Get a solid $20 knife and look up some knife techniques. Grab a bowl or something ready for the scraps. I can dice up an onion in like 30 seconds, you could probably do it in less than a minute if you have a sharp knife and practice a little.

If youre really pressed for time you can prep ingredients beforehand, either earlier in the day, or even a previous day, and then cook them later.

Some recipes do take a lot of work and prep but lots of them don't. Some take awhile but the active time isn't much, so it's not like you just have to stand there.

Its easier said than done, but you don't have to wait until you're hungry to start cooking.

They might know some other younger people who they can connect you with. Maybe not though.

Hmm that's pretty interesting. I don't think it's a good way to learn how to cook on its own, but if you can identify what most of the common herbs/spices smell and taste like, even being able to pick them out from a cooked dish, you're going to understand the theory a lot easier and more deeply.

So I'm basically recommending you do the cook version of ear training lol. It's probably the hardest way to learn how to play music(or cook), but if you already have a decent foundation in it, it'll definitely help you understand wth is going on. Otherwise its just pure sniff ideology? I think that applies lol

All just depends on what your goals are. If you want to cook the best stuff with the least effort, just find a few recipes you really like and try to follow the recipe exactly. I'm happy to go into more detail on what I think has helped me get better at cooking. I'm no expert and never had any formal training but I've tried pretty hard to get better over the last fifteen or so years lol. lmk

Sounds like my dog. She's big, smart, sassy, sensitive, suspicious, playful, dominant and very clever. Quite a handful. 3 years old and 75lbs now. I love her.

Some unsolicited advice, whatever you're doing for training, is probably pretty good, if you're having trouble you just need to do it more consistently. It's better to do less things more consistently ,than more things only occasionally. And whatever your partners doing, it's probably pretty good too, but yall need to be on the exact same page. Seriously. Some dogs are easy, some dogs look for any gaps.

"Well one parent ignored me so it didn't feel good to do that thing but other parent gave me attention when I did it so guess I'm doing it again LOL!!"-Rena, probably.

Note the behaivors you don't like. Note their triggers/cues, and plan to have the same reaction/(or often times all you need to do is just not react), to the behaivor. Be exact. Don't give in. If she's anything like my dog she's just trying to party, and sorry big girl it can't always be a party.

There's soreness that you can work through after a little warm up and be fine. There's also soreness that is your body telling you need to chill with it. You can always do a warmup/mobility routine first and see how you feel before getting into your work sets.

48 hours of rest should be plenty for pushups. It should be plenty for most exercises. If you're soreness is preventing you from exercising again 48 hours later you should probably ease up the intensity and start with something easier. IMO beginners should start way below max effort, and then progressively add more volume/difficulty.

Reduces chance of burnout/injury, your body has time to adapt, there's clear progression, and it helps establish consistency. You also practice the movement with less intensity, so it'll help your technique. Proper technique is vital in exercise, you'll have more power and reduce injury risks. If an exercise is too difficult for you to do with proper form, do something easier.

If max effort is 3 sets of five pushups, then scale that back. Do 3 sets of 10 knee pushups first. If that was easy enough next time do 3 sets of knee pushups, but add in 1 or 2 full pushups in each set. Just an example, there's plenty of pushup progressions you can find online that go into more detail.

Good luck! If you stick with it and gradually progress you'll be amazed where you can get in a few weeks compared to where you started!

Nice, that's one of my go tos. To me, music is movement, so when there's music, I'm almost always doing something. Whether that's playing music, dancing, working, cooking, driving, exercise etc. So when I'm dragging ass, I'll throw on some music and it gets me up (sooner or later lol). I know that works for me, so I use it.

To take it a further maybe ask yourself how you can remove as many steps possible from morning you, and getting started. You like Coffee, are there ways to help you drink it sooner/easier? Some people will make cold brew the night before, some will put their machine on a timer so its starts brewing at a specific time in the morning. You like journaling. Can you put your set up your journal so you can just grab it from bed? If you journal but then go back to doomscrolling can you set it up somewhere close enough that "morning you" finds it convenient enough to do, but it's enough of a change so you're not tempted to go back to bed/scrolling?

Stuff like that. And think about facilitation in both positive and negative. What can you do to make it easier, and what can you not do to make it easier, or what can you do to make it harder to the other thing(s) you might do instead.

For example: You like snacking, especially cookies, but you want to eat healthier snacks Be Realistic: Kale chips are healthier than apples(idk if thats true), but you hate kale chips. But you do like apples, so don't buy kale chips, buy apples. Positive Facilitation: You like them sliced, so you slice up a bunch at a time so you can just grab them when you want a bite. Negative Facilitation: Don't buy cookies! Or if you have to because habits, buy as little as you can so you dont just go drive back to the store and buy a big box to binge. Maybe put them somewhere weird so its a pain in the ass to get to. It's not like you can't have cookies, you're just making sure when you do eat cookies its because you want to, not because its easy.

Those ideas/strategies that can help, but they won't work if you don't know how you actually think/act. If you still want healthier snacks you can always move to kale chips later once you consistently eat apples instead of cookies.

My sibs and I got a still with the fixings for our s.dad. Hopefully he likes it, he's handy and gets really into stuff so it's a good chance.

Everyone else is either getting crap or exactly what they asked for.

Good luck!

I loved those books. I kept wanting one of the bad creatures to be a hero, i thought there was at least one that did it? Or maybe I just wanted it to happen so much and the author did a switcheroo on me. That said the badgers got me hyped af

Lmao I've done that before!

For future reference sometimes it's better to find one or two intermediary sizes when pouring things.

If it was purely a time saving idea you could have even washed the pot while the water was boiling and transfered the hot water from pan to pot first.

Also if you make it a habit of pouring boiling water into things buying/thrifting a kettle will save you a lot of hassle. Electric ones are super easy but if counterspace is tight a stovetop kettle can just live on the stove.

You're a beast. I've been rowing weekly now. It's not my main thing but I get an hour or two in a week.

Idk if its good for rowing but in other stuff I do people reccomend removing your calluses. I started doing it and climbing/pull ups/kb stuff is way less painful now. I was going to get some gloves beforehand but im chilling now.

Looks great! I can see all the effort you put into it!

That muffin stack looks fire, what are you thinking about using to marinade the mushrooms next time? My first thought is something smokey but that's a pretty common first thought for me.