Exercise journal #6
Hey guys, another Monday is here, another week, so I am back with my exercise journal. Finally, a bit of progress this week again. And I will definitely do another week and then make a final update next Monday/Tuesday, I am not sure will I be able to post right away at the time. In that update I will include starting measurements and final ones, and maybe even photos of my famous shorts, as before and after. I will also include how much exactly I exercised, and a little more about my "diet". Of course, no need to mention again, this is just my experience and what I did and how it worked for me, it is far away from any professional advice or recommendation.
But, let's talk now about today, and last week. I was hoping to do more, as temperatures dropped, and I had more time, but I did exercise for 3 days last week, it was always an hour exercise. Besides this, I still continued to eat mostly healthy food, as much as I can, and a bit smaller portions instead of a huge plate of potatoes that I would normally eat. The only "cheat" meal or food I had been an ice-cream one day, and I wouldn't even count it as cheat, as there are much worse food, and I really needed something sweet at the time :D One day also I didn't exercise, but I had a longer walk.
All this resulted with a few cm less, not much but better than nothing. To my surprise my waist was 1 cm smaller, which I didn't expect, because the lower belly stayed the same, and it's the bigger one, and I assume easier to make progress with. Besides this, I also had half cm in legs. Something that I spontaneously did, was tried my shorts again, and even though I need slimmer legs for it, now it was much easier to put it on, and it was not so tight as before. So I don't feel like I lost more weight, but I think shape is better and things are more at their place. Maybe I get a chance to measure weight for final report next week, but I am not sure. It would be just to compare, it's not an important factor to me anyway. The thing that I am most happy through this journey is that I am more happy with my look and I am eating more healthy with no problem at all, so hopefully I will continue this lifestyle even after next week. Maybe not as a rule, but in general, it's much better to eat as healthy as you can, occasional cheat days are fine. For the next week, however, I do plan to exercise more, probably 5/7 days, but we will see. Just remaining the good food and eating is also enough for me now.
That would be all for this one. It was not much of an update, but there are not many changes now that we are coming to an end. If I don't continue exercise this summer, I will have more other activities, like walks, swimming, just being acive around the house, so it will be enough activity not to gain weight again, and remain in shape, I hope.
Lead image and photo I included in this article are original and I own them.
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Participation in photo contests
Hey guys, another week passed by. Sometimes it feels like time flies, sometimes as it goes so slowly. In the past week I participated in few contests again, so I will share with your photos with which I participated, and if I won something.
POB photo contest
The previous week theme was white, and I participated on Sunday, just a few hours before deadline. I have chosen snow as my subject for white, however my photo didn't make to top 3. This was a photo that I participated with:
Then this week theme was heights. For this one I wouldn't find good photo to participate with, and I don't have any heights near to make photo of it, so I skipped and waited till today to see new theme. That was squares, and I thought of a photo to participate with. It could be a public square or something square shaped, and I decided to go with the second. I will not know results for a week, but this is the photo I participated with:
Qurator photo quest
Last week theme was yellow, another color challenge. Another color challenge same week. I decided to do few yellow flower photos but the main to participate with was this one:
I didn't make it again to top 3, not even honorable mention, but it's ok. Post did okay, so it was good anyway. And then this quest is not till Sunday, so another theme was announced, and it was Dandelions, which means more yellow flowers hah, but I have chosen this one as main photo to participate with:
Deranged photography contest
This is probably my favorite one that I participate in, just because post must be through Liketu and I get liked by them, so post itself earns a lot. And also I make it in Photography Lovers community, so I get from it good amount of likes too. The theme for this week was the best shots. Tricky one, I don't feel like I am a good person to judge my photos, and not too objective as I would rather choose cat or dog photo because I like them more, or moon photo even though they are not great because of my camera quality. But since here we can have more entries it was a bit easier, and I posted max 10 photos in the post, but featuring one and main in the comment was this:
And it was also chosen as winner in the Amateur tire, wining second place and 3 HIVE. So on top of the fact that post did well I also got a prize which is great considering everyone shared their best photos and there were many good ones. Theme for this week is portraits and I probably won't participate since I have more animal than human portraits, but we will see.
That's all for last week, this week I might join Shadow or Reflection ones too. It's nice to participate anyway, weather you win or not, but feels very good when someone values your work.
All photos used in this article (including lead image) are original and I own them.
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People who predicted their death
This article is about people who predicted their death, but not how or from what they will die, but precise date of death (or very close to it). I know there are many people claiming they can predict the future, or tell you when you will or how to die, but this is not an article about them, or any other con artists, but about people who predicted their own deaths, by accident or using some methods. I found more examples, some people predicted how, some when, but these are the ones that were most interesting to me.
Mark Twain
I believe that most of you know who is this. Famous writer, best known for his work "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" but also "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". What most of you don't know, is one interesting fact, and that is that he was born 2 weeks after the Halley's comet was closest to the Earth. If you don't know, Halley's comet returns to Earth's vicinity about every 75 years, making it possible for a person to see it twice in their lifetime. This is actually a core thing for Mark, predicting his death. He said, in 1909. :
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together".
And he was right. Although he didn't go the day it was closest to the Earth, in 1910., he died only the day after, on April 21st, of a heart attack. So I would say he missed the day by only one day. Of course, I don't think he knew it for sure, or could predict it, it was just an interesting coincidence.
Image: source CC 1.0 via Wikipedia Commons https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10890 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Twain_MET_ap17.96.jpg
Kurt Cobain
Another very famous person. Even if you are not a Nirvana fan, I assume you heard of, or know for Kurt Cobain, lead singer. He made few predictions about himself and his life and death, in his teenager years, in high school, when he was 13 or 14. He said to his classmate that he was going to get rich and famous from being a rock star, and that he’d die in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix. He for sure became a rock star of that time, and many years later. Jimi Hendrix died at the age of 27, and Kurt killed himself on April 5th, in 1994, at the age of 27. You can say he made prediction possible by doing it, but it was years later than he said it, and he didn't kill him because of that.
Image Author: Adam Jones, CC 4.0 via Wikipedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minibus_with_Kurt_Cobain_Portrait_-_Bhaktapur_-_Nepal_(13486900064)_crop.jpg
Abraham de Moivre
This one is most interesting to me. It is about French mathematician, Abraham de Moivre. He pioneered the development of analytic geometry and the theory of probability. De Moivre also investigated mortality statistics and the foundation of the theory of annuities. An innovative piece of work by Halley, had been the production of mortality tables, based on five years of data, which he published in 1693. Toward the end of his life, as he turned 87, he noticed a change in his life. He said he was sleeping an extra 15 minutes than before and summing the arithmetic progression, calculated that he would die on the day that he slept for 24 hours, and that would be 27th November 1754. And he was right, that was the day of his death. Even though for previous cases, I said it was coincidence, here I have to leave space that it was possible, as it was about one scientist and mathematician.
Image: source CC 1.0 via Wikipedia Commons https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/230957 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_de_Moivre_MET_DP-1424-031.jpg
Hope this was interesting to you, maybe I can do part two if you like it. Lead image is from Unsplash.com
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Bullet journal - July
This is article that I was supposed to write before. We are already almost at third of the month. I was to post this one the other day, when I skipped posting. It would be still late, but thing is, you can chose any theme for your journal, any month, so this is just to give you some ideas. Just like previous month, this time I decided again to go with the easier theme, and very fitting to this time of the year - watermelon. I could eat it everyday in summer, and I could eat so much of it. As always I searched for inspiration on YouTube, I saw some amazing watercolor watermelons, and even though I love both of those, watercolors would take more time, and my bullet journal paper is not good for watercolors. I did mix of few videos, and this is my main page:
This time I also tried to save a bit of space, just because I am halfway through my bullet journal notes, and I like it a lot, so want to use it as much as I can. I will show you how the sketch looks like before I finish it. I always do with pencil first, then my black Unipens (here I used 0.03 for everything, but sometimes I use different sizes). And then in the end coloring, and it's always colored pencils, because of the thickness of the paper.
Even though I wanted to keep it simple, I wanted to add mood tracker again, and you can be very creative with them, so mine was a bit more time-consuming, but I had the idea of it and wanted to do it anyway. My idea was to make watermelon and a lot of pieces of it, each representing one day in the month. Depending on my mood, I will color them, so hopefully watermelon will be more ripe in the end of the month. You can see what color represents what mood on the one separated piece of it. This is how pages look finished:
As far as the parts of bullet journal this month are concerned, I did per usual, habit and expense tracker. Since I planned to post each day here and on Hive, I was thinking to do also part with posts planned ahead, but I didn't. Maybe this could be an idea for the next month, just to always have something planned ahead, in case that I don't have inspiration or time. I added part with books and movies too, because hopefully I will have more time to read this month (if I go on vacation specially) and finish a few books.
