The Blogging Platypus

Making life easier is my jam as of late. Not that I want to be lazy and rely on hacks, but rather my energy is often limited by how many spoons I have to do my daily tasks. If I can make my life easier and still be able to do some of the things I want to do, I’m about that life. Here are three things that make my life easier: Using a file folder holder to organize cutting boards Meal prepping for the week Being green and clean with reusable/washable sponges and rags We are a mixed household, in that there are meat eaters and a vegan living under the same roof. Cross contamination is a big risk, be it gluten or animal products, so to make my life easier, we have a variety of cutting boards. They can take up a lot of space or be difficult to organize. However, using an upright file folder holder has been my savior! This way, I can easily grab the cutting board that suits my needs for what I am making. Now, that’s what I call an organization lifehack that is worth my time! The...

One of my hobbies lately is cooking recipes I come across on Pinterest. I can scroll Pinterest on my phone for hours a day, selectively pinning everything from Tiny House Awesomeness, to a board I call Nothing But Carrot Cake. Somewhere in between those I stumbled across a recipe for BBQ Pulled Jackfruit. If you don’t know jack about jackfruit, it is time you learned! I find it to be tastier than any vegan meat substitute out there. You’ll typically find it in the canned food section of your local health food store. We pick up ours from our local Natural Grocers. When cooking with it, just make sure to rinse it THOROUGHLY. Otherwise you might get stuck with a brine-y tasting and smelling dish. I ended up making two baking dishes full of BBQ pulled jackfruit, which I later used to make some delicious taquitos. Dinner was delicious, but the mess it left in the baking dishes were not. We tried soaking them overnight to see if we could get the sticky BBQ sauce remnants off the pans. No l...

Sometimes the simple option is the best, and other times, well, you kick yourself for not taking the other options before finding yourself in a jar of pickled pigs feet somehow. My face felt like it was running a risk of ending up with those poor trotters, as the skin on my eyelids, under my brow bone and the outside corners of my eyes was determined to fall off. It would be red and flakey, like biscuits covered with ketchup. Just as tasty too. I tried a variety of things to encourage my skin to stay, you know, where it belongs. I don’t wear makeup, so it wasn’t a new product. I tried cleaning my face with a cucumber witch hazel product, followed by 100% aloe, even neosporin and anti-itch stuff. Nothing was helping and I know that my doctor couldn’t do anything soon because it would have to be a tele-health appointment with the VA in ABQ. Then if a cream was needed, it would be mailed from ABQ to my home, with the whole process taking up to a month. I eventually ran out of the ...