gIt always seems impossible until it is doneh
It also has a way longer shelf life than regular milk, which is wonderful.
No more going sour after a matter of days.
Soy is "fine", but for coffee I like oat milk more. Doesn't taste like actual milk, but it's good in its own way.
>>53
Mmm, that's fair. Maybe I should give oat milk another chance.
It was one of the better ones.
Pretty sure it was cheaper, too.
I should put some music on.
All I can hear is the hum of the dehumidifier.
I'm so glad I got that dehumidifier.
I've had horrible problems with mould growing on the walls every winter for the past few years.
That seems to have stopped since getting it, though.
Well, I only got it a few weeks ago, so it might be too early to say for sure.
Mould is disgusting.
Sometimes I wonder if I should try creating "art". A video series, animation, game or something like that.
I hate it.
Pretty sure it's awful for your lungs, too.
Remember to start small.
Perhaps a simple little text adventure or something.
Creating art can be really therapeutic.
It's a nice way to connect with other people, too.
Or just to work through things yourself.
I know a lot of people write just to get their feelings out, and then never share it with anyone.
That's fair enough, but it does seem like a shame.
I mean, some of my early writing was... not good.
It does make me cringe just remembering some of it.
But I'm not ashamed of it, it helped me to get better.
So yeah, I guess you don't have to share your first few creative works.
But appreciate them for what they are.
>>37 You are welcome to, no one needs to gleth you post anything. I'm happy to read any wise musing or retarded opinion or hollow brainfart shared with the Elitist Superstructure, because you're here for a reason
Please.
That'd at least get us on track.
>>60 I have a some hidden mould too, I wonder if that's what's making me cough all the time
Biscuits are nice.
I want some biscuits...
I don't like coffee, though.
I've had a gpersistent coughh and been gself-isolatingh for a few years
>>86,91
Yeah, you should definitely do something about that mould.
I had something similar, I kept getting horrible respiratory infections every winter.
I miss those Echo biscuits, white bubbly chocolate on a chocolate biscuit stick, wrapped in milk chocolate
Haven't caught one yet this year, and I really hope I don't.
Anyway, you should be able to buy some mould spray in any decent sized shop.
That'll get rid of the mould for now, but it won't prevent it coming back.
Make sure you ventilate your room occasionally, and try to avoid leaving furniture/stuff right up against the walls.
Especially outward facing walls.
Most of my writing for the past few years has been introspective diary stuff... which is nice purely because it's easy to write about, but has probably been at least slightly harmful for my ability to write things that others are going to read.
1/10th of the way there!
I called the doctor earlier in the year about why I was coughing all the time, and he saw from my medical record I was a smoker, so he started to give me the spiel about health risks from smoking cigarettes. It sounded well-rehearsed
Oh, also, if the mould appears near the ceiling, you should maybe check on the roof.
Missing roof tiles or things like that can cause moisture to get in that way.
That's when I said actually doctor, I haven't smoked a cigarette for months, buuuut I do have a bong in the afternoon then one at night. That's when he started laughing
>>100
That's okay, there's nothing wrong with that style of writing.
A lot of really interesting famous works are in that kind of style, like Crime and Punishment.
>>104 I did indeed have holes in the roof, at the front and back, which just got fixed last week!
That said, if you're unhappy with just writing that sort of thing, then you can always branch out.
I noticed I was writing a lot of introspective, single character pieces, so I challenged myself to write a short story that was mostly dialogue.
>>64 Do it! If it's from the heART then it's beyond criticism!
I also noticed I wrote a lot of pieces where nothing really "happens" as such, so I wrote a cute fantasy adventure short story.
I mean, I say "cute", but the protagonist does die horribly alone, deep underground and hopeless.
Well, they don't explicitly die, but things are definitely not looking positive for them.
JUICE
>>109
Hopefully if you get rid of the mould that's already there, it shouldn't come back, then.
I wonder if I have something wrong with the roof here.
It's me, Mo-Dean!
It would explain why the mould is so persistent.
And why it seems worse in damp weather.
I did, after months of nagging, persuade my piece-of-shit landlord to get it checked out, but apparently the roofer couldn't find anything wrong with the roof.
Ehh, whatever.
Hopefully the dehumidifier will sort it anyway.
My room is such a mess.
I really need to tidy...
I'm fullery erect
Usually I'd be dumping most of this stuff off at a charity shop, but I don't think any are open at present due to lockdown.
Guess I'll just bag stuff up and leave it in a closet until things open again.
I told my landlord my toilet was broken and there's a leak in the roof, so he said he'd send someone to fix them. When the slater came, he was really confused when I started telling him about my broken toilet
Uh, what was I talking about?
I forgot already.
Oh right, writing.
The leak in the roof destroyed my iMac packaging. Oh well, just a box!
Yeah, it's good to push yourself a little out of your comfort zone occasionally.
It's fine to have a particular style, or topic, that you're especially good at, or especially enjoy writing about.
But it's no good if you get yourself stuck in a rut.
All that said, if you don't feel up to making anything creative these days, that'd be totally understandable.
God knows I don't.
Unfortunately, making creative stuff is a coping mechanism that kind of requires you to already be in a relatively good place to use.
Perhaps it's more of a way of maintaining good mental health, rather than improving mental health when it's already bad.
Don't buy into the "tortured artist" bullshit.
Being depressed doesn't cause you to make better art.
In 99% of cases, it causes you to be unable to make art at all.
At least that's my experience, and that of most people I know who produce art.
My captcha is cafe, how cute.
I miss going to cafés...
It's not like I did it more than once or twice a year, but even so.
I really hope my favourite tearoom survives lockdown.
I think I made better art when I was depressed, or I was more prolific at least...