Catch that dream with Dreamcatcher!
Are you a fan of kpop and enjoyed anime osts too? I recently discovered how good Dreamcatcher songs are. I am familiar with the group name but didn't really paid much attention to them. As I was listening to the songs, they gave me that jpop rock feels. This made me think of my favorite artists Aya Ueto and Yui.
Dreamcatcher
Fly High
Boca
Scream
Goodnight
Piri
You and I
What
Odd Eye
Deja Vu
Chase Me
So now I'm glad that I'm back from a rut and began reading romance novels again. The Winston Brother Series by Penny Reid really caught my eye and I am beyond excited to finish it all. There are a lot of characters and I'm making this post in order to know whose spouse and children are in each member of the Winston brothers since I don't see any information in the internet. This is for reference. If you don't want any spoilers, please do not scroll down. However, if you're rearing to go and learn about them, feel free to know with the details below.
These are based on the earlier books but more information found in the Beard Necessities:
WINSTON FAMILY
Darrell Winston and Bethany Oliver
"Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently" - Shane Koyczan
Fiction
Author - type - genre - series number/year - title
Example
Ms. Wonder - EPUB - Children - Child 1 - The children
Non-fiction
Genre - Title - Author - Type
Example
Reference - How the Body Works - Mr. Ana Tomy - PDF
Books to read
Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce.
Joyce had published another notoriously difficult work, Ulysses, a famous stream of consciousness tour de force that chronicles a day in the life of a Dublin man. Finnegans Wake chronicles the stream of consciousness of a man during the night while he’s asleep.
"The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning" by Gautam Baid
Why Do You Love Me When I Refuse Your Request? by Seo yoo-ah
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Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 2Ed (Principles & Practices)
Clinical Psychiatry 2014 (The Clinical Medicine Series) by C.G. Weber MD
Body language 101 by David Lambert
ANALYZE ANYONE ON SIGHT - FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by Dylan Clearfield
Anxiety Disorders: A Guide for Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy by Stephen Stahl
Forensic Psychology For Dummies by David Canter
ECG NOTES - SPIRAL BOUND by Shirley Jones.
Junqueira's Basic Histology Text & Atlas 12th edition
Wheater's functional histology 5th edition
John J Murphy, The Technical Analysis of Financial Markets,
A Personal Touch on Grilled Cheese Sandwich (Sanegeal Farmhear version)
Happy Year of the Water Rabbit! How are you all? Wishing you are doing and feeling good. These past few days or weeks have been a struggle. I'm finding myself feeling under the weather. I hope the coming days will be better.
Anyway, because there are certain days that I'm feeling low, I'm lazy to cook a proper meal. However, I need to eat something. And so with the available ingredients in the refrigerator, I made myself an easy quick fix meal or snack if you may call it for those feeling lazy to cook. I made myself a Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
Previously, I made a post that I purchased a quick melt cheese (Che-vital). During the preparation of food for the Christmas festivities, my mother commented that Che-vital was a bit bland than Eden, a more known brand. After I made this sandwich, I realized that this is a perfect cheese for a sandwich because it's not too salty.
Here is how I made my own Grilled Cheese Sandwich: For one serving of sandwich, you'll need 2 pieces of bread, 1 sliced cheese (quick melt) and if you're feeling grand, add butter/margarine. I used an induction pan or oven toaster. I prefer the induction pan but you have to watch out your sandwich while cooking because if you had left it for too long, it might come to this:
Assemble the cheese in the bread. Sandwich it between the two pieces of bread. Leave some space on the edges of the bread so that when the cheese melts, it would not overflow in the pan and eating it later will let you avoid being messy.
In a 200W-400W setting, put the sandwich in the pan and cook it for around a minute or two. Next, flip it using a spatula while flattening the sandwich. If the bread facing you is toasted enough to your preference, brush the butter in the bread. I discovered that using this technique will not soften the bread by the butter which may result into a soggy sandwich and that it will not take a lot of butter. Flip again and repeat again the steps for the other side. Enjoy!
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What are 10 extremely beneficial life hacks that everyone should know about?
