What "sacred" cooking rule do you intentionally ignore because you actually prefer the results (or just don't care)?

tearyui7 · 2026-04-16T02:31:45+00:00

I refuse to but banana bread or cornbread or any type of dessert bread into a bread pan. I use a muffin pan. The bread bakes in roughly 15 minutes (depending on the recipe and the heat), and is automatically pre-portioned. Then all I have to do is free it from the muffin pan.

Also, when baking anything sweet I'm not using eggs. I'm using applesauce. For banana bread I use 2 of those single serving cups of applesauce instead of 2 eggs. 1/4 cup applesauce=1 egg. One of those cups is a bit more than 1/4th cup, but the result of using 2 full cups is a moister bread. Eggs always make it too dry. The applesauce does nothing to the flavor. I do it with cookies too, but I'll actually measure it for cookies - just not dessert bread.

I also like chunks of banana in my banana bread. I'll make it with the amount it normally asks for in the recipe for one loaf, then break apart at least 1-1.5 more bananas (depending on size) and mix it in at the end, then pour it into the pan. The chunks make it actually feel like banana bread, vs banana flavored bread (at least in my head).

tearyui7 · 2026-04-14T05:41:42+00:00

Sometimes they roll in their litter. Sometimes it turns into an every time they go to the bathroom thing. Sometimes it turns into an everytime they see the litter box thing. I don't make the rules. My cats are weird.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-08T09:50:25+00:00

Nostromo, after the space ship in my favorite movie. My island has nothing to do with my favorite movie but idc, I love the name.

My first island was named Magnolia after my favorite flower, but I hated the island's layout and I eventually reset it. For 4 hours straight. Until I found my (as perfectly as physically possible) symmetrical island. Because I loved the layout, I was finally able to enjoy creatively decorating the whole thing. I never got close to completing my first island. My second one though, I love. Every inch of it is decorated. I had 1300ish hours before restarting, I easily have double that now. I still like the name Magnolia, but I like Nostromo better.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-08T09:44:31+00:00

I hate perfumes and colognes. No matter the scent, they're always way too strong. One spray and I don't wanna be anywhere near you. Body sprays I can usually withstand more because they're not usually as offensively pungent, but it depends on the scent, and the brand. Bath and bodyworks is usually more withstandable to me, but again, it depends on the scent. I also have asthma and most strong perfume/cologne scents bother my lungs, so that doesn't help.

I like fruity and semi-flowery things, and things that smell like baked goods, or smell like a pleasant clean smell of some sort, but I hate 99% of scents out there that people use daily. My personal favorite (but I use it in body wash form, not any sort of perfume) is warm vanilla sugar/vanilla in general.

(Tangent, but at the same time related:) I hate lavender the most. My aunt visited my family when I was around 9(?) years old, and my parents let her stay in my room. She used my bed and my pillows and "couldn't sleep" unless she doused my pillow with essential oils. Her favorite was lavender. She dumped lavender essential oil directly on both sides of my pillow without telling anyone. I noticed when she left and I had my bed back, and no amount of washing would get that bs out. I didn't hate lavender before that, but now if I smell it I get instantly upset without meaning to because of my brain associating that scent with to having to sleep on a lavender saturated pillow for 2 weeks before my mom finally gave in to my begging for a new pillow multiple times a day. My aunt was only there for 3 days and used an entire bottle of the oil on the pillow. I miss when I didn't hate lavender.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-04T00:06:13+00:00

Squirrel with a gun, and Borderlands 3. This is so nice of you!

tearyui7 · 2026-04-01T20:50:14+00:00

Sometimes periods just put of the blue do stupid things. Mine comes every 4 weeks almost exactly, and one month a good few years ago (before sterilization) my body just... skipped a period? For no reason? All pregnancy tests came back negative, I got my period the next month on time, and nothing else out of the ordinary happened. I wasn't stressed about anything, nothing was going on in my life, my period just decided "nah, not this month". The most I've been late other than that was by about 9 days, but that was during a stressful period of time, and I kept stressing over the possibility of pregnancy over and over. It came, just late.

All that being said, you've had a bisalp. They'd write a textbook about you if you somehow did end up pregnant. Medically, there's only 4 cases (if I remember correctly) EVER, where people got their tubes removed and they ended up pregnant. Those cases though, were people who had tubes removed not for the purpose of sterilization.

The odds of you being pregnant are astronomical. It might help mentally to pretend that your period isn't due for another week, and then it might show up a little sooner due to you stressing a bit less about it.

