This was a hard one because suddenly a lot of things which I cherish came to mind...but I still managed to pick my top 3:
My calendar (okay so I know this might be a boring one BUT I NEED IT. I put everything in here even the smallest bit of tasks sometimes like cleaning). I do have a good enough memory to remember things without placing them in my calendar BUT STILL...I would be lost without it :/
Sunscreen (yeah I am looking at all of you non-sunscreen wearers out there LOL). This is a must for me every single day because I BURN 🔥). Also, it is a good preventative measure towards anti aging.
Pressure cooker (this has cut down my cooking time! I used to make this family braised beef recipe and it took hours but now with my pressure cooker, I can easily make dishes in under 20 minutes). Yup I like practicality.
OMG I am early for once 😭. It feels good.
Hahaha all the things I'm terrible at..!!!! I definitely can't do calendars... I fly by seat of my pants most times
Call a Lumberjack...
Oh waaww, I went a complete different route and saw 'things' as concepts and not necessarily as items 😀 .
But I like the pressure cooker mention, it doesn't get enough credit!
Can we pressure cook some HD's..?
Juss' Sayin'...
In about a minute.
@bigtom13 is in DA HOUSE..!
I know that nightmare all to well...
That's a lot of weiners!
There's got to be a joke in there somewhere. Lol!
Sausage overload? Sausage fest? 😱
@galenkp and I both agree, this one is disturbing...
Not sure where this all started?
Peakd added the giphy option and it has been non stop Gipha-cala-fragalistic since...
Nothing wrong with a different approach. At first, I was going to give out answers that were more concepts based but I knew it would be a popular approach so I decided to take a different approach 😆
nine I love your play on with fonts 🤣🤣. You do it so well
Didn't have to be your top three, just three of them :)
One's calendar is a good choice as it's good to be organised. That help facilitate other things in life too, so can bring greater enjoyment from life.
Haha, I like the sunscreen one too. I'm in Australia where the sun is brutal so yeah, it's a thing.
Pressure cooker...You know you can't mention braised beef recipes without also sending an invite!
makes a note to invite you for the next time I make some good braised beef
I promise it's the one thing I can make decently! Ahem ahem it is grandma approved too 😉.
Summers in Australia are definitely no joke. I have seen several videos of them. 😅
With calendars, I just like the little feedback it gives me with what I need to get done and then I can peacefully do anything else I want.
I like your notes. 😀
Yeah, it gets super hot here and I hate it. You'd think I'd be used to it by now, being born here and all but, nope. It's 26C today and that's about as hot as I like it. It'll go to 47-48 eventually though and I'll melt.
Grandma approved? Now I'm more excited to have a taste of it... How do I get mine? 🙄
Instead of shipping it over, it would stay a lot fresher if I simply teleport over there.
😂 😂 😂 Teleporting on my screen... Teleport to Nigeria then I'll know you really want to give me
I would love to one day travel more internationally and check out Nigeria. I have a friend who volunteered there.
Ha, ha, ha. Grandma approved foods are certified finger-licking goodies!
Is your grandma a rad G'ma? Mine isn't but she's cool!
What's braised beef?
It's just like a stew with beef that becomes tender and you can throw in lots of different kinds of vegetables. I have made vegetarian versions with no beef as well and they were also just as good.
Oh okay🤤🤤....I love anything that is sauce like especially if it's savoury
It is 9am here hahahahha and now I have gotten oddly hungry 🤣🤣. I do share the same sentiment as you 😉
Also let the record show that I do keep notes, just not on the calendar. I have 3 notebooks with in reach and at least another 3 more that are current and active.
Then we forget to look at the notes.... ha ha well I do!
Yeah. There is that, isn't there? Good to see you Joan!
Even when right next to you.... forget you do!
Trust you are well Tom, enjoy seeing you here once a week, miss your posts perhaps soon another ride? Take care!
I am currently in 'heavy search' mode for a new motorcycle. I'm pretty pissed at both my current (broken) rides. I am starting to believe that everything flows from my riding. Posting, working on broken motorcycles, everything. I should know how my theory works in practice in a month or so :)
I was meaning to ask you if any of your Rhodies got 'white face' early? Sam is just now 6 and is really starting to get a lot of white hair on his face. Makes it easier to see when he's looking at me out in the brush, but it seems early to me.
woohoo! I commend you on your notebooks. I only have one with me hehehehhe.
No, actually. 3 here by my desk and three near my study chair. I have at least 20 that are inactive...
Ahahahahaha. I like inactive, too. I have a couple that are dedicated research and no real particular reason why they haven't been recycled. "Because they are just inactive, that's why."
It didn't have to be our top three? Sigh. Re-reads instructions. Forehead slap.
