Month: August 2018

An indication of the level of executive function stupids I’m dealing with today:

I want to make some comfort food for supper, which originally calls for cream of mushroom soup (“our good old southern bĂ©chamel” 🙄) in the sauce. Which, these days, means making my own GF creamy sauce. Usually not a problem, besides kinda defeating the purpose of a shortcut ingredient. Not that much of a hassle, for something that tastes better.

(Recipe for assorted cream soup equivalents that work well substituting a GF flour, for anyone who might find it useful.)

If it’s going into another sauce, it’s usually easier just to incorporate those ingredients instead of making the “soup” separately.

This evening, though? Hahaha. Figuring out how best to accomplish that is enough of a holdup that I’m just going ahead and making it in a separate pan to add in like the canned stuff.

Also a decent example of how this crap can snowball and make everything else harder, but hey. At least I do know the words “executive function” and “burnout” now. Still frustrating, but at least I have some reasonable explanation and hopefully a little more patience now

Stolen Buddha statue to return to India after being found in UK

badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista:

Wonderful news. The ancient Buddha statue was stolen in the mid 20th century from a museum in Nalanda, Bihar (where my family is from), India. 

I hope more places return antiquities to their rightful nations.

Stolen Buddha statue to return to India after being found in UK

hatressoflore:

pervocracy:

There’s a little rat inside your head.

This rat doesn’t know anything, but it knows that sometimes snacks fall into its cage, and sometimes the floor shocks its feet.  It likes the snacks, and it hates the shocks.  It will tell you to do things that produce snacks, and it will tell you not to do things that produce shocks.

This little rat is not the only power inside your head, and it might not be the strongest, but it’s there and it has influence.

So pay attention to how you’re treating the little rat.

If every time you learn something new, you say to yourself “ugh, I’m so ignorant for not already knowing this,” you’re shocking the rat.  You’re teaching it to be afraid of learning new things, to associate it with embarrassment and self-criticism.

Remember to feed the rat instead.  Tell it “now I know, and that is good,” and let it eat its snack in peace.

If every time you take care of yourself and your home, you say to yourself “ugh, I never do this enough, and I’ll never get it right,” you’re shocking the rat.  You’re teaching the rat that it was safer when you didn’t try to take care of things.

Feed the rat instead.  Praise what you have done, forgive what you haven’t, so the rat can feel safe.

When the rat takes a step in the right direction, even if the step is too small or slow or not in quite the right direction, feed it.  Don’t shock it for being imperfect; it’ll only learn not to take any steps at all.  Feed it, and let it get bolder, and take bigger steps, and give it bigger rewards for those bigger steps.

Be kind to your little rat.

I might hurt me, but I won’t hurt you little buddy

prayforlawnchairs:

blairvoyant:

kaleighbytheway:

The very excited blonde lady owns the resort where this is taken. She’s super excited because this is the closest they’ve ever come in before. Everyone else is less excited because this was taken crack of dawn; when blonde lady realized how close the whales were coming, she ran around waking everybody up to see it.

this is magical reblog for good karma

Pure joy

prokopetz:

siniristiriita:

prokopetz:

My favourite thing is when you can tell someone is multilingual without even checking their profile because their post contains a specific kind of typo that only happens when you accidentally change your keyboard layout mid-sentence.

donät forget the non-english letters that are located next to english-relevant keys on different keyboards

The funny thing is that there are multiple unrelated language pairs where that exact issue comes up. If you fumble-finger and toggle your keyboard layout from US English to Canadian Multilingual Standard halfway through a sentence, suddenly your don’ts and can’ts become donèts and canèts.