madlori

[madlori]

The downside of talking about macros and food logging on Instagram is that now the algo is serving me a nonstop diet of proteiny products and dubious influencers. No, I do not need ten different boxes of protein bars.

[madlori]

god, Andy Samberg is so like...exactly my type that it's like he was engineered in a lab that had a direct conduit into my brain.

Andy Samberg and Seth Clear the Air in Late Night with Seth Meyers (Jan 10th 2019)

[madlori]

soooo I made a Content instagram (as opposed to my regular "just shit from my life" Instagram) about my macros logging food-and-cooking experiences.

It's lorismacros so give it a follow if you are interested. I am maybe kinda sorta hoping to build a following, so the follows helps with the algo and any likes or comments too.

[madlori]

I was that one weird kid who watched in fascination while my blood was being drawn. I could always tell the nurse or phlebotamist was braced for Kid Fears but then there'd be me, eyes wide, going "Whoaaaaaa cool!" as the blood went into the tube, and asking why it rushes in like that, and them bemusedly explaining the pressure differential to seven year old me.

As an adult I have an absurdly high platelet count so the Red Cross is constantly hounding me for apheresis (platelet donation), which I have no problem doing - apheresis involves lying still for like 90 minutes with needles in both arms, having your entire blood volume sent through the machine like 8 times.

Makes your jaw tingly. Then they give you Tums. It's a calcium thing.

the human brain is wild. why am i lowkey kinda into the idea of a vampire using me like a capri sun but get nauseous and dizzy and have a panic attack if i even think about like…a medical professional drawing my blood normal-style

[madlori]

If Nick Nelson can say he's bisexual EVERY SINGLE TIME someone mistakenly calls him gay then Buck can say it ONCE ffs

Well people got their pride post from Oliver. Thank your social media team! Now can we get him to say it on screen is all in the comments

just you wait. s9 they’ll be jumping through every hoop possible to avoid having Buck actually say the word. we’ll have the greatest hits ranging from “I go both ways” (but it won’t be a reference to Jennifer’s Body) to “both ponds” and never once will it actually be “well actually I’m bisexual but thanks for playing!”

[madlori]

There's gotta be some intel that can be gleaned by the density of Uber drivers in various places.

TIL Pizza Index. I find it pretty hilarious that there may be people in US political adversaries whose work include real time monitoring of the Google occupation index of the pizza joints close to the Pentagon as an early warning system for “some shit is on its way to the fan, ETA a few hours”

[madlori]

I just checked and his tumblr is still there, but there hasn't been a post since July 2, 2024.

gee I wonder when the story broke

It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

[madlori]

happy birthday, asshole!

[madlori]

so I have this friend. Not a close friend, more a mutual friend with whom I share a lot of geek interests.

The main way we interact is by sending each other Ea-Nasir related content. I just sent him this meme.

Also...a few weeks ago, he abruptly send me THIS. It's the complaint, TRANSLATED INTO VULCAN, and engraved on copper.

My uncle just sent this to me

He understands my level of humor

[madlori]

I've dragged more than one reader into fandoms when I jumped ship. I've gotten at least two people into 911 (sorry, guys).

But yes, the whole "they wrote one brilliant fic in MY fandom and the rest is hockey RPF" is a surprisingly common experience.

My freakiest fic ever was a hockey RPF (my only one, tho).

my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

[madlori]

Picard has been in hundreds of life or death situations but he has never wished for death as much as he did in t his episode.

[madlori]

like can we give it up for Michael Grant for a second for landing this hot ass BRAIN SURGEON like way to go, man.

Why did I have to fall in love with a brain surgeon?

for @ellelans ♡

[madlori]

Trump has no ability to pardon him for murder, which is not a federal crime (unless you murder a federal employee or do your murdering on federal land, neither of which is the case here). The state of Minnesota has control over this guy's crimes.

[madlori]

So here's a better video of the OSU marching band's pregame rituals. The Script Ohio is how they start the game, after entering the field. If you watch while they're forming the script, you can spot the one lone sousaphone player who's not with the rest of them - that's the guy who's gonna dot the i. It's an honor to do it, usually given to seniors. Honestly it's a really impressive thing, and this is the LEAST impressive thing the band does during the game. Their halftime shows are legendary, most of them are also on YT.

hmm no wikipedia i didn't know that. i mean that's pretty high praise tho how impressive could it beOH GODDAMNIT IT'S THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE

[madlori]

Macros, Day 12

I won't be posting every day about this but I would like to use this space for some personal journaling about it. I will be tagging everything with "macros" and "lori's macros" if you'd like to block the tag.

All is well in Macro Land. My seven-day average is 142 g protein, 136 g net carbs, 68 g of fat and 1853 calories. That's a tad low on protein and a tad high in fat and carbs. I'm still tweaking, and it's hard, but I'm not sweating those variances.

I am still feeling steady and peaceful, except in my bank balance. Man it gets expensive eating like this. Also the downside to doing a lot of food prep and at-home eating is you clean the kitchen 8345 times a week.

Food win of the week: last night I made this recipe (https://thenaturalnurturer.com/creamy-edamame-chicken-salad/) and it was amazing (link below) if a tad dry - next time I will increase the dressing. Also it said it made 6 servings but this is 8 easily for how I'm using it (mostly in wrap sandwiches).

I also made a wrap with a low carb tortilla, a macro-friendly chicken tender in the air fryer (RealGood Foods makes lightly breaded nuggets and tenders that are awesome), a little red beans and rice and a drizzle of ranch and it slapped.

Food fail of the week: Tried a recipe for McGriddle muffins. Basically a mixture of Kodiak high protein pancake mix, crumbled breakfast sausage, cheese, syrup and milk. I didn't add as much syrup as it said to and they turned out pretty dry (also think I overbaked them). Kinda not great. I might try them again at some point, if only to use up the pancake mix (I don't really like pancakes).

Another win: apparently Costco has 18 packs of the Oikos triple zero protein yogurt which is my fave. Going tomorrow.

I did have my app set to let me track water but have decided to stop doing that. There's some thinking that the obsession with a lot of hydration is a bit overblown (gosh, something in the health-and-nutrition field being overblown? shocking) and you don't need to pound 150 oz of water a day, just drink when you're thirsty, so I'm trying to just do that.

Today I am heading out to a local farm market in search of more veg and maybe some nut butter.

[madlori]

My bff was over last night to watch hockey and we talked about the protests and she said "I'm already seeing too many far lefties going WHERE WERE YOU ON ELECTION DAY" like, bitch, what? You'd think Kamala got zero votes. She got 70 MILLION VOTES. The people protesting probably DID vote for her. And if they didn't, but they're on board now, GREAT.

I've been saying for the past 7 months that the fundamental problem of 2024 was that people got way too comfy and cozy and complacent under the prosperity of Biden's America, and they couldn't be bothered to vote. That's it. This pig never won 50% of the vote. The majority of America has always hated Trump...but that doesn't mean a whole lot when those people do not vote against him and let his super fans decide elections instead.

It was all always so avoidable. We Hillary-Biden-Harris voters always knew to do the right thing instead of just saying the right thing.

[madlori]

yeah we see you in that slutty slutty see-through white henley.

whore.

Oliver Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley 9-1-1, S01E05 - Point of Origin