For the goals, I decided to lower it than last month for read and put 0.1 BCH, which was a good choice considering how it's going so far. And also 50 Hives, because I will post much more than before, so I think it will be possible.
I will try to post bullet journal next month on time, if not even before 1st of August, but like I said, it's just an inspiration, nothing strict.
All photos included in this article are original (including lead image) and I created them.
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World Chocolate Day
Hey guys! I wanted to post each day this month, but already failed. Yesterday I didn't posted anything, I was planning too, but I was bit tired, and to be honest a little bit demotivated. Rusty is not visiting me, and I accidently made one big time, so this months I am below 1$ earnings here. Which is bit demotivating just because I dedicate time and effort in writing, and yet I earned more on some other sites that doesn't require any effort at all. But I won't give up, don't worry.
Today is World Chocolate Day and I saw this by accident, and decided to change my plan and write about chocolate instead. If you ask me do I prefer salty or sweet food, I would probably choose salty, but I can't say that I don't like good chocolate. When I come to sweet things, if I am craving it I want it to be very sweet, so I usually chose chocolate or ice-cream (that is very sweet). But I do love many kinds of chocolate as well.
For example, I like weird combinations, like sweet-salty, so one of my favorite combination is salty caramel, and therefor, I also love it in chocolate. One of my favorite chocolates is the one with peanuts and salty caramel, and it's sweet-salty explosion of taste, so good. But that one is on the expensive side, and I don't buy it very often. Other one that I like is black chocolate. I know many people are not a fan of it, because it tastes more bitter than sweet, but I don't mind it, on the contrary, I love it. Also, any combination with it works for me, for example orange/black chocolate, or another one of my favorite: mint - dark chocolate. That one is probably my favorite chocolate combination, but not every that I tried was the best. The best I had of that type is not in the stores anymore, unfortunately. And what about you? What is your favorite flavor of chocolate?
Let's talk about chocolate more. Here are some interesting facts about chocolate:
**Europe Accounts for More Than Half of the World's Chocolate Consumption** - This is interesting because Europe population is not biggest in the world, it's not even second, so to think half of chocolate is consumed here, you can know we have some sweet tooth in the Europe.
**There are 4 types of chocolate** -RAW (made out of unroasted cocoa beans), DARK (it needs to have at last 35% of cocoa solids, I wouldn't count if it has less than 50%), MILK (sweet chocolate that also contains milk powder or condensed milk), WHITE (made of cocoa butter)
**The Most Valuable Chocolate Bar in the World Sold for $687 -** Pretty crazy amount for one bar, and if you wonder why it was this expensive, well, it was 100 years old. This makes it even more crazy, because it wasn't eaten. And what use of chocolate if you don't eat it, right?
**Chocolate has been prepared as a drink for nearly all of its history -** It is interesting to think about it, and how people could enjoy magic of chocolate even so back then in the past.
**Until the 16th century, no European had ever heard of the popular drink -** Even though there are traces of chocolate use even before Christ, it was not present in Europe until the 16th century. I guess this explains first fact, and European just decided to make it up now, for not using chocolate so long.
Today was World Chocolate Day but irony is, I didn't had a chocolate today at all. What about you, did you ear any chocolate today?
Photos included in this article (including lead image) are from Unsplash.com
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Learning something new
When was the last time you learned something new? It could be today, it could be yesterday, it could be days ago. Very often we learn things, not even realizing it or giving it any importance. Also, when it comes to learning, many people think of school and study, and many don't like it. It's boring or hard for some. It's a challenge for some, or even a way to prove something. But learning can be fun and interesting and doesn't even have to be something hard. If you chose a subject that is interesting to you, something that you always find intriguing, maybe you should give it a try.
Learning something new is also working on yourself, improving and growing you and your mind and knowledge. It doesn't even have to be useful, or related to your work or life in general. If it gives you a pleasure and if it is fun, it is worth it if you ask me. But it can also be something useful, like learning a new language. It is okay even if it's not to be used for professional reasons, but only to understand your favorite TV show without subtitles, or to read your favorite book in original edition. Or maybe you can just improve language you already know, and take it to the next level.
There are books to improve your mind, thinking, memory,... But I know those are not for everyone. Not everyone seeks for it. I like it, but I also like learning something not important at all, like flags. Flags of all of the countries in the world. It is fun to me, I have application and that's how I learn it, but I think I will also start drawing them too, as final step to make sure I know it. On the way of doing this I will learn which continent each country belongs to (this tho I mostly know already), maybe where exactly on the map it is, and capital city. If we talk about geography, I am very bad with rivers, mountains, but it is much more interesting to me to learn capital cities and flags. Maybe some other day, who knows, it won't be bad to improve it.
If you are still learning and plan to learn many more things, it's not bad to first learn some learnings techniques, like mind maps which is one very popular and famous technique. Or maybe improving memory by reading a book about it and practicing. Speed reading, also. It is very popular and very useful technique to know. All of this takes time to do and learn, but in long term, it can save you a lot of time for the future studies.
My point is, weather it is theoretical physics or something so basic and not important, like learning flags around the world, do it. Everything counts. You will feel better after it, and heavier for the some extra knowledge that you got from ot, fullfiled and smarter. So weather ots new language or new cooking recipe, or new flag, just give it a try :)
Photo that I used as lead image is from Unsplash.com
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Exercise journal #5
This will be an interesting one, trust me :D You probably wonder why, did I magically loose so much weight or maybe got 6 packs overnight? Of course, no, that's not the case, unfortunately. What happened was, I didn't exercised at all. Hole week. Yeah. Hole week nothing. And I am not a bit ashamed to admit it. This was the entire point of these posts, to motivate myself, progress, but also I had to be honest and not cheat in any way. I had other things and was a bit busy last week, and it was way too hot to even exist. I didn't want to turn on the air conditioner too much because it's not good, specially if you are sweaty. My focus was more on eating better, and I have to say I was very successful in that part. High temperature probably helped because I was not having appetite, nor any cravings. It was easy for me to follow through and not have any cheat meals. At this time, watermelon is my best buddy. I can eat whole bunch of it. And salads, they are light, easy to make, easy for belly to take, just perfect for hot summer days. Guess the only thing that I miss is pasta, I didn't had it in a while. But I do have noodles. I don't lack on carbs, no worries :D
With that being said, I still did measurements. And I was happy to see that I lost 1 cm in lower belly anyway, even without exercise. But this could be partially from last week, as we can't see progress the same day we do exercise, it is not instant. The rest of the measurements were the same. Now I am already happy with the way I look and don't mind it at all, but I did plan another week of exercise, and with this past one missed I really want to do it. I will also have more time and temperatures should go down soon, so that won't be a problem. I might even extend it to 17th, but we will see yet about it. Parts that I will focus on are my legs, because I know they can be much better, and also belly since it's going well so far, I want the entire muffin top off and melted.
There is some 2-week program that I wanted to do to last 2 weeks, but there is a lot of cardio and jumping and I would be able to do it at my home, but in the apartment I am not comfortable, and I have a crazy neighbor, so I would rather not try at all. What would be perfect for me would be a longer video with more different exercises for legs, as well as one longer for abs too. Now I do few of each that I combine, and I am far from expert, and it would be easier to have all in one and be sure it's enough. I haven't decided yet which I will do, but I will see more later, hopefully I will find some good video. (at the time of writing this it was day time, I am posting the article later in the evening) It is much easier also if I can just follow one routine, and not to mix videos myself taking care that all for abs are at one time and with no break, but sometimes I forget plank to add, and I don't have plank in the video, I do it separately. So you get the point.
Whatever that I decide I will include in the next update article, and I will write complete results, if I decide to stop. I realized I wrote goals quite lightly, not knowing how much it really is and how much time it would take, and most importantly how it will look for me. So my goals that I wrote I can't reach for sure, but I will probably look the way I wanted anyway, because I didn't know what measurements are those. Only the shots, oh I don't think it will be possible hah. At the time I got that shorts I was the tiniest and now with not forcing my leg exercises, I don't think it will fit :D But who knows, we will see :D
All photos that I included in this article are original and I took them.
