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Watching the H5N1 stuff get worse and worse--I'm hoping we have until late next year before it goes reliably human-human, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was this winter--and not being able to do much makes me anxious, so I've been composing lists of stuff to do. I keep thinking, if this were August, 2019, and I knew covid was coming, what would I prepare? If this one goes off like the scientists think it might, it'll be much worse than covid.
Right now, I'm concentrating on food. My plan is to have enough hunker down supplies by mid-September that if things go bad in the normally-scheduled October-February flu season, we'll be okay simply not leaving the house at all. There are only two of us here now, and if things go bad there may be as many as four (as I have two separate friends I'd push hard to come stay here with us), so I need to make sure we have 4 meals x howevermany days I choose. I'm building up to six months, but I'm beginning the plan at three. While a lot of Serious Prepper lists have pretty generous caloric allowances, the MFH and I eat pretty light, and we're both smaller than the average adult human, which does give us even more squeak room here.
We started out with dry staples--bread flour, AP flour, semolina, rice, beans, pasta, lentils, powdered milk--though I have still to get powdered eggs (I'll dehydrate those myself), more dry beans (I'm going to use up a lot of what we have when I do my canning run for the winter, and so far I haven't been able to get my hands on kidney beans in any decent amounts), quinoa, and one more kind of pasta. Right now we have about 2/3 of what I'd want; we'll be holding things at this level, replacing staples as we use them, and if things look more serious we'll do another big shop and give ourselves additional stock of the AP flour, the bread flour, the rice (which we already buy in 40-50 lb bags anyway, we're Asian), the dry milk.
Then there's the perishable stuff; yesterday, the MFH and I took advantage of some very nice sales and got seventy pounds of meat for two hundred and twelve dollars. Beef brisket for stew, pork butt for sweet molasses chili, ground beef for hotter chili, pork loin for white bean soup. Still have to get chicken (which was pretty much sold out at our bulk place) for chicken soup (to be pressure canned), chicken and mushroom cream soup (to be vacuum-packed and frozen).
Very very soon it'll be time to harvest my leeks and my butternut squashes, for leek and potato soup (either finished with cream, blended to a smooth-ish consistency and frozen, or *not* blended down, and just socked away in pressure-canned Ball jars without the cream added; will it take me longer to thaw it, or to take my immersion blender to the hot individual meals later on?) and canned butternut for baking with or making soup or chili or making pasta sauce.
I might can a bunch of just potatoes, too, to keep 'em shelf stable (plus that front-loads a lot of the work of producing a meal later).
So I need to buy onions and carrots and potatoes and celery and garlic and mushrooms and corn, cream, red wine, tomato paste (because my vines got blight this year, sigh--I've managed to can one single run of tomato sauce and that's IT), ten dozen fresh eggs to dehydrate and powder and store in the fridge in case of egg shortages, several pounds of beans to be thrown into the chilis and...hm...fifteen pounds more, twenty pounds more, to have on hand? And then for non-canning purposes we'll need butter, oil, white vinegar (I've used a lot of it for pickles this year), various Asian food staples like black and rice vinegars, oyster sauce, black mushrooms and so on. As for pre-made, mass-produced foods, I'll probably make another post about them later.
While this is more than I'd generally stock in a single season, I do generally put about 100 quarts of home-canned food by a year, and I never keep less than 75-100lb of flour on hand anyway because of how frequently I make bread. So though it sounds like a lot up front, it's not hoarder level; everything I stock will be eaten, some of it pretty much immediately (the beef stew is so good). And putting it all by now means that we'll be less of a burden on our community safety net, if push comes to shove. When the covid pandemic hit I had dozens of jars of food on the shelf already, which gave me a little peace when things were looking scary. We were able to share some of our stores with people who hadn't had the great privilege of long afternoons spent seeing to the personal stores. That's a better option, to my mind, than needing to panic-shop right as things start getting a little wild.
Basically, if things go bad, we'll have food for a while. And if things don't go bad, we'll have food for a while. It's win-win. And it keeps the floor under my feet when I'm feeling unsteady, to be able to sneak down into the cool, still basement and look at row on row of gently gleaming jars of food security.
