprised.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.” You laughed a wet laugh, and wiped your eyes. “I have some news.”

“Oh my god, is it the cure?” He breathed. You shook your head.

“Not yet but we’re so close.”

“Then what is it, Rue?”

“I’m… pregnant.” You said cautiously, waiting for him to digest the words. At first his face didn’t change, but as he processed the information his eyebrows pulled together, and a surprised chuckle escaped his lips.

“You’re gonna have a baby?” He reiterated. You nodded with a grin.

Bradley let out a loud whoop, and picked you up like it was the easiest thing in the world. He spun you around and peppered sweet kisses all over your face.

You celebrated that night with a slightly larger dinner than usual, with the foods and water the boys had found. Over the weeks Jake had collected a decent alcohol stash, and poured Bob and Brad a tumbler of whiskey.

“Cheers to the two daddies.” Jake toasted, “And to the momma of course, but you can’t drink.” He winked at you.

Bob and Brad looked at one another for a moment, but then a grin broke out on their faces and they clinked their glasses against one anothers.

You likely would have no idea who’s baby it was until it got much older, but you were okay with that. You loved them both and you would love this baby no matter who’s it was.

The months passed and you grew bigger and bigger. Bob wouldn’t let you work for long, and took on most of the work himself.

One night he seemed particularly stressed so you pulled him away from his work and sat him down.

“You’re gonna make yourself sick.” You mumbled, rubbing his shoulders. Bob moaned as he relaxed into you.

“We need to find the cure before the baby comes Rue.”

“I know, and we will, there’s still a lot of time.”

“I don’t know how to deliver a baby, so what if we don’t?” He mumbled.

“We’ll figure it out.” You kissed his neck and squeezed his shoulders.

But Bob wasn’t satisfied with that answer, he was starting to grow worried. He wanted the baby to have as normal an upbringing as possible, including its entry into the world.

“What are you gonna name it?” He asked suddenly.

You chuckled, “I don’t know yet, depends. Plus that’s up to the three of us.”

“I like Sage for a girl.” He said.

You chuckled, “Sage Floyd-Bradshaw… Bradshaw-Floyd? It’s pretty. What about for a boy?”

“It’s not gonna be a boy.” Bob grinned, looking up at you.

You round the chair so you were stood in front of him, and slotted yourself between his legs. You brushed your fingers lovingly through his now long locks, your belly resting comfortably against him.

“How do you know that?”

Bobs hands came to rest on your belly, and he pressed his lips against yours.

“I just do.”

And you believed him.

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“I’m so uncomfortable.” You complained, shifting under your weight against the deck chair, the sun basking against your already too hot skin. “I think I need to go inside.”

You had finally managed to get the cure to work. Or Bob had rather, you had taken a step back a month or so ago when it became too uncomfortable to sit or stand or lay down in any one position for too long.

The virus you’d extracted from a fresh corpse immediately became inactive when the concoction of drugs, plant extracts and Anna’s antibodies interacted with it, now you just had to test it on one of the infected somehow, and see if it reversed the symptoms or just killed off the host entirely.

You’d all decided to relax in the back yard that day, the weather had been perfect but not even half an hour into your sunbathing, you were becoming uncomfortable. Almost 8 months pregnant was proving difficult for you.

Bob helped pull you up and you kissed him.

“I’m gonna go take a nap.” You blew everyone else a big collective kiss and disappeared inside.

You sighed in relief as the cold shade of the house washed over your skin.

The sheets were crisp and cool as you slid into them, and it wasn’t long before you drifted off into a deep slumber.

You dreamt about the baby coming, and about a big house with a wrap around porch, surrounded by big green trees and a huge lawn. You dreamt of Bob rocking the baby to sleep, a loving look in his eyes. You dreamt about Bradley chasing the toddler around that lawn when they were older. You dreamt of the four of you watching fireworks go off over a big lake as you sat and ate marshmallows, the bangs slightly muffled in your dream state but equally realistic. Then you heard a scream.

You woke suddenly in a cold sweat, the sky outside dark, and you could hear panicked, hushed voices outside your door. You sat up as Bradley walked into your dark room.

“Brad?” You mumbled sleepily.

“Rue, there’s been an accident baby.” His voice was shaky.

“What do you mean?”

“It’s… it’s Bob.” He sniffed.

You ran into the living room and Anna sat crying at the table, blood on her arms and hands, Jake was pacing up and down.

Bob was nowhere to be found.

“Where is he?” You sobbed, your whole body shaking violently.

“Outside.” Jake mumbled, rubbing his stubbled chin, unable to look at you.

You ran out and as soon as you saw him, you dropped to your knees and a strangled scream left your body, before your ears rang and everything went quiet. You couldn’t hear Bradley as he dropped down next to you and tried to console you. You couldn’t hear Jake as he tried to explain what had happened. You couldn’t hear Anna as she sobbed behind you. All you could hear was the ringing in your ears as you watched Bobs lifeless form on the drive in front of you, a pool of blood surrounding him.

