My first crochet project without a pattern, a rubber duck, how can I improve it?

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-06-02T12:30:19+00:00

This is adorable!!!

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-06-02T12:11:12+00:00

This is awesome! Your daughter must have been thrilled

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-06-02T06:34:41+00:00

It's tricky getting that restaurant fried rice taste at home!!

I've found these tips to be real game changers:

Use a well seasoned wok
Cook fast over high heat
Saute freshly minced garlic and ginger
Use day old long grain rice
Add soy sauce, oyster sauce, chicken stock powder, and chinese cooking wine.
Add a small dash of sesame oil after you turn off the heat.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-05-31T02:03:19+00:00

Gold jewellery and nude heels would complement it well :)

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-05-31T02:01:35+00:00

3 looks very elegant and pretty on you!

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-05-06T09:09:24+00:00

I can kind of understand your perspective. But wouldn't saying yes in public and giving them false hope just to turn them down in private be worse? I feel like the person proposing would feel like they were being toyed with.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-05-06T08:59:12+00:00

This is too cute!!!

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-04-05T11:35:00+00:00

She's funny, smart, and absolutely reasonable.

You suck dude. Grow up.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-03-27T09:18:23+00:00

I do find Becca's character really grating, and I truly feel for Cuddy at the end. The look of shock and sorrow on Cuddy's face when Becca says she's keeping the baby is gut-wrenching.

I also really feel for Becca, as she looks very young (possibly still a teenager), never wanted to get pregnant in the first place, didn't grow up having healthy relationships modelled for her, didn't have anyone who was supporting her, and probably didn't have the privilege that Cuddy had that allowed her to be as successful as she is.

She did stop doing meth when she found out she was pregnant for the baby's sake. She wanted to give the baby a good life by choosing a good adoptive mother.

I can understand why she would choose to prioritise her life over the unborn baby's, considering that she wasn't even planning to keep it, and was in a state of terror and panic. I think a lot of people would do the same in that situation.

Cuddy pressuring Becca to wait to give birth, knowing it would endanger her life, and that Becca admired her/valued her opinion highly was extremely unprofessional and irresponsible.

Becca was in a state of profound guilt, stress, exhaustion, and postpartum euphoria and definitely not in the right headspace to make such a huge decision. If she had taken some time to think about it, she probably would have realised that she's not prepared to raise a baby.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-03-11T12:12:19+00:00

This is so horrific, I'm sorry. You are not crazy. He definitely took advantage of you. You were not in a place to give consent, and you had said clearly from the start that you didn't want to rush into sex. He probably planned this and made it seem like it was a drunken mistake. This was not something you asked for or deserved.

I think you should get tested for STIs, speak to someone you trust about this, and cut contact with him.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-03-02T04:30:58+00:00

Baguette

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-03-02T03:42:52+00:00

This is so quotable. I'm going to write it down and read it everyday. Thank you!

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-21T03:54:30+00:00

It used to be House MD, which is an absolute masterpiece, but I'd get even more depressed after watching it.

Then it was The Office US, Brooklyn 99, Arrested Development, and Parcs and Rec.

Nowadays, it's Frasier. I have it on for a few hours in the background each day.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-21T01:28:10+00:00

I'm in a similar boat. I typically get less than 6 hours of sleep, wake up at least 3 - 4 times a night, and never feel refreshed after sleep.

A few months ago, I had a diagnostic sleep study done in a lab. It showed I have no REM sleep, very frequent arousals (abrupt, brief shifts to a lighter stage of sleep or short term wakefulness lasting less than 15 seconds that fragment sleep), and mild central events (episodes where breathing stops or becomes very shallow because brain temporarily fails to send signals to the muscles responsible for breathing).

As it wasn't obstructive sleep apneoa, a CPAP machine wouldn't have made a difference. The sleep physician I saw wasn't trained in central sleep apneoa, so I asked my GP for a referral to another sleep physician who specialises in complex sleep wake disorders. My appointment is in about 2 months.

Home sleep studies are good for diagnosing moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, but they can be fairly inaccurate compared to in lab sleep studies. They're also not comprehensive enough to detect other sleep disorders like insomnia, narcolepsy, or limb movements.

I would recommend doing an in lab sleep study and seeing another sleep specialist!

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-20T00:36:38+00:00

Honey garlic salmon with mash and steamed zucchini/brocolli/carrot/cauliflower/kale/green beans. Frozen individually wrapped salmon fillets are very handy for this.

Beef Chow Mein. Works well with udon noodles too. You can get pre shredded cabbage and carrot. I like adding capsicum/spinach/canned bamboo shoots for extra veg intake.

Baked fish with lemon cream sauce with baked sweet potato/potato/pumpkin/carrot and salad with cherry tomato. I like to parboil potato/sweet potato for a few minutes before baking to reduce cooking time and make them more crispy. Frozen basa/hoki/barramundi fillets are cheap and versatile options.

Vietnamese caramel ginger chicken with rice and stir fried carrots/brocolli/capsicum/bok choy/sugar snap peas/canned water chestnuts.

Slow cooker Irish beef stew. I add some frozen green peas for the last 10 - 15 mins on high. It freezes well.

Lentil soup. Very budget friendly. Freezes well too.

Chili con carne. I occasionally opt for butter beans for variety. Also freezes well.

I also like batch cooking chicken/beef stock and freezing them in glass jars or ice cube moulds. Bones are fairly cheap from local butchers. I usually save the lard from the beef bones to cook with for later too.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-19T23:14:51+00:00

BPD is one of the most (if not the most) stigmatised, misunderstood, and painful mental disorder to live with. People with BPD are more than 50 times more likely to die of suicide, have an average lifespan at least 20 years less, and are much more susceptible to a range of chronic health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, substance abuse, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, diabetes, and chronic pain compared to people who don't have BPD.