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PS: Fun fact I just noticed, this seems to be (maybe it's not, but seems that way to me) the longest exercise journal so far, and it is the one when I didn't do any exercises! Hah! What an irony. Looks like I was in the writing mood :D
Last week participation in contests
Last week I was more active in the photo contests again, but I also find even more for the next week. I am quite happy about it as I love to participate a lot, it gives me inspiration what to post, and chance to win some amazing prizes.
Deranged photography contest
This contests ends on Friday, but winner is not pronounced yet, so I will include previous week and this week even though I don't know results for this week.
Flowers - this subject was probably one of the easiest for me because I have so many photos of flowers and I always take new. Since contests allows more photos it was not that hard for me to chose, like it is when I need to chose only one. I decided to edit them all in darker shades, in Lightroom. I was happy to see that I won 3 HIVE which is prize for second place in Amateur tire. This photo was featured:
Landscape - another easy subject. I spend a lot of time in car or train or bus, going from place where I live to my home. On my way there are some beautiful landscapes almost all the way. They are not so high quality though, since I usually take photo from a moving car, and my camera is not perfect. Winners are not pronounced yet, but my post did very well, and here is one of my entries:
Qurator's Photography contest
Subject was Automobile, which was quite hard for me. I do have some photos of same car model that I like, that I took in the city, but those are all bad photos, and taken because of the car, not to be pretty. Then I remembered I have photo of one old and popular model here, that I took on a vacation, and I entered contest with it. I knew chances to win were close to nothing, but contests are not only about winning. Here is photo that I participated with:
POB photo contest
Subject was White - another easy but also hard subject. I had many things cross my mind for this one, my dog who was white fur, some cats, snow, white flowers... I decided to go with snow, as I would have the most of white on the photo. I didn't won this one as well, but it was a nice one. Here is photo that I chosed to enter with:
Hive Power up day
This was not a photo contest, but all who power up on the first of the month, and make post about it, have chance to win some amazing prizes. There is no post about it yet, but I think I meet the criteria and that I will be on the list of potential winners. This is second time that I am participating in this one.
This is all for last week, this one I will continue and maybe do even more. We will see. Qurator's I will do, Deranged if subject is okey for me, POB probably, not sure yet. And there are the new ones that I found, as well as reflection and shadow, that I would do if some of these don't fit me.
It should go without saying, all photos included in this article are original and I took them.
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Trying out baked zucchini burgers
Today I am sharing one simple, semi healthy and delicious recipe. It is zucchini burgers, but these are baked, not fried. My favorite zucchinis are sliced and fried, but I know that is not the healthiest, and honestly, it takes a lot of time, so I wanted to try baked and shredded.
Ingredients that you will need are:
zucchini
salt
flour
oil
baking powder
egg
seasoning that you like (optional)
This time I added bacon, not too much, but this was just experimenting, and bacon gives more flavor to everything. Some people add other vegetables as well (like carrots) but I like taste of zucchini and I like to put only that.
First you need to shred zucchini, add salt and leave it for some time, so it will release water. After it sits for a while, you will need to squeeze it out. I do it with my hands, but you can also put it in a dishcloth and squeeze it that way. The more you squeeze, the less flour you need to add later. Next is adding rest of the ingredients. Mix egg in separate bowl, and it's optional, you can add some milk in it. I like to add little milk in almost everything I make with eggs, so I added. In this you will also add oil. Entire point of baking it was not to have too much oil used and too greasy burgers, so I tried to add as little as possible but still it will need some. After mixing it with zucchini, it is time to add flour and baking powder. Best way to do it is to mix flour and powder, and then mix it all together. In the end, I also added a bit of bacon, but just a little, as you can see, because it will give it nice flavor.
Also, bacon is quite greasy so it will add more oil. I put in the baking try onto the baking paper. As it has baking powder in the mixture, you don't need to make it too high, it will raise while being baked. Mine are not all the same size or shape because my goal was to put it all in the same try, I didn't care much about how it looks.
I baked it around 35 minutes in 200C, but I guess it depends on your oven and now big your burgers are. Here is the result. And also I think I maybe put it too high, I am not sure. They didn't look as I expected, but sure they tasted nice and they were soft inside, just like I wanted. Thing is, I didn't follow any recipe for this, I just thought to try the same one that I fry, but in the oven. Maybe next time I try something more specific. But I was happy with the result, I wanted it to be a more healthy version, and I think it was, and it was also tasty enough for me.
I assume most people would prefe fried ones, as they are more tasty, but I try to eat healthy and making it this way saved my time, therefore I will continue to do it this way. I ate it with hard white cheese and it was tasty for me. After entire apartment smelled like zucchini for a while 😄
All photos that I included in this article are original and taken by me.
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Hive Power Up day - July 2022
The first time that I did Hive power up and participated in hove power up day was last month. As it occurs only on the first of the month, I missed the month before that because I was busy on the first, and couldn't do it. I discovered Hive Power Up day on hivebuzz site, while I was looking at my stats and badges. Powering up was not something new to me then, but I never did it. I wasn't either long on the platform at the time, and I was not too active, so I didn't have too many hive to use for it, and it wasn't my priority. There is a timer on their site and shows how much more time you have to do it. There is still 2 hours til the end
When I saw it on hivebuzz I wanted to do it to get the badge, because I am kind of person that loves that. Little challagens, achivements, tasks to earn badges,... It is all interesting to me and I love to collect it and I want to have it all. Here are the basic ruls for the bedge.
Then it was settled, I will join in June to get the badge. In the meantime, I read more about it and discovered that if you make a post about powering up, you can also get some prices. This led me to investigate more and find out what are requirements and rewards. It all made me realize that powering up is much more than just earning a badge. It is investing and building up your profile for the long term. And if you make a post, you can get some awesome rewards. What I like about rewards is that they are random, so no matter how much you power up, if you meet other requirements (rating, HP balance, reputation) you have an equal chance to get prizes. And some are huge, like getting 300 HP delegation. That is almost double the HP that I already have. In June, I didn't win any prize, tho.
Plan for this month was to participate again and get bigger bee. The more you power up the bogger bee you get. But I didn't realize next bee is 50 Hive and that was too much for me. Still, i did more then previous month, instead of 10 which is minimum, I did 11. Hive. Plan is to keep participating and getting bigger badges but I will have to be more active for that. The badge is not shown yet, because you can power up more and more through out the day
There is also a Hive Power up monthly challenge, but I am too small fish for that. Wonder will I ever reach the amaout on the balance that allowes you to play daily.
Photos used in this article are screenshots that I made.
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June online earning summary
End of the June is here, and it is time to look back and see how we did this month. It is funny to look back on previous summary, and realize that in spite I didn't lose BCH this month, but earn it, my balance is less than it was at the start of this month. That is because of low BCH price, of course.
Read cash
Let's start with this site. On read, my plan was to post daily. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do it, and I skipped a few days, but not too many. I made 26 articles (including this one), which means I didn't post only 4 days in June. That is far better than in May, but it wasn't enough to beat May earnings, at last, in $. Due to much lower price of BCH then even on the start of the month (at the time it was about $162) I earned less in $. But in BCH it was more, of course. In that last post, I didn't mention my goal for this month, but it was 0.15. This goal was not reached, so I will try to keep it for the next month as well. One of the reasons was probably that not all my articles were worthy of the reward, to be precise, 5 of them didn't get it (at the time of writing this article, and without this one). But there were some good things this month, two big achievements. I reached 1 BCH, and also I got my first sponsor here. My BCH earnings are bigger than 1 BCH, but I sold some before, and now for the first time I hold 1 BCH. Not the greatest time for that, but I am still proud. To finally sum up, in June:
I made 26 post, 5 not rewarded, most rewarded was the first one Hello JUNE https://read.cash/@moonlight22/hello-june-may-summary-3d0f3207
I earned 0.09 BCH (excluding this post, if it earns anything) or $8.99
Total views: 604
Got first sponsor
0.031 BCH more then in May
I think it could have been better, but I am happy over all. I always compare current earnings to the price when I sold last time, and if it reaches that price again, these earnings are not bad at all.
Noise cash
My plan was to post once a day on noise, which would mostly if not all the time be a post about my new article. Even though I almost posted here each day, that didn't happen on noise. I think I shared about 20 posts. But I don't like it, I still can't reward there, and I don't feel good posting and knowing that I can't return all the support. So this is what is left from noise wallet without my wallet tips: 0.0185 BCH or, $1.85. It is not much, but it is not even bad comparing to the read, since here I give my best, and I am active much more. This was more BCH then in May, but probably just due to low price.