#real world prepping#still not time to freak out#this is not cottagecore#my actual life#magical flying husband#h5n1#h5n1 prep
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Not normal art but... clock is cooking
#taking some time off to reconfigure#by making more of my renfair outfit (and halloween of course)#still working on stuff in the background (aka making it better and doing it correctly with a fresh start)#but its good to disconnect for a bit and do some real world stuff#so i make my wings for my dragon lady!#other art#kinda cosplay ish?#halloween prep#(there will be a costume contest i shall-maybe- win)#oh the wings move btw#they got the drawstrings in em#other
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The K'ito region of the continent of Odryae. Specifially the country of Rou Vone, lying in the North East of the region.
Rou Vone
Farms types of grains and many kinds of vegetables, made up of farming towns and one city that mines copper.
Most Popular Dishes:
yamub’o yingo: thin deep fried dough filled with cheese and mint
yo yud’i d’ete: grated lamb mixed in with dough and baked, topped with ginger, basil, and during the summer, guava
huyi d’u nipʼo: papaya and pineapple mixed into a paste and smothered over plantains
nuhapu laka:a cake cooked and stuffed with shredded chicken, mustard seed, nutmeg, and anise
deyu tʼati hapu: Bass or catfish smothered in tomato paste baked in a thin layer of bay leaves. After baking, the bay leaves are removed and it is covered with parsley, thyme, and chives
#DnD#dnd5e#dungeons and dragons#dnd art#dnd prep#dungeon master#dming#fantasy worlds#I can't even begin to describe which country is based on what real life countries- mostly cause I didn't write them down#and I'm like 36 countries deep in the last 36 hours
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i am a cissie 'i have to get more masc so i can dress more fem' transmasc believer
#it is so real in my rich inner world#take my hand#txt#i also believe she dresses more like a jock than a prep bc yes we see her in her preppy school uniform a lot but it is a school uniform#i believe in cissie-cassie-tim basketball shorts trio
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I say that you don’t need to know the Taylor lore to appreciate her music and I MEAN it and yet I’m not sure Taylor saying “now I’m down bad crying at the gym” hits quite as hard if you didn’t spend all of 2014 watching her coming out of gyms in NYC wearing her perfect little model ‘fits with her short 1989 bob perfectly coiffed only to learn later all the heartbreak happening behind the scenes then TOO.
#like. there are many planes on which to listen to a Taylor song#and the directly personal isn’t even always the most frequent#but one of the joys of a first album listen—amidst all the pain—is to suddenly get an inside picture of what was ACTUALLY going on#and the way the eras tour prep / personal fall out behind the scenes SLOTTED into place#when I first heard down bad#LIKe. I’m SO SORRY BUT SHE WAS PROBABLY LITERALLY DOWN BAD CRYING AT THE GYM AS SHE WORKED OUT FOR HER MASSIVELY SUCCESSFUL GLOBE-DOMINATIN#WORLD TOUR#it extends beyond that but the snapshot is SO. REAL.#the Ann Powers review captures this so well#it is Taylor directly filling us in because what she does to cope is Write Stuff Down#every time Taylor writes about someone around her being high? she just wrote that shit down#(sorry for saying shit)#and yet it isn’t just direct transcription#it is the selection of the right details#to make it transcend that#idk. it’s what I think anyway 😭 maybe I’m wrong but 😭😭😭😭😭#what a way to die (guilty as sin do not interact at this exact moment in time)
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I love my job and I love the work I do and I hope to get better and learn more as I advance in my career. That being said. I fucking hate this insdustry so much why is being treated like shit the one standard we have across the board, all I’m asking for is a lunch break
#m’thoughts#Dog grooming is a great skill to have- it’s fun to do and it puts good into the world#And the reward for that (besides yaknow money) is working long days with too many dogs and no lunch break#Saw someone asking if they should call in sick because they have ringworm. Yknow. That disease that is contagious to humans and dogs#It’s just nuts to me! It’s nuts!#It’s extra frustrating cuz the big school in my area isn’t even pretending to try to change this#I’ve talked to grads and they’re like yeah we didn’t get lunch breaks there they really wanted to prep us for real jobs#And it’s like. WHY IS THAT THE STANDARD. Why are the admins just accepting it. You could change it#It’s so hard to get a job if you can’t groom more than 5 dogs a day which is insane to me#Like yeah that’s a pretty fair number to expect but how are people supposed to get up to that if they can’t start somewhere#‘We treat your dogs as individuals not as an assembly line’ <- says the salons that expect all their groomers to do 8 dogs a day#For transparency sake I’m averaging 4 dogs a day. I could probably get up to 5 soon I just need to work on stuff#I could probably do like 10 baths but I don’t wanna be a bather
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What do you teach Pocket? I picture you teaching math.
