Drusas

Anniversary? It’s not even available yet as far as I’m concerned.

Similarly, I enjoyed cheap sake until I had expensive sake. I was better off before!

Similar for me, except I’m just an avid home cook. I can make so many things better at home that I won’t eat them anywhere else anymore.

I developed a neurological condition which caused me to have a significantly lower tolerance to spicy foods suddenly. So sad.

Bird-watching is very relaxing and surprisingly engaging. You get to know your local birds as individuals with personalities. It’s pretty neat.

Slightly more active, but not by much, raising native bees is low effort and it can be enjoyable to watch the bees go about their business in your garden or yard, assuming you have flowers. In fact, once you get the bees, you might become more interested in gardening because you need to get some nice flowers for the bees, naturally.

You could do like I’ve done–raise native bees. I don’t know where you are, but in my area, mason bees and leafcutter bees are both native, solitary species. This means that they don’t create hives but rather nest in holes/tubes. There’s no queen. No honey. Very little work compared to keeping honeybees and better for the environment (assuming honeybees are not native to your area).

As a bonus, if you grow any plants, they make great pollinators. And when you first get the bees and they emerge from their cocoons, they are tiny and adorable and a joy to watch. They’re also very passive and almost never sting.

Not for everything! I find that hobbies which are based around nature tends to have very welcoming and helpful communities online. Gardening, bird watching, hydroponics, that sort of thing.

Mildly?

I’ve been happy with Coway.

I live in the US, where a ton of people are diabetic, so they need to limit their intake of refined carbs like pasta. It’s not inherently unhealthy.

Agree with the congee. When I’ve been really sick and unable to cook or eat, I’ve just added some carrots and chicken broth in the rice cooker (still easy in a pot if you don’t have a rice cooker).

Pasta isn’t particularly healthy, but it’s not bad in moderation.

Soondubu, doenjang jigae (I add gochujang for some spice). Both Korean soups.

Local arboretum and other gardens are nice. Parks. Boating, if the weather is right for it.

I wouldn’t be recommending insurance, but I also think you have to be a pretty bad person to work for a health insurance company.

Wouldn’t that be a drastic step down in terms of pay?

When I was reading that, a friend noticed and asked what it was about. Oh boy.

I had to pause for a moment before I could respond. I wish I could remember exactly what I said, but all I remember now is that it involved the phrase “monster jizz”. His reaction was priceless. Apparently he never expected to hear such a phrase from me.

I randomly get the Black Phillip song in my head and then feel that I need to watch the movie again.

Voted the scariest movie of all time! At least by one study.

I was surprised by how much I liked In the Tall Grass. I think I’ve seen it thrice by now.

Appreciated, but learning to live with it is the saner course.