Lol. I just asked for what three things are important. Any would have worked, didn't have to be the three top things, although I did ask what was the number one out of the three mentioned.
All good. A forehead slap is never wasted.
Thank you. I could keep doing it all day. I read somewhere that life is one continuous mistake. Seems about right. Also, it's a comforting thought. The continuous mistake, not the forehead slap.
Mistakes lead us into attitudes and actions that can help prevent them from happening...So, make more mistakes.
I like that. I had a team leader once in the corporate world who told me that if I was not making mistakes, he would take it as a sign that I was not doing any work. That's life, I think. If we sit on the sidelines, we don't mess up, but nothing happens. Easy on the ego, perhaps, but not really living.
Failure brings us closer to success as we learn from it, or should, and then have anotyer try.
😂 How did I miss that? Please @mooncity while bringing some for him, I hope you'd stop by my place to give me mine.
Braised beef seem delicious and I'll love to try it out
I like the fact that she's organized....I for one I'm very organized I can't deal with chaos...but instead of a calendar I deal more with 'to do' lists and notes
Chaos can disrupt the best laid plans. Best to mitigate it through strategies like notes and to-do lists. Great plan indeed!
I think my answer was too intense, by comparison. Lol. I am curious about what type of calendar you use. My life is chaos. I mean, I mostly like it that way, but it would be nice to inject a little order.
I know sunscreen is important, but I never use it. It's hard because, for one thing, I live in Edmonton, Canada which is North. Wayyyy North. We have about the same climate as Siberia. I remember reading about Siberia as a kid and feeling sorry for people who had to live there. I think imagining a place colder than my own home just made me sad. The joke was on me.
I recently got an instant pot, so I am right there with you about the pressure cooker. Except, if I am honest, my fiancé does 99.9% of the cooking.
Did you say which of the three was most important to you? I am a bit tired, so I might have missed it.
Smile.... Nice though ❤️❤️, cool places at times is not good, but if you ask me I'll prefer staying in cool place than places that are having high temperature degree, if the place is cool you can as well use clothes that will make you warm.
Nothing wrong with your response at all! I realized I took a slight bit of a different more casual approach than the rest of the comments.
I simply use a google calendar to inject some order 😆. I like the way you said it. Since everything is online, I figured an onlike calendar won't be all too bad.
I live in Toronto but it doesn't get super cold like Edmonton . Heard it can be as bad as -50 there. I will be sending some warmth your way ✨
You got me here! I don't do a lot of cooking either 😆.
Out of the three, I would pick pressure cooker. I have seen myself when I get hangry and it is something I try to avoid 🙃 hahaha. I feel you on the tired part. It is almost 1 am here! Glad to meet another fellow Canadian. I am too keen on checking out Alberta. The views are stunning there. I won't bother with international travel at all until I first check out Alberta and BC a bit more.
Not usually -50, but it has been -40 and it is often below -25. Crazy!
When you said the views were stunning in Alberta, at first I thought you were talking about the political views and I know, right? But then I realized you meant, like, the Rocky Mountains, Lake Louise, etc. And those are stunning also.
Hahahahah yess I meant the nature views. I have seen Jasper Lake in pictures when friends who visited came back and showed it to me. It looks surreal 💫💫
Phew glad to hear its not as bad as -50 all the time but still it can be quite cold! Tea is my savior during winter time. It instantly warms me up.
Hmm you live in Toronto!!! 🤭
This engagement fun is making me know more about you all 😊 and I'm excited about it
yes merit! I do live in Toronto. I will be checking out more responses soon. It is very fun to learn bits and pieces about everyone here. I am excited to read about your response for the question 😉
Ahaaa I love your excitement, go on and read a little about me 😌
Keep engaging
😂 😂 You're a funny one, really.... Inject some order? That's a new way of saying what you mean and I think I'm taking that, thanks.
Your fiance do most of the cooking but I hope you try to cook some delicious meals for him sometimes just as a thank you and encouragement 😊
Thank you. I try to be kind to him in many ways, but I think cooking for him would be more of a punishment for him than a treat. We have to accept our limitations in life.
I can cook rice quite competently. And toast. And warm up soup. He didn't fall in love with me for my cooking skills. You would have to ask him what the hell possessed him to ask me to marry him. The fool! Lol. (He says I am kind and funny, but I think he means kinda funny, which is not quite the same.)
The first ex Mrs. Big Tom could burn water. She once made an omelette thing that I decided to share with the cat when my wife was up getting more wine. She tried to bury it in the linoleum floor.
Which is when I mostly took over the cooking chores. You see, I love to eat :)
So you understand! However, I can make an omelette. One of the few exceptions. Also, I can provide almost endless amounts of praise and gratitude when someone cooks for me. Genuinely heartfelt!
