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Rebellious girls in the 1920s wanted to anger and shock their Victorian-era parents, so not only would they bare their knees with short dresses, but they would also paint pictures to make sure an onlooker didn’t miss their risque hem length. Rolled stockings became a fad with the shorter hemlines, and girls would go get roses, butterflies, ocean scenes, or their dogs’ faces painted on their knees to further push their boundaries. Much like with most makeup in women’s history, this wasn’t just an act of creativity, but an assertion of independence. After World War I, more women gained financial independence with work, broke away from chaperoned parlor dates, and became a part of the public by walking the city streets without a guardian. The new generation felt a need to express this clear break from the old era of Gibson Girls and Victorian women, and they did so with the help of paint and knee rouge. “Because of rolled stockings and short skirts they, like their fair owners, are emancipated,” The San Francisco Examinershared in 1925. The girls were no longer wearing the oppressive corsets of the previous generation, which is partly why rolled stockings became a fad — there was nowhere to clip their hosiery to.

Painted knees were also an experiment in owning sexuality. Rouged knees would seem flushed (hinting at sex,) and painted knees would bring attention to body parts that were stigmatized just a few short decades back. But these moments of self-rule were oftentimes punished, as students in Ohio Northern learned in 1925. Girls had been drawing roses on their knees, and the dean called an emergency meeting to get them to stop. “It was intimated that some of the professors had not been able to do their best work owing to the profusion of knees in certain classes, that it is difficult for a mere male instructor to think of the Einstein theory, for example, with a tastefully decorated knee — well, staring him in the face, as it were,” The San Francisco Examiner wrote. The fad eventually fell out of vogue, but it resurfaced again in the 1960s — during an era where skirts rose in hemline, women pushed for independence, and embraced their sexual freedom once more. Painted knees were the perfect compliment to mini-skirts and Bermuda shorts, and a student interviewed for The News in 1966 said that she painted her knees so often that she could “put it on faster than face makeup.” (source)

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meal planning with adhd

are you an adult who has to make your own food? do you find planning meals to be one of the hardest parts of adulting? do you find yourself going to the grocery store and coming back with barely anything useful because you didn’t have a plan? then i may have something you can try!

**TL;DR: make a meal rotation! choose healthy but realistic options, and have easy alternate meals for the days when you CAN’T bring yourself to make whatever is next in rotation. make the rotation long enough that you won’t get bored of the meals. periodically include “something new” to push yourself outside your comfort zone.**

what is a meal rotation? it’s just a list of meals that you go through sequentially.

the main draw of meal rotations is that you don’t have to THINK. you are told what to make every day - this removes the executive functioning barrier to planning meals. it helps with groceries - you use the list to determine what groceries to buy, so then you always have the right ingredients available for the meals you have planned.

i’ve come up with a few extra ideas to make meal rotations work better for adhders or anyone else with executive functioning difficulties. use what works for you, and disregard what doesn’t!

#1. have easy alternates. sometimes your brain won’t let you make whatever is next in rotation, even if you bought all of the ingredients for it on your last grocery run. maybe you just don’t have time. that’s ok! alternates are quick, easy meals you can usually make with whatever you have lying around. my go-tos are nachos, french toast, and canned fish, but i have a whole bunch on my alternates list. alternates don’t have to be super healthy - boxed mac & cheese is fine if it gets the job done. alternates can also be fast food or delivery.

#2. make meal ideas realistic. include meals that you enjoy and that aren’t too much work for you on an average day. don’t include meals you don’t like or you know will be way too much work, because these are huge executive barriers.

#3. make meal ideas healthy. if you write “pasta with vegetables” instead of just “pasta”, you’ll be way more likely to eat vegetables - that’s just how our brains work. try including meals (that you enjoy) that incorporate vegetables and protein in them.

#4. have extra lists. easy ways to get extra calories if you find your meal hasn’t filled you up. (hopefully this will let you choose something healthier than half a pack of oreos.) easy ways to get extra protein if you struggle with that, or extra vegetables if your meal didn’t have any. whatever you need ideas for, make an extra list. these don’t have to be rotations, you can just pick whatever you want from them.