HIVE/ecency
Again, since there earnings come after 7 days, this will be estimated earnings. I have only two posts that are due to cash out, so it should be accurate. I earned 38 HIVE (converted from HBD and 3 HIVE price) and 23 HP. From the remaining two posts I should get around 6 HIVE (from HBD) and 5.8 HP. In total, that would be about 42 HIVE and 28.8 HIVE. Which is more HIVE but less HP than previous month. I have to mention that I was less active than in May and made only 11 posts. Now as the price of HIVE is going up, I am kind of bumped I didn't use more and stalk more, but I didn't have time. It takes quite some time to find photos, edit them, and also write about it.
Other sites
This time I will also mention other sites. I use few sites to earn crypto by doing simple tasks, but earnings there are almost none, but I still use it just to collect some coins. In May, I returned to Display app, in order to collect a few more bucks before I cash out. To my surprise, I was able to collect over $8. Still, I don't like the app that much, but I will write about it some other time. One new site that I started in June (few days ago actually) is for playing games and earning BCH. I got 0.0077 BCH there now, which is not much, but I just started, so I think I will include this site more next month. Also, I started using app to share internet, and just switched to crypto earnings, and I will share next month how much I got there with 10% bonus for earning in crypto.
Summary and goals for July
Overall, I am happy with June. I knew I wouldn't be able to give my 100%, so this is more than I expected. Earnings were better or same as previous month, which is good. In July, I would like to keep it up, post as much as in June, if not more, specially on Hive. The goal for BCH will be the same, 0.15, but I would like to set a goal for HIVE as well, and that would be 50 HIVE.
That would be all for this article. All photos that I included are original.
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Protect your skin
Skin protection is something we should take care of all the time, but specially in the summer. Most people think Sun is okay when it's not summer, but that is not true. As someone with pale and sensitive skin, I can tell you, you can burn in April as well. Some people do have better skin, and do better on sun and not get burned, but it doesn't mean that sun rays are not bad for them as well.
Some time ago, there was a photo posted on Instagram that went viral. It showed one old grandma and her skin. Her neck and skin around her ears was almost perfect and with no wrinkles. Only by looking at that part, you would never think that it's a very old lady. The rest of her face was very wrinkled and showed her true age. Why is it? Because she wears a scarf all the time to cover her head, parts that were covered and not exposed to the sun were protected and didn't age as much as the rest of the face. I can't show photos here, but I did search and found an Instagram post that included these photos, and you can check it out here link. I think it is great and simple example of how important is skin protection. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQmYmr5BOQz/
Also, many people like sun and like to get tanned, so even if they use protection they use lower SPF in order to get more color. But just think about it, what is more important to you? Your look or health? I hope you chose wisely.
If you wonder, what is the worst that can happen? You get burned a little, and it passes after a few days, and you get more wrinkles later on. Well, no, that's far away from worse. UV rays can cause malignant tumor of the skin. I don't think it's worth of risk.
Some people are confused with SPF and meaning of it. I heard that people think number is related to time lasting of protection. So, for example, if you put SPF 50 you will have to put it again in 5 hours, and if you put smaller number you will need to put it again sooner. But this makes no sense, because everyone would use 50 then, so that they don't have to put cream every 2 hours. But this is not correct, number is connected to % of protection. This is why you will get the most tan with SPF 6, but also the least of protection.
Another handy thing could be application about UV rays for that day. Application is called UV Lens, and it shows how strong and bad are current rays. You can put your skin tone and some other info, and also get information how much time it will take you to burn on the current sum.
I know it's boring and greasy and people are lazy to do it, but please, take care of yourself. It is important.
Photos I included in this article are original (screenshots) and lead image is from Unsplash.com
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Losing fundamental rights
Let's go back into the past. Imagine we are 50 years away from, half a century. People decided something is a human, specifically, woman's right, and they decided then how it should be. And it was like that for 50 years, 50 years it was the right choice. And now, 50 years later, they change it and decide it is wrong. Something was okay and right for 50 years, and now they decided it's not? Going 50 years backwards. I still can't comprehend it.
For those who don't know what I am talking about, in the USA (which should be land of freedom and dreams come true, right?) Supreme court decided to take away right on abortion that was given to women 50 years ago as constitutional low. This was of course for stopping the pregnancy in the first 3 months and for exceptional cases after it. Now, this will not be constitutional low, which means that each of 50 states can decide about it. I don't know much about politics in general, and I don't know how it works in America, but this was my understanding of it. Yes, it's probable that not all countries will take away this low, but it shouldn't be even an option.
I know many people have an opinion about this, but in fact, they shouldn't have, there is nothing to think about. It is human right, it is someone's body and their decision what to do with it. And don't even try to back it up with biology, religion or moral. They say how USA is a religious country and this is why people are for it. Well, guess what, not everyone is religious. Also, that religious country have guns all around and everyone can buy it and become a massive murderer, and somehow that is okay by the low. Some say it is selfish? It's selfish not to give birth, but it is not selfish to give birth to kid that you don't want, don't take care of them and make them a criminal? I don't see how.
How about preventing things? Having sexual education in schools as well as free protection. How about man taking responsibilities instead of judging. Imagine that a woman who was being raped has to on top of all that trauma give birth to a baby. Because I just can't. I can't. So how about taking care of rapists and protecting woman instead of deciding what they will do with their body.
I was using personal pronouns as I am in the situation, or as I am speaking to you directly, but it is just for example. Don't take it personally, this is just rent to those who think it's their right to decide about other people lives. But if you are one of them, then please, at last, stop and think about it for a second.
And also, this is not related to my opinion and my choice, specifically, like I said, because it is not important. It is personal choice of woman, and my opinion and what would I do doesn't matter at all.
Stick your nose out off other women's vaginas.
I don't like to talk about bad stuff and rand, but with situations today in this world, with everything that is happening around us, it is just impossible.
Photo that I used as lead image is from unsplash.com
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Exercise journal #4
Have I bored you yet with my exercise journals? Well, they won't last much longer. By my plan, I will have my last measurements next week, but I think I will maybe prolong it for another week. Only reason is because it is not hard for me to do exercise anymore, I just have been prioritizing other things, and after next week I will have more time to do it, and no reason to stop actually, since I won't reach my goal for sure. My mistake was thinking that I can do it without food restrictions, when in fact, those most problematic parts are caused by food. You can do abs exercises and have strong abs, but if you eat junk food, you will have fat which will cover your abs.
This is why last week I realized for best results, both is necessary, and while I was not so happy with my 3 days workout, I have to say that my eating habits are much better, and it's much easier to me now. As I didn't want to do anything drastic, my first idea was to have smaller portions (not small, just smaller than before). But it turned out that for me, it was easier to have lighter breakfast and dinner, and lunch remain the same. However, I do try to add more healthy food in my diet overall. Since it's summer, it is perfect because there are many seasonal fruits and vegetables, and it is easy for me to combine salads, plus I do love salads in general, so it's a win-win.
Watermelon is one of my favorite fruits, and I have to say I was so surprised that the first one out there are so good and sweet, usually they are better in the next month. I also enjoyed cherries and strawberries, and I had the first fresh raspberries this year. Besides that, I discovered baby spinach, which is a great replacement for green salad that I love. In conclusion, my food habits are much, much better, and I am already used to this, and have no intention to change it.
And onto the bad part. Measurements are same, only difference is 0.5 cm in legs, which I expected to be more, as they appear much better than that. I have to say that I don't really have problem with this, I am quite happy with overall look, and only thing that would be good to be better are muffins, damn muffins. This also makes no sense to me since now that I finally can do the exercise for them till the end, I see no change. This week I will try to do exercise for it daily, even if I do only this one, just to see will there be improvement.
All photos included in this article are original (as well as the lead image) and I took and edited them.
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My godson turned 1!