Once you had eventually come to, you learned that as the group enjoyed the sun in the back yard, a sound drew their attention at the gate. A rumbling noise, followed by voices.

They had rounded the corner to find a group of men climbing out of a truck, and toting a chainsaw.

You had since added a padlock and chain to your gate to make it more difficult to get in, and the men were now hacking through the chain link.

“Hey!” Bradley yelled. “Stop right there, or I swear to god we will blow your brains out.”

The group laughed at him, and Jake ran inside to grab his shot gun.

They continued to saw.

“Stop!” Bob yelled, he panicked, thinking only if you sleeping peacefully with that baby in your belly, and what they would do if they got in.

Bob ran to the gate with no plan in mind other than to distract them while Jake got the gun, but he didn’t see that one of the others had a pistol, and before Bob could even get close enough to the gate, the pistol went off three times, and Bob dropped to the ground. Anna screamed.

Jake came out of the house and immediately shot at the gate. He’d managed to hit one of the intruders square in the chest, the rest backing off quickly. Before the pistol could be fired at Jake he shot the holder, and the rest fled quickly in their truck.

Anna ran up to Bob and pressed her hands against one of his wounds, but it was no use, the others were bleeding profusely and he choked on his quickening breath.

“Bob.” She sobbed, “Hold on.”

“I… I… tell Rue…”

“I will I will, she knows. She loves you too.” She cried.

Bob died quickly in Anna’s arms as Jake and Bradley sat around him and cried their own tears, they held his hands as he passed. Bradley told Bob he was sorry again and again, until the sky grew dark and his body began to grow cold.

Anna sniffled, “Someone needs to tell Rue.”

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You buried Bob under the oak tree in the front yard, and you sat with him for a long time alone.

You then went inside and read through his notes, and cried some more. Bob had worked so hard to see the world go back to some sort of normality, only to never be able to see it. His act of bravery saving you but at what cost?

A week later you finally got a signal on the radio, and it was a military broadcast, they had given coordinates for a secure base and urged anyone not infected to find them.

You were too pregnant to travel and it would take weeks on foot, so it was decided in the coming days that Jake would take the notes and research to the base, and hopefully they could mass produce the cure and things would be better.

Anna didn’t want Jake to go alone, so you reluctantly waved both out the door and hoped with everything in you that you’d see them both again.

You gradually overcame your grief with Bradley’s help, he took care of you even on the days where you didn’t want to go on. The days you couldn’t get out of bed, the days you wouldn’t eat, Bradley was there. He was your rock and slowly grief turned into fond memories that you and Bradley would share about Bob.

The morning Sage was born, it was still just you and Bradley. He had read the Midwifery and medical books he’d found from cover to cover, and even still he was a shaking mess when he delivered her in your bedroom. He cried more than you did as he held her against his bare chest. And you marvelled at how Bob somehow Bob had known. It was only when you noticed the little button nose on your newborn daughter that you began to sob uncontrollably, you knew without a shadow of a doubt that she was Bobs.

Bradley was a great dad and having a daughter softened him greatly. She looked so dwarfed against him, as he rocked her to sleep. He would shoot out of bed as soon as she began to cry, leaving you to rest, and life began to feel good again. The months passed and you and Bradley fell into a routine, and your love for each other only grew stronger.

Sage had just learned to sit up on her own and was quickly approaching her first birthday, when you heard a vehicle approaching the gates.

You went outside with Sage on your hip, cautiously lingering at the front door. Bradley rounded the side, dirty and sweaty after having worked the veggie garden all morning.

A green truck stopped outside the gate and two military men stepped out, followed by Jake and Anna.

You laughed out a sob of relief, and Bradley ran to the gate to unlock it and let them inside.

He hugged Jake and then Anna, and the pair walked up the drive to see you.

“My my my, isn’t this the prettiest little lady in all the lands.” Jake cooed, and you handed Sage to him for a fuss. You hugged Anna for a long time, relieved they were okay.

The military had tested and mass produced the cure, and they were overjoyed to find that it did reverse most of the symptoms over time, rather than killing the host. Most of the population had already died at this point due to their self sustained injuries and infection of their wounds, but those who hadn’t, eventually returned somewhat to normal, but the swelling of their brains had caused long term motor damage, with most requiring care for the rest of their lives. But at least now there was a cure, which if caught early would reverse any damage before it became permanent.

You knew life would never go back to normal, but this was all that you could hope for, a semi normal life for Sage, and for Bobs legacy to live on.

The end.