#5. make the rotation long enough that you won’t get bored. i get bored of eating the same thing over and over and it makes me not want to eat. make it long enough that that doesn’t happen.

#6. include “something new” at least once in the rotation. this is again to keep you from getting bored. i personally follow a bunch of food blogs, and i save recipes that look good so when i get to “something new” i have stuff to pick from. sometimes cooking new things goes horribly wrong, but sometimes it goes great and you can add a new meal to your rotation!

#7. don’t continue to the next meal in rotation if you still have leftovers. i like to make meals in big batches that will last me 2-3 days. i’ll eat the same thing until it’s done before moving on to the next meal - otherwise my leftovers will go bad.

#8. mix up the order. if you’ve been through the rotation a few times and the order is starting to get too familiar/boring, change it up. also, try to space out similar meals - e.g. don’t put 5 rice-based meals in a row.

#9. if you have favourites, you can include them twice!

as a final note i encourage everyone to check out this book called Cooking is Terrible by Misha Fletcher. it has lots of ideas for easy, mostly healthy meals that you can make in 10-15 minutes, and the writing style is witty and hilarious. not sponsored or anything, i just like this book! (it’s only $5+!)

if you struggle with executive functioning and also do meal rotation, feel free to add your strategies! 

Nothing to add, I just want to emphasize a point OP said, that your alternative meals for days you can’t function enough to cook don’t have to be healthy. It’s very easy to get stuck in dysfunctional ruts for hours just staring at the floor if you’re worrying about eating well but not able to do so and your brain is telling you you must eat before you can proceed with your day. Try your best to accept that sometimes you’ll have to eat convenience food with less than optimal nutritional value, and that’s okay. Your body needs the fuel of food first and foremost before you can do anything else, it’s better to eat junk than to eat nothing and not function all day because you’re foggy from hunger! This was how I started cooking again during my ongoing depression/executive dysfunction rut - accepting food as fuel first and foremost and just meeting my calorie requirements before I worried about nutrients and vitamins and such. It stopped me missing as many meals and gave me more energy to cook, and I discovered easy foods that I could spring board full meals off of with a bit of extra cooking.

Oh yeah actually I will add, embrace convenience in your cooking. Get frozen vegetables if you can’t make yourself boil or steam fresh ones. Get the pre-diced chicken or bacon if meat prep is a barrier for you. This often ups the cost of your meals however I’m someone who defaults to takeout on days I can’t function so I actually end up saving money doing this. I was brought up to believe using frozen/pre-packaged food or meal shake powders was bad and lazy but it’s not true - there’s nothing wrong with doing what you have to do to get your nutrition.

fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them

artistic rendition

All capital letters should have a leveled-up form

So far I’ve got

Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!

New alphabet dropped!

oh my god, it’s beautiful

(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )

well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)

But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it! 

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this is a pathologic ass song 

The Chemical Worker’s Song. Not far off our current days’ wage slave experience. I’m telling you, you need Union Songs.

Sailors aboard a ship used to hum to warn the captain they were THIS close to a mutiny and didn’t like conditions AT ALL. Because humming was something others could keep doing when you stopped. Anyone comes close you stop, but the hum of the rest keeps on and they can’t prove who, exactly, is doing it.

Just saying.

Sea shanties are a gateway drug to work/labour songs of all kinds, labour songs always end up including union songs, and that’s how you end up extremely hardcore for organised labour.

And if people want more information, this particular song is called “The Chemical Worker’s Song (Process Man)”, written by the Canadian folk group Great Big Sea.

Sea shanties and labour songs are an active tradition! Are you pissed? Sing about it.

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Off to Mars

Perseverance Rover was successfully launched this morning (Thursday July 30, 2020) with a stowaway onboard. Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will keep Perseverance company on the trip in anticipation of a successful landing on the Red Planet this coming February.

HELICOPTER ON MARS!!!!!!! HELICOPTER ON MARS!!!!!!!!!

fun fact that many people do not know, princess tiana is real!