[XBlackWidowX]

7 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

Walked with co-workers outside the office, and with Husband after work.

Wow, isn't it too tiring to have two walks during one day and a workout? You've got stamina!

 

7 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

Ich lerne Deutsch.

Wunderbar!  Viel Erfolg!

 

 

Hahaha, the song is amazing

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

8 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

There has been a lack of music in this thread. This must be remedied.

 

Spoiler because it's about what's not worn beneath a kilt, so we'll treat it as NSFW.

 

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Lad, I don't know where you been but I see you won first priiiiiiize!

 

I didn't even have to play the video. When I saw the thumbnail the while song played in my head.

[Harriet]

8 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

Rediscovered the fun of Duolingo. Ich lerne Deutsch.  

 

Geil! Lass uns mal reden. Ähm... also welche kleine Vögel sind in deine Nähe zu sehen, fals keine Blaumeise?

 

8 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

Preparing to go to the gym in a little while, and hoping desperately that the New Years Resolutioners won't be there this evening.

Update an hour later: We're now at the gym. Night workouts are awesome.

 

Nice. I'm the exact opposite of a resolutioner; I hope to sneak back in unnoticed when the weather is less horrid. Spring Lifting.

[Scaly Freak]

4 hours ago, XBlackWidowX said:

Wow, isn't it too tiring to have two walks during one day and a workout? You've got stamina!

 

The walks are 15-20 minutes long and we spend them talking non-stop, so they're not exactly hard workouts. Since the gym workout comes last, I tend to adjust it to match my current energy level and actively try not to overdo it, because my body gets upset and starts screaming via the pain synapses if I go too hard with the lifting.  

 

3 hours ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

I didn't even have to play the video. When I saw the thumbnail the while song played in my head.

 

It's a classic for a reason  

 

3 hours ago, Harriet said:

 

Geil! Lass uns mal reden. Ähm... also welche kleine Vögel sind in deine Nähe zu sehen, fals keine Blaumeise?

 

Spatzen und Gänse. Viele Gänse...  

 

3 hours ago, Harriet said:

Nice. I'm the exact opposite of a resolutioner; I hope to sneak back in unnoticed when the weather is less horrid. Spring Lifting.

 

I just want to be able to lift without people getting into my bubble and breathing in my direction...

[Scaly Freak]

After making a certain request in @Loveable_Bouncer's thread, is seems only fair that I reciprocate, by posting this photo of the Feisty Sidekick in the middle of helping with an important household chore.

 

Spoiler

 

Mama says it has to be in pieces "for recycling".  ... ... I WILL DESTROY

 

 

 

[XBlackWidowX]

40 minutes ago, Scaly Freak said:

After making a certain request in @Loveable_Bouncer's thread, is seems only fair that I reciprocate, by posting this photo of the Feisty Sidekick in the middle of helping with an important household chore.

Awwww such cuteness!

[Scaly Freak]

28 minutes ago, XBlackWidowX said:

Awwww such cuteness!

 

I love the facial expression in that picture. It's very rare that we're able to snap a picture of him when he's actually in full predator mode.  

[Scaly Freak]

I forgot to post this yesterday:

 

Friday

Lunch break walk with Husband and Happy Sidekick

Mediated in the morning again

Picked up my new glasses from the eye doctor office. The world is in 4k again!  

[Scaly Freak]

Saturday

Happy Sidekick went to the vet to do her annual check-in/-up. We walked with her in the late afternoon when she was back.

Meditated again

Researched and located a recipe for Japanese Curry (Because Persona 5)

[Scaly Freak]

Sunday

Mid-morning walk with Happy sidekick and Husband. Also evening gym, with focus on pull-ups and chest press.

Forgot to meditate until after dinner, but sat down as soon as I remembers, so it still counts.

Made the Japanese curry I researched yesterday. We have a new favorite comfort food.

 

My meditation app has started displaying an encouraging quote on the loading screen while the app loads. It's always somehow tied to meditation or mindfulness, about the importance of inner peace and awareness. Today it was "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer". Seeing the app quote Albert Camus as a form of encouragement threw me for quite a loop for a moment there...

[XBlackWidowX]

How was your workout?  Do you increase weight every time you work out? 

 

Does your cat like going for walks? My family's cats were terrified when taken outside 😛 

 

5 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

Seeing the app quote Albert Camus as a form of encouragement threw me for quite a loop for a moment there...

Hahaha, a good one! Maybe next time it'll quote Edgar Allan Poe xD

[KB Girl]

16 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

Made the Japanese curry I researched yesterday. We have a new favorite comfort food.

