I was going to say water flossing but I’ve been forgetting to do it recently.
Spent a fuck load of money on a quality bed set.
Getting back into bicycling as an adult. I’ve always struggled to keep active as I don’t care for sports and gyms are unpleasant enough that I really can only use them for the weights, and I only do when my apartment has a gym included. But yeah, I tried getting into running because I needed cardio, but I fucking hated it. So I bought a bike and it turns out I love that thing. It’s fun to fix up and mess with, and I’m happy to ride it as long as my body, the weather, and my schedule let me. I’ve spent months where unless I had other plans every weekday was: work, eat dinner quickly, then bike until it’s too dark to do so. I even managed to get my wife into it.
I just feel better when I bike regularly. Physically and mentally. Also it gave me killer legs and an ass to die for. And it got me in touch with the bicycle anarchists where I used to live, which it turns out is a huge thing across America and they’re consistently in my experience some of thd best of both categories of people. They’re fun, they’re doing something other than activism to self destruction with an alcohol intake to match, and they’re the sort of people who look at an old pile of gears and see a way for a neighbor to get to work or get in shape.
Same, I’m nearly 50 and I bought a bike last year to do my commute and help get back in shape. I now cycle 100 miles a week and I lost 50lbs last year. I love that when I’m on the bike, my brain quietens down and I stop thinking about everything else, it’s meditation and exercise in one.
Linux
I wouldn’t say changing to Linux changed my life so much as it preserved the life I wanted. The change was just some (thankfully) brief adjustments to get comfortable with it. Way easier than I thought it was going to be and so much of that is thanks to the gurus online leaving answers and blogs for us folks in the transition period.
The point was that I didn’t want my life changed by windows becoming worse and worse anymore. In a disposable world closing us off from each other with too much change too fast going on right now because of the heavy handed over implementation of AI hard yanking control away from user: Linux gave me an option to retain the permanence, connection and control I wanted from my experience.
Apparently windows AI update broke recently . I don’t even remember the last time I loaded windows. I think it’s been a few months. Now I don’t even want to look back. Just relieved that if something like that happened on a Linux distro, rollbacks are easier to accomplish on the user side. Already theorized, practiced and prepped my parachute for something like that. Ok maybe you’re right. It has changed me. I don’t think I would have thought and behaved like this had I stayed on windows.
Lifting weights.
Today me is thankful for 18 year old me for once starting a healthy habit early and actually sticking to it.
I lifted on and off in my 20s, 30s, and 40s but never stuck with it. I started again at 55. Except for taking a break over the last two Christmass, I’ve been pretty consistant.
Fountain of youth.
- going to bed before 12
- keeping distance from toxic relationships
- regular outdoor activities
- making an effort with my interior decoration
- a proper budget planner (YNAB)
- cooking
Buy a washer machine instead of rely on laundry service
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You’re allowed to put banana’s in the fridge to keep them from going bad.
Best just to eat them. Mmm. If you still have some, make banana bread. I just did today.
Just note: In my experience they usually turn completely black immediately. It’s fine, they still taste however they did when you put them in
Ah, you have to put them in a drawer so that there isn’t as much airflow.
*You might note they’re still yellow under the sticker
I hadn’t, but also I eat them with the sticker on. It’s even made of food safe paper and glue!
I just peel them with the sticker on and didn’t notice xD Does make sense, though!
made of food safe paper and glue!
chat is this real?
At least in America, yes. Granted, don’t, because there is plastic in it, but the type of plastic is in the General Recognized As Safe (GRAS) category for consumption. Not actually sure if the ones on bananas are, since most people don’t eat the peel, but apples, peaches, etc? Yeah, it legally has to be safe to eat.
I’m in the EU, and always throw that shit into mixed garbage, unsure if it’s compostable or recyclable plastic.
Yeah, y’all have different food laws. I’m assuming the glue is food-safe, since it’s expected to have some residue left on the thing when you eat it, but idk about the stickers themselves, and can’t find anything about either, so… I’m not a lawyer or a nutritionist, idk what I’m talking about :D
Yeah, I don’t peel them so I have to take off the sticker.
Hold up, you’re eating unpeeled bananas? Just chomping through the skin and chewing everything up?
Is that actually a thing?
Only weirdos peel their bananas.
It’s a waste of electrolytes.
No, and anyone that tells you different is AI
Disabling downvotes here is a big one especially when you compare the benefit you get for so little effort.
Agreed!
A good mattress.
Getting and replacing my CPAP.
I waited way too long to get my first CPAP. When it started wearing out, I waited way too long to replace it, and the new one is just as magical. Actually, it’s a tiny bit better with all the newer features
I got a longer USB cable.
Yes! I got a 10 foot cable for when I’m on the couch.
Lexapro and a bidet
Top down, bottom up approach, solid.
Starting to date my now wife back in the day. I had known her for 15 years before we started dating and we’ve had so many wonderful years now that I can only wish we had started sooner
Similar story for my wife and I. 10 yrs of friendship before we started dating. I definitely wish we started sooner but I’m just glad to be where we’re at now.
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