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muccamukk :
1) libraries
In college, the library had these amazingly comfortable armchairs, and I would grab a book from the shelf and put it on my lap and read it and fall asleep and wake up still reading it and it was THE BEST and doing that with the Kojiki is legit one of my favorite memories from 4th year of college.
Nowadays we often take Rutabaga to the local library where there's a ton of children's books and a little puppet theater for the kids and it's an absolutely adorable place. I still miss the quiet of the armchair, though. (I really don't like interacting with other humans, it turns out)
2) growing plants
It's kind of amazing that sunlight plus water plus dirt makes plants grow??? We have a very small patch of dirt, which is currently covered in ivy, but maybe soon it won't be? It'd be cool to plant something there (b/c everything grows in California), but also, there's a lot of shade, a lot of squirrels, and a lot of ivy, so .... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
3) breakfast
I haven't really had breakfast since I was 7 or 8. I think 8 was the age when my parents were like "okay, we found a walking-to-school buddy for you, so now it's your job to wake up early enough to go to school, we're gonna sleep in." And I made the very reasonable decision that the extra minutes of sleep were waaaay more important than having breakfast. I think it also helped that my parents weren't aware of the existence of cereal, so breakfast would either mean mom making 粥 (jook) from scratch, or dad microwaving some rice in some water from the night before, and it turns out ... I actually hate hot soggy rice???? Oh, sometimes mom made 花卷 and that was yummy and I'd totally grab one on the way out, but those occasions were rare.
I think there was a short period in high school when I discovered the existence of cereal and I'd have Corn Pops every morning. But then dad pointed out that they were really expensive, plus I wanted to sleep in.
And then when I first started living with Hoosband, he'd make breakfast every morning, because breakfast is his favorite meal. We'd have eggs and miso soup and cereal and toast..... until I told him, "honey, I'm glad you like breakfast, but I just want to roll out of bed as late as possible and start the day." Nowadays, my current school has free toast, so around 10:30am, after I finish my first class, I go downstairs and get a wheat toast with butter and honey. By that point I would have been up for ~4 hours, so I'm not sure if that counts as breakfast.
muccamukk :1) libraries
In college, the library had these amazingly comfortable armchairs, and I would grab a book from the shelf and put it on my lap and read it and fall asleep and wake up still reading it and it was THE BEST and doing that with the Kojiki is legit one of my favorite memories from 4th year of college.
Nowadays we often take Rutabaga to the local library where there's a ton of children's books and a little puppet theater for the kids and it's an absolutely adorable place. I still miss the quiet of the armchair, though. (I really don't like interacting with other humans, it turns out)
2) growing plants
It's kind of amazing that sunlight plus water plus dirt makes plants grow??? We have a very small patch of dirt, which is currently covered in ivy, but maybe soon it won't be? It'd be cool to plant something there (b/c everything grows in California), but also, there's a lot of shade, a lot of squirrels, and a lot of ivy, so .... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
3) breakfast
I haven't really had breakfast since I was 7 or 8. I think 8 was the age when my parents were like "okay, we found a walking-to-school buddy for you, so now it's your job to wake up early enough to go to school, we're gonna sleep in." And I made the very reasonable decision that the extra minutes of sleep were waaaay more important than having breakfast. I think it also helped that my parents weren't aware of the existence of cereal, so breakfast would either mean mom making 粥 (jook) from scratch, or dad microwaving some rice in some water from the night before, and it turns out ... I actually hate hot soggy rice???? Oh, sometimes mom made 花卷 and that was yummy and I'd totally grab one on the way out, but those occasions were rare.
I think there was a short period in high school when I discovered the existence of cereal and I'd have Corn Pops every morning. But then dad pointed out that they were really expensive, plus I wanted to sleep in.
And then when I first started living with Hoosband, he'd make breakfast every morning, because breakfast is his favorite meal. We'd have eggs and miso soup and cereal and toast..... until I told him, "honey, I'm glad you like breakfast, but I just want to roll out of bed as late as possible and start the day." Nowadays, my current school has free toast, so around 10:30am, after I finish my first class, I go downstairs and get a wheat toast with butter and honey. By that point I would have been up for ~4 hours, so I'm not sure if that counts as breakfast.