I don't know if all of these count as "life hacks," but here are eleven extremely beneficial tips that have aided me tremendously in my life:
Shake out each individual article of clothing before putting it in the dryer or hanging it up to dry. This does wonders speeding up how quickly the laundry dries, plus it makes all the clothes dry more evenly! Then, when the dryer finishes, you can take your used-up dryer sheet and use it to clean your dryer's lint trap. It works perfectly every time! The dryer sheet basically attracts all of the lint from the filter — even lint stuck along the edges and the corners of the trap. You can also use your used dryer sheets to clean other types of filters, like air filters and the filter in your vacuum.
You can roll a single-sided piece of tape around your finger with the sticky-side facing outward to make a barrel-shaped double-sided piece of tape. You can use this double-sided piece of tape to attach papers and posters together, to the wall, or to anything else without any of the tape showing; to secure multiple pieces of fabric that you'll be sewing together; or to close the gaps that can appear between the upper buttons (around the bust) of a lady's button-up or button-down shirt so that there's never an embarrassing or uncomfortable clothing mishap.
This is barely a life hack, but I would advise that you always keep stamps in your wallet if your wallet has a tucked-away pocket for them to hide. I have come across so many occasions where I was relieved to already have a stamp on me and not have to wait until the next day to send whatever surprise letter or bill that I suddenly needed to send.
You can keep bread and bagels in the freezer, but try not to keep them in the refrigerator. The reason for this is that the water in the bread will redistribute if it's in the refrigerator, which causes the fluffier inside bit to become harder and the tougher outside bit on the crust to become softer. That leads to the bread becoming stale faster. However, when bread is in the freezer, the water within it doesn't redistribute the same way because it freezes in the cold. The water is less able to travel. So, it's actually better to store bakery goods in the freezer than in the refrigerator if you intend to make them last longer because they will get less stale less quickly.
You can reuse jars and containers from store-bought food. For example, many brands of lunchmeat that you can buy come in plastic tupperware containers. Those are actually good for multiple uses storing your leftovers in the fridge, and they would otherwise be thrown away! Those containers are good for even more uses if you hand-wash them. Just be sure to never microwave them. Jars should be somewhat self-explanatory, but consider the fact that many jars are plenty big enough to hold a couple of servings of food, and that you already know that the seal in the lid works because you just used it to store the food that came in it. Jars are especially great for keeping leftover soups, curries, and sauces.
You can use both paper and plastic bags that you get from stores as trash bags (or trash bin liners). Especially if you go through a lot of trash or live in a small apartment, you can keep a smaller garbage can and line it with bags that many people receive automatically. That way, you can be more conscious of the trash you're creating while also reusing a bag that would normally have been thrown away. If you have cats, then I especially recommend buying a tiny, lidded garbage can to keep next to the litter box and scoop cat poop into. You can line the tiny garbage can with plastic grocery bags super easily. If the bag has a hole in it, then you can either use it for something else, throw that one away, or use it to double line your cat litter receptacle.
Even if you own your mattress, a mattress protector can save you a lot of headaches — especially if you ever eat or drink in bed. If you have a child or an elderly parent, then assuredly they should also have their mattresses protected. It isn't some sort of insult; it's literally just a precaution to ensure that all of you can enjoy your mattresses for the maximum amount of time possible.
If you ever put pepper on your food, then buy a peppercorn grinder. Where I live, they sell already-set-up glass ones that are ready to grind your pepper immediately. At least get one of those! Your taste buds will thank you for not buying the pre-ground pepper that comes in those little tins and shakers.
Keep a spare rechargeable battery and phone charging cable with you when you go out. You never know what will happen while you're away from your charging cord, and you will almost always wish you had a more charged phone than a more dead phone. I recommend the Amazon Basics portable charging bank, 5,600 mAh, if you have an iPhone 7 or equivalent. It can charge my phone from dead twice over, and it's lasted me three or four years so far.
