Emchap's Shit from the Internet 02/23/22 š
Two exciting things happened for me outside of work this week: I paid some nice people to paint my house and I deadlifted 135 lbs for the first time. (And only my second time deadlifting with the bar!)
The painting is exciting because now all the walls are a) different colors other than ārenter beigeā and b) no longer have weird holes over all the doors; itās the first time Iāve paid people to paint a space I live in and I am staggered at how much better at it they are than me. I shouldnāt be surprised, of courseāskilled labor is skilledābut holy shit itās so much nicer and it only took them two days to paint the whole place. And now I am able to live my dreams of having a pink living room!
The deadlift is exciting because 135 lbs means I can now put on grown-up full-sized metal plates on the bar rather than bumper plates, and also because 135 lbs is a large dog or small adultās worth of shit to pick off the ground, and thatās cool! (I was also able to squat 105 and bench 60, which are not as exciting but are definitely amounts of weight I couldnāt have moved four months ago.) My trainer was like āthatās a big milestone for people!ā when I seemed I think insufficiently excited, but I suspect she was confusing ānot excitedā with āholy fuck I want to dieā which is my emotional state for a minute or two after doing anything heavy in a mask. (I mean it would be my stance regardless, but still.)
Work has been stressful and the pandemic is still happening and everything is bad, so Iām taking my joy where I can get it, and right now thatās in concrete physical change. I can lift a heavy thing. My walls are a different color. Things could be worse.
Shit to read
Enjoyed this piece about guards at a museum serving as curators for a new exhibit.
More people should coparent with friends idk seems more stable than the other options.
In case you want to be very mad at Japan and some dipshit at Harvard. (cw sexual assault, itās a piece about comfort women.)
Iām living my lowest potential.
I too enjoyed the wikipedia high five photo family.
Shit to eat
Buy cottage cheese.
Put a third of the container of cottage cheese into a bowl.
Toss in some jam.
Lastlyāthis is importantāsprinkle on a pinch of salt. Itās worse without the pinch of salt.
Enjoy, feeling slightly like Miss Muffett, curled up in bed.
Shit to watch
Please everyone send me your Love Is Blind feelings.
Shit to buy
This cable cover system which I didnāt even know was a THING.
Cottage cheese, see above.