The easiest example of how quickly time passes is when you have kids, or have some kids around you, and one day they were born, and the next day they are already one! Aside my exaggeration, this time really passed fast for me, and I can't believe that little muffin is already one. He is the son of my best friend, and now godmother. The day that he was born was so hot, I still remember it. He was born on time, but he was a very tiny baby, because he was not gaining much in the last month of pregnancy. But luckily it was all good, and he was doing well, and everything was fine. The first time that I saw him I couldn't even hold him how little he was, and he was even smaller than that, as I didn't see him right away. And it didn't take him too long to become heavy and big, almost too big for me to hold him. I can predict now he will not take too long to be higher than me, as I am shot and his parents are high. But I am used to being mixed up with kids :D
As he was born during the pandemic, it was a bit difficult to see him too often, and at the beginning I wanted to be more careful as he was a little baby. Now that things are different, we can see each other more, but they are moving to other location that is not so close. Also, we both live on 2 locations, so that is also hard to combine. But we will menage, specially that he is now bigger, I can play a lot more with him, then before. I am not so good with babies, don't know what to do with them, but toddlers and older, oh, we can have so much fun. He is a great little boy, and even as a baby he was so good, laughing almost all the time, that I didn't believe he ever cries, as I didn't see him cry.
They didn't make a big celebration for his birthday, and they were in another city, so I sent cake and balloons on the day of his birthday. For the present, I wanted to give him a trampoline, but everyone convinced me he is too little for that. I thought that would be such a cool gift, but guess it will wait have to wait some time. This time it will be something else. Children's toys are diverse these days, and you can find so many things, and almost anything that you can or cannot imagine. But the once I like the most are wooden toys, they are great for many reasons, they are long lasting, they will not brake as plastic ones, there are collections and you can combine them. There are some that are very good for developing many skills and they look nice. But I am not sure how much they are fun to kids, as they love colorful, loud things. Guess it depends from child to child, but I think wooden are better choice.
As I am not comfortable sharing photos of him, I will share some 'censored' photos instead. All photos including lead image are original.
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There's always rainbow after the rain
Well, not always, but in summer, often. Today, since the morning, it was very dark and cloudy outside. It was so dark, it looked like it is 8 pm during most of the day. Rain came and go, there were thunders as well. In some part of the city there was so much rain that it caused problems, and it was flooded on the streets. Part of the city where I live in, is on light hill, so it was fine. I was not going outside anyway, and I was happy that it is not too hot as it was expected.
At one moment I looked outside, around 8 pm, and all of a sudden everything got so much more color than a few moments ago, when everything was so dark and gray, although it was still raining as it was before. It was late evening, and everything become brighter and vivid, and more colorful than any other time that day. And it did not take to look for me to realize, there was sun on the other side of my view. And when you have sun and rain on one side, you have rainbow on the other. So I immediately looked up and also towards another window, and I saw the rainbow. Maybe I don't have the greatest view from my window, and there was a huge building blocking my view, but on the sides of it, there was rainbow. Here is some photos of it, as well as the rain.
As a kid, I was told that once you go under the rainbow, your sex change. Did you hear this myth as a kid? I don't know why they say that, maybe they don't want kids to chase it? Or maybe it was just some weird and funny myth. But after knowing that, I was always attempted to try it :D Whenever there was something to doubt, I was always ready to test it and try to prove it or disapprove it. It was just interesting to me, and also, I wanted to be a footballer. Yeah. So it was not due to doubt my sex, but just from curiosity and potential well paid carrier :D
After enjoying rainbow for a while and taking a few photos, the sun started setting down, and the show was over. But luckily, I looked outside again and noticed pink clouds. I looked toward the sun again, and I could see wonderful sunset sky. I will share photo of that as well.
We had a full day of rain, storm, thunders, gray sky and clouds, but then after all that, there was rainbow, sun, and wonderful sunset. And this is something previous to think of in the dark times, it will pass. It will always pass. Also, it is just magic of nature, and what it can all do, going from dark to colorful in seconds. If you are going through something hard right now, try to see the bigger picture, and stay strong to go to the better times, and they will come.
All photos that I included in this article, including the lead image are original photos, and they are taken using Nokia 7 plus phone, and I own them.
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Spectacle at early morning sky
This post was planned for yesterday, but I was so tired last night, I feel asleep before I wanted to, and just couldn't wake up enough to do anything, so I just stayed in bed. So, on yesterday's early morning, 7 planets along with the moon were almost lined up in the sky. Not only that, but also the moon was among them. All seven planets were lined up, but only five were visible with naked eye only. Those would be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. For the remaining two, Neptune and Uranus, a telescope or good binoculars is necessary.
Since I was so tired, of course, I slept long after the sun raised, and to see this spectacle, it was necessary to be up before the Sun of course (about 45 minutes), so I missed it. But, I knew that this will last for few days, until 27th of June, so there is still chance for you and me to see it. It is summer, so weather and clear sky shouldn't be a problem. But my problem is my position, I live kind of turned to the West and a little down hill, and to have better view of the East I would need to change location. Since it's before sunrise event, it's also hard for me to go anywhere with public transportation, as it mostly doesn't work that early. I thought of going to my sister's place, because she lives on a higher floor than me, but she is also turned to West side. I will think about it, maybe I try to see it tomorrow anyway.
However, I like these types of things, mostly related to moon, but anything space related is interesting to me. I like eclipses, supermoons, watching shooting stars... everything is interesting to me, and I want to read about it, if not see it. Because many of these phenomena are tightly related to your location on the Earth, and not everything is visible everywhere, unfortunately. Which is weird because Earth is supposed to be flat, right? Just joking, let's not go into that.
Anyway, I wanted to share a photo of how it looks, but the photo I liked too most was shared on Instagram, and I can't take that. All other photos I found were not so good, and it was not shown well how it looks. Lucky, I realized I can make screenshot of stellarium.org which is great site, that shows you realistic sky in 3D just like you would see it with your naked eye, at the moment. Since sunrise is not yet here, for about 4 hours, it doesn't show all planets above the horizon, and since it's been one day later, it's not as lined up as it was yesterday, but you get the point. Another thing, since it shows only what you can see with the naked eye, you can't see Uranus and Neptune, so I added them as dots, Uranus is blue one, and Neptune yellow. I am not 100% sure about position, but should be around there somewhere.
Seven planets and moon, sounds amazing to me. If you have a chance in the next days, I recommend you to try to see it, there is still time till Monday. I am not sure when will be the next time that something like this is possible to see. I just hate the fact that I might miss it, even though I know it is now I am not sure will I have a good location to see it. So if you are turned to the East, and early bird, look for in the sky :)
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Photo included in this article is screenshot from stellarium.org site.
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The longest day in the year
No, this is not in a metaphorical way, this is actually in the literal way. This morning, at 11:13 am, summer officially started on the North half of the planet Earth. Also, today is the longest day in the year. Sun raised at 4:52am, and it went down at 8:28 pm. Making the total of 15 hours and 36 minutes of sunlight. For the part of Earth where I live in, somewhere it's longer, somewhere shorter. This is due to Earths position, making the North part of the Earth closest to the sun. It is called summer solstice. In my language it has a more simple name, and in translation it means summer long-day. This day is also the first day of the winter for the Southern part of Earth's hemisphere. In some countries this day is referred to as midsummer, but here summer is just starting by calendar, and it will last till 23rd of September. Climate is changing a lot in the latest years, so maybe it feels like summer is longer sometimes, and we have hot days after 23rd of September as well. From today on, days will be just shorter and shorter until winter solstice, or as we call it here: short-day.
Here it was a warm and hot summer day. It is not too hot yet, I believe it will be hotter, but one of hotter days do far this year. I wish I was somewhere near water like this frog that you see below, but instead, I was all day inside, in my small apartment. But it was a good day overall, I am not going to complain. You can see the temperature was 27C at 8pm, so quite hot for that time, but as it is expected at this time of the year. For me, it was hottest for sure, because I turned on the air conditioning more than any other day before this year. I am not a fan of air conditioning, and in home I don't even have it or use it. But it's different being in the house in the small city, or in the apartment in a big city full of asphalt. However, I am in the small apartment, so I can turn it on for a short period and cool down the room, so it's fine. But if I start to sneeze, I know it is too much of air conditioning. How are you cooling yourself in the hot summer days? Are temperature already too high in your place? For me, nights are the worst. I just open all windows and make draft (which kills here in Serbia, if you didn't know, just kidding, just kidding, but it's a myth). But some nights are too hot and unbearable. Luckily, at the time I will probably be at my home where nights are much colder than here.
The next few days will be busy for me, but I will try to keep up with my writing. I really want it to become my routine, so I can do it daily with no problem. Last days weren't the best for me here, but hopefully things will change.
