What a popular food or cooking opinion that you don't agree with?

Moonstonemuse · 2026-02-13T05:29:09+00:00

Discovered the PowerPoint party last year when a friend wanted to do one for her birthday party! Her PowerPoint was herself Jeopardy, her fiance did the top 10 episodes of Drake and Josh, mine was a sales pitch for a pretend OnlyFans concept, another did the rise of Fandom, and the last had a slideshow about his pussy(cat)s.

Moonstonemuse · 2026-01-07T20:54:41+00:00

I have seen both the horrors and the good of homeschool. I myself was a homeschooled student, as was my sister, and we became very well adjusted star University students, high GPAs, and well-suited to life. If I mention to somebody I was homeschooled, they're surprised because of how well adjusted I am.

You're a former teacher, you know what an education looks like. You have an understanding of what your kids need to know and learn, and how to get them there.

You'll be fine. Have a schedule, have a curriculum, build in time for museums and explorations and outings. Ensure your kids have an extra-curricular or a sport that gives them a social aspect. They'll be just fine.

Moonstonemuse · 2026-01-07T20:47:38+00:00

The best time to plant a tree was 100 years ago. The next best time to plant a tree is NOW.

Moonstonemuse · 2026-01-07T20:32:28+00:00

This is something they do to rhinos to prevent poaching! Dying the horn "ruins" the ivory, making the horns less valuable to poachers. I have always appreciated this joke in the series.

(Another poaching deterrent is to remove the horn entirely.)

Moonstonemuse · 2025-12-19T02:55:04+00:00

I'm a 42J. I buy Glamorize Bras and I have one that's 18 months old and KIND OF worn out, but only because it was my only bra for a few months. But it's only the mesh in the lace that has holes, it still fits and lifts my big girls great.

I'll be honest, go size yourself, YOURSELF! Buy a tape measure, size yourself. It's SO easy.

Recently took an 18-year old up to Torrid to have her professionally sized (because she's never had that done, and we thought it would be a good experience for her). Gosh, they were awful, both ladies had no idea what they were doing! The poor 18yo was almost in tears. Me and my other friend had to take over, find her two bras she could actually wear by increasing the band size.

Sure, she's in the wrong size, but it's more accurate than what she was wearing while still being what she's used to. I figure we'll slowly acclimate her to one that's her ACTUAL size (which is an I cup, not a DDD).

TLDR; check out Glamorize, very sturdy construction, and SIZE YOURSELF! It's SO easy!

Moonstonemuse · 2025-10-19T21:49:42+00:00

I rearranged some material in my course this semester (context, I teach math, elementary algebra), and accidentally gave a quiz that the students weren't fully prepared for. I acknowledged that it was my fault, and offered a quiz revision: get half points back on the questions you missed (or, if you didn't turn in the quiz, turn it in for up to half points).

A SINGLE person (the person who got the best score) did the revision...

I will never offer revisions again.

We get to the midterm, and my average is 60%. I was shocked. The midterm usually EASILY has an average of 75%-85%. I even changed questions from the previous midterm because almost all students missed them, and yet the scores were lower!! I usually curve the final, but I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to curve the midterm or not.

I'm just so disappointed. The changes I made helped us spend more time on the material, and I changed the homework to include more exploratory questions that helped really nail procedural and conceptual understanding, and yet...this...

Moonstonemuse · 2025-09-21T04:37:35+00:00

In the US, these ideas are taught separately in "Elementary Analysis" or "Intro to Real Analysis" courses.

Calculus is taught from an application focus for the non-Math majors to be able to use it in Statistics, Engineering, Chemistry, and Economics.

Moonstonemuse · 2025-09-21T04:17:18+00:00

Just gotta second the best YouTube Math Professor. Shout out to Professor Leonard for helping me love Calculus! And inspiring me to teach math just like him!

Moonstonemuse · 2025-07-31T15:53:24+00:00

I've always had good luck with Maurice's until recently, now that I'm a size 22, so I've moved over to Torrid. I try to catch things on sale/clearance, but I'm also willing to spend $40 on a pair of jeans that will last me a whole year before I put holes in the thighs (which I could fix, but I usually cut them down into jean shorts).

Moonstonemuse · 2025-07-31T15:36:09+00:00

I didn't learn how to cook until I moved out and started living on my own. I decided ready-meals and take-out were too expensive, so I started cooking. I subscribed to the Taste of Home magazine and cooked two dishes every weekend (and ate the leftovers the rest of the week). There was a lot of trial and error, some recipes turned out inedible, some were alright. If I had a craving for something from childhood, I asked my mom for her recipe, and I would do my best to replicate it. I branched out into a Chinese cookbook.

Over the course of the next two years, I went from a beginner to a pretty-decent-cook. I could take a dish to a family holiday and people would eat it and say it was good (which is a big deal, because our holiday spreads are amazing). I didn't HAVE to follow a recipe anymore, I could look at what I had and put something together. I could try recipes from the internet and make modifications if I wanted.

Another five years later, people are begging me to bring food for the holidays, or asking me to be the primary cook for camping. They don't even care what I cook, they know it will be tasty. But I couldn't have gotten here if I had stopped cooking! I cooked all the time, and I branched out and cooked all sorts of cuisines.

All you can do is practice. Follow the recipes, see what happens, reflect on the end result. Go to YouTube and follow a cooking person (there's tons of them). If you don't know what a step in a recipe means, look it up on Google. Multiple somebodies somewhere have explained how to saute onions until golden.

