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  Incoming Genshin Impact dump. To those who don't play it, good for you. Keep away. It's good. I hate it. Alright.
So. This is really stupid.
Probably gonna start little segments in these posts for a "it's not that deep" section. Because it's not, but ... here I am.

ANYWAY. Yeah, so Xiangling irritates me. She shouldn't, because she loves food. What happened? Well... her writers really could've done without the "ooh this animal is thought to be extinct, and it's lucky we came across it LETS COOK IT IT'LL BE DELICIOUS- I'LL COOK ANYTHING TO DEMONSTRATE I CAN MAKE A DELICIOUS MEAL OUT OF ANYTHING" dialog and character arc...

Context: you have to help her find meat for a cooking contest. She's a chef who is passionate about cooking anything and everything-this is stressed a lot, implying that her moral compass is turned off when it comes to cooking.
So you go to a dungeon and clear out a boss, and come across a frozen animal. This animal was thought to be extinct. She starts going off about how extinct animal meat would make her dish for the contest a sure way to impress and win. She wants to gloat about being the only chef who used extinct animal meat to prepare her prize-winning dish.
The options were to just go along with what she was doing.
Wtf kind of way of thinking is that? And then, when you get back to the village and help her cook- the dialog continues, she wins this cooking contest or whatever, and the judge is all like.. .
"wow this was so good, but how will you make more? since the animal is actually extinct now?"

and she's like,
"oh it's fine. I'LL JUST SUBSTITUTE WHATEVER ELSE, IT'LL TASTE THE SAME"

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

.... I just wanna talk to the writers and ask them some questions. Like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Sigh... there are some cultures that'll eat literally any animal, especially if they're tied to lore or medicinal beliefs, rarity, delicacy, etc, no questions asked. As a Westerner... that's kinda farfetched to me. And I recognize that. So maybe that's where my objection stems from. But man. Idk. It just really got under my skin lol. The gloating especially. And the first thing that came to mind was shark-fin soup. The fin itself adds no flavor to the soup or broth- it's just a really really expensive delicacy. And. It's a cruel practice. But... yeah. I guess... that's how I correlated it. Senselessness in the name of cuisine.

Yeah, it's not that deep.

idc about Paimon tho lol

Moving along :D
Have you ever lit a match with your teeth?

Saved our progress last weekend during Brother Lifa's visit, at the bonfire. Idk how the topic came up, but attempting to light a match with everything but the match box became a fun challenge. Here is how it went:

Looooolololll

He did such a good job, he scared himself hahaha

Apparently, the fumes taste like.. fumes. Imagine! But uh, it can be done. And it startled the shit out of everyone lolol

Homdray surprised us with these. What a nerd

The Great Fall of Lifa |

It was a lovely morning. For breakfast, he prepared spam, eggs, and rice for everyone ala Hawai'i.

That day was fun.
That evening was a goof

We've been going for night walks. And the last few have ended up in playgrounds.
This time around, we came across these separate monkey bars and climbing rope thing near the playground, and ... just started climbing shit. Because we're us.

There was a dude there who was very obviously in the middle of a work out. He saw us and just kinda stopped and leaned back against one of the bars. Idk if he was taking a break, felt uncomfortable, or decided to watch us being jabronies.

So Lifa climbs the rope all the way to the top. And then Homdray climbs the rope all the way to the top. I jump onto the top and dangle off of it. Multiple times. Whining. Genuinely trying, but succumbing to my lack of upper body strength. And the cherry on top was Chicken climbing to the top, without using his legs. -___-

I would've taken pictures, but it was dark. But THEN. I was like OOH, BARS. So I started to climb onto the horizontal bar, trying to hold myself on it like a chameleon. Then suddenly lost my balance and just barely held on, like a sloth.

The pain. Was like.. a bright stinging burn in my right bicep and inner thigh, that probably doesn't happen to sloths.

Wanting to scream, but didn't... I was like omg lets do cartwheels!

Homdray did a baby one. Lifa did a pretty dope one. And then... before you know it, Chicken has to walk home to get the car...
because Lifa heard a loud POP sound and instantly felt a sharp pain in his calf after landing that dope cartwheel.
We are, once again, in a scenario where Chicken's inner dad comes to rescue his stupid kids who can't control themselves at the playground.