All photos used in this article are original, they are screenshots of my weather app. As well as the lead photo, it is photo that I took last summer on Ada Ciganlija.
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Exercise journal #3
Hello guys, new week is here, and I am back with my exercise journal. As this is the third update, I will focus on improvements in the last 2 weeks. Although the previous week I wasn't fully dedicated, since I was going home, and had events, it was just not possible. Last week, however, I could focus more, but I was mostly inside and wasn't moving much, as I do when I am home. I also realized I do have to improve my meals, or I just might give up. It really can't go one without another, if you chose to get in shape you need to take care of your meals and exercise, not one or another, it has to be both. If you just want to lose weight, maybe, but that's not my focus, not I want to be on strict diet and have very low calorie intake. Where does that lead me to? Not having less food, but more healthy food, less fat and fried food, and sugar. But I can't compromise on a few things, it is potato season and I do love pasta too much. So it's all about balance for me, not forcing anything.
Last week I exercised 4 times, and I tried to eat better, but I brought some food from home, and I was not going to waste that cake :D Originally I changed my workout routine, but I realized it was too much for me, so I decided to keep it same, and then this week just change some videos instead of adding more. I was hoping for a bigger change, but the difference was only 0.5 for 3 measurements. I am not sure will I be able to reach my goal, because it's slower than at start, and harder to make change, but we will see. Other thing is, I went to my sister's' place, and she has a scale, so I measured my weight. I lost 1.5 kg since last time I measured, which was about a month and 2 weeks ago, maybe. It does sound little, but on my height and previous weight, it is okay, I think. I think I will lose 1 kg more, till my end date, but we will see, it's not my main focus anyway.
Honestly, even though change is not huge, I am quite happy with the way I look now. The only thing I want to change a bit more are legs, and I still have a bit of muffin top to get rid of. This is why I changed exercise for this week, I added one intense for thighs, and another one for belly region. So we will see in a week is it working better than previous ones. As for the videos I left, I have 3 videos for abs, I added one last week, and the first two I still don't do so easy, so it's okay to continue them. I also left the one video I did for muffin top, and now I do 25 of 30 (yes, I am doing the same thing for weeks and can't do the 30 yet, it is that hard exercise). And also the one that I do for hands and back. I added starching as well, but it's not a video, it's just a few poses that you do for 30 seconds.
Photo I used in this article and lead image are original and taken by me.
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Weekly participation in photo contests
Previous week I haven't been much active on hive. I wanted to post each day, but due to time zone difference, I missed one day by mistake. I didn't realize on time that I have to post before my midnight, I think 2 hours. And as soon as my strike was broken, I stopped posting so often. It's hard to post each day, specially because I usually post older photos, and it takes time to edit them and transfer and find... I participated only in one contrst that week. I aslo missed some deadlines because not all contests ends on Sunday, and I have to check time zones and deadlines. I participated in POB photo contest with subject Rivers. As I visit rivers often in the summer, I had many photos. This one I participated with
I didn't win, but post did okey, so I am happy with it. Other contest that I like to participate in is Deranged Photography Contest, but that week subject was Action, and I don't really have good action camera, nor many good photos to participate with. This week however, subject was insects, and those, I have a lot! I posted many photos as entry, but I will share one here, one of my favourites:
Results are not yet in, I don't think I can win, because I saw some enteries, and they are very good. But post did very well (for me) and I will get around 3 HBD and 14 hive power from it, so I am happy with it even if I don't win. POB photo contest also had subject that fits me this week, Furniture. As I am procrastinator, I almost didn't made post. I made it with less than hour to the deadline just because I had photos in my mind. It took me time to find them, and I almost gave up. Which would be a mistake, as I won first place. Reward was 100 ecency points and 40 POB token. I was very happy as I didn't expected it. Here is my wining photo: (it is living room)
Next week I will try to participate in more contests. It's great way to make content, stay active and possibly win some cool rewards. There is post about many weekly challenges and links to them all, so now it will be easier for me to follow them up and know the deadlines. Specially I like Deranged Photography Contest as it makes me use liketu platform more, and it also has two tires and give space for amateurs as well. But I also find one very interesting contest, where you get 2 words (subjects) that you need to incorporate in one photo. It is interesting but I am bit limited in apartment, when I go home I will try this one.
Photos I used in this article (as well as lead image) are original and I own them. They were taken using Nokia 7 Plus phone. I usually edit in Snapseed application or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
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Crypto crashing and my first sponsor
Hello guys, how are you? Hope that you are enjoying your weekend. Beside achieving 1 BCH, recently, I got another one little achievement, I got my first sponsor here on read. Of course, I didn't do anything, and it was all of a sudden, but I would like to thank @Musician for becoming my first sponsor. This is also an opportunity for me to try out adding sponsor block to the article, as I never did it before. Recently I also learned how to add links, I am happy that I can still learn and improve my articles.
Musician I know from noise, but as I am not active much there anymore, I was surprised to see him here as well. Looks like he is not active on noise anymore, but ran into my profile here. Also, I saw that he writes beautiful poems and share here on read, so you can check them out if you want.
I know this doesn't sound huge to many of you, but for me it is step forward and motivation to keep going here, and keep improving. Sponsorship is not something I looked much into, nor I knew exactly how it works, but now I am getting to know it better. Some users wrote short posts about it not working as it should, but then it was fixed recently. And I also found some articles about it from read. It was few weeks ago that I discovered how to add it to my profile, and now it's finally not empty anymore.
Other thing I wanted to write about is crypto world. It's crashing for days now intensively, but also crashing for months slowly. A nice thing that happened today was seeing BCH stay 'strong' while BTC went lower than I expected. I am far away from expert, but I didn't see it going under $20 000. Not sure what this mean for all of us, but I just hope you are not panicking and selling. What I like to think is, everything we earn today will double, tripe, quadruple, even fivefold, because of the current low prices. This is how I have been thinking from start, as I started earning crypto more. It's important to make most of it, instead of cutting short and losing.
Only thing I didn't do to make more of it now, is buying, but I am not in position to do it, unfortunately. I even planned to sell soon, but with this price, I will have to wait for a while. In general, I don't think crypto end is near, even tough some people predict it.
What do you think and what are you doing with your assets right now?
Photos used in this article are original, lead image is from Unsplash.com
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Wedding of my friend
This weekend I was back home for a few events. But the main thing was my best friend, from primary school, wedding day. We were best friends in young age, and all my childhood I spent with her. Even our home was near to each other, so we always go to school together, and came back from school together. We loved the same things, but literally the same things, and so many of them. Animals, football, rollerblades, math, :D We were really like sisters. We even had the same plans for the future, but as we were so young, of course, we didn't know much, and those plans changed. We were in the same high school, but different class, and that is when we distanced and went different ways. We didn't have a fight or anything, we just have chosen different paths, and that's when we stopped hanging out so much.
However, even years after, she is an important person to me, and I would be there for her anytime of day or night, if needed, and she invited me to her wedding. She was getting married to her long term boyfriend, and they are already building their home, so I was beyond happy for her. I know she is great, but I was happy she found someone great for her as well. By accident, some of my current friends, are her friends from high school, so we were all invited, and I knew we would have a great time all together. Wedding venue was outside, and there was huge rain previous day, and they said there will be the next day as well, but lucky, there was no rain at all. Food was good, music was also great and most people were dancing almost all the time. I was even 'forced' to dance in "kolo" which is the national dance, and I don't even know it. Overall, one very nice and cheerful wedding day.
I am not so comfortable sharing our photos, nor I like to share other people photos in general, but I will share few photos of the venue, and some of the details. The best way to show you the atmosphere is by the video, specially when trumpets came (trumpets are basically must have on Serbian weddings), but I can't share it. Maybe I will be able some time in future to show you more of how classic Serbian wedding looks like. For now here are just some random photos.
The balloon was part of the decoration, when they entered the venue. Many little kids had the balloons, and danced around the bride and the groom, as they had their first dance. They also had smoke effects around them, which made it more magical, and the kids were adorable, specially how they were fascinated with smoke. However, I filmed that with someone else's phone, and don't have it now. So the balloon that you see was 'lost' outside, probably some kid wanted to hide it. I remember how crazy I was with balloons when I was a kid, and how hard was saving it.
All photos used in this article are original and I took them.
