#morfinwen rambles

[morfinwen]

For a variety of reasons, i am trying to eat healthier and make more food at home, but i hate cooking. Unfortunately, we go through bread very fast in this house, and i'm not one of those people who can eat the same meal every single day with minimal variation, so i need options.

Please send me your easiest, simplest, 4-6 ingredients max, recipes. Health benefits appreciated but not required, only restrictions are no fish, no "solo" eggs*, and not spicy.

*Basically, no scrambled eggs, omelets, fried, over-easy, etc. Just imagine the eggs are flour -- you wouldn't want to eat a flour omelet, but bread or chicken made with flour is fine.

All responses appreciated. <3 I am extremely fortunate to have the food options i have in general, and any further suggestions to narrow down the abundance of choices in front of me is above and beyond what most people have had throughout history, so i really appreciate it.

[morfinwen]

Last week, i went in to have three permanent crowns placed, two on the left side of my mouth, one on the right. On Sunday, the right-side one came loose. On Monday, i called the dentist, got an appointment that day, and had it put back.

Guess what just came out today!! The same one!! I didn't think french fries were that hard on your teeth, but apparently it's too much for this crown.

I called the dentist office again, but i told them i wanted to speak to the dentist because i don't want to keep going in for it to be replaced and needing to come back again every few days, i want to know what's going to be different so it doesn't happen again.

Prayers please, that i would know what to say to the dentist and how hard to push without being rude or demanding, that an actual solution will be found, that it won't be much pricier than i've already had to pay, and anything else you can think of. I was sick of this a week ago, i don't want to think about it any more.

[morfinwen]

I really should stick with this job, but if i have another week like last, it's going to take all my willpower just to avoid quitting on the spot.

I'm being hyperbolic, of course, but it would be difficult to overstate how badly having to wake up before 6am for three straight days messed up my schedule. I tried going to bed early and waking up early so that i could have my 'free time' in the morning rather than cutting it short to go to bed, and that didn't help either.

And i found out that Freeport, a.k.a. The Worst Site of Them All, starts at 6:30am now, which means i'd need to wake up at 4:30am to get there on time. And i cannot overstate how much I Don't Want to Do That.

Overall this is still one of the best jobs i've had, but there's always room for things to be better. So if you've read all this, if you could pray that things would work out -- whether that means getting an onsite position instead of this multi-site one (best option?), or applying for another job (still tempted to do so, but probably won't without a clear indication that i should), or just not get assigned to the "bad" sites, at least not very often. Appreciate it.

[morfinwen]

TRICK OR TREAT!!

Take one:

[morfinwen]

the new tumblr game, pt. 2

Morfinwen's Book Tumblr Nonsense

second verse, same as the first, more or less. hard in a different way than the movies, which is interesting.

You know the drill

0 - 😧

1-10 - 🤨

11-30 - 🙂

31-60 - 😊

61-90 - 😀

91-100 - 😍

Voting ended onApr 3, 2025

[morfinwen]

the new tumblr game, pt.1

Morfinwen's Movie Tumblr Nonsense

probably going to wake up in a cold sweat six months from now, wondering HOW i could've forgotten [x], but what can you do?

Wasn't going to do this initially, and yet...

Please appreciate this list, it took me a long time to come up with 100 movies i'm willing to concede to liking.

How many have you seen?

0 - Wow.

1-10 - You're even pickier than i am, or possibly from a different planet.

11-30 - Respectable.

31-60 - Our circles probably overlap in some fashion

61-90 - Are we related?

91-100 - Wow.

Voting ended onApr 3, 2025

[morfinwen]

Vent post incoming.

I don't think i have ever hated the necessity of eating more.

I've never been one of those people who would say they love to eat. Pizza or ice cream might motivate me to do something i would not otherwise do, but i wouldn't be excited about the prospect. There are foods that i like, but none that i regularly experience cravings for.

That doesn't mean i don't have preferences -- sadly, i do. I want my potatoes fried and my bread as white as possible. I prefer red meat to white and have yet to find a fish i can tolerate. There are a few green vegetables i like, but not enough to seek them out or prefer them to alternatives. I would subsist off of carbs and sugar if i could.

Over the past few months, i have spent an absurd amount of money paying for fast food delivery, and it has made the situation much worse. No fast food restaurant sounds particularly appealing anymore, and what little tolerance i have for cooking or even assembling my own food has been eroded. I canceled my subscription but have already caved and ordered more several times because as overpriced and unappealing as it is to order food, it is the only thing that i can halfway tolerate sometimes.

My inability to use regular or even lactose-free milk in some circumstances is only making things worse. In the past, i could use cereal as a last resort, now i can't even do that.

I don't know what to do. Fresh vegetables are hard to finish off before they go bad and require constant resupply, but freezer space is limited and it would be difficult to overstate how much i hate even the idea of cooking. I specifically requested and received a rice cooker for Christmas and have never personally used it even once. I'd go without, but that's probably unhealthy, and i'm currently taking a medication that requires me to eat twice a day.

[morfinwen]

Pick one of my favorite songs from the albums we played over and over again when i was a kid

The Mountain - Steven Curtis Chapman, Heaven in the Real World

How Long - Michael Card, Joy in the Journey

Oh How the Years Go By - Amy Grant, House of Love

Driving Nails - Bruce Carroll, Richest Man in Town

Salvation Army Band - Phil Keaggy, True Believers

The Joy of the Lord - Twila Paris, Sanctuary

God So Loved the World - Glad, The Acapella Collection

Prone to Wander - Chris Rice, Deep Enough to Dream

Voting ended onApr 17, 2024

Shout out to that one bluegrass album: i'm not sure i'd like you any more now that i'm an adult, but i'm sure hearing one of your songs would send me right back to grade school.

I've wanted to do this poll for a while. Why? I have no idea, but here it is so maybe my brain will shut up about it.

Songs underneath the cut.

^ Not really my style at first, but then you hit that fourth verse (terminology?) and wow!

^ This one hurts.

My favorite from the album from the beginning, though as a kid i misheard the line "salvation army band" as "salvation oughta be banned" and didn't understand why my mom was listening to it.

^ I didn't have a distinct memory of this one until i was adding it to my Spotify playlist. When i heard it again, i had to replay it at least once.