Month: August 2017

@mquester – Same! Sometimes end up using the hall as a pantry for several days now before I can get it all put away.

I do end up feeling sillier with it, though, when I didn’t even go out to the store and haul it home. Today it was a delivery, but I still didn’t feel like doing much with it after wrangling pretty much a weekly shop’s worth of bags into the hall with both shoulders acting up. *wry smile*

etude-bolide:

Yesterday at work this lady was buying a leaf plate and when I told her I thought it was cute she said “Yeah, it’s perfect for my treehouse!”. I was like “oh, do you have kids?” and she said “yeah, I have kids, they just aren’t allowed in my treehouse” and honestly same

Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?

rubyvroom:

honeybruh:

autohaste:

desmadrechic:

desmadrechic:

i’m shook

this is a long read but it’s good

Lemme save you read and just tell you: poor vocal technique 🤷🏾‍♀️

lmao exactly why my fam and I rarely lose our voices

for a TLDR:

The rise in vocal injuries is linked to a change in what we consider good singing. Across all genres, it has become normal to believe that louder is better. (One reason that Adele is such a big star is because her voice is so big.) As a result, singers are pushing their cords like never before, which leads to vocal breakdown.

Human casualties of the Loudness Wars?

Also reminded of one Danny Fields interview I ran across recently:

But the Domingo album (pictured above) has a point, because Joey really did go to a vocal coach. I had worked with too many musicians who had polyps or vocal problems. It’s your instrument and you learn how to treat it well. There’s a lesson there for young singers: if Joey Ramone could go to a voice coach, so can you.

Bit of a change in emphasis there, yeah :/

Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?

clatterbane:

OK, I finally thought to make sure the landline phone was plugged in. It was driving me crazy ringing a couple of days ago, and I forgot to plug it back in.

Hopefully the delivery person didn’t try to call already, or at least would try back. Looks like they’re probably running late (with a couple of minutes left in the delivery window), but at least I’m not planning on going anywhere.

Pretty good indication of how much we use that phone, though: I don’t even notice it’s been unplugged for days until I’m watching out for some specific call.

And I really prefer it that way.

Thankfully, that load of groceries didn’t have many things that needed to go into the fridge or freezer. So I’m just leaving most of it sitting in the hall until I get some spoons back to deal with it

Squash finally achieved!

(Along with a big bunch of coriander/cilantro that I bet was going slimy on the bottom before some genius threw that marrow the size of my upper arm in the bag right on top of it 😈 Only found that after the guy was gone, of course.)

I would normally buy the cheaper loose zucchini if I could pick them out myself, but the bagged-up ones tend to be more consistent quality sight unseen. Glad to get any, since they just haven’t been carrying them at the store up the street this year.

But, plans: stuff half the marrow vaguely Turkish style, with some meat and leftover rice. (No way I could eat the whole thing tonight on my own.) To stew up on the stove with tomato and olive oil and a squeeze of lemon at the end. Pretty easy, and good. I only ever had baked stuffed squash before running across the recipe that’s based on, but it works really well. Putting the hollowed out pulp on the bottom of the pan to prop the pieces of squash up.

The marrows are a lot like less seedy overgrown zucchini, and good for about the same uses once you hollow them out. Not bad, and that’s apparently one of the types of summer squash that grows the best in this climate. I paid I think £1 for that one, and it’s not hard to find them for half that if you can look around more. Still a pretty good deal for a squash literally the size of my arm.

lastcenturykindagirl:

Seeing a bunch of white people chant “you’re not replacing us” when they’ve benefitted culturally for generations from Indigenous genocide is chilling. These people are disgusting, they have violence in their hearts, they do not get to have a right to be heard or their viewpoints entertained.