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Notes: I’m sorry that this Entry was so late, and also may feel rushed! I’ve been a bit busy the last few days and couldn’t squeeze out another 🤣

[russia-totallyofficial]

I have acquired a Russian Boyfriend

what do with him

oh my god you asked the right person :33333

MAKE HIM PROPER NORTHERN RUSSIAN TEA ISTG HE WILL LOVE U FOREVER

IT TASTES AND SMELLS LIKE FRESH APPLE PIE AND WILL ONLY TAKE LIKE 4-7 HOURS OF YOUR FREE TIME…!!

i make it almost every weekend :P

heres my recipe:

FOR BOTH NON CAFFEINATED AND CAFFEINATED (RECOMMENDED) VARIETIES

MAKES ABT 2.2 US GALLONS OR 8 LITRES

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FOR TEA, CHOOSE PLAIN BLACK TEA (CAFFEINATED) OR CHAMOMILE TEA (NON CAFEINATED)

YOU WILL NEED (UTENSILS)

- Slow cooker (optional but highly recommended) or very large pot

- Large pot

- Measuring cups (Min 500 mL)

YOU WILL NEED (INGREDIENTS)

- 85g of cane sugar

- 85g of brown sugar

- 500 mL lemon juice

- 2 L orange juice

- 2 L pineapple juice

- 5 L water

- At minimum 100 teabags of your tea of choice (reccommend 110) [i get value packs of teabags at costco and target]

- 15 sticks of cinnamon

- 3 cloves

- 10 orange slices

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1. In one pot, put all water and teabags (I reccommend ~20-22 bags per litre).

2. Add 1 clove and 5 cinnamon sticks to tea mixture.

3. Let this mixture simmer until tea is well steeped (Usually about 15-20 minutes).

3. In your slow cooker or very large pot, put the juices, 5 orange slices, and sugar.

4. Bring this mixture to a low simmer until tea mixture is ready.

5. Strain out the teabags, cinnamon sticks, and clove from the tea mixture.

6. Pour the tea mixture into the main pot and stir until it looks mixed.

7. Add 5 more cinnamon sticks and 1 more clove, cover and bring mixture to a low simmer for 3.5 hours, stirring every 15 minutes for 10 seconds.

8. At the 3.5 hour mark, stir gently and skim off any residue at the top.

9. Remove clove and cinnamon sticks.

10. Let tea simmer for another 30 minutes withiut stirring.

11. At the 4 hour mark, place last 5 cinnamon sticks, last 5 orange slices, and last clove into the tea mixture.

12. Cover and let simmer for another 3 hours, stirring gently every 30 minutes for 10 seconds.

13. At the 7 hour mark, uncover and let cool down before placing in jars to store in a refridgerator.

14. The cloves, oranges, and cinnamon should be removed.

Serve warm with orange slices (optional) on top!

[greensparklystars]

wieiad!! <3

breakfast!! 179

graham's peach protein yogurt pouch — 168

sugar free red bull — 7

pepsi max cherry — 4

a little beverage 11

monster ultra strawberry dreams — 11

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

I'm going to try not to binge tonight, possibly get a workout in and if I'm feeling it I might make an egg white omelette!! been relying a lot on energy drinks today but it's okay because I just got over 1.5 litres of water in as well.

also, my legs have become way more muscled and toned since doing 20k steps a day but if anything they haven't been getting as slim as I've liked so definitely going to work them out some point this week.

yk what's been helping me a lot with not eating? podcasts! emma chamberlain's podcast has been a god send recently

total calories — 190

total burned calories — 643

net — -453

I believe you can do it!! if you feel you cannot stop yourself for dear life, know that even after a binge you can pull yourself back out of it!!

[girl-bateman]

Booty shorts that say I ❤️ Water

[anton1984]

26/11/24 Day 36

1st day off

AM weight - 13st 7 and 3 quarter lbs

Got out of bed at 12:30 (4hrs sleep)

Took Harley a walk (35mins)

Went to the gym

Deadlifts and got a new PB

Brunch - banana protein shake

Took Harley a walk (55mins)

Dinner - lasagne and garlic bread

Took Harley a walk (50mins)

PM weight - 13st 7 and a quarter lbs

Steps - 22142

Water - approx 1.5 litres

[skeletal-r3xie]

My day and meal plan so far: 21/11/24, 11:30 PM

—> broke my fast at 7:30PM

—> monster (14)

—> instant porridge (280)

—> vegetable soup (212)

Food later:

—> can of plum tomatoes with 2 eggs (214)

—> benefit bar (67) before bed

I was planning to eat my soup and go the gym straight after, until I realised my phone isn’t fucking charging! So I might skip the gym today, and order more charging cables off Amazon and hopefully they come by tomorrow or the day after. I still don’t know yet, I haven’t exhausted all my options and I’ve seemingly just plugged into another plug and it went up one percent, so hope may still exist! If I don’t update later on tonight, assume my phone is dead.

