Love instant pot foods. Thinking about setting up mine to have soup auto-prepared for me when I get home tomorrow.

Thank you! We want to live together for a year or two first, but it's something we both always wanted. We both work in childcare/education so it isn't totally idealistic/idle speculation :p Thank you so much for the encouragement!! I am so happy I haven't been able to stop getting weepy every few hours lol.

Being responsible for your internal affairs can help you develop the discipline and self-esteem necessary for those external tasks. I am proud of your progress and hope you continue!

Yay sleep! Is it anything special you can reward yourself with? When I was trying to fix mines I would reward myself by walking to the cheap cafe and buying a coffee if I woke up by a certain time. I really liked to be there so it motivated me to start waking up earlier.

Even though my eventual goal was to stretch in the morning and bike to work, it was just the getting up earlier part that I had to cement first.

That's awesome! Congratulations. It's something special getting together with lots of people to do the same thing.

Alhamdulillah I have a fridge now.

Gym This week marks the first time I have been to the gym 3 times maybe since high school. Sadly, I do not have access to anything but Planet Fitness right now, but doing a small thing regularly and sustainably is my priority. I am thinking of buying a used power rack when/if I max out on the dumbbells since the smith machines hurt my back.

I am looking for advice to improve my routine. Right now, I do 5 sun salutations and whatever stretching feels good, 3x5 (increasing reps until the next weight is doable) of bench presses, leg presses, skull crushers, incline situps, and lat pulldowns building to pullups. My main goal is to develop a good outlet for physical energy and get more confidence in my physical condition for street fighting so I am ultimately agnostic about weight lifting. It's just not a martial arts gym I can afford in my area.

Smoking I also haven't smoked cigarettes since Rosh Hashannah and I am never going back (hopefully). Already my lungs are getting stronger. I had this really beautiful moment at temple last week where I realized I was the last person singing during the Shema where we say each word as a whole breath. That hasn't happened since I picked smoking back up and it made me cry.

Although, I have been snacking and drinking a bit more than I like to compensate, I am developing more self-awareness about it which is helping me go down the right path.

Current Challenges I'm realizing that I have still not developed a good routine or rhythmn for living in my new home which has made it hard to grocery shop and reliably eat good meals since I don't really have a kitchen yet. This has led me to eat out and spend too much on food on top of the sublimated impulses from quitting smoking.

Next Steps My next steps will be to work out my flows for eating and living in my house better, and be more intentional about drinking. 'Having a beer to relax after work' is a slippery slope for me and I need to act more responsibly in light of it.

Finally, I am a first year school teacher and am starting to get into a better workflow with preparation and things which is giving me more and deeper peace during my freetime.

Here is a really nice personal essay about raising kids without gender---or as the author frames it 'gender freedom' which I really liked.

https://indi.ca/raising-kids-with-gender-freedom/

Me and my bf are talking more about having kids together!! I got so excited I started crying. Hopefully I'll have more to post here in a few years ccc: (not counting any eggs before they're hatched but it's feeling real in a way that it hasn't before)

Thanks! I never lived with a partner before except for COVID so I am really nervous and excited.

r/cth refugee and I really appreciate having a trans-positive corner of the internet that is not too liberal :p I have been getting into the News mega an unhealthy amount too.

lowkey that's my vibe; I journalpost a lot.

Me and my BF had a more serious talk about the future yesterday and I'm really excited. We are working towards moving in with each other and both want to have kids someday!!

No need to be stinky, they're just asking for advice. If you're annoyed don't respond, but why be rude?

Who is this man? I haven't kept up on hooligan routing news.

b2b w/ sg DJ Dick

Do they get paid tho? Could be a good gig/

Turns out 'Dick Cheney is brat!' wasn't a vibe.

A brave israeli tank captain performed a heroic resistance action against his own Merkava.

FOr me its young Zach de la Rocha