Steel Cut Oatmeal. That is a four pack but you can buy it in other sizes and amounts, obviously. Personally, I take less than five minutes at night to throw it in my crockpot (I think I’ve perfected my recipe finally) at night and it’s perfect in the morning. I cannot stand instant oatmeal, but this is really good.
As for the OP: the only thing I can think of that I do every day that surprises some people is exercise. I do kickboxing for about 30-40 minutes and work with free weights for about 15-20 minutes for toning. Then throughout the day I work in 1000 inverted crunches at different intervals.
Me too - just rolled oats in cold or very slightly warm milk - I don’t mind cooked oats in recipes (flapjacks, cookies, breads, etc), but oatmeal/porridge is like wallpaper paste when ‘properly’ cooked.