#doing chores

[ratdog-thing]

disability be like:

listen to my wonderful innovative plan that consists of 129 steps and which has a goal of cleaning my animals' litter box

[welldigger62]

Stuck inside 🙁

It’s still raining here, but now it’s a light misty rain.

Being as the cleaning fairy never showed up last night, I have been doing vacuuming, mopping and other fun stuff. 😬

Someone has to do it and I’m the only one here

[suddenlyasoftdoe]

So this doe has been thinking quite a lot these past days, especially during its daily journalling sessions.

It has become easier to not fall back into the trap of anxiously filling its time with distractions and "events" just to be (or appear to be) busy. To appear relevant and in control of its life.

Instead it began seeing its days as blocks of enjoyable moments with "empty time" in-between. Like one block is an hour of gaming, another is a twenty minute work-out, another a nice trip to the city.

It strives now to include about two such "blocks" into every day while deliberately leaving the time in-between empty. As in "time that needs not to be filled", time that does not need to matter.

Doing this has made life so much easier as it took a lot of unnecessary stress off of this doe's shoulders. Thinking of time not as a constant stream that needs to be filled to the brim, but as a series of event blocks and empty spaces, has lessened its anxiety a lot!

It also noticed that it gets much more done when it doesn't plan for it - like it did a lot of chores at home this weekend which it deliberately didn't schedule this time. But once there was no pressure anymore, it actually did most of those things on the side, in its "empty time".

[milniar-problemsolved]

I did TWO chores yesterday AND made cookies and today I've mended THREE pairs of pants so they won't lay around on my floor and gather dust and be usable instead!!

wahoo!!! I'm being so Productive! It's amazing!

[homeiswherethewitchcraftis]

Children need chores, they need responsibility in order to learn and develop necessary skills. I am so sick of the way young people are framing any kind of chore as abuse.

Having to run the sweeper isnt slave labor and being asked to babysit your little sibling doesn't make you "basically a second mom"

Also your parents dont have to pay you to do chores.

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Today I'm trying to keep myself from making more dresses by doing household chores. Like creating Tumblr's favorite substance, on account of how we only have a tablespoon or so of it left in the house.

Step one: acquire the finest German vodka you can find for under six euros and (optional) filter it to remove a bit of the harshness. Repeat (or not) for up to three times. You'll lose some volume, but you're not getting all the vodka back in anyway, and this was not the biggest economic investment, so that's okay.

Step two: while the bottle is empty, get out 8-14 of the cheapest vanilla beans you can find on the day of making and halve them. No need to scrape anything.

Step three: place bean halves in the empty vodka bottle.

Step four: put vodka back in bottle with the beans in it. (Optional: absolutely forget what you said earlier about not all of it fitting in the bottle anymore and cover your kitchen in cheap booze.) Tightly recap bottle.

Step five: if you're the tidy type or have spilled vodka over your entire kitchen counter, have a bit of a tidy up before vigorously shaking the capped bottle until the clear liquid is slightly tinted brown.

Step six: (not optional) clearly label your creation and place in fridge. Shake occasionally for the next 6-12 weeks (the more vanilla beans you used, the quicker it'll be done), before removing vanilla pods and using as storebought vanilla extract.

[soapver4]

Romance Mushrooms Statistics

Platform Bubble: Pile on the foam! A store of nerve-soothing appliances that turn never-ending housework into a fantasy game à la the healing, humbling psychofantasy drama Eternal Night Star River, which cheesy official English title captures neither the humanistic significance nor the poetic quality of the native title's allusion to a transmigrating soul lighting up a stream of bright spots in [spoiler caution] another wandering soul's life. By the way, let's spell it out for this really unobvious instance: Romance Mushrooms Statistics is the renegades headquarters' store's name.

The store concept hails from the series' denouement: All along you probably think that the percentage values shown by mushroom-like dust demons as part of the in-show conquest game foisted onto the corporate-rat-trapped-in-novel heroine are the percentages of her its snarky demon-catcher hero loves, when in reality they are the degrees to which he is willing to do all that is necessary for her. The final push [spoiler] completing the dizzying journey from -200% to 100% is his newfound self-love that gives him the confidence to take a literal plunge back to real life for her, giving up his world guardian identity and magical powers and waking up as a bespectacled convalescent so that he, the novel's author, can rewrite the desolate ending.

Each appliance features a progress bar which mushy but hopefully motivational readings ranging from "-200% In Love" to "100% In Love" speak to the mundane reality of spousal and familial love, to the heroism we need more immediately from romantic partners than other forms of heroism most of the time. Users can set a frequency at which they aspire to operate the appliance (e.g. clothes washing once a week, dishwashing every 24 hours) and a buffer time window (e.g. one hour from an expected dishwashing time of 9 pm). The readings drop from 100% to 0% as the time window closes, and rise from 0% to 100% as appliances complete their runs, operate continuously or discontinuously for some aggregate amount of time (in the case of appliances like stoves), or get filled up (in the case of appliances like vacuum cleaners). Readings drop below 0% when appliances are damaged or under-maintained. The bars and numbers are rendered of course in sparkly bubbles. Lean into the mush!

Appliances are also renamed as follows:

Stove → Tummy counselor-demon academy (Remember? Not all demons are bad.)

Oven → Crust aroma demon abode

Dishwasher → Grub illusion demon slayer

Clothes washer → Fabric demon bathhouse

Clothes dryer → Water demon reincarnator

Vacuum cleaner → Dust demon herder

Buttons of the appliances are styled as images of spiffy, neat gray talismans like those in the story. The thematic approach can be extended to button captions too by, for example, rewriting the Start button as Begin Spell. All designs must be tweaked or discarded, however, where they compromise legibility or safety. Red emergency stop buttons will not be touched by invisibility spells anytime soon.

The mystical feel can be enhanced further, while maintaining sleek, clean looks in general, by selectively decorating side panels, vacuum suction pipes and appliance outlines with subdued depictions of the iridescent, gassy energy streams [spoiler] our bumbling but ultimately brave heroine learns to wield in the game to protect the many people she loves. Translucent, glassy panels or stripes are adopted where possible in incorporating these depictions. It is a buoyant balance between emotional immersion and practical functionality, just as the screen protagonists, tragic side characters turned power couple in the game, lift up and fight alongside each other.

To up the motivation factor, songs from Eternal Night Star River (can't we just forget the other title?) and other ancient romantic fantasy series are played, under licensing deals, from each appliance as it is put to use. New songs can be downloaded over the years to keep experiences fresh.

If all that sounds too fluffy and mawkish to you, here's mathematics to the rescue. Users have the additional option of downloading regular podcasts about mathematical ideas in ecology onto the appliances. Sample episodes: J-shaped (exponential) growth versus S-shaped (logistic) growth in microbial "demon" populations depending on resource limitations, density-dependent egg production of giant intestinal roundworm "demons," count distribution (specifically, the nature of Poisson distribution) of bacterial "demons" in diluted cell cultures. You'll at least want them for your little future Charles Darwins as they help out with the chores.

One downside of these appliances is their higher energy consumption. We need those next-generation solar roof tiles. What we also need: soul transmigration into some tech billionaire's life story to speedily make the store a reality. That's a new-year resolution: Scout for a mossy stone panda.

[emoji-ijome]

Nonverbal Emojis pt.1

Statuses and what you're doing

AFK (away from keyboard) | DNI (do not interact) | IWC (interact with care/caution) Doing chores | Focused; slow replies | Doing homework DNI Driving | Online | Ping for attention

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