It used to be $6.99 a pound ten years ago. That was wonderful. While it's still my favorite light roast, it's expense means I drink it maybe once a year when I get a bag as a gift or a treat for myself.
Went out for KBBQ and had Cassis Oolong and soju all night and now making a Sea Breeze nightcap. Been in a big grapefruit mood, but didn't wanna make another batch of honey syrup for Brown Derbies.
I'm not so sure I'd call myself a "tankie", but I'd like a $12k new car and if it were an EV, even better. I recently paid more for a used car! Cars, like everything else, have gotten so stupidly expensive. It would have been nice to see one thing actually become more affordable because I know wages ain't gonna increase accordingly for a long time.
Aren't those subjective things? It's easier to measure something like chess skill or whether or not someone can do complex math, but harder to quantify someone's morality.
From how I understand it, you dream every night as your body enters REM sleep, but you often don't remember dreams. You can try and train yourself to better recall your dreams and in doing so you may find that you "dream more often".
I'd say I have weeks where I remember my dreams, sometimes multiple, every night, and other times where I'll go a week or more without recalling any. It varies on a lot of things. In particular, I'll find if I stop smoking weed for about 4 or more days, I'll start remembering dreams vividly and frequently, but that'll lessen over 2 weeks.
Today I'm making a mint simple syrup for a pitcher of mojitos to enjoy tomorrow after setting up the grill and Sunday is gonna be strawberry daiquiris (tho virgin for me)
Pretty good! I was kicked out of home at 17 and finished high school by floating between friends houses. Doing that, I met someone who helped me get into a college, tho I couldn't afford to pay for more than a year. I was briefly homeless, but I had a car (ideal), but now I live in a lovely single family home with my boyfriend and another couple. I worked my way up from a sales job into a management role at a company and I don't have to do all that much daily. I've made a network of friends who have become my found family and I love them very much.
Holidays are a bit strange. I disliked them for a while, but I later learned it was less that I disliked the holiday and traditions, but I disliked being alone. People go back to their bio families for holidays and I just can't do that. Being Jewish made this a little trickier, as even when non-Jewish friends wanted to participate (which was so wonderful and sweet and made me cry multiple times) you have to teach them the traditions and how to say things in Hebrew or Yiddish. Imagine celebrating every holiday with your young nieces and nephews who need to be taught what to do. Finding and befriending more Jews really helped with that as I can usually tag along with their families.
There's times when it's clear my experiences are different from most others. When people talk about family, I often misjudge the importance or weight of those conversations and the behaviors around families. I'll hear someone complain about the horrendous things their sister or brother are doing and how they help them anyway and I'm baffled. I don't entirely know what to say and how to be empathetic in the right way when someone's aunt or parent dies. I don't understand the anxiety someone has when their mother visits.
But I think I've successfully built my own little family community. A group of beloved friends for whom I'd do anything and vice versa. It took about a decade, but it's come together well and I don't feel some deep longing for a blood related family connection because I have them and they have me.