Mike Wazowski: The Mac n Cheese Chronicles, Phase 1

[Scaly Freak]

50 minutes ago, MikeWazowski said:

Oh totally agree. You forgot nauseatingly strict ethical code in there.

 

 

I think you're thinking of the Lawful Stupid paladins... clearly you need to meet one of mine.

 

36 minutes ago, MikeWazowski said:

Also, had a PHENOMENAL dance lesson on Sunday - really made some things click for both myself and my partner that should mean big, good changes for our dancing as we apply them the next couple months (and hopefully lead to even less fighting than we currently have during practice).

 

Great! Less fighting is a good thing!

[Mike Wazowski]

1 hour ago, Mad Hatter said:

NICE! What sort of things did you learn?

For me, mostly that I can pull my head even farther back to have a truly upright spine (as an added bonus, it sorts out some anterior pelvic tilt and makes me appear an inch or two taller to boot). Also that I need to focus less on what my partner's doing at any given time and just dance my stuff while clearly communicating my timing via connection.

 

For my partner, it was mostly that she needs to focus more on timing her dancing with what she feels me doing, rather than just listening directly to music and dancing on her own.

 

For both of us, it's that we need to revamp our approach to practice a bit:

• Work wayyyyyyy less on choreography / don't think about it while we dance - we've had routines all for over a year at this point so everything should be on auto-pilot
• Quit using full speed music to try and work technique / movement quality topics - use slow or no musc for that work
• Spend a lot more time dancing without music, focused on the communication and connection in the partnership
• Focus our full speed reps on how we'll perform / express ourselves in front of an audience, not on any other topics

[Mike Wazowski]

2 hours ago, scalyfreak said:

I think you're thinking of the Lawful Stupid paladins... clearly you need to meet one of mine.

 to be fair, I think it has more to do with how the DM views what being lawful good means. Lawful Stupid is an awesome phrase though, and I am totally stealing it!

 

2 hours ago, scalyfreak said:

Great! Less fighting is a good thing!

 for sure!

[Scaly Freak]

3 minutes ago, MikeWazowski said:

 to be fair, I think it has more to do with how the DM views what being lawful good means. Lawful Stupid is an awesome phrase though, and I am totally stealing it!

 

I once had a pretty nasty disagreements with a DM who for some reason believed that since I was willing to work together with the party rogue, and I did not try to kill Evil Ones on sight, I was playing my Lawful Good paladin's alignment wrong and had to be penalized. My less than tactful efforts to show that if that was the case, then in the name of consistency the Lawful Evil rogue should be penalized for not trying to murder my character at every turn, did not help matters.

 

Yes, DMs who are firmly convinced that Lawful Good characters can't be pragmatic or compromise, annoy me.

 

Thread hijack over. For now.

[CourtnieMarie]

you're awesome

[Mad Hatter]

Very interesting stuff - lots to work on.  

[raptron]

Those sound like very awesome lessons to approach. I cannot imagine having to coordinate with people during my fitness activities. #soloooooistlife 

[Grumble]

50 minutes ago, raptron said:

Those sound like very awesome lessons to approach. I cannot imagine having to coordinate with people during my fitness activities. #soloooooistlife 

 

#LoneWolfLifter4Life

[Khuja, Dwarf Tank]

Saw this on Instagram and thought of your thread.

[Mike Wazowski]

7 hours ago, scalyfreak said:

I once had a pretty nasty disagreements with a DM who for some reason believed that since I was willing to work together with the party rogue, and I did not try to kill Evil Ones on sight, I was playing my Lawful Good paladin's alignment wrong and had to be penalized. My less than tactful efforts to show that if that was the case, then in the name of consistency the Lawful Evil rogue should be penalized for not trying to murder my character at every turn, did not help matters.

 

Yes, DMs who are firmly convinced that Lawful Good characters can't be pragmatic or compromise, annoy me.

 

Thread hijack over. For now.

Ooh that'd be annoying. Definitely one of those hard things about interpreting an ambiguous set of rules as a group of people.

 

6 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

you're awesome

Thanks!

 

6 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Very interesting stuff - lots to work on.  

 for sure!

 

4 hours ago, raptron said:

Those sound like very awesome lessons to approach. I cannot imagine having to coordinate with people during my fitness activities. #soloooooistlife 

Haha the hardest thing about ballroom is definitely having another person at the other end of your arm. But also the best things. The sacrifices we make...

 

Also, I briefly imagined what partnered gymnastics would look like. And that's truly terrifying.

 

3 hours ago, Grumble said:

#LoneWolfLifter4Life

Big part of why I enjoy my time in the gym as an escape from partnered work.

 

2 hours ago, Khuja said:

Saw this on Instagram and thought of your thread.

PERFECT!! Exactly how I will feel at the end of lactic conditioning tomorrow morning.

 

Or like this:

[Mad Hatter]

9 hours ago, MikeWazowski said:

Also, I briefly imagined what partnered gymnastics would look like. And that's truly terrifying.

Well there is partner acro in circus. It involves falling. A lot. 

[raptron]

1 hour ago, Mad Hatter said:

Well there is partner acro in circus. It involves falling. A lot. 

And acro gymnastics, which I imagine has much of the same! Pretty much no one in the US does acro gymnastics though, it is its own little offshoot with a LOT more dance elements.

 

 

[CourtnieMarie]

17 minutes ago, raptron said:

And acro gymnastics, which I imagine has much of the same! Pretty much no one in the US does acro gymnastics though, it is its own little offshoot with a LOT more dance elements.