Not math, social studies! Though I do have a tendency to end up math tutoring more than I expect lol. Writing too
#genuinely i can't keep up with the senior math class except their stats unit#but sometimes i can help the juniors with their math#I've taught econ before but i don't this year#currently I've got sections of research and interdisciplinary writing#a philosophy/humanities in the real world section#and a Post Highschool Path Prep section of juniors (yeah that's actually what the school calls it)#PPP is new for me but it's basically an ACT/SAT tutoring class the first semester and a career interest class second semester#the other classes are for seniors and my school requires they take one of them since they're writing focused and generally our kids could#use more writing practice#so yeah mostly social studies and writing these days#tho technically i have to be able to pass muster for every subject on the SAT and ACT to tutor those juniors#so a smidge of science and math too#I'm a little all over the place this year#pocket talks to people#anon
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colour symbolism breakthrough
#the YELLOW AND BLUE#minerva wears yellow and blue circle mage robes and its a good look im attached to the colour scheme#but WHY the yellow? what does it MEAN? its never a colour i would have assigned to her#because its her FACADE her false politeness her false happiness in the circle#and thats why she wears gold detailing to alistair and anoras coronation and wedding because of the PUBLICITY#the FALSE JOY of the entire event#but normally she wears no yellow/gold post dao. EXCEPT!!#GOLD EARRING!! *HALF HIDDEN BEHIND COLLAR OF HER WARDEN UNIFORM*#because this happiness is REAL and NOT for the public view#zev yellow-gold coded because he has a similar facade but also because he is ACTUAL joy#theres a lot of caps lock in here ive just been picking at minervas colour scheme for ages and this is a good breakthrough#visualise me punching through a wall#still need to figure out where im going with the rest. blue is obviously a major one but i have that its freedom/reality/the world#the sky against the blights encroaching dark. honest in its grief. etc etc blah blah blah#but i also need a colour for family i have this thing prepped for smth i desperately want to write abt minervas childhood#id LOVE to have red for blood magic connections/tevinter but it feels a little like theft from the amells bc a ribbon was supposed to be#involved#but maybe if its not a ribbon it will be more subtle and red = blood = family can be more of a throughline#many thoughts hehe
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one of my bosses got me a norovirus exposure for my bday and the other got me a mental breakdown 🫠🙃
#fortunately the exposure did not result in me actually contracting norovirus..... its been 48 hours ya girl beat the case#however the mental breakdown was very much real#how do people actually get the courage to assertively and respectfully address someone and tell them when theyve hurt their feelings#like i go SO FAR ABOVE what literally anyone else in my job does#i literally went home after my birthday dinner and did a bunch of the work i missed during the day#because i was worried norovirus would kill me off and id leave him hanging#and i couldnt have done anything the day before because the modelling presentation i was prepping didnt exist yet#and he called me like 9 times today picking at everything i did and finding fault with the smallest things#and basically implied that it was my fault the presentation wasnt the way he wanted it to be and very condescendingly telling me#that it needs to be right because hes pressed for time#like bro youre the one who assigned a 5 day project to the analysts a day before you needed it#the corporate world since the dawn of fucking time: *rewards going above and beyond the same as the bare minimum*#me every time that happens to me for some reason: 🤯🤧😮💨😭#this has been clown posting with mallory have a good night! happy belated birthday to me
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not to keep liveblogging the retreat but it’s over now (it has been for most of the day). i cried so much today and it was amazing. im so sad and so happy and so relieved and so tired and so proud
#purrs#retreat tag#i was rly anxious facilitating today and overwhelmed bc we had to pack (i didn’t help at all and felt terrible) and i didn’t finish writing#notes to ppl and i had to facilitate and i was nervous abt the emotions. and then we got there and i said the final words and started crying#and this time EVERYONE was looking at me. but it wasn’t sad tears it was like…. wow. look at this. we made this together. we went through so#much this week and also for three years and we did it and it all mattered so much and we’re here together. and i felt all my past and future#selves and pods and cohorts in that moment and all the ones i didn’t get to see too. and it was so… wow. and then i was bawling when we were#hugging goodbye and someone in my pod hugged me for like a solid 2 minutes it felt like and we were just rocking each other and crying 🥹🥹🥹🥹#it doesn’t even feel real but also it was SO real. i can’t believe it’s over. not to keep talking a but crying but i cried for like an hour#when i got picked up and we went back to the hotel omg.. like this was MONTHS of intensive prep and planning plus 2 years of the heaviest LY#lifts to put on diminished versions of this magical thing and we got to do it this time and everything that led up to that mattered and the#ripples will roll out forever. im a little scared bc part of me feels distant from it bc i know so much now and have a lot of experience w i#it but like.. this program changed my whole life. introduced me to so many of the people i love. exploded my world into light. and i got to#be part of doing that for 43 other people. i feeel so lucky and warm#i feel cringy for talking abt it on here liek it’s disingenuous / just for performance but i rly mean that its just thisis my public diary 🥴#like omg. 5 years ago. and 3 years ago. and last semester. and now it’s over???? but also it’s just beginning. wild#naur also im a staff coach now and it was kinda sad the distance i felt. like they were scared of me / felt like i was untouchable a little#bit but it’s like… im only a couple years older than you. someone in my pod was a year older than me! so that was sad. but it was good