Things I’m happy about today:

- my new scales came! My old ones weren’t digital, and I’d much rather a specific number when I weigh myself, which I did straight after I got my new ones, and was pleased to see I’m no longer in the 50’s.

- my new top came! I love getting new clothes when I relapse because they always look so much better on me when I’m skinnier. I also have more gym clothes coming tomorrow!! Woohoo!

- I’ve stuck to my meal plan. I’m a bit iffy with meal-planning because sometimes they make me feel too restricted. But I can always change some things around if I’m more or less hungry later in the day.

Things I’m not so happy about:

- the boredom. With being recovered for so long, I forget how numb and boring everything becomes, I’ve been keeping myself occupied with my video game, but even that can feel pointless sometimes.

- not drinking enough water. This is a habit I’ve had throughout my whole life. I know I’m drinking more now than before I relapsed, but really I need 1.6 litres, and I’m probably drinking about 500ml max.

- the desperation! FUCK I just wanna be 40kgs rn!! I know patience is key, so it’s no biggie but UGH how I wish I could just click my fingers and be that rn

[kalikai]

Tepache made! 😁

Fermented pineapple softdrink!

You should make some too!

It's very yummy!

It's also probiotic I think!

You get to eat an entire fresh pineapple!

And then making this drink uses up the inedible parts of the pineapple that you don't eat!

And the yeast is just the free wild yeast that was already growing on the outside of your pineapple! (So don't wash the pineapple unless it's like, actually dirty, and also avoid buying one that's been pre-sanitized for you if that's a thing the shops near you do)

Production notes:

I don't have any fancy fermentation equipment. Just using empty plastic bottles that had mineral water in them - 1.25ml

Wrote labels on the outside of each bottle before beginning. Date and contents. Always important to do that when you're fermenting stuff, and I always do it at the beginning because it's easiest to do when the bottles are dry and empty. Just used a sharpie to write directly on the plastic: "16/11/24 tepache [variety]"

4 bottles per 1 pineapple is probably too much? Last time I made it I did 3 bottles, and there was plenty of rind/core for each bottle. Maybe I just used a bigger pineapple last time idk. Anyway, there's not a huuuge amount of pineapple rind in these bottles so idk how it will turn out. There's definitely enough yeast and sugar in there to get the fermentation going at least.

There's a bit over ½ a cup of sugar in each bottle? Couldn't find the measuring cups so I was using the liquid-measuring jug and just eyeballing it. Couple tablespoons of raw sugar and then topped up the rest with brown sugar. (Cuz there was the end of a package of raw sugar to use up, but plenty of brown, so I just divvied up the raw between the four bottles)

There's enough sugar in there for almost a litre of water to be saturated, and have some undissolved sugar fall out of suspension pretty quickly. Plus there's the additional sugars of the pineapple juice. Probably a little bit too much sugar, but it'll give the yeast plenty to eat so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Added a cup of so of water and gave the bottle a good shake to get the sugar somewhat dissolved:

Then I did the dry spices:

Half a stick of cinnamon in each bottle. This was comprised of one quarter stick of very old and very stale cinnamon that I found in the pantry, and one quarter stick of fresh brand new cinnamon that I bought yesterday. Should balance I hope 😅

Then some whole star anise, also pretty old but not too stale I don't think. Snapped them up into chunks and then put a bunch in each bottle. Like, enough to fill the centre of my cupped palm? Enough that you could pile into a single layer on a teaspoon? That much, more or less, per bottle.

Then cloves. Either 2 cloves per bottle if the clove was big & still had that little ball attached to the end, or 3 if it didn't and they were small cloves

Then some mace because I found it with the rest of my spices and had forgotten that I had it. Put, like, a thumbnail sized bit in each bottle.

Then a whole nutmeg which I crushed into big fragments and divided between the bottles

Then cubeb into the 'ginger' bottle and the 'ginger+chilli' bottle. I think like 3 seeds in the former and 4 or 5 in the latter?

Then red Sichuan into the 'chilli' bottle. Like 3 or 4 seeds?

And then a dried chili into the 'chilli' bottle. Idk which kind of chilli it is. It was red and the broken chunk I picked out of the package was about the size of my pinky finger (but the entire chilli would have been bigger than that). Still had its seeds inside.

Do your own spices however your heart desires, using up whatever you have at hand.

Then the wet ingredients:

Pineapple and water is all you actually need, but I was in the mood for experimenting so here's what I did

Zested a navel orange. One third of it into each of the 'orange', 'orange + ginger', 'orange + ginger + chilli' bottles.

Then fresh ginger into the relevant bottles. About the size of two bottlecaps worth for each bottle? Maybe a bit less? Sliced into thick chucks, which I scored and then crushed with the flat of the knife before dropping them in.