 

yup. just as scary as i imagined it to be

[Mike Wazowski]

3 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Well there is partner acro in circus. It involves falling. A lot. 

Haha I'd imagine. Sweaty limbs are bad enough when both of us are on dry ground - can't even imagine trying to hang on to another sweaty person when one of us is in the air.

 

1 hour ago, raptron said:

And acro gymnastics, which I imagine has much of the same! Pretty much no one in the US does acro gymnastics though, it is its own little offshoot with a LOT more dance elements.

1 hour ago, CourtnieMarie said:

yup. just as scary as i imagined it to be

^^What CM said. I can't even imagine working on tricks that high-flying and intricate with a partner. Totally would end in someone being a broken version of their former self.

 

[Mike Wazowski]

Update on goals from yesterday.

1. Hit target calories and protein, every day: Nope, succumbed to the allure of peppermint Joe Joe's (almost an entire row of them). Ironically, weighed in 2 lbs lighter this morning. Cutting is weird, y'all.
2. Sleep 8+ hours a night, 6+ days a week: 6 yesterday. I intended to only finish the last 2 chapters of HP1, now I'm 100 pages deep into HP2.
3. Get pre-gym morning routine down to about 15 minutes: ~20 minutes this morning, maybe even 15! Pre PB-ing my pancakes helped for sure, ate them in the car and it was magic.
4. Do your scheduled workouts, adjusting as needed: Yup, did my day A of rings - highlight was feeling stable in an L-sit, even if my legs were a wee bit low.
5. Start tracking how focused and productive you feel at work: Tracked! 3 / 5 on both, not terrible if not amazing.
6. Mac experiments: First taste test was delicious, will get around to uploading a pic from tapatalk soon-ish.

[Khuja, Dwarf Tank]

Update on goals from yesterday.

1. Sleep 8+ hours a night, 6+ days a week: 6 yesterday. I intended to only finish the last 2 chapters of HP1, now I'm 100 pages deep into HP2.

This is me every time I read in bed.... Currently working thriugh a Russian LitRPG series. I have to set an alarm for 20:30, or next thing I know it's 0200, and the alarm goes off in 3 hours.

[Mad Hatter]

8 minutes ago, MikeWazowski said:

^^What CM said. I can't even imagine working on tricks that high-flying and intricate with a partner. Totally would end in someone being a broken version of their former self.

But it's fun 

 

5 minutes ago, MikeWazowski said:

• Sleep 8+ hours a night, 6+ days a week: 6 yesterday. I intended to only finish the last 2 chapters of HP1, now I'm 100 pages deep into HP2.

Never done that before. Nope. Completely innocent.

[Scaly Freak]

1 hour ago, Khuja said:

This is me every time I read in bed.... Currently working thriugh a Russian LitRPG series. I have to set an alarm for 20:30, or next thing I know it's 0200, and the alarm goes off in 3 hours.

 

 

I'm sure this isn't the least bit familiar to me at all. Definitely has nothing to do with why one of my goals is about following a set bed time. Nothing at all.

[CourtnieMarie]

wait! i forgot i want pictures of your pancake sandwich too.

[RedStone]

7 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

wait! i forgot i want pictures of your pancake sandwich too.

 

Yup. This please. (And maybe I'll share the ramen pancake recipe....)

[Mike Wazowski]

^^Mac n cheese for this week.

Protein pancakes with a light smear of PB:



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[Mike Wazowski]

9 hours ago, scalyfreak said:

I'm sure this isn't the least bit familiar to me at all. Definitely has nothing to do with why one of my goals is about following a set bed time. Nothing at all.

Of course not!

 

10 hours ago, Khuja said:

This is me every time I read in bed.... Currently working thriugh a Russian LitRPG series. I have to set an alarm for 20:30, or next thing I know it's 0200, and the alarm goes off in 3 hours.

Not quite that extreme here (0500? hardcore!) but very similar idea last night.

 

10 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

But it's fun 

 

Never done that before. Nope. Completely innocent.

 

 

8 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

wait! i forgot i want pictures of your pancake sandwich too.

See above, assuming that I got it to work right. Ignore the burn marks, still learning how to cook proper pancakes on my new cast iron griddle (merry christmas from myself? part of a larger amazon binge around 01/01).

 

1 hour ago, RedStone said:

Yup. This please. (And maybe I'll share the ramen pancake recipe....)

As above, though I'm not sure they're that interesting. But ramen...pancake? 'Splain!

[Khuja, Dwarf Tank]

As above, though I'm not sure they're that interesting. But ramen...pancake? 'Splain!

Interested myself. I assume they're similar to the rice patties made for burgers and such?

[RedStone]

 

12 minutes ago, Khuja said:

13 minutes ago, MikeWazowski said:

As above, though I'm not sure they're that interesting. But ramen...pancake? 'Splain!

Interested myself. I assume they're similar to the rice patties made for burgers and such?

 

Welp, you boil up some ramen noodles and mix up some pancake batter of your choice, but less sweet than normal. Combine. Add in some scallions and seasoning if you like, or keep the sweeter batter and add fruit and cinnamon. Fry as per pancakes. BOOM  

 

[Jord]

9 hours ago, RedStone said:

 

 

Welp, you boil up some ramen noodles and mix up some pancake batter of your choice, but less sweet than normal. Combine. Add in some scallions and seasoning if you like, or keep the sweeter batter and add fruit and cinnamon. Fry as per pancakes. BOOM  

 

 

I so wanted this to be some bullshit thing you made up to pull MW's leg, but it's real.