Ohhhhhh. Pink Chowder.
My ex actually had a dish she could make really well. It was for a clam bisque and her aunt wrote the recipe specifically for her. It really wasn't a recipe so much as two pages of instructions :)
😂 Someone is happy to be early for once, congrats on that dear.
I'm glad you know you could do without calendars but still choose to believe you'd be lost without them... Aren't you just getting me a bit confused here? 🤣 But it's cool though.
Please don't age fast, I want to see you when you're still very young and looking good 😊
What meal takes more than 2hours to prepare? That's a really long time, I might just have to go for snacks waiting for that... Well, glad you found a pressure cooker for it now.
hehhehehe I have a super mixed approach with calendars. During very busy times, it comes handy but once in a while I can put it aside and use memory 😅😆
I find that I take a lot of time with making tender beef stews! It takes a while to get the beef as tender as I want or maybe I am missing some secret tips
I end up eating random snacks and then lose my appetite by the time the dish gets cooked LOL. Welp atleast there will be lots left for the next day
Oh you do agree that that meal takes too much time and one has to settle for snacks first but it's cool you now have pressure cooler to make it faster.
That bubbling stuff... Is that what I think it is? Beef stew
Hhahaha yes it is the bubbling stuff. I found a gif for it. Mine doesn't look exactly the same (I usually add more veggies so it looks colorful)
That looks so sumptuous, I want to eat my screen right now 😋
Screen eating....
Nomnomnomnom...
We have a hot dog overload situation in the comment section 😂.
Situation normal...
F.U.B.A.R...
Oh, early bird!
A little bit or organization keeps a brain working without worries. I get it that memory needs a fail safe from time to time. Is it a paper calendar? Or do you keep it digitally?
Sunscreen? Really? Well, I get it that people around other latitudes do not have a great melanin count. But the anti aging part sounds like a better need for it.
Ain't nothing wrong with being practical and getting stuff done in less time. Pressure cookers seem to be so good. So much that my cousin sent one to grandma so she can prepare stuff without using gas and taking less time. Bad thing she doesn't use it.
😂
I keep it digitally but sometimes I simply write it down on a piece of paper and pray I don't lose it (97% effectiveness guaranteed lol)
Weirdly enough, my face burns but rest of the body tans hehehhe
I did the same thing with my mom. I sent her a pressure cooker but she never ended up using it 🤣. Maybe my mom and your grandma have been conspiring against pressure cookers
Ha, ha, ha. Oh, yeah. I don't write almost anything down because I tend to lose pieces of paper. But I think I should use my calendar more often. I used to when I was working as a VA.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Sound like you are a lovely shrimp! (We say looking like a shrimp to people who get red-face from sun exposure)
Maybe it is. I would definitely have one and use it a lot. Also a rice cooker. And my dreamed kitchen appliance: a stand mixer.
But seems we have a mystery in our hands.
Are you using the aid of a microscope for what you could have been able to see with your eyes? You're so funny 🤣🤣
Not really, we have a little gif game going on, Moon and I. So whenever we can drop a gif to boost our comments, we take the chance! 🤣
Oh really? That sounds so much fun, I wish I could join but... I might wanna go solo 🤣
Ha, ha, ha, ha. You just need to use gifs for your comments. It adds depth to messages, right, @moon-city?
Bring it on!
hey you didn't have to indirectly call me short as well 🤣🤣.
I am sure stand mixers come in handy with all the baking you do. I remember a time when I used to use the good old whisk with my hands. It felt like an arm workout.
Well, I didn't actually know that about you either. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's what I do. My arms are strong from all the woodwork, whisking stuff and playing instruments.
I am sure woodworking and all those other activities have definitely been helping out with arm strength. I shall be putting my whisk to more use.
Keeping the body in shape and cake well-made! 🤣
What are you even talking about? xD
LOL as the saying goes: the way to a person's heart is through their stomach
Via Tenor
Of course, well, also bread as the stand mixer can help get dough ready for it rise.
I said it could be used for that. I would I had to make large quantities. So far, only the old-fashioned way for me. But it's not like I'm making a lot of bread everyday.
Its a mix of both but I do prefer hands on paper notebook a lot more tbh.
Ha, ha, ha. I bet. But I'm the kind of pale latino that gets tanned. 🤣
It's all natural, babe! Ha, ha, ha, ha. I might even get tanned over there. I mean I've got enough melanin on my skin.
I'd like it. My problem with cold and snow is height. Anything more than 4000mts over sea level makes me sick. It would be nice to see snow without feeling like dying. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ahhhhhh. That reminds me: I have an appointment with my dermatologist on Wednesday. To decided where to go next in the removal of bits that seem to have shown up late in life as a result of NOT wearing sunscreen. It just happens to be the only entry on the September page of my calendar :)
Which doesn't mean I don't like your list, I very much do. I just live my life a little differently.