WE'RE PROBABLY TOO OLD TO BE HURTING OURSELVES AT PLAYGROUNDS but yknow what? It was a good cartwheel.
The guy watching everything was probably like man look at these assholes hurting themselves, i just came here to work out.
He got a good show.
Lifa couldn't walk. I suggested he sit on his skateboard and we push him all the way home lmao, but that option wasn't his favorite. So instead, they decided to walk (limp and hop on one leg if we're honest) to a nearby parking lot where Chicken Dad Uber would come pick us up.

Best cartwheel


Best sloth.
This was days ago. It looks like zombie skin right now.

All of the first aid stuff my mom has been sending me was finally put to use lol. She sends me like, crazy extra medical stuff and I keep telling her we don't need it. Mom knows best. Whiskey apparently helps to heal busted calf muscles as well

If you're sick of Meemurs, that sucks. Because Meemurs has traps that are big enough to eat certain spiders now ^_^

My cyoo widdle Meemurs

The next day, Lifa was like... I'll feel better with steaks. And Homdray was like I also have chicken wings! So. That happened.

Chicken's hair is getting loooonnnng. His mom is gonna kill him lolol

me: pose.
him:

This is usually what every bbq looks like. He hovers because he's a designer rofl

So guuuuud T_T

And Chicken likes to fuck with the bonfire. Like a lot. He plays with it constantly

Medium rare-ish *chef's kiss* oo la la!

We enjoyed steaks, chicken wings and whiskey over a bonfire. Fuckin... mmpf.
#injuredbutblessed

And then we watched Vampire Hunter D.

This was me on election day
Wine, Genshin Impact, yogurt/cereal, while binge watching Family Matters. Such a good, wholesome slice of life show. All those nick@nite shows lol. I Love Lucy, Family Matters, All in the Family, Brady Bunch, The Jeffersons, The Beverly Hillbillies. They don't make em like that anymore. Lifa's been watching Cheers lol. Ahh, so good.

Anyway, yeah. It's Urkel for me.

Alsooooo
Because I basically killed my basil plant, I went kinda nuts at the garden center and uh.. planted a bunch of new seeds.
Different kinds of chili peppers, more basil (to replace the massacre of my old one) and more cilantro. The cilantro from a kit Chicken got me off amazon never really grew into a full plant. I kept the original in the center, and planted new coriander around it to see the difference.
Additionally, I also got red sunflower seeds- named Moulin Rouge lmao

These little dudes sprout fast!
Over the course of just a few days, the Moulin Rouge exploded. So I put two more in there :P

Chicken accidentally nicked his finger. His first thought was Meemurs

Gaaaaah so cyooo!
We didn't actually feed Meemurs his blood. Meemurs likes squirming prey...

So when I found a spider sac, she got some snacks...

The plants are coming along so well. Except for the ones from the Back to the Roots grow kit. Chicken got me 2 different kits. One came with cilantro, mint, and basil. The cilantro sprouted after several weeks, and became stunted. Never grew.. you can see it in the right pot, center plant. It's surrounded now with sprouts I planted like 4 days ago. The basil grew, but stopped growing at a certain height, despite bigger pot transplants. The mint just never sprouted.
The second kit was the chili pepper kit. Never sprouted when we planted them. So we decided to germinate the seeds in damp paper towels inside a sandwich bag. That seemed to work over several days. Planted them, but they wouldn't grow. They are in the back row, center little pot. Dying. It's been months.
Sooooo... Back to the Roots grow kits? 2/10, for how much they are...wouldn't recommend. Seeds were probably really old.

Aaannnd the nicest surprise from my mom came in the mail T_T

She sent me tons of stuff to make yummy foods. And two more jars of huacatay that she prepared herself, including a commercial one. I can't wait to try the commercial one!
She also sent me basil pesto because basil for some reason has disappeared from grocery stores all together. Like... you just can't find it anywhere anymore. And without it, I can't make tallarin verde.
That makes me wonder if Inca's has raised their prices on that dish... hm.
Anyway, yeah she says she uses that and it works great.

Mom packages are the best!


Damn, what an election lol. It's almost as though a pandemic SOMEHOW made voting more complicated or something. Weird.

Either way, HAPPY FRIYAY
My bff's birthday was yesterday. Happy Birthday bench. I hope you like your gifts. One of them requires your love.
To everyone who voted by mail... high five :P
Things are so heated... so much I don't understand.. so
In spite of everything... I'll just drop this here

oh yeah, wear a mask