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bad thing abt being on here during finals season is it feels like im the image of squidward looking out the window seeing bob le’ponge and patrick having fun i wanna do things other than stare at a word document all day
#it feels like im slowly being boiled alive#mfw my high school is all abt 'real world prep' but they didn't have finals/midterms so college is the first time i experience them#i'll be mostly done by tuesday then i'd have one errant project which is The Fun One. it's a ren'py game about burgers#if it's to my standards i might post it on itch.io. for free obviously#ren'py is so fun though. i love it i wanna make more silly little VNs
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U.S. Marine Survival Prepping Secrets: How to Be Ready for Anything
Are you ready to uncover the survival secrets of a U.S. Marine? In this episode of the Undependent Podcast, Marine Gun Builder dives deep into the survival mindset, resilience, and practical prepping skills you need to be ready for anything. With real-world experiences from military survival training and life lessons learned on the field, he shares why mental toughness is the most important tool…
#crisis preparedness#emergency survival tips#extreme environment survival#family emergency preparation#how to be self-reliant#marine gun builder#Marines#mental resilience#mental toughness#mindset for survival#preparedness mindset#prepping mistakes#real-world survival training#self-reliance skills#self-sufficiency#survival secrets#survival skills#survival tips#survival training resilience#U.S. Marine survival mindset
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Phil is such a real one bro drove a lady he's never met before to the hospital cause she went into labour and then stayed to be her birthing partner cause she liked his massages better than her husband's
#hes so real maybe the realest guy in the world#jared is the opposite hes the most unreal guy ever#i love this show its SORRY THE WOMANS HUSBAND JUST ADMITTED HIS MATE SUCKED HIM OFF ONCE IN PREP SCHOOL HOLD ON#zeeths britcom adventures
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I cannot stress how important this post is
Places without reception STILL EXIST when you are on long drives. Learn to read and UNDERSTAND road signs so you can follow them if you get lost
Keep a car blanket. Just trust me on this. You might not use it but if you see an accident and stop to check on someone, I cannot stress how weirdly useful and/or comforting a blanket is for people
If you have the means, keep a little extra supply of nonperishable foods. Stock up on drinkable water too. You don't have to go all doomsday prep, but it is smart to have a few days worth of supplies just in case. I remember being trapped at home because of a blizzard for three or four days with no power.
Shit just happens
as someone who has gone long stretches without electricity, let alone an internet connection
BACK UP YOUR WORK---YES, EVEN PHYSICAL COPIES. HAVE OFFLINE RESOURCES. KEEP YOUR LANDLINE. CARRY CASH. DON'T GET IMPORTANT APPLIANCES THAT RUN ON WIFI. LEARN TO READ A PAPER MAP
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#tw disordered eating#no because at what point do I admit to myself that just because it’s wrapped up in a couple extra layers of neurodivergence and sensory#sensitivity at the end of the day I find comfort in not eating and the control of hunger#and like I genuinely don’t have enough energy to get through the day because im simply not eating enough and can’t remember the last time#i have and like at what point do I admit that this is actually a problem#cause like I haven’t seriously looked into a job for the summer cause im like. idk if ill be able to feed myself#but I keep being like ‘oh it’s just an adhd issue’ ‘it’s a meal prep issue’#what if it’s a fear of change issue#what if starving myself is the only goddamn thing I can control in this world even if I don’t admit to myself#i don’t know what to do and I don’t know how to get better#and I have so much shame because I grew up hearing about my mom having an eating disorder in her twenties and it was always like well don’t#worry mom you’re raising me with a better relationship with food so I won’t have that issue#well guess who’s in their twenties and went to one session with a dietician and the dietician was concerned they were malnourished lmao#(i don’t think i checked off enough of the symptoms to actually qualify. but still. the fact that it was a consideration?)#and I just. I literally don’t know where im going to go this summer#because I need someone to teach me how to eat. to teach me how to grocery shop and meal prep and cook#because I KNOW im capable of all those things but no one has ever walked me through all the steps so it’s too scary to me rn to do#but I literally cannot even fathom making anyone put up with my presence for 3 months let alone being like ‘oh also will you help me get#better? cause I’ve tried on my own and it’s just not working’#i just put the tw here but I moved it to the top so people could be warned before reading but#love that I refuse to use anything other than that tag because that would be admitting this was real#im just starving myself and never gained back the weight I lost four years ago from starving myself im sure this is all suuuuuper normal and#just a silly little phase#(fr tho if i need any other tws let me know i don’t wanna trigger anyone)
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The one where Toji gets a buzz cut.