Then the star of the show: the pineapple!

Cut the whole thing into quarters so the amount per bottle would be measured out ahead of time

Working one bottle at a time, I further quartered the allocated quarter-pineapple, to make it easier to handle;

Sliced off the rind and the core, and put them into the bottles, first slicing the rind into strips (else it wouldn't fit through the narrow mouthes of the bottles!)

(Keeping the main of the flesh to eat on its own, of course (I have chemical burns on my tongue and the roof of my mouth from eating so much but it's just so good! ☠️))

(If you don't wanna eat that much pineapple, just chuck it in the tepache; it'll make it even better. Prolly good to slice it up or gently crush it or etc so that the juices can be more easily released from the flesh & into the tepache)

Then when all the bottles have their pineapple, you add the water! Filled up to the shoulder where the bottle begins narrowing; about 1L total I guess? Gotta leave some head space for the fermentation!

(And while you're filling, rinse off all the sticky juice from the outside of the bottle and its cap...)

Then put the cap on tight and invert the bottle and give it a good shakey-shake to get as much of the settled sugar dissolved as possible, and to get all the spices and plant materials and yeasts introduced to each other.

Then you switch the cap for a DIY MacGyver airlock so the bottle doesn't explode and make a giant mess of your kitchen. You make this using a balloon, a spare bottlecap, and a push pin; plus you will need a spare empty bottle to use as a handle during assembly (otherwise it's obnoxiously fiddly to do OR you squirt tepache all over yourself OR both) and it is assembled thus:

Stab some holes in the bottlecap

Rinse out the balloons with water just in case there's any schmutz in there

Poke holes in the balloons. Taking a deflated balloon I pushed a pin through it thrice, so there were six holes in it in total. That seems like a good amount to me but I'm just guessing.

Put the bottlecap on the spare bottle

Stretch the neck of the balloon over the bottlecap. You want to get it on there enough so that it won't simply pop off the bottle once the fermentation gets going.

Then you roll the mouth of the balloon back enough so that you can freely unscrew the bottle cap and transfer it to your bottle of tepache. (And then roll it back down onto the tepache bottle for a secure fit)

When the tepache is fermenting, its gases will inflate the balloon and it will look like this:

This setup is cheap, simple, and effective.

Releases the gas out while disallowing bugs in, and its easy to put on and off the bottle, and if the bottle overflows only a little bit then the mess will be mostly contained inside the balloon (unless it isn't), and finally it looks really cool because you can SEE how much fermentation is going on. (All you have to do is make a poster about it and that's an entire school science project right there, I tell you hwat.)

Then you just put the tepache somewhere dim to ferment. I always put 'em in a tray or something just in case the fermentation gets too enthusiastic for the perforated balloons to release and they overflow:

This is only a temporary home until I find a better one because bookshelf-with-electronics is not a happy place for very sticky fermenting liquids to reside, but anyway the colour coding here is:

Yellow = pineapple

Orange = pineapple + orange

Pink = pineapple + orange + ginger

Red = pineapple + orange + ginger + chilli

After 3 or 4 days of fermentation, you switch the lids from Ghetto Airlock Lid to Regular Airtight Lid, and give them another couple of days of secondary fermentation to carbonate the beverage, and then you put them in the fridge to slow the fermentation way down so they don't explode before you can drink them (and so the yeast doesn't eat ALL the sugar)

(OBVIOUSLY if the bottle looks dangerously pressurised and explody, then just pop the top every now and again to let the excess gas out! It's not hard!)

(It's not a dangerous hazard if you don't, cuz these are only plastic bottles after all, but it will make a giant sticky mess and you'll have much less delicious tepache to drink.

I really hate adding brain-dead caveats like these but if I don't then people will fall over themselves to "um, actually" at me, which is even worse 😒)

If you give the yeast loads of sugar and loads of fermentation, you'll get an alcoholic tepache.

If you don't give it loads of sugar but do give it loads of fermentation, you'll get a pickled pineapple vinegar (with or without the addition of whichever spices you felt like flavouring it with).

Both options are yummy in their own way, but regular, sweet, non-alcoholic tepache is the main goal here.

