We tend to want a Christian life with the dull bits cut out. Yet God made us to spend our days in rest, work, and play, taking care of our bodies, our families, our neighborhoods, our homes. What if all these boring parts matter to God? What if days passed in ways that feel small and insignificant to us are weighty with meaning and part of the abundant life that God has for us?
i saw someone talking about wanting to meal plan and I’m very passionate about the fact that if you aren’t living like its the great depression ur in for one hell of a ride. you can also see where i decided to post this and changed my handwriting and my dumb abbreviations lol
Step One: take inventory, you need to know what you have. i like to take pics of the fridge and freezer and tally up from there instead of keeping them open
Step Two: check ur local grocery store for sales, pick some meals based around whats on sale. start with meats. sale meat then sale produce if u you can. I typically do 3 chicken meals, 2-3 pork meals, and only 1-2 beef meals.
Step Three: Make ur shopping list with what. you need. no more “oooh yummy yummy” and you end up with $50 of crap that’s gonna rot in the fridge. I also put thing i like to keep on hand, milk, potatoes, taco shells, tallow, i want bulk pizza for emergency meals, bulk parma jean
then put it into ur phone list, sort by store and then section and ur done. congrats. life is about to go get both easier and harder, but cheaper
Bonus:
sams cards are worth thier weight in gold
I plan my lunches for the week as well
every weekend we try to make at least one bulk meal, and do some prep work for the week. in this case we are marinating and freezing some butter chicken, making a full Shepard’s pie, and I’m gonna make the orange chicken sauce ahead of time
Tiger lilies always like to ‘dress to impress’ 'and this clump at the entrance of a local golf course is putting on quite a show. This cultivar “Splendens” has been bred for heavy flowering and can produce up to twenty-five blooms a season from a single stalk! If you plant three of them, the bulbs will reproduce sideways and you’ll have a show garden full of tiger lilies in about ten years time.
The scientific name of the tiger lily used to be Lilium tigrinum, which makes sense because tigris is Latin for tiger. However it was later discovered that an earlier botanist had named this species Lilium lancifolium from the Latin lancea (“lance”) + folium (“leaf”). In the hothouse world of botanical taxonomy. precedence matters, and (seriously) naming rights can make or break a botanist’s career. Not that these beautiful tiger lilies, basking in the afternoon sunshine, really give a hoot about what botanists call them.
Not parasocial love nor parasocial hate but a secret third thing where I respect the celebrity for their talents and achievements while acknowledging that I do not have a personal relationship with them and that they are a human with flaws
Thank you for acknowledging that parasocial hate is just as weird as parasocial love. You don’t know them. Stop speculating about them actually being horrible.