Masterlist
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You dropped the grocery bags on the ground when you were greeted by your boyfriend.
But not out of excitement or happiness.
“No! Your glorious hair!” You dramatically walked to him so you could take a closer look at the damage. Toji, being the evil man he was, laughed at your response. “What d’ya think? I hated my hair covering my eyes while I was on missions so I tried something new.”
“Something new? You look like a felon!” You groaned as your hands roamed around his scalp, hoping for a miracle that would grow his hair back.
“Alright, that’s too far. I thought chicks dug this look.”
“Not on you! Maybe some weirdo that doesn’t look like an assassin for hire.”
“But I am one.”
“That’s besides the point, Toji. You’ve hurt me. By cutting off your hair you’ve also cut off any ties you had with me.” You sulk.
Toji was starting to feel self conscious even when he knew the adjustment phase would go away. “Do I really look that bad, doll?”
“No, but-“
“There’s a but? Okay, that’s it, I’m not touching you from now on. Since I look so bad, you can come to me when you find me attractive.” Okay this was turned into a real argument and you started to get agitated too.
“Fine! Let’s see who’ll last longer.”
Toji simply scoffed and walked back into his man cave.
Who knows how long you guys were planning to do this for?
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A long time. You both can go without touching each other for a long time. It had been a week and a half without any physical intimacy but the relationship was normal, you both spoke about anything and everything. Neither of you were showing signs of caving in (or were just that good at hiding it).
It was a quiet afternoon. Toji was out buying some last minute ingredients for dinner and you were starting to miss him. And as much you hated to admit, the buzz cut was growing on you. Just the other day you had to fan yourself when you saw Toji doing pushups where he looked like an underground fighter prepping for his next match.
To distract yourself you decided to spend your time calling your friend instead. You put her on speaker while you organized your closet.
“Girl, what do you mean it’s ugly? It’s all the rage right now.”
“I know. I hated it when he first got it and now all I can think about is pouncing on him. Ugh, I hate myself.”
“You live together. Just go touch him, you fool.”
“No, I’ll lose and I can’t lose to him. He’s always winning bets between the two of us.”
The conversation went on for a few more minutes until your friend had some urgent business to attend to.
You turned around to grab the rest of clothes and shrieked when you saw a tall figure standing in the door way.
It was Toji. “Did you hear everything?”
“I’ve been here since you admitted that my haircut was hot. Do what you will with that info.”
You sighed as you sat down on the bed. “I guess that means you win.” He could tell you were pouting even when you were turned away from him. He smiled at your childishness and gathered you in his arms and made you lay on top of him as he laid down on the bed. “There, you won.”
“No, it doesn’t work like that. I admitted that I wanted you first so you’re still the winner.”
“Then you’ll be happy to know I’ve been thinking about pouncing on you since the day I got my haircut. I wanted to do it out of spite cause I knew you’d cave in but then we made that stupid bet.”
“Ugh, I’m so stupid. You do not look bad at all, Toji. In fact, you look like a hot felon. The type of felon that has a girlfriend who visits him.” You mumbled as you played with the collar of his t-shirt.
“Uhuh, and does she do overnight visits?” He then started attacking your face with kisses as you start giggling.
It was you and your hot felon against the world.
#toji fushiguro#jjk toji#toji zenin#toji x reader#jujutsu toji#toji x you#jujutsu kaisen toji#toji x y/n#toji fluff#jjk#jjk x y/n#jjk x reader#jjk x you
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