After you've drank a bottle of tepache, you can refill it with water and sugar and give it another round of fermentation for a second batch. To facilitate this, you'll wanna hold a strainer over the mouth of the bottle when you're pouring from it, to keep all the solid plant matter in the bottle and out of your glass (which you kinda wanna do anyway because obviously it ain't so nice to have all that schmutz in your glass regardless of your re-fermentating intentions)

I wouldn't keep re-fermenting beyond that tho. Loses its flavour and starts getting gross and you'll probably make yourself sick. Just get another pineapple. :)

[vskitty]

daily check-in: 29th sept

workouts:

warm up: 5 min warm up for at home workouts (full body)

workout 1: 10 min everyday full body pilates workout beginner friendly

workout 2: slim arms in 1 week - arm fat loss workout

posture & flexibility exercises:

exercises/stretches: too lazy again

step count: 5,100 steps

fasting:

stuck to my fasting window (11 pm - 6 pm): yes

water intake: 3 litres

what i ate:

breakfast: chocolate and coconut chia pudding with strawberries, cereal and protein vegan yogurt

lunch/dinner: homemade pizza with feta cheese

dessert: strawberries and vegan whipped cream

notes/photo description or recipe:

weight: 57.3 kg (super shocked)

zone minutes: 30 minutes

supplements:

supplements taken today: none

mood/energy levels:

how i'm feeling today: good

stress levels:

low

sleep quality:

hours of sleep: 7 hours

quality: good

daily goals:

goals set: workout, stretch and fast until 11am

achievements: workout and fast 👍

[endlessrot]

October 10th 2024 11:21pm:

- breakfast: sugar free strawberry monster and v@pe

(im not counting the 11 calories because i burnt it off by blinking)

- lunch:

- dinner:

• udon noodles (67c)

• curry sauce (132c)

• rice cake (27c)

= 226c

i only ended up eating a third of the noodles and curry sauce because it was gross

i’m glad i did because if i ate more the c@lories would of been triple

- water: 2.4 litres (im not doing well drinking water as i usually drink a lot of green tea and sugar free monster, i’m trying to do better.)

- steps: 16.3k

- c@lories burnt: 480

Total: -254 c@l

[xoxoloveme]

3DOLXROE CHALLENGE

So as a first post I’m going to start the 3DOL x ROE challenge

I started seeing about this in a subliminal video on youtube and i thought why not.

Manifestations:

//Basically the things i want

1. Get 48/50 in english exam

2. Get 50/50 in maths, physics, sts and computer science.

3. Lose love handles fully

4. Clear glass skin

5. Better self control

6. Study machine //can study for 12 hours straight

7. Have excellent concentration

8. Function on 3 hours of sleep

9. Get popular at school

10. Get a job that pays at least 3000 rs per month

11. Having a small waist

12. Longer hair butt length 

13.Get the boy I like,but is emotionally unavailable, to like me back.

14.Learn Java properly

15.Get 50 followers on tumblr.

Routine:

~wake up in the morning and spend 15 minutes meditating on this.

~drink 2 litres of water during the 3 days

~detach from reality. //my life is great and i will always achieve what i want

~journal if my feelings get overwhelming

~subliminals //i’ll make one playlist soon

Affirmations:

🔗I am the master of my own destiny. I can change anything and everything about myself.

🔗I have intense knowledge and concentration that i can use anytime i want to

🔗My life is in my hands now

🔗Regardless of everything i always have my desires

[lennonhead]

Japanese sweetened bottled lemon black tea. bear in mind this is not like Hong Kong style lemon tea. the ideal Japanese lemon tea flavour is adjacent to water

Kirin Gogo no Kocha ("Afternoon Tea"): this is basically the standard and the one you are most likely to see imported overseas. it's fine. they have a lot of other flavours and those are more interesting (the vending machine exclusive orange and mint tea is fun)

Suntory Craft Boss: I think this product line always tastes cheap. the lemon tea is no exception. it has a strange aftertaste. the bottle has more tea than the other brand's bottles, but is it worth it?

speaking of Suntory, you know what I miss?

this freak of nature. lemon tea FLAVOURED WATER. they had a milk tea version too and it was wild. BRING THEM BACK!!! also bring Ribena to Japan. scallywags

the 7-11 store brand: I feel like you don't see this much at actual stores, but they do sell it at their grocery stores, Ito Yokado and the gang. the quality of the taste surprised me

Lipton: they have a bottled lemon tea that is for some reason less good than their carton lemon tea. it must be some kind of preservation thing, because the tea that comes in cartons is my #1 most imbibed beverage in Japan. I buy a litre (well, it's 900ml now. life is so hard) every 2 days or so. but this post is about the ones in bottles. I don't think I've even seen one in Sendai but I know they yet exist

Coca-Cola has their own tea brand, and I know they have a lemon flavour, and I must have had it, but I have no recollection of it. I usually see the other flavours (their peach tea is good if you like sweet things, like myself). if I come across it, I will inform the public of my opinion. they also have a special one only in Okinawa. maybe the Okinawan store here will have it... but I would rather get a fancy tropical thing

[allthecanadianpolitics]

About 59 million litres of sewage has been spilling into the Hamilton Harbour over the last 26 years as a result of a recently discovered leak.

The leak was discovered on Jan. 9 during a pre-emptive inspection of the sewer pipes.

In a news release issued Friday, the City of Hamilton said that number was determined based on water meter usage data from 11 properties on Rutherford Avenue connected to the leaking sewer pipe.