You can roll your laundry up into little cinnamon-bun-esque logs if you're tight on space or traveling. To do this, all you need to do is fold the laundry like you normally would, but then, once it's folded into a square (if it's a shirt), or folded to half its normal length (if it's a pair of pants), then you can begin to roll the item into a roll from the looser end of the garment (e.g. the end of the shirt that has the waist opening, or the end of the pants that has the pant bottoms). You can roll most underwear like this, too. Finally, you can fold your socks so that they lie flat and stackable by lining both pieces of the pair up together and rolling the top of one sock carefully over the top of the other, then pulling gently down to include both socks into the fold before you straighten the pair out again and smoothen any remaining crumples in the fabric.
If you are microwaving something in a bowl and it looks like it might boil over, then you can just place two unpainted wooden chopsticks a small space apart from one another across the opening of the bowl to prevent the contents from overflowing! The unpainted wooden chopsticks prevent the boiling liquid from spilling over the sides of the bowl. I don't know exactly how it works, but it looks like the bubbles gather in the gap between the two chopsticks and then get popped before they have the opportunity to breach the rim of the bowl. I've used this method to cook rice, soup, curry, and noodles in my microwave, and it hasn't failed me yet. (I spent a year living in motel rooms where the only available kitchen appliances were a mini fridge and a microwave, so believe me when I tell you that discovering this eleventh extremely beneficial life hack changed my life.)
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I’m sitting by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, writing this post in a cabana.
I don’t really like sun or pools but I like people-watching. Sometimes I write a sentence and then I look at all the people and listen to their conversations.
And after this post I think I’m going to read.
I’m going to finish reading, “Worry”.
(trying not to worry too much)
If I had to pick just one, it would be learning how to really listen.
Listen, without an agenda, without intent, without thinking about what I'm going to say next, without fixing or solving or helping.
Asking questions to listen better.
Setting aside every distraction.
Listening to body language, not just words.
Making sure the people around you feel seen and heard is a superpower, and it can be developed.
Beyond that:
Developing compassion (which starts by listening.)
Learning how to handle conflict.
Being polite.
Learning how to say "I was wrong".
Learning how to say "I am sorry."
Learning to manage my emotions to avoid me being at my worst.
Taking responsibility for my feelings.
Learning to have difficult conversations.
Learning how to handle and move past rejection.
Learning how to express my opinion without forcing it onto others.
Learning discipline.
Learning resilience.
Learning to forgive.
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-What are some things you wish you knew about daily routine and self care?
Important life facts to know as early as possible in life:
Know that your only competition is who you were yesterday.
Earn, save and invest before you spend.
Avoid negative people, life is too short.
If you don't go after what you want, you will never get it.
Everyone you love is going to die.
We give our lives meaning. If you feel like life is meaningless, that's your fault.
The perfect partner doesn't exist.
Concentrate on finding someone who has a lot of qualities you like and the same values and build a fantastic relationship.
Life is a game. Find the games you want to play, learn the rules, and find a way to be successful at the games you selected.
Everything ends. Youth, love, life, all ends, and that's what makes them valuable.
Be romantic about little things.
Be a realist about the big things. Life isn't a movie, you need to have a plan, have an artist's ambition, but an engineer's mindset.
Figure out a way or don't complain.
See failure as a beginning, not an end.
Our habits decide our future.
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One of the most important was that the magnitude of disappointment was directly proportional to the magnitude of expectations. I’d known this for a while, but the concept had finally solidified in my mind this year during physics class when we’d learned about Newton’s third law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It applied to life and hopes and dreams and expectations too.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As previously noted, this law applies to life, hopes, dreams, expectations, and masses traveling at varying velocities, especially when one of those masses is a huge boy and the other mass is me.
I had a kind of fearless confidence when I was a kid, like I really mattered. All that changed in middle school; not because of any one big event or wound; more like thousands of tiny cuts (literally and figuratively). I’d grown tired of fighting the world because the world always won.
When you manage people, figure out what your employees need from you in order for them to be their most successful selves. Some folks need praise, some folks need criticism, some folks need structure. Some folks just need small talk, knowing you care, and that’s it. It’ll be different for each person.
Basically, when you’re a leader, it’s impossible to treat everyone the same. Each person needed something different from you—as their leader—in order to succeed. Being in charge meant figuring out what that thing was for each individual, and then giving it to them.