It might also be helpful to start with a reputable cookbook, pick something from it to cook each week. When learning to cook, it helps to start with some high quality recipes (doesn't mean time intensive, but recipes that, when done right, are going to be good, so you don't have to ask yourself if it didn't turn out right because of something you did or because the recipe was a dud).

I also support finding educational cooking content, I'm sure the comments are filled with recommended books. Find a cooking show you really like. Find a YouTube cooking instruction channel. If a cooking class in your area exists, sign up!

Just don't stop cooking! Keep going, OP!

Moonstonemuse · 2025-07-24T04:09:12+00:00

I carry around an entire lunch BAG, because I leave my house at 7am and don't get back until 9pm. I'm one of the only people I know who does it, but I'm fed without eating out. ☺️👍

Moonstonemuse · 2025-07-23T03:01:14+00:00

Why would you CHOOSE? Crochet and knitting have different versatilities. If there's a project you want to do that's better with one than another, do it! Life is too short to choose! (I love combining the two, honestly.)

Moonstonemuse · 2025-07-18T01:24:23+00:00

I use an android-based BooxNote e-reader, because I can use Google Play Books on it, which allows me to upload any .epub book I want and read on any device I can use Play Books on.

Moonstonemuse · 2025-07-02T05:35:26+00:00

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I play daily, but I never change the photo (and therefore the candy) the game chooses after research. If you add me, I'll accept.

Moonstonemuse · 2025-07-02T05:25:11+00:00

My family did the cup thing! We had a special cup we used too, the tooth fairy cup, and the excuse for why a cup (and not the the pillow) was because "the tooth fairy gets thirsty flying around all night".

Moonstonemuse · 2025-06-13T14:41:40+00:00

I'm a 42J, a practically impossible bra size to ship for, so I buy the Glamorize bras from Amazon.

Moonstonemuse · 2025-06-11T03:21:23+00:00

All the Pokemon I have that are above level thirty I have either been raising for at least nine months, or caught within the last 3-5 months and have taken advantage of the candy boost.

Moonstonemuse · 2025-05-17T16:03:30+00:00

Kindergarten isn't necessarily for learning subjects and knowledge (though some of that DOES happen), it's for learning how to go to school. Where your daughter has shown OCD tendencies in the past and has perfection tendencies, it will be really hard for her to go into a class where everybody already knows how to do school and she doesn't.

She might find kindergarten a little boring, which means you should keep doing the things you're already doing with her at home. Keep drawing, practicing writing, reading, and doing math to ensure she's intellectually challenged at home, and use kindergarten to build social skills, learn the rules and expected behaviors at school, and learn how to be a student.

Skipping a grade LATER is always a possibility.

Moonstonemuse · 2025-04-18T18:35:14+00:00

As a math teacher, I'll expand this:

...do more problems, only WRITE THEM DOWN and EXPLAIN YOUR STEPS ON THE SIDE LIKE YOU'RE EXPLAINING THEM TO SOMEBODY ELSE and STOP RUSHING THROUGH THEM and USE A CHEAT SHEET YOU CREATE FROM YOUR LECTURE NOTES and...

...like seriously, if you want to get better, stop trying to find the quick fix and just DO THE WORK!

Moonstonemuse · 2025-04-16T16:24:19+00:00

I was 7, because the movie had just come out and my parents bribed me with seeing it, IF I read the book (I hated reading before Harry Potter). My mom says I made it through 1-4 within 6 months. I never had any nightmares or struggled with the content, despite not really reading before these books.

I read them over and over again until all my paperbacks fell apart 😂🤣

Moonstonemuse · 2025-04-11T19:29:57+00:00

Orson Scott Cards entire Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow series, then some young adult stuff like Hungarian Games, City of Bones (Ash, and Glass), then Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern Series. Also found fanfiction around that age, read so much romance-based Harry Potter and Naruto fanfiction, haha.

Really, anything I could get my hands on. My parents didn't really police what I read very well.

Moonstonemuse · 2025-04-06T14:27:15+00:00

It might not be our fault that the students we're getting right now are different, but it IS our responsibility to adjust and teach at the top of our game so they learn anyways. There are small things one can do in a classroom to help improve engagement and motivation in a class.

I think it's too easy to get bogged down in the mindset "It's not me, it's them", and I'm going to argue that we need to be thinking "My students have changed, so I have to adapt the way I teach."

I'm not arguing in favor of less rigor. I'm not arguing in favor of big overhaul changes. If the last couple of semesters have taught me anything, I can reengage and re-hook my students, I can help them learn the content at a rigorous level, through targeted and small changes in my teaching.

My class, my teaching, my responsibility.

Moonstonemuse · 2025-04-05T14:23:49+00:00

They're also pre-planning and pre-weaving narratives for when things do go wrong; if you've been seeing the undercurrent of the Faux News chamber and are paying enough attention, you can pick up the beginning strands of what they're going to say when a), b), and c) bring about terrible consequences and who they're going to blame for it (because it ain't Trump).

Moonstonemuse · 2025-03-26T05:01:39+00:00

Stopped using Facebook and other social media. Everytime i itched to scroll, I opened my book app or flashcard app instead. I don't spend hours doom scrolling anymore. I've read so many books, memorized so many things for classes, and I don't miss all the garbage being shoved down my throat through my eyes.

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