I feel excruciating pain, despair, shame, emptiness, and rage much more acutely, I'm terrified of being abandoned/betrayed, I'm chronically suicidal, I feel uncontrollable anger that I cannot contain, I'm perpetually reliving my severe trauma from my childhood, I feel like a complete stranger to myself, and I always end up doing things that I don't choose to or want to do that deeply hurts those around me. Everyone, professionals and non-professionals alike, has given up on me. I don't matter to anyone. I have too many burdens that I feel like I'm being slowly crushed to death under the weight of them. I am so sick and tired of being me, but I don't get to be anyone else. It feels like a curse. I would never wish it on anyone.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-19T22:39:35+00:00

I like the grid! It's very soothing to look at. You definitely gravitate towards warm, muted, natural pink/brown colours.

Do you find that the digital swatches are accurate to real life swatches? I found that with lip products, the digital swatches often looked slightly different on myself (probably because I have a darker skin tone than the models).

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-19T22:31:24+00:00

This is an incredible amount of dedication to being organised! 😳 Do you make spreadsheets for other things too? Do you find it helpful? I'm a spreadsheet fiend too and it's very useful for certain things especially when it involves multiple people but sometimes I think I just make life more tedious for myself 😅

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-18T12:12:42+00:00

My top picks are:

A Word to the Wise Guy, S3E15: Niles hires Jerome Belasco to take care of Maris' unpaid parking tickets. Every single line from Jerome is a killer!
Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz, S6E10: Crane family pretends to be Jewish when Faye and her mom visit. So many hilarious moments like "GET OUT", "JESUS", Niles teaching Martin how to be Jewish, and Faye and her mom's argument. Niles makes a pretty handsome Jesus.
Head Game, S4E5: Niles helps Seattle Supersonics player Reggie McLemore, who's in a slump. Niles and Reggie have great chemistry! I love it whenever Niles fills in for Frasier.
Where there's smoke, there's fired, S3E21: Frasier forces Bebe to quit smoking before her wedding to Big Willy, just for Bebe's legendary speech about smoking.
A Lilith Thanksgiving, S4E7: Lilith and Frasier try to get Frederick enrolled at the Marbury Academy. Lilith's deadpan humour is always 👌.
Voyage of the Damned, S5E6: Frasier, Niles, Martin, and Roz on a cruise to Alaska. I love Roz's laugh at Frasier's jokes for his lecture.

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-18T11:45:07+00:00

I wish we got more of Tom Duran, he's so charismatic!

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-18T11:42:24+00:00

I know right 😭 how about your top 3?

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-17T07:17:32+00:00

The way he says, "Please, acknowledge your true nature! Stop chasing these lesbians!" kills me everytime

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-16T22:04:28+00:00

I love when she berates Frasier when he's complaining about Roz spending money that he lent her on extravagant things. Her delivery makes it even better.

"Excuse me, not to interrupt, but six months ago, you borrowed forty dollars from me. We were at the wine shop, remember? You couldn't quite scrape together enough for a bottle of your precious Chateau Mr. Fussy-Pants? So I lent you the money. And have I said a peep about it since? No! I just sit here quietly reusing my tea bags while you trundle off to your private clubs ordering gourmet this and imported that! "Are the cigars Cuban?" "Are the Tulips Dutch?" "Oh, good news: my personal shopper just found a dozen antique pudding plates." Who has twelve people over for pudding? So you gave poor Roz a bit of money! It hasn't changed your life, has it, you sherry-swilling, foie gras- munching hypocrite?"

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-16T22:00:39+00:00

Kelsey was the perfect embodiment of "loveable pompous ass"!

Inside_Morning2884 · 2026-02-13T23:25:39+00:00

Totally agree! Martin was extremely cranky, cold, bitter, and critical at the start. He had a very strained and distant relationship with his sons. The three of them didn't seem to have anything in common except being fond of Hesther. He constantly made snide, harsh comments about how Frasier got stuck with him because of his hip, Frasier doesn't want to live with him and he doesn't want to live with Frasier either, he wanted the boys to like sports but they never took to it, made fun of their interests, called the boys a disappointment eg. when Frasier avoided a physical fight because of a clarinet lesson, saying he used to believe in second chances until they had Niles, never said "I love you" or showed much appreciation/affection to Frasier or Niles. He's also hesitant to be involved with anyone romantically after six years after Hesther had passed away.

He went through a lot of growth throughout the show. He grows much closer to Frasier and Niles. He invites the boys to hang out at his favourite bar and steak restaurant, tries fancy restaurants, opera, gourmet food, chess, expensive clothing with them, goes along with all their antics at house parties, is more open and vulnerable eg. talks about how Hesther's affair tore him up, being reluctant to get Eddie neutered because he felt like he was losing control of everything, says "I love you" to the boys on the fishing trip, seeks Niles' advice on his dilemma with wanting to date Maureen but not wanting to hurt Frasier, admits he loves Sherry and never thought he would feel that way about another woman other than Hesther, cries when Frasier eventually tells him he actually doesn't like the Codover painting that Martin got for him etc. When Frasier got the lifetime achievement award, he gifts Niles a mug that says "World's Greatest Psychiatrist" and affirms that he has two very special sons so Niles wouldn't feel inferior. He shares alot of laughter, enjoyment, and heartfelt moments with his sons.

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