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Teddy doesn't like to be combed
Good evening guys. Hope you had a good day. Market is still pretty much red, but let's not lose hope in BCH, and market being green again. Today I am sharing some photos of my dog Teddy. He is a Samoyed, which means he has a long white hair. But what most people don't know, is that he also has short hair, underneath the long one. This is the hair that he lose when he is molting. It happens about 2 times a year, and it can last for a while. However, this is not the only time that he needs combing. He should be combed as often as possible, even each day. But thing is, Teddy hates it. He will go around and hide anywhere he can. He will threaten and bark, until he let go of it and give up on running away. That is, if it happens. Sometimes it is a battle of patience.
What I don't get is why he is doing it, because I know it doesn't hurt him. In contrary, it helps him a lot, specially when he is malting, with combing he will get rid of extra hair much faster. I feel like it would help him a lot, during summer, to lose hair faster, but he fights it each time. Last time, I had to comb him for 5-7 days, constantly when we go outside, just because more than half-time I would spend chasing him around. And when he finally calms down, since we were outside, as soon as he hears something he is up again, don't want to miss anything. After math was 3 compressed bags of his hair, that I put next to him in the end, and it was almost huge as he is. And there was still hair falling out, and he wasn't bald. Crazy.
I wish he would be more calm about this, it would make it faster and easier for all of us. But he hates it. And it might be genetic, since his father also hated it. But I know it's not the same for all Samoyeds. I always wondered how he would react if I took him to the groomer to wash and comb him, or how the groomer would react to him :D I don't thing he would be able to do anything, because Teddy also hates bathing as well. Not in the river, though. Also, I know some people, take their Samoyed to groomer to cut their hair, but this is a huge mistake, as longer hair is not growing up again, and with no hair to protect their pale and sensitive skin, they can have severe problems. So I would never do that, no matter how much trouble I have with him resisting.
All I can do is complain here about it, but in the end, I know how much of a responsibility is a dog, specially needy like this one, and I have chosen it, so I will do it of course. It's just one little thing, compared to all the happiness and love he gives to us. But if you are thinking about having a dog, make sure you are ready for it, and all that comes with it.
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Planning summer holiday
Hello guys! Hope you are all doing good. These days I am sea sick. It's mid-June, and it is all I think about. But I am not even sure will I go to the seaside. First, it is a financial thing, than planning isn't going so well. This year, a group of 5 of us wants to go together, but planning that is not so easy. There are many obstacles that come in the way. For example:
**Financial** - Not everyone is in the same financial position. It would be the easiest to go somewhere with a plane, all-inclusive, but that's not an option for us. So we need to compromise and have budget
**Place -** We had open cards for this at the start, but things changed. Greece was an option, but then traveling far (to the specific parts where we wanted to go) with a bus for some people in the group wasn't the best idea. On the other hand, going by car would be much more expensive, so that was off as well. Turkey was also an option, but one friend is scared there might be some disarray, and not comfortable going there. Croatia is beautiful and close enough, but too expensive, unfortunately. So it came down to Montenegro.
**Time -** This is a problem because we need to find 10 days in summer that works for all of us, and for some it's quite difficult and not so flexible. However, we have found a date range that works for all, hopefully, and it's the second part of July. This is not matching well with our budget, because it is peak of the season, but again, we had to compromise. This part is also bad because at this time most places are rented already, and not too many good things are left available.
**Accomodation** - Maybe this one is not so problematic, we don't seek for luxury but normal place, but position of place is important. Even though we will have a car down there, I am not a fan of going to the beach by car. We would had to go at the same time, and come back at the same time, and probably, spend entire day at the beach, in the sun. This is why we want something closer to the beach, so anyone can come and go at anytime.
**Other things -** You know how they say, "100 people, 100 minds". When you have more people they all have different opinions and needs, and not everyone likes and wants same thing. Nothing works for everyone. This is why compromise and understanding is so important.
I just hope we will make some plan in the end and menage to go all together. It's about company, and fun times, not about the place. But if we don't, I am not sure I will go to the sea side in the summmer. Maybe at end of the summer, in September instead, but that's also questionable. All the more reasons to hope that we will find good place that is availabe on dates that are good for us.
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Exercise journal #2
Hello guys. New week started, and here is my new exercise journal, or exercise update. Usually I post it on Monday, but yesterday I didn't exercise anyway, so nothing much changed. Last week was going good toward the weekend, and then it went downhill, as suspected. I was home on Friday, and had celebrations on Saturday and Sunday, and also went out on Friday. As soon as I got home, I knew it won't be easy to maintain fair amount of calories, but it will be much more. Why? Well, we had double dinner and double desert waiting for us. Nope, I'm not kidding :D Mom prepared a bit of potatoes and 'cevapi' (barbecue meat), while we were waiting for pizza to bake, and then we had watermelon season opened and also cake. The next two days were not much different, not only I didn't exercise at all, I also ate much more than I should. But it's fine, let's say I had a cheat weekend.
This is why my measurements didn't change at all from last week, but they are not worse, if that's conforming. However, I know that the more I work out, the more effort will be required to make change, and those last half cm will be the hardest to reach. I found an old exercise sheet because I wanted to change my workout routine. On the sheet there were also measurements (and I think it's from 2 years ago). There is a month of workout (I don't think I ever did more than a month) and change is 2-4 cm. Also, measurements are not crazy different from now, except one, which is almost 10 cm different. Another different things were my goals. For example, at the time I wanted bigger hands (and I failed in that) and now I want smaller. At the time I exercise each day, and now to think of that is crazy for me. In the meantime, I learned that it's better to have a brake and let muscles relax and take a break.
I also find one table that was done with pencil and half empty, so I used it for current exercise, and it will be enough for my complete journey (till 11th of July) I don't think I will do more after that. As I don't want to do it too long, I decided to speed up by adding one more day before break, and one more 2 more exercise each day. One video is for abs and will be repeated, and the other one I will change for 4 days. 'Splits' are also something I added even last week, but these are not exercise but just starching that I think it's good and important as well. I am not sure will I be able to keep up with this routine, and how much time it will consume, and this is why I made one week, and then I will see how it goes and should I change anything.
I am kind of sad that there is no progress from last week, but still I want to do this updates and keep going. It is part of the process.
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I joined club 1 BCH!
And it finally happened, on 11th of June, I officially became one BCH holder. Didn't have time to post it previously, so you will see some older screenshots, don't get confused with different price. I know, at the time of lowest BCH price that I know, it doesn't sound like a huge achievement, but for me, it still is. I was expecting it to happen some time ago. Probably in April or May. But, it took me nine months to do it, however, I have to mention that I sold part of my previous BCH, so technically, I stalked more than 1 BCH, but now I am holding that much for the first time. I really thought it would happen in the first days of June, but it's okay, better late than never. Here is my one BCH. You can't see the entire amount in the same place because they are still in separate wallets, but the total amount is bigger than price of BCH.
This amount is even smaller now, unfortunately, but it is okay, the time of BCH will come again. The 99% of the BCH i collected is from noise and read, and they are the reason why I started to collect it on other applications and sites as well, or swap some other coins to BCH. Why I do that? Well, if BCH go back to price from November, everything you have now will be multiplied by 5. Not bad, right? I am very grateful I found these two sites, and sorry I haven't started earlier. So big thanks to noise and read for making me one BCH holder. Also thank you all as well for supporting me and helping me along this journey.
Posts like this were very motivational for me at the start, because I realized what is all possible and what people can accomplish here. This is why I am posting my achievement as well. My last drop in becoming one BCH holder was this notification.
I was expecting some random reward from the read, but this was noise, actually. And maybe I helped it a little. I lowered my payout on noise, because it takes me a lot of time to reach it, and I just couldn't wait anymore, knowing I am so close.
So there you have it. It took me nine months, and I know it can happen much faster. Some part of the fault is mine, I was not much active here, but the other part is going from a couple of dollars on noise to none. Also, when BCH change a lot, it's different. When price is bigger, you earn much less in BCH. This is why it's time to shine now. Collect as much as you can. Can't wait to see how much it will take me to get another BCH. I will try to break my previous record.
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I still don't like avocado...
