@Sleep_Is_For_Chumps photos aren’t loading and I can’t find a good one but if you zoom in behind this knife you get a sense of it. And I made a pot rack for over my counter for just $20 too.

@Sleep_Is_For_Chumps hahaha. Yeah, pandemic put me on a healthier path by cooking everything too. I invested in a couple steel baking racks (like at IKEA) and a couple peg boards. I have a bunch of big tubs on my baking rack and have all my pasta supplies in one, multi blender pieces in another and so on. My place is only 600 sq fr but it’s amazing. I’ll see if I can find a pic — I’m not at home so I can’t just snap one for ya.

@rpardee it helps that sugar fucks my body up and the price is too high. That’s partly why I began changing — I was constantly in terrible shape from all the sugar and alcohol. Even not, too much white bread will mess me up. But hey, it keeps me in line. Hope you find a way to control that.

I’ve been having popcorn at night 3-4 times a week here, which I thought would be terrible, but I guess it’s fine. I’ve been having 2 slices of bacon 4-5 times a week for breakfast too. Guess that’s fine too. I really don’t sweat what I eat, but I have a lot less cheese than I used to, is probably the big thing. And I like an air fryer. My air fryer chicken’ll make you slap your granny and holler. Eating better can be tasty as fuck if you know how to cook.

The lifestyle changes that have worked are that I barely drink alcohol and rarely consume much sugar. I don’t buy processed foods and I seldom snack. I just cook real food — including making bread and pasta from scratch. I always go at least 12 hours between eating at night/morning.

I walk a bit more and do Qi Gong. It’s been 2.5 years of just lifestyle changes and the weight is still coming off slowly.

Anyone who knows me off Twitter/elsewhere knows I came back from 4 years as a nomad with my body destroyed, weighing around 350 pounds.

I’ve been holed up in a posh housesit for two weeks, not even going on walks, but I’ve done some Qi Gong & there are 4 levels of stairs here, which is a big switch from my 600sq foot apartment in the city (this is 5,000 sq feet).

So I just weighed in down another 2 pounds, & I’m within 10 pounds of having lost 100. (Im not dieting. I made lifestyle changes.)

@RandallTT we were near 30° a couple weeks ago and expect snow on BC’s coast next week. Crazy weather in BC this year.

@Pht3v3n I was there for a month or so. The people at Babel Guesthouse are amazing and became so much like family that I attended a wedding while there. Highly recommend staying there for a while.

6 years ago today, I was in a coastal town in Croatia call Rijeka, where my host family took me to a cemetery for All Soul’s Day, which is a big thing in Croatia, where it’s hugely catholic. I lit a candle for my mom.

@kel @CoSoTips yeah, I deleted and reposted to be sure I was in the right order but when I use the viewer to toggle through, they don’t show in the same order as when I attached them, or so it seems!

Hey @CoSoTips is there a way to add photos so they display in the order you add them? The post here is out of order.

Four four years, I was a nomad. I travelled through 25 countries. There was a lot of alcohol.

I barely drink anymore. I’m at a housesit and in two weeks, I’ve had 4 glasses of wine and they were all with a friend. I used to drink a minimum of a bottle a wine a day when travelling.

It was a bad lifestyle for drinking. I much prefer my more sober life. But I miss the travel.

Here’s the Facebook post from years ago today. Gave me a big chuckle. The pic was with the original post too.

@pennydaflos OH so now you can try out the cool feature here sometime — “delete and redraft”. You still lose the metrics for the post but you get an easier reposting for typo fixing and stuff.

@pennydaflos careful on the copy/paste — you got a Twitter short link there instead of the branded CTV link. :)

Well, popping popcorn in lard was a delicious thing I didn’t need to know existed. Great flavour.

I know duck fat is terrific for cooking popcorn too. But I have no interest in trying bacon fat, which I know some people love. In any case, the secret is to add a lot of salt to the pot for cooking it in too. Then it’s sufficiently flavoured after cooking and you don’t need butter.

Looking at the forecast for next week with temperature at a high of 4° for the week, when it was just a couple weeks ago that we were up near 30°.

Reminds me of travelling in places like Bulgaria, where they said they no longer had spring or fall — it seemed to go straight from summer to winter/vice versa.

It feels like the death of the shoulder season, another aspect of climate change. It’s daunting.

@Pht3v3n I was a nomad for four years. Trashed the fuck outta my body. Hard life. Hope you’re seeing cool places at least.

So apparently popcorn popped in lard is a thing I have to try now.

@Jacki the site is having lots of growth issues, so that might be impacting things. You can accidentally close columns on desktop so look in the menu list on the right and click on different options to see if the column comes up. At the top of the column, click around and try to find the option to “pin” it to your screen. Sorry, im on the phone and it’s hard to remember specifics from desktop.