 

Share?  

[Scaly Freak]

14 hours ago, XBlackWidowX said:

Does your cat like going for walks? My family's cats were terrified when taken outside 😛 

 

Our two cats have free access to the dog door, and the Feisty Sidekick actually uses it more than the dog (our Happy Sidekick) does. The oldest of the three, Mellow Sidekick, is a gentle fluff-giant of a cat and though he is fluent in dog door usage, he vastly prefers using the front door for leaving and re-entering the house in a far more dignified manner in the evenings. They roam more or less as they wish, which is one of the reasons for our considerable vet bills - microchip fees, vaccines, and what feels like countless kinds of parasite prevention, it all adds up...  

 

4 hours ago, KB Girl said:

Share?  

 

https://norecipes.com/japanese-curry-recipe-from-scratch/ 

 

When it says total amount of prep and cook time is an hour and forty minutes, it's lying. It took me closer to three hours. Admittedly it was the first time I've ever made it, but on the other I am not a beginner at cooking in general either.

[Scaly Freak]

Monday:

Lunch break walk, and after-work walk

Morning meditation

Played with Feisty Sidekick and a piece of string for half an hour in the middle of the work day. 🐈❤️

[Loveable_Bouncer]

On 2/3/2023 at 7:44 PM, Scaly Freak said:

After making a certain request in @Loveable_Bouncer's thread, is seems only fair that I reciprocate, by posting this photo of the Feisty Sidekick in the middle of helping with an important household chore.

Aww, thank you for this! Now I have to follow my end

I now understand when you say that its hard to get a good photo. Even when one of the cats was still, they would look the wrong way lol. 

On 2/5/2023 at 11:58 PM, Scaly Freak said:

Forgot to meditate until after dinner, but sat down as soon as I remembers, so it still counts.

This is huge! Being able to sit down hours after your goal is amazing!

[KB Girl]

11 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

 

https://norecipes.com/japanese-curry-recipe-from-scratch/ 

 

When it says total amount of prep and cook time is an hour and forty minutes, it's lying. It took me closer to three hours. Admittedly it was the first time I've ever made it, but on the other I am not a beginner at cooking in general either.

Looks delicious. That's a lot of time though! Was the simmering time longer than that hour? Or was it just that the prep work took longer than expected? 

[Scaly Freak]

6 hours ago, KB Girl said:

Looks delicious. That's a lot of time though! Was the simmering time longer than that hour? Or was it just that the prep work took longer than expected? 

 

The latter. I'm confident I can reduce the amount of prep time as I get more familiar with the process. I actually simmered it a little less than an hour, reasoning that this would help the vegetables avoid becoming too mushy when I reheated the leftovers the day after.

[Heidi]

On 2/6/2023 at 12:58 AM, Scaly Freak said:

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer"

This was my gateway moment into philosophy, though I didn’t know it at the time (what can I say? I was 11 and i thought i was just reading some book.)

I do find it odd and a little weird that it came through as an encouragement. Though existentialism has plenty of mindfulness to it, I wouldn’t exactly connect the two this way.

 

The curry looks great!

But three hours — nope. I’m glad you liked it.  

[Scaly Freak]

9 minutes ago, Heidi said:

But three hours — nope. I’m glad you liked it.  

 

The most time consuming part was creating the roux that everything simmers in.

 

This is a speedy version of the same recipe... sort of. There are some differences, by necessity. I have bookmarked this as well, and intend to test at some point in the future:

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

[KB Girl]

Will you be joining our birthday-month challenge?

 

[XBlackWidowX]

On 2/7/2023 at 10:17 AM, Scaly Freak said:

Our two cats have free access to the dog door, and the Feisty Sidekick actually uses it more than the dog (our Happy Sidekick) does.

Ah, so you have three pets! And I thought that it's just one cat with many nicknames. It seems they have a very happy life, roaming around

 

OMG, cooking for three hours, for me it sounds like a torture xD I guess I would pass out before the dish is finished.

 

 

[Scaly Freak]

9 hours ago, XBlackWidowX said:

OMG, cooking for three hours, for me it sounds like a torture xD I guess I would pass out before the dish is finished.

 

I enjoy cooking. Spending a little over an hour figuring out ingredients and preparing them is genuinely fun for me.  

[Scaly Freak]

New challenge thread:

 

 

[Loveable_Bouncer]

On 2/9/2023 at 11:49 AM, Scaly Freak said:

 

I enjoy cooking. Spending a little over an hour figuring out ingredients and preparing them is genuinely fun for me.  

This may or may not have had me thinking hard about how to use cooking in my life.