Hello everyone! Happy weekend to you all. I am writing this very late on Friday night, or to be more precise, Saturday morning. Today I was waiting to get notification since this morning, green notification, letting me know that somewhat BCH was sent to my wallet. My wish was to wait for it, screenshot it, and finally, tell everyone that I stalked 1 BCH. Unfortunately that did not happen, even tho with BCH going even lower and lower, I needed only small reward in $. BCH is lowest that I ever saw. I had one other site from where I could have transferred some BCH to make total of one, or to swap some other coins, but I didn't want to force it. It will happen when it happens
This is why you get an avocado story instead. Since I decided to take care of my body and eat more healthy food, and one of most popular healthy foods is avocado, I bought it few days ago while I was in weekly shopping. I saw it in few recipes as addition to salads. This morning, I didn't know what to make for breakfast. I looked around and there was that one avocado. I tried avocado few years ago from my roommate. It was too plain and with no taste for me. But she ate simple avocado in toast, so I thought if I add some seasoning it will be better. Also, I saw guacamole sauce, and I know so many people like it, so I was sure, when prepared well, it must taste good. Since it was breakfast, I wanted to make avocado toast. This is also popular, and I know many people order it in restaurants. Every video that I found was mostly plane avocado with salt, and maybe pepper. Knowing that it goes well with eggs, I searched for more videos, but it was the same. So I thought I will try like that, and if it's too plain I will add lemon juice (as I saw in guacamole sauce) to make it sour. I added salt and pepper, and mixed it well, but I didn't like it. I started adding lemon more and more. Even this didn't help, it tasted so bad. My boiled eggs were done, and I decided to slice it on top of the avocado on the toast, even though I didn't like it, because I don't want to waste food. But I almost couldn't eat it, how bad it was for me.
Although, it looked good. I realized I still don't like avocado, and I think I gave up on it this time. It is just not my food. Maybe I was preparing it wrong, or maybe I should try it made by professional, but for now, I think I will not eat it for a while. One good thing from it is my possible plant. I saw on Instagram how to plant avocado seed in few ways and I tried one. We will see in couple of weeks if anything happens. Even though I don't like avocado I wouldn't mind plant.
Are you and avocado in good terms? How you prepare it? And have you tried making a plant put of seed? I'm interested to hear your experience.
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Serbia open - tennis tournament
This will be one little throwback article. It is Thursday, after all. Serbia open is a professional tennis tournament that is held in Belgrade. Currently, it is held in Novak Tennis Center. This year it was held it April, and it happened to start the weekend that my brother came to visit. On Sunday there were qualifications, and the tournament was starting from Monday. My first thought was that there are probably no tickets left. But it turned out that qualifications were open and free to watch, so we decided to go.
Novak Tennis Center is downtown, in old part of the Belgrade, just on the river side. It is a nice spot, but this time it was not so great because it was cold and windy day, and like name says, you are in open space, sitting on the wind. But it was bad only in few moments.
As soon as we got it, I was surprised by the chill area. It really looked like that, a very chill and neat place. There are little stands with food as well there, so that you can grab some bite in between the matches. Since this was qualifications, matched were on smaller courts. I was a bit disappointed because we couldn't even get in to see big court.
My brother chosen match that we will watch, and that was Nino against Yuri. The match was not so interesting, I have to say, because it was dominantly won by Yuri. We wanted to go to the other bit bigger field, but there was a line waiting to enter it. I didn't get why there is line and waiting when I saw many free spaces, but later I realized that they waited in between gems, so that they don't make too much noise and deconsecrate players. We didn't want to wait and got back to first field to watch another match. This one was far more interesting and close in the result.
It was the first time for me to watch tennis live, but what caught my attention the most, were tennis ball catches. There were groups of younger and older children, with two leaders. They were very fun to watch and so cute. Also, I realized how much job there is in one tennis match: changing line judges, changing catches, changing balls, grooming the field,... Of course, I watched a tennis match before, but this was not something I paid attention to.
Overall, it was nice experience and maybe next year we go to some bigger matches.
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Would you rather...
Hey guys, hope you had a great day. In life, I am mostly very indecisive person, specially when it comes to some simple, and not so important things. It makes no sense at all, I know, but that's just how I am. However, if you ask me a big thing, like would I like to visit London or Tokyo, I would make my mind easier. But in general, I am usually "no preference person". This is why I decided to do a little game today, called "would you rather...?" where you chose between things. These things are usually very drastic choices, so I don't thing I will have much problem choosing it. Options are from this site, my answer will be little detailed, and I will also leave % of people that chosen this, or that. http://either.io/7095/would-you-rather
**1. Lead a boring life from here forward or Reborn with all your memories into a baby of the opposite sex** - This one seems easy right away. Boring life sounds boring, and I think it would be interesting to experience other sex as well, so my choice is second option. Only thing is that if being reborn means you will end up who knows where, then I would live a boring life, but with my family and friends. See, I almost made decision, but I still have to be a bit indecisive anyway. First option was choice of 23% of people, and second was choice of 77% of people.
*At this point, I realized I can swap between questions, and now I took some time to chose not only answer, but also a question*
**2. Always be overdressed or always be underdressed** - I was surprised that 70% of people have chosen overdress, while only 30% (including me) have chosen underdressed. I assume that this means you can't take clothes off or put some on, so I would rather be a bit chilly than too hot. And it's almost always too hot for me, and I can't stand it.
3. **Live an extra 25 years or Live without the need to sleep** - Assuming I would live a normal life span, I chose to live without the need to sleep. That would gain me some extra years anyway. But I see this was a close call. The first option was choice of 48% of people, while the second was choice of 52%.
**4. Be able to control/talk to machines or Be able to produce an unlimited amount of electricity** - Now that we have shortage of electricity and bills are getting higher and higher, second option would be smart choice. But first options sounds much more fun. I guess I would normally choose that one, so I chose first. To my surprise, only 33% of other people have chosen it as well. Are others also thinking about electricity shortage, or I am one of rare who think first option is more fun?
5. **Live an average life and be forgotten in time or Go down in history for something terrible** - Another shocker. There is 32% of people who would do something terrible to go in history? And out of 1.6 million votes, that is quite a number. Also, why would be important for you what happens after your death? Not like you can know it anyway. Well, I hope it was a joke answer for most of them.
These are all questions for now, maybe I do this some other time again. If you want you can also leave in comments your answer and what would you chose (you can just add number of question and then first or second choice, you don't have to go into details if you don't want). Or even make article about it yourself, I left link for site if you want other questions.
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Grateful for good metabolism
Today I came to a realized that I have a good metabolism. This was something I heard all my life, but never truly realized it's actually true, and that it means. I can say I was never overweight, not I gained weight easy, and this is why everyone referenced it with good metabolism that my grandpa also has. I never gave too much meaning to it.
Since I decided to dedicate more to exercise, and getting into better shape after long winter, I thought it wouldn't be bad to check how many calories should I ate, and calculate how much I had so far. Because I am not on diet, nor I specifically want to lose weight, but only to be more healthy and fitted, checking calories was only to have some round number and idea of it.
The more I checked calories on things I usually eat, the more I was shocked how many calories everything has, but seriously. The ice-cream that I got was one of the most 'diet' things I had, and I considered it a cheat meal of course. After knowing all this, I thought it's still fine, I will just have a bit smaller portions than usual. And to tell you the truth, when it comes to food that I like, I can eat a lot, like really a lot. It's like I have a second stomach for potatoes and pasta :D But I could still fit it all into 2000 calories, which is a normal, recommended amount for adults to have in a day. That's what I thought.
Anyhow, then I searched for some online calculators that can tell you how many calories you can have in a day, to maintain, mild lose weight (0.25 kg per week) lose weight (0.5 kg per week) or extremely weight loss (1 kg per week), based on your age, sex, height, weight and how much you exercise during one week. Well, it turns out, that I am so small, I have to eat much less than a normal human being. If I have little or no exercise, I need to take only 1500 calories per day to, not lose, but maintain my weight. With light exercising (1-3 times a week) the situation is a bit better, and I can take 1700 calories, again, to maintain my weight. I really didn't expect this, and I thought normal calorie intake is 2000 calories, but of course, it makes sense, it can't be same for someone shot and small and someone big and high.
I am very sure that I was taking over 2000 calories a day till not, and I guess I do have great metabolism and I should be very grateful for my good genes, because I did gain weight, but it was far from a lot, considering how much more food ate than I should. Also, realizing this at this point was great, because I could have good for a month doing exercising and still taking more calories than I should, so change wouldn't be so visible.
Now I don't plan to change my diet or count calories each day, but I am much more aware of amount I should eat, and I will try to have smaller portions then before, specially when it comes to pasta and potatoes. This also made me realize how everyone is different and how we all have different needs.
If you want to bother yourself with your daily calories intake, you can check out calorie calculator site that I used here. https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html
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