I mix olive oil with nutritional yeast and add some onion and garlic powder + salt and white pepper. It’s quite good! Adding vegan cooking cream will make the taste smoother. I also prefer to dribble the sauce here and there or use spoonfuls instead of spreading evenly. Definitely better than some of the cheese alternatives!

Congrats! Welcome to the pack – or should it be called “an awkward of autists” instead 😸

I take 3 grams of vitamin C, some ibuprofen and zinc for the first symptoms, that often helps. If I get properly sick I drink plenty of ginger & lemon tea and eat berries and something easy like porridge. What helps a lot is rinsing the nasal cavity with warm salt water several times a day, I don’t have a netipot so I just use a drinking bottle or something similar.

We were at a party yesterday evening, haven’t been to one in ages! Nice to realize my life force is returning, not that I’ve missed parties, but just be able to tolerate people and noise etc. I left early and walked home, I really enjoy this new “respecting my own needs and boundaries” thing!

Today we proceeded with the motorbike project a bit, it’s been waiting for spare parts for several weeks, the online store sent us wrong parts in the first place and it took them forever to look into it. After sauna I’m gonna do some gaming and probably watch a movie in the evening. Slow Saturday is good!

Congrowltulations!

That bread looks gooood!

The crab gets out of the bucket by climbing on others who are already working their way up together, pushes them back while going, claims to succeed on their own effort, leaves without helping. Won’t even turn back to pay respects. No crab can climb the bucket on their own.

Exhausting week, this course I applied to started and it’s super intensive, also interesting and hopefully helps with employment, but not very accessible in terms of sensory stuff and practical arrangements. Thankfully there aren’t too many days we spend in the classroom as it’s mostly online/practical training so I guess I’ll manage. Also there’s this older woman in the class who is openly reluctant of being in there, carries neonazi symbols and fantasizes about beating people up and shit like that, and I had to do some exercises with this idiot and listen to her rambling. I don’t understand why she’s there, the course is voluntary… If she keeps going I’m gonna ask the teachers to do something about it, no reason we have to tolerate such fascist crap.

Today we cleaned the flat, baked banana cupcakes and made pasta with carrot-tomato sauce. Friends came over with their kid for dinner. I’m socially empty right now. Food was good though!

manul

Pspspspspsps!

Listen to music I was into in my teens & twenties and sing out loud. Cook grub. Clean the flat. Read books on couch and go to sleep early. Probably start a project that will be left unfinished on the table. Enjoy the peace & quiet. Then walk around talking to myself and get annoyed for being lonely and bored.

Some fine lookin baguettes you got there!

We’ve spent the morning cleaning and organizing the cottage for winter. About to leave home soon. Fixed the porch yesterday and picked up funnel chanterelles and lingonberries. We’ve had a couple nights with minus degrees so berries were a bit mushy, but I’m planning to cook jam from them, so it shouldn’t matter. But I must say I haven’t used “old” lingonberries in jam before so we’ll see how it turns out. 😅

Judging by the look on its historical face, the bowls must’ve been empty already then

Fortunately no, it’s a family place so only partially ours. But losing this retreat that is within a reasonable driving distance from home would be a pity anyways.

We live in Finland now so yup, would have to move. I’ve always wanted to live abroad, for a while at least, so it would be nice to have that opportunity, but myself I really don’t like big cities so I’m worried how that would turn out. But it’s not certain yet and probably I shouldn’t get ahead of myself!

manul

Ahaa ahaa!

I was accepted to both those courses I applied to so had to make a decision which one to pick. I chose the more practical one which starts already next week. I’m super nervous about it and having a hard time calming down and not overthinking everything. And as if this wasn’t stressful enough my SO just found out about a position opening in Berlin and they’d have a good chance of being accepted for transfer - it’s something they’ve been dreaming of, so I encourage them. Heck, why does everything always happen at the same time?!

We are going to the cottage for the weekend and I hope picking mushrooms (if there’s any left) and being in nature will help with this stress…

Stomach issues here as well. Yesterday I had 2 interviews to courses I applied to and it was really stressful, I think after the recent burnout my system doesn’t deal with stress well and whenever something even mildly draining happens I feel sick and my stomach aches. Otherwise it has been a really gray day here, I biked a bit to see some second hand stores but didn’t find anything, the prices are so high nowadays and quality of stuff is low. I guess people just sell their used stuff online.

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