The city says repairs to the pipes were completed by Jan. 11 at a price tag of over $37,500.

"All sewage is now flowing in to the Mrytlew Avenue combined sewer and all appropriate blocking of the storm sewer has been completed," the city said. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[lifestylechanging]

My boyfriend and I are starting our modified version of 75 hard tomorrow. Our rules are:

3 litres of water.

60 minutes of exercise.

Take daily vitamins/probiotics.

Eat a healthy diet (I’m going for high protein, low carb diet. He’s going for balanced).

In bed by 11 PM on weekdays.

[oliviabutsmart]

Physics "Friday" #11 [Opinion]: Okay so I have a few more problems with SI Units

Preamble: Now what Missy?

Education Level: Primary School (Y5/6)

Topic: Measuring Systems (Metrology)

Ok so this was going to be my necessary follow up to my first opinion post, Is Fahrenheit the better temperature scale?

I was meant to save it for the next time I had too much stuff to deal with on Friday and needed to write something easier. In fact, that's going to be how I do opinion posts - when I don't need to do as much a-thunkin'.

Regardless, there are of course other problems with the SI units system that many people point out. This is basically me doing it myself.

What are the SI Units?

During the french revolution, there were several attempts to metricise the existing unit system. Generating standardised units on length, volume, weight, temperature ... they even tried to decimalise time.

These units were based off physical constants:

The metre was one 10 millionth the distance from the north pole to the equator

The litre was the volume taken up by one kilogram of water

Celsius was based on the boiling/melting points of water

A kilogram was based on the weight of a specific Platinum-Iridium Alloy called the IPK (International Prototype Kilogram)

Now obviously, these weren't perfect constants. The earth's radius changed, the boiling point of water depends on the pressure of the environment, and the IPK can vary based on surrounding conditions.

This was fixed in 2019, when every SI measurement unit was defined using a universal constant rather than physical objects like a mass or the earth:

Hyperfine transition frequency of Caesium

Speed of light

Planck Constant

Charge of the Electron

Boltzmann Constant

Avogadro's Constant

Luminous Efficacy of 540 THz radiation

This gives our seven SI units:

Time (Second)

Distance (Meter)

Mass (Kilogram)

Charge (Columb)

Temperature (Kelvin)

Amount (Mole)

Luminous Intensity (Candela)

Problem #1: Unit-less units

There are several units that come from mathematics that appear to be unitless, like:

Angle (Radians)

Solid Angle (Steradians)

Amount (Number count)

We use this all the time like in lumens (candela steradians), angular velocity (radians per second), and number density (particles per cubic metre).

Wait ... amount was already listed as an SI quanity - it was a mole wasn't it?

That's exactly it. A mole is just defined as 6.022×10²³ objects of something. This is where we experience our first problem.

Why is radian and steradian not considered a unit in it's own right but a mole is?

Radians are defined as being one metre per metre. The angle required to create an arc with a length of 1 metre given a radius of one metre.

Image Credit: BYJU's

This comes from the formula S=Rθ where circular arc length (S) is equal to the radius (R) multiplied by angle in radians (θ).

The problem with this, is that the radian is still an arbitrary dimension. We could've chosen our standard angle unit to be a degree, and all we need to do is change the definition of the sine function and the above arc length definition:

S=kθR were kθ is dimensionless and k = 1 rad⁻¹

It's almost as if, while the radian is dimensionless, it still behaves and acts like a unit. Much like how we can redefine everything and make the unit for length be a foot instead, we can do the same with angle.

You may object, as S=Rθ looks a lot more fundamental than adding an extra unneeded constant. But it's like if we were to use natural units, where the speed of light is equal to 1, making E = mc² actually E = m.

This doesn't mean that m is somehow 'fundamental' when we define it in terms of energy. All we've done is redefine our unit system in a way that makes a few constants equal to one.

The same thing goes for radians.

A little side-note on Intensity

You could argue that this also applies to relative intensity units like Magnitude or Bels. However, I'd argue that they don't count as their unit systems are defined as being relative. The strength of a signal or luminosity is just choosing a unit system of power.

For example, relative magnitude is based on the luminosity of the sun. Sound/Signal amplitude is based on watts or volts.

Problem #2: Redundant Units

Many of the quantities in the SI unit system are technically redundant. Temperature can just be redefined as energy density, mass can be redefined as energy, etc.

What I'm concerned with is one unit in particular: the Candela - what exactly is it?

I often find that a lot of people attempting to explain the SI unit system often brush over this unit, even though it feels rather important given it's called 'Luminous Intensity'.

But hold on, isn't luminosity just about energy production? After all, radiation is just energy, and it's emitted as a form of energy.

A candela is equal to one lumen per steradian, where a lumen is the total luminous intensity of an object that emits light everywhere. Candelas concern luminous intensity from a specific solid angle view of the object.