The only thing I could do was point out how what he was doing, what he wanted to do and the choices he made, how all that impacted others. So that’s what I did.
I patted its head. "Why does your dog always look at me like it's afraid?" "It's ’cause you're the alpha and she wants your approval. Come here, girl. Come here." With one more wary glance, the dog moved past me and to Cletus, meeting him with exuberance markedly different from the reserved, half-hearted greeting I'd received. "Alpha," I snorted, shaking my head. "Pack mentality is key to canine survival. You're the alpha, so she doesn't want to do anything to piss you off. It's a sign of respect."
“The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.”
WILL FERGUSON, HAPPINESS
“You don’t need to brag.” Her smile widened and she looked at me like I was funny. Again, she turned, leading the way back to the camp and not waiting for me to follow. “That’s the difference between you and Darrell. He brags ’cause he ain’t so certain. His superiority is questionable, even to him.”
“Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.”
MERCEDES LACKEY, FOUR & TWENTY BLACKBIRDS
Sure, people might pity kids like Carla and me, but they didn’t ever actually care about us. Pity was not compassion. I understood that, I got it. Clearly, she did not. We were unfortunate charity projects, worthy of what other folks were willing to give, which was usually just a sympathetic glance and a Whatcha gunna do? And that’s it.
While Carla and me? Well, let’s just say, this is why you don’t pet strays. You don’t teach them to expect gentleness.
And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.”<BR>Mira Grant, Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy
When people are overwhelmed, they can’t see past their own campfire. I’m asking you to look past your campfire, Billy.”
My sweet boy, you need to have faith. The Lord would not have put her in our path if He didn’t want us to help. I believe that. We are being called. And when you’re called, you answer, even if it’s inconvenient, even when it’s scary. Actually, especially then.”
“A Fairy Haiku just for you:<BR>Thank you for the food.<BR>No need to guard it, Billy<BR>Don’t snobs sleep indoors?<BR>- Forest Fairy”
The real meaning of the story is about who is fit to rule, who is fit to lead. Saul is nearly as tall as Goliath. His armor is equal, he has all the right weapons and tools and yet he refused to fight the giant.”
Saul has no faith in his own success, in his people, in God. And then David comes, a boy who resolves to fight the giant, though he has no armor and no spear. By comparison, he has none of the right tools, taking only a staff, sling, and five stones from a brook. But he also takes faith. All the right tools in the world can’t measure up to the power of faith.”
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”<BR>Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
I mentally devoured this picture of him, feeling greedy for it. It was like looking at a painting or a sculpture, an intensely gorgeous piece of art. Have you ever known someone like that? Who takes your breath away when they smile? Gawd.
Darrell was a master charmer, which was how he got his club name, Romeo. The man’s charisma felt like a tractor beam.
“It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”<BR>Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.”<BR>Laura Miller, My Butterfly
Nine Inch Nails song entitled, ”Hurt”
So I knew teenage girls were prone to odd fits of emotion, crying and the like. Just like me and my brothers were prone to spells of aggression.
She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.”<BR>Laura Miller, My Butterfly
What does Scarlet need from me, right now, in order to accept my help? What can I say that will get her in that shower, in those pajamas, and sleeping the night in a warm bed?
“I have no brothers or sisters, so I get all my siblings’ love. But since I can't take what's already mine, I end up giving it all to my cat.”<BR>Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
I didn’t understand how his situation could be considered overwhelming. He had everything and he was overwhelmed? Could people be overwhelmed by blessings s
People are their choices, yes, but they’re also how they treat others
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake.”<BR>Ernest Hemingway
<BR>“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”<BR>Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.”<BR>David Levithan, Every Da
Wild Horses” by the Rolling Stones
Don’t go looking for your lost homework inside a blueberry pie, pies don’t eat homework. Meaning, don’t look for excuses where none exist and don’t avoid taking responsibility for yourself.
She deserved so much better than the hand she’d been dealt. Maybe her struggles had made her strong, resilient, but she didn’t deserve to be burdened with them
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths.”<BR>Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
The Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”<BR>H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
As my momma’s friend Ellie Leffersbee said whenever she saw or heard or experienced something she found momentous, I was stirred like a gin and tonic and shaken like a martini.