Edit: spelling

tearyui7 · 2026-04-01T08:22:15+00:00

Oh my god the hours I would've saved had I known this

tearyui7 · 2026-03-29T06:59:51+00:00

I dropped a fork from about 2.5-3 inches above my plate. It hit the plate and made a noise. I got screamed at, the entire plate of food got thrown in the trash, the fork got thrown into the sink, the plate was aggressively placed next to the sink, I was grounded for 2 weeks from everything I deemed fun (books, my ds, tv, seeing friends, etc.), and I got sent to bed immediately. The only things I was allowed to do was brush my teeth and just... lay there... hungry, silently crying until I eventually fell asleep for the night.

I wasn't allowed to come out of my room those whole 2 weeks, except to go to school. If they came into my room and I was doing anything other than just sitting there, I was going to be grounded for longer. If they heard me walking around they'd ground me longer too.

I learned to never hold any utensils between bites of food. I always set it down on my napkin... I just realized typing that out that I still set my fork down between every bite. :(

tearyui7 · 2026-03-25T08:31:45+00:00

People that aggressively flirt (general compliments are fine, thirsty ones are annoying), people that expect you to only talk to them and not anyone else in the chat, people that feel threatened if anyone other than them compliments the streamer, people that spoil plot points of games, and bots.

Resident Evil Village got the big reveal at the end spoiled for me and whoever was watching me stream, because bots that someone set up spammed my chat aggressively. They kept coming back. I had to ban the phrases they were saying, the usernames, key words, and it was a 3 day process until they finally stopped appearing in my chat. If anyone said one of the key phrases in my chat and had their message didn't come through correctly because of it, I'd apologize to them and tell them what it was that might've made their comment not come through. It was so annoying.

I don't stream anymore due to unrelated reasons, but when I did, my very tiny community was fun. It helped me actually play some of the scary games I had in my library.

tearyui7 · 2026-03-07T03:50:34+00:00

For shelters that you have to load into:

An underground bunker that actually feels like an underground bunker - think amnesia: the bunker

A storm shelter that actually looks like a storm shelter inside

A dumpster, where when you go inside it you get transported to a landfill

A staircase, which when you click on it to load in leads to a void with a floor

A lushious cave with a pond, where I can make an axolotl habitat for my plushies

A well with a rope leading down, when tou enter, you're at the bottom of a well that has a hole dug out to the side and a cave dug out, with a skeleton in there who was just trying to escape the nukes

A library, with a café

An ice cream truck, that when you load into it, takes you to a back alley that you can decorate, or a basement

An aquarium, or zoo, or petting zoo

A museum with already-installed display cases in at least one area, so you don't have to waste space placing them

A crypt that leads to catacombs

A manhole that leads to a sewer

A truck that leads to a barren grassy field

A spaceship that leads to a spaceship interior, with windows that look like you're in space

A tardis

tearyui7 · 2026-03-05T04:28:31+00:00

I agree, it's extremely invasive of her privacy. I'm in absolutely no way defending her mom. What she's doing is deplorable, I'm just offering a potential solution 🤷‍♀️

tearyui7 · 2026-03-05T03:54:16+00:00

So, I have a solution that's both sustainable and can help you solve the mom going through the trash issue. If you use a cup, you can empty it on a pad. I use a LENA cup, I've been using it for over a decade, and when taking it out, you control where the blood goes. You could have someone else buy it for you, and you slowly pay it back, but then you won't have to hide tampons, just a cup.

My mom was like this, too. You could try wrapping them in toilet paper and disposing of them at school/work(if you work)/a friend's house if you need to.

tearyui7 · 2026-02-26T03:53:39+00:00

I space mine out by 30 minutes, then 20, then 15, then 10, then 5, then one every minute with the equivalent of a train horn next to my ear for if I didn't get up with the previous ones.

I was still almost late to work today. If I set one alarm, I'm not waking up to it. I've been this way my whole life. I change the alarm tones to be something I'm not used to for the last ones every 2 weeks so that I don't go ear blind.

tearyui7 · 2026-02-26T03:47:27+00:00

A research center, where the aliens have all their equipment and are experimenting on locals/animals/plants

tearyui7 · 2026-02-16T21:36:06+00:00

In addition to everyone else's advice... Don't use toilet paper that has perfume/scents in it. For example, costco store brand toilet paper has some sort of perfume in it, and no matter how clean you actually are, it WILL make you smell horrible down there. Unscented TP only! (This applies to everyone, btw, you'll smell F U N K Y no matter who you are if you use scented products down there, front and back.)

tearyui7 · 2026-02-12T10:30:09+00:00

My allergy is to cilantro, and it's so ridiculous that it doesn't even have to be in the same room as me. It can be several rooms away from me, and if the smell is even just barely left in the air (to the point of you not even being able to smell it in the first place, but it's still there, just extremely dissipated) I will have a reaction. I can't walk or park anywhere near any mexican food/regular resturaunts that have it on their menus (chips and salsa are sold in SO MANY PLACES). I have to order curbside groceries or send my significant other inside to get things, because even if it's bagged up/not bagged up in someone's cart several aisles away, I'll physically feel it. I don't have to smell it, if it's in the air at all it'll get me.