Oh, and let the record show: I love my pressure cooker too!
Hahhaha nothing wrong with a different approach!
I hope the appointment goes smoothly though!
Can't believe that this month is almost coming to its end. I feel like it just started.
I know! I love September because I grew up in 4 seasons country and September meant football and get ready for hunting season. I miss the fall weather.
Oh wow we have a hunter here! What do you usually hunt?
I no longer hunt, about 30 years ago I just decided to quit killing stuff. I'd have probably quit earlier but I had an extraordinary companion in the best dog I've hunted over. So I finished up with pheasant and ducks. But I chased geese and deer and elk earlier.
The fact that I quit shooting stuff not denied, I still identify as a hunter. I was talking to my brother the other day and he said he's done even pretending. The last 10 years he's gone to elk camp and not taken a shot. The other guys really appreciate his cooking...
Hahhahaha the geese here can be very naughty and confident. I remember minding my own business and giving them enough distance but one of them still approached me and we had an episode of a mini chase. There are a lot of them here though. One of my favorite running tracks is full of them.
If he hunted as well as cleaned and cooked the animal then that's quite a lot of work! I remember going fishing and I had the opportunity to clean and cook it but I sat out on the cleaning part 😅. The smell was too strong. I was 12 around that time but maybe if I try fishing again, I think I might be able to manage the whole cleaning and cooking process.
Yeah. If you have running water fish cleaning is pretty painless. Most of my fishing has been stream or river fishing...
My brother said he hasn't taken his rifle out for a couple of years. He just goes for a week of hanging out with his friends. And cooking.
Did you put @galenkp's weekend engagement post on your calendar?
I've pretty much ditched the thing. I have this crazy idea that my brain needs the challenge to stay young. Fortunately, I have so little to do that post-it notes strewn about the house keep me in line.
I don't wear sunscreen! I get out for short bits in the spring to tan my Mediterranean epidermis, and rarely burn. Lucky me!
I want a pressure canner.
Hahahaha this is the one thing I have not put into my calendar. I am forcing myself to not become too heavily reliant on calendars and remember the small things. I will save my calendar for bigger things
I can imagine post-it notes all over your house 🤣🤣. My room used to have it near my bedside table.
Glad you don't burn and speaking of Mediterranean, it is my favorite cuisine hands down.
OOoo somebody is planning on making some canned goodies 😏😏. What would you like to can?
This was my first year to can anything, and I did a bunch of tomatoes. Apparently, to can anything else safely, I need a pressure canner. Next year!
I have post-it notes everywhere. There is some method to where I leave them though. If they are in my purse, they are appointments. If they are on my kitchen table, they are immediate tasks. If they are on my desk, I almost never get to them. lol
Hey you are making good progress! I haven't tried canning but I want to try canning kimchi (fermented vegetables).
I like your method. There is structure to it!
Happy canning
I keep buying cabbage to make kimchii and never getting around to it. It's really very easy!!! Do it! And let me know how it turns out. I've fermented many other things, and only one batch didn't taste good, so you pretty much can't go wrong.
All different colors and sizes!!! Some of them are in play for so long they get tattered edges, and smudged ink. But I can't throw one away until the task written on it is done. Or written on a new post it note. That's my system. It works actually. I rarely miss a deadline.
Given up on post-it notes, got too many... forgot to read them!
lol. I at least have to leaf through them, since I leave them strewn about my kitchen table and desk, and stuffed into my purse. One of the ones in my purse has the task "clean purse" on it. I leave myself little jokes to brighten my days.
😅😂🤣that pressure cooker caught my attention more as I feel you're such a foodie. You know, women or ladies won't do away with food, their live for the kitchen is second to none.
Hhahahaha I used to hate cooking before but I am trying to get back into it more 😂. Thank you for stopping by!
I used to hate it too. Later, when I had need of food but no one to cook, I learned to cook, preparing my recipe and making it special. Cooking can be fun.
Plan your days on the calendar (no time wasted), calendar has a big note not to forget sunscreen (fair skin and sun never go well together), back to the calendar to remind you to buy braised beef pieces, time to pull out the pressure cooker (appears you work to the calendar!).
Good for you you made it early too... must have been noted on the calendar, perhaps I should try that too 😄
Hahhahaha Joan I was in a bit of a luck to have landed here earlier without the help of the calendar 🤣. I love how you placed little lessons after each sentence! I am looking forward to finding your response to the qs galenkp posted. It might be a bit tough since there are toooo many comments around here 😅
LOL I can imagine you rocking one on the streets 🤣🤣.
Pressure cooker burns can be quite dangerous since it lets off steam.