Momentous, incredible, and unheard.
God gave us free will so that we’ll stumble and learn how to pick ourselves back up. But He also gave us folks who love us, to clear away the obstacles before we trip and fall.
Poetry plus all the wordless feelings in the music itself. Complex things, ideas are communicated without words. The instrumental part can make the spoken part ironic—like when the lyrics touch on love, but the accompaniment is loud and angry. I love that. But the score can also make the lyrics more true and sincere, the feelings deeper.”
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.’”<BR>Her eyes cut to mine, like I’d surprised her, held. “I like that,” she whispered breathlessly, like she was telling me a secret. “Who said that?”<BR>“Marcus Aurelius.”
You know, Scarlet,” I continued, “It’s okay to have dreams, to want things.”<BR>She took what looked like a deep breath, her smile waning. “I know that, Billy. But it’s also dangerous too.”<BR>Dangerous? “How so?”<BR>“Have you ever wanted something you know you can’t have?”
“Then you know dreaming can be dangerous. Wanting something impossible can make a person bitter, angry, resentful. It can make you hate the thing you want, and I don’t ever want to be a hateful person.<BR>“So you, what? Don’t allow yourself to want things? That doesn’t seem right.”<BR>Her eyes narrowed and she turned her head, peering at me but still smiling. “Sometimes it’s not about right and wrong, Billy. Life ain’t fair, didn’t you just get finished ranting about the unfairness of Ben McClure’s sainted status in Green Valley?”<BR>Likewise, I narrowed my eyes. “Unfairness doesn’t mean we shrug our shoulders and accept whatever life gives us. It means we fight for what we want, and we take it when we can.”<BR>“I am fighting for my dreams,” she said, her smile spreading, looking mischievous. “I have every intention of living in a real house one day, with a kitchen.”<BR>Now I was smiling even though her statements, meant to be funny, frustrated me. “Dream bigger, Scarlet. You’re not just capable of bigger, you deserve it. Here’s another quote for you, ‘Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.’”
“… people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.”<BR>Ron Hall, Denver Moore
Yes. I was well and truly crushed as I could only watch Billy Winston laugh, desperately basking in the image of him so delighted and relaxed. I had the odd sense that his laughter also filled the empty spaces inside of me, the neglected, vacant rooms, and even a few places that felt brand-new, like he’d created them.<BR>All that noble honesty he carried around like a boulder abruptly lifted, revealing him. Just him. Carefree and young and happy. Someone he might’ve been if his burdens hadn’t been so heavy, his responsibilities so broad.
Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented—these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.”<BR>Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
It was like, I wanted it to be right, so I willed it to be right, and that was that. Maybe this wasn’t how right and wrong worked for most folks, but I’d learned through hard experience a long time ago that sometimes right—especially when the goal was survival—was relative to needs and circumstances rather than an absolute.
“It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.”<BR>Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,<BR>in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”<BR>Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’.
Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.
Rules remove temptation—uh, mostly—and set limits. You sleeping somewhere warm, indoors, that’s what’s important. I want you to feel safe with me, always.”
“Family cannot be determined by blood. Family is determined by actions. Family is about trust. Family is about acceptance. Family is about love. True family is earned, not born.”<BR>Sarah Brianne, Vincent
“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”<BR>Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
“Just surrender, Billy. You can’t control everything. Sometimes you have to surrender.”
Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”<BR>Donna Tartt, The Secret History
But how does one pretend the world doesn’t exist?
This is why you don’t pet strays. You don’t teach them to expect gentleness. Getting their hopes up just ends up being an unkindness instead, in the end.
How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.”<BR>Veronica Roth, Allegiant
“’Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.'<BR>‘And what will you give me in return, Severus?'<BR>‘In – in return? Anything.’”<BR>J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Hmm.” I knew what that was like. “It’s an inconvenient truth not frequently acknowledged, Duane. Boys, men, don’t generally like feeling out of control. They don’t embrace it the same way girls and women do—generally. That’s why you’re saying the mean things. She makes you feel crazy, uncertain, and it’s scary.”
“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”<BR>Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