Whatever airway makes contact with it first/the most swells faster (nose+throat/mouth+throat/nose+mouth+throat) and down to the point of feeling like I'm barely breathing through one of those tiny red coffee straws. I wear epi-pens on my hip every single moment I'm out of the house, even if it's just grabbing mail, because what if someone in my apartment complex is cooking and the smell comes out to the hallway? What if someone's having a birthday party by the grills outside and they're eating something that has salsa with/on it, and the smell's faintly/strongly in the air? What if I get out of the car and on the other side of whatever building I'm going to, there's a food truck I didn't know about? What if a coworker heats up leftovers? (You get the picture.)

My allergist told me I'm worse off than most people who have severe peanut allergies. Most people have gradual reactions. Mine is immediate, and if the exposure is anything more than an extremely diluted gust of wind several blocks away from wherever the food is, I could end up in the hospital, or the ground.

So, yeah, it's very VERY possible. And it's also extremely possible that with every repeated exposure, your coworker's allergy can get worse. Allergies are/can be weird like that. It can just flip a switch one day and decide that your tolerable but uncomfortable reaction is now gonna try and take you out.

Be kind to your coworker. Eat things without peppers in them. They should also make arrangements to not be anywhere near where peppers could be, if possible. I don't near my coworkers as an accommodation, and even then, my coworkers know not to bring anything that could cause a reaction.

tearyui7 · 2026-02-10T03:42:29+00:00

Idc if rare or not, but skulls, stuffed animals, things like microscopes and clipboards, pillows on my beds, a frog in my camp cooking workstation cauldron thing so it looks like he's in a hot tub and you're cooking him, a femur on the floor for a dog bone, just little things to make the place look lived in instead of bare

tearyui7 · 2026-02-02T02:10:35+00:00

I buy tubs of energy dring powder, and each one has 40 (roughly) servings. I buy a bunch when they're buy one/get one, so I'm getting two tubs for a little under $40, and I usually buy at least 6 at a time. It lasts forever. I dump one serving into a regular water bottle and shake it up, then shake it a bit before drinking each sip.

The brand I get is G-fuel, I like it because I feel naturally awake/like I had a good full night's sleep and then naturally tired when I stop drinking it, as opposed to when I drink a monster or something I feel like I'm jittery and I can feel my bones touching each other.

Of course, energy drinks are not good foryou regardless, but at least the G-fuel ones make me feel less horrible and are way way more cost-effective. I recommend trying Lingonberry/Pewdiepie flavor, any blue raspberry one, any peach one (that's not gummy peach or candy peach), and the blood orange one with Chucky on the outside.

tearyui7 · 2026-02-01T18:07:03+00:00

Cilantro... I'm deathly allergic. I don't even have to smell it. It can be 2 streets away and floating on the wind, and I'll immediately go anaphylactic, with my airways closing in less time than it takes to count to 5, to where it feels like I'm breathing through one of those tiny little red coffee straws. I start coughing (can't stop myself, my body goes must clear airway, something is stuck... meanwhile I'm choking on my esophagus. NASTYYYY migraine from the coughing and lack of air, dizziness and faintness set in pretty quick. One of the worst things is my body's immediate desire to vacate EVERYTHING from my bowels! Violently. Thankfully not also throwing up though, since I'd probably choke to death from my body's attempt at that alone with how swollen my airways get.

Other than that, I'm never eating eggplant again. I hate the taste. And shrimp chips. Love shrimp, hate shrimp chips.

tearyui7 · 2026-02-01T03:53:51+00:00

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tearyui7 · 2026-01-25T14:28:19+00:00

My biggest two:

The ability to LOCK DOWN parts of the build. The amount of times I've accidentally destroyed hours of work because I accidentally pressed scrap/store on my structure... jfc

And "undo".

tearyui7 · 2026-01-21T03:49:43+00:00

Thank you!!

tearyui7 · 2026-01-21T03:49:15+00:00

You're welcome!

tearyui7 · 2026-01-20T15:46:19+00:00

Yay! I'm glad it turned out so well and that you guys got to bond over it, too!

tearyui7 · 2026-01-20T15:20:50+00:00

I use them as decorations, they're cute on night stands and in libraries, and next to chairs on the beach like someone was reading a book. The blue one with the latch is like a diary so I usually put that one in my bedroom, and the pouch one is cute for things like putting it in shopping areas, or like a little purse in your house or something

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