Watts, the measurement of power and bolometric luminosity, measure the total (or bolometric) luminosity of an object at all wavelengths of light.

Lumens, on the other hand, represent the power produced by an object after each wavelength is passed through some filtering function that accounts for how the human eye sees light. This weighting function is determined by the ISO.

Of course, our eyes only see light within a particular range, and inside of that range, different wavelengths appear more intense to us because we pick it up more.

But this fails to recognise that this is still just a glorified unit of power. Just because it's weighted based on some function, shouldn't change what unit is necessarily uses. Hence it is technically redundant as it can be defined as a combination of other SI units - similar to radians.

Problem #3: When the unit system isn't used

I mentioned it in the last post, but there are a lot of occasions where the standard SI units aren't used. The worst culprit I feel is Astronomy, with Physics only having issues in lieu of SI vs. Natural units vs. Electron/Atomic Units. Again here's the list:

My beloved SI units

CGS Units

Whatever the fuck a Jansky is

Don't even start with natural units I can't live without big G

"Ampere in CGS units is g1/2 cm3/2 s−2"

Solar Luminosity/Mass of Sun

Angstroms (like please can we just use nanometers?)

How many Jupiters or Earths fit into this cloud of gas?

The vomit of parallax units i.e. AU, pc, Mpc, arcseconds, radians

Steradians (Solid angles can be finicky)

Logarithms, logarithms everywhere!

Hubble's constant being in km/s/Mpc but then having to turn that into Hz or per year - like can someone please acknowledged how cursed this is?

When you do Kepler's 3rd law on Mercury and realise it doesn't work (because you forgot Einstein existed) ... so no units end up working

ADUs and/or whatever you get when you deal with telescope outputs

Sidereal time, J2000, etc.

Sky Coordinates (it always depends on the telescope mount)

(the last two are new entries into the list I forgot!)

A lot of these units are very, very, annoying to handle. Often at times because they are just so unnecessary. We have scientific notation for a reason - so why are we using Jansky? Why ever use the mass of planets unless if we are talking about specifically exoplanets?

It can especially be annoying when in astronomy course subjects, unit conversions make up like 50% of the work and 50% of the error in calculations.

And the biggest problem, of course, is the CGS units system. I hate it. So much. From what I know CGS is used simply because it appears as more correctly "scaled" for a lot of astronomical processes.

However, the problem is that it just adds extra conversion factors into every equation. Now I have to remember big G in both CGS units as well as in SI or solar units etc. And it doesn't jive with a lot of other astronomical units.

J2000 is also rather annoying - why are we using the Julian calendar at all? Shouldn't we try and strive for using a more accurate year instead? Because what happens is that every four years the calendar shifts by a day.

The "Ampere in CGS units is g1/2 cm3/2 s-2" is a direct quote from one of my professors. And it also makes very little sense - because it says that the coulomb and ampere units are actually redundant.

However, CGS units aren't usually the only thing we use. Sometimes we put things in Gaussian CGS units, where we define the coulomb's constant (kₑ) as being 1. Thus, similar to natural units, we can define a statCoulomb in terms of our three base units:

1 statC = 1 g1/2⋅cm3/2⋅s−1.

Now this is where we find our ampere definition! But wait ... this is materially different to the real ampere. In fact, we can determine the difference between coulombs and statcoulombs:

So they are different! And thus, after several paragraphs, my lecturer is wrong and they shouldn't've used the Ampere but a different stat ampere.

So what would I do?

Well, the big problem with all unit systems is that they are just equivalent to eachother dimensionally.

Because of all the seperate equations surrounding each of the SI units, we can define any SI unit in terms of any other SI unit combination just by setting certain constants to one.

So there's quite a lot of units that we could me missing.

But here's how I would do it ...

There are five unique SI units:

Distance - Metre

Time - Second

Mass - Kilogram

Charge - Coulomb

Temperature - Kelvin

There are also three dimensionless/special units:

Amount - Mole

Angle - Radian

Luminosity - Lumen

These three units are special as they can be expressed as dimensionless constants or in terms of other units, however we want them to be expressed in our own specific units.

Solid Angle is just determined from square radians where 1 sr = π/4 rad² (ratio of square and circle of same diameter).

The constants which define these unique units are:

Hyperfine transition frequency of Caesium

Speed of light

Planck Constant

Charge of the Electron

Boltzmann Constant

For the non-unique units we have:

Avogadro's Constant

Pi

Luminous Efficacy of 540 THz radiation

Conclusion

This post did end up taking longer than I expected ... much longer. Nevertheless it was fun to do!

As stated in the start, opinion posts are for those Fridays where things aren't as easy as spending 2-3 hrs writing a post. Because when you want to argue a point you have a little more passion behind it.

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