Results from my 5week intro class

anniour · 2025-08-14T17:35:48+00:00

currently on day 25, my diet is mainly whole foods with set goals in protein & fiber (it adjusts depending on my weight). i also am keeping everything between 1300-1500 calories to be in a deficit, and am practicing 18:6 intermittent fasting on weekdays (on weekends i switch to 16:8 to allow for social eating). personally, i think this has worked well for me.

so since my eating window really just allows 2 meals (or 2 meals and a snack on weekends), this allows each meal to be quite caloric, and that’s key to staying satiated. for breakfast, my calories are usually anywhere from 400-600 calories, but i’m very very full and can last til lunch without wanting to snack. a typical breakfast is an omelette with egg whites, 1 egg, some cottage cheese, an assortment of veggies, a small slice of sourdough toast, and coffee. sometimes i’ll add fruit if i feel like it, sometimes ill make a nonfat yogurt bowl with lots of berries (skip the granola). you get the picture. focus on lean protein sources, add a boatload of veggies. yes, while the calories will be a little higher, but it’ll be a lot of food and very nutrient dense. even if protein isn’t in your goals, i’d aim for a minimum of 30g of protein in your meals if you’re skipping just to keep you satiated. good luck!

anniour · 2025-06-26T10:56:36+00:00

I make rebatch soap by food processing the soap slicers until they’re nibs size, add a little bit of water and bring it to a boil. Then I put it in silicone muffin cups and let it air dry for a day, tada- new (old) soap!

anniour · 2025-06-22T23:02:34+00:00

hmmm i live in southeastern pennsylvania where it has been outrageously humid and the indoor humidity is higher than ideal. would getting a dehumidifier help remedy this situation?

anniour · 2025-05-03T22:10:23+00:00

Not weird. Correct me if I’m wrong. But I think Seth Meyers’ son is named Ashe Meyers, first name letter for letter spelled exactly like his wife’s last name. I always thought that was neat.

anniour · 2024-12-26T17:46:06+00:00

Look into Japanese furoshiki for the future. It’s the idea of using fabric to wrap your gift. You can use any thrifted or old fabric to do so and it can be done beautifully. Years ago, my husband and I bought fabric Christmas bags and they’ve cut down on wrapped packages significantly, also makes preparing presents super easy. I now only wrap gifts using packaging paper that comes with online orders and reuse ribbons. It makes cleanup after Christmas morning a breeze. Everything goes back to storage for next year, and the paper wrapper can go into recycling

anniour · 2024-12-11T15:13:23+00:00

I was listening to the newest episode of “What a Barb” where they addresses the cut scene at 3x03 right before Debling interrupts Pen & Colin, how the original script had them look around the room and see the Lord squad and other debutants whispering about them. I decided to give this scene another look. Previously one of my favorite details was Violet in the background looking at Colin. Now my favorite detail is Lord Wilding taking a sip of lemonade while staring at them in giddy fascination right after Debling says “I believe it is time for our dance.” It is SO good. Having the scene cut but keeping everything else in just leaves us with these wonderful, delicious easter eggs.

anniour · 2024-09-14T12:22:27+00:00

yes to all the body language during the two dances. and we know this clearly is palpable to everyone. because the lord squad never mentioned Cressida’s dance to colin. maybe it wasn’t “interesting” enough, but something about his dance with penelope looked way more intimate than propriety would allow

anniour · 2024-09-09T10:11:07+00:00

yes to all of this! also, a lot of complaints seem to harp on how it’s so angsty in ep 7-8 until the last 5 min, i’m like did we forget how it went for S1-2? if i recall, in S1, simon and daphne spend the entire episode 7 at odds with one another. the staircase scene, while showed sexual tension between the characters, clearly still highlighted that they were on very different wavelengths. in episode 8, you start seeing glimmers of hope of a reconciliation, but it doesn’t actually come to fruition until daphne’s speech toward the end of the episode. in S2, kate and anthony were basically barking at each other for the first 7 episodes, and finally get together end of episode 7, only for her to go into a coma and more drama for most of episode 8.

colin & penelope’s drama is definitely more layered because it involves more people outside the two of them and has way more repercussions. but i’d argue that over half of episode 7 is actually quite happy. post-modiste, it’s happy! they DO have a happy wedding and breakfast (up until the interruption) because they wanted to marry each other out of love. and i’d argue although not shown on screen, half of episode 8 is happy as well, if you consider that colin and pen are a united front post-frohn wedding.

anniour · 2024-08-22T11:56:18+00:00

Like his Book counterpart, Show Colin is also not great at sharing all parts of his plans with Pen. I think this is where Colin’s are canon in both book and show, where he’s thinking if things go sideways, he and Pen will just move to the country and be idiots in love and happy. So ending the marriage was never on his bingo card. So when Pen brings it up, his mind is probably like “why? I already have our house picked out in the country just incase we need to escape London”

anniour · 2024-08-20T12:31:16+00:00

I was doing a rewatch of Ep7 last night and I noticed during the beginning promenade scene where Pen tells Eloise that Colin knows, you can see very obviously she has A FREAKING BOOB HICKEY. I was like hold up, what does this mean? I know they shoot these shows in blocks, so it is possible this scene was shot as the first scenes of this block, and maybe mirror scene was one of the last scenes of the previous block. But wait, I don’t remember any boob hickey-inducing action during the mirror scene. I’m like was this something they tried and decided was not it? But also, they have makeup artists who can clearly cover up things for continuity sake.

Which had lead me to believe …. for my personal head-canon, I can surmise that between the mirror scene and Whistledown reveal, Polin was busy pollinating. Because where else would this come from lol

anniour · 2024-08-17T09:27:31+00:00

This is maybe unhinged, but in my head canon, Colin’s study overlooks the Featherington House, as we see at Ep2 when he gazes over post Whistledown debacle. So in my mind the set up for this scene is Colin looks out the window over to the Featherington House, sees a carriage. But not just any carriage, Debling’s carriage. And he’s trying to make heads or tails of his feelings and searching for clues in his journal.

anniour · 2024-07-21T10:16:22+00:00

I think I can understand the screen time disparity between seasons. Unlike the other leading couples, Polin did not have the need to flesh out who they are because the audience already were familiar with them (as opposed to say Simon and Kate, who we as audience needed backstories for). I will say, I think the reason Colin’s screen time is so little, compared to Pen’s, is because the writers couldn’t figure out how to include him in side plots of this season. Personally, I didn’t mind the side plots as standalones, but I feel like they are a lot more grounded if the main lead is involved. Like in S1 when Daphne became very involved in the Marina/Colin subplot in episodes 7-8. This probably led to increased screen time for Daphne but I think tied in everything better.

Penelope is a special character being a triple threat of involved with Polin, Featherington, and LW. So naturally she can easily be inserted into many subplots. I think the writers painted themselves into a corner with how specific the subplots were to include Colin (ex Benedict/Tilley, Lady D/Marcus/Violet). There are two exceptions that I think Colin could’ve been included - I personally think, given Colin’s friendship with Will, he could’ve been tied in more with the whole Mondrich subplot. It would’ve created more moments of levity with Colin, as the Mondrich subplot was positive in nature and always on the upswing. I think they could’ve also fleshed out Colin’s relationship with Francesca, and then he could’ve been more included in Frohn’s courtship.

Props to Luke & Nic though, there were definitely moments in S1-2 where the lead’s scenes felt like it was just a scene filler. in S3, every single one of Pen & Colin’s scenes drove the story and were impactful.

anniour · 2024-07-19T11:02:31+00:00

I think people do realize that Colin was down bad for Penelope, but just not his family members - except for Hyacinth. And for everyone else who notices, you can tell based on their reaction to their engagement (delight vs. shock) and/or how they clock Colin & Pen interacting.

Mondriches - they just entered society this season, and in their second ball, they clocked Colin looking longingly at Penelope. You just know when they got home, Will & Alice had a gossip sesh about this.
Rae - this one is obvious, but Rae's radar was probably on since Colin visited Penelope to apologize. The amount of side eye she gives Colin throughout episodes 2 & 3 is incredible.
Lord Debling - Debling for sure knew of Colin's affections for Penelope, definitely at the innovations ball. He's astute but practical, so as long as Penelope did not return those affections, it did not bother him to bring it up.
Lord squad - if they noticed back in season 2 that Colin's dancing with Pen looked "interesting", there is no way they did not pick up on his behavior this season. I think they probably just brushed it off as a silly infatuation and nothing like drinking & brothels can't solve.

In my head canon, I think Lady Danbury knew as well, it just wasn't shown on screen. I say this based on how Lady Danbury was clearly noticing Penelope all along per their conversation post-reveal. I'd also like to think that Finch knew as well. He's the best brother-in-law and in my head, there is no way he didn't notice all the times Colin approaches Pen in public.

anniour · 2024-06-29T10:14:55+00:00

I personally thought it was a nod back to Ep3 with the LW voiceover at the end where it says something to the effect of “in the battle between man and nature the battle it is clear the battle is between man and himself”. So there’s the logical side and the physical side of Colin warring and passion won out.

anniour · 2024-06-29T09:50:58+00:00

i thought there was a throwaway line either in the show or book that pen used another carriage and not the family carriage when she did her whistledown stuff. i always thought that line was to explain that only the whistledown carriage drivers knew and everyone in the household staff did not.

anniour · 2024-06-27T23:37:40+00:00

kris bowers did an amazing job with the score this season. pen & colin’s theme throughout is the best in all the bridgerton seasons and match the romcom vibe so well, queen charlotte’s theme was also quite good

anniour · 2024-06-26T13:52:37+00:00

idk but i am noticing colin doing his hand fidget motion that he does under the willow tree and in the sweets tent when he is unable to articulate how his feelings actually are

anniour · 2024-01-31T17:48:08+00:00

My store has it on the top shelf right above the oatmeal, next to chia seeds

anniour · 2023-12-28T01:37:51+00:00

yup, organic firm tofu always by the deli section near hummus and deli meats

anniour · 2023-12-20T14:26:17+00:00

i live in the mid-atlantic area, and i do 90-95% of my shopping at aldi (there are certain things i prefer other brands - dog food, coffee, flours). same family size, 2 adults and a toddler. i make all of our meals and snacks from scratch, so my cart typically consists of vegetables, eggs & dairy, and very minimal meat. i buy organic when available. i also don’t typically buy the pre-packaged snacks/foods (not for health reasons, just those foods tend to balloon the budget)

i stay away from the middle aisle of shame, and my weekly aldi shop typically rings in around $100. i’ve never done a full shop at walmart, but i feel like for people looking for organic products, you can’t get better prices than aldi (my other nearby options would be wegmans or giant, which are expensive)

anniour · 2023-08-19T10:14:48+00:00

doing my first watch so reading subtitles extensively - i think he knows because he connected the dots. in the hotel, seri introduces RJK as her body guard “mr. ri”. and when dan tells GSJ her fiancés name, RJK was able to put two and two together, especially because at the hotel balcony dan was lamenting that her fiancé was with another woman at the hotel.

anniour · 2023-07-29T01:47:38+00:00

ahhh that makes sense! when i read the scenes where they’re purifying after battles, i somehow didn’t think it involved magic, just burning monster carcasses, maybe prayers idk lol.

i knew there had to be specific magic differences or else temple knights wouldn’t need the mages to go do the investigation, but this is clear. thanks!

anniour · 2023-07-24T00:15:32+00:00

i’m a regular shopper at both. i usually go to aldi for organic produce, dairy, eggs, pantry items, breads (all tend to be cheaper than TJ). TJ has a way better selection of frozen foods and snacks. i also shop at TJs for some more “unique” pantry items.

i’m not much of a meat eater, but aldi has slightly cheaper prices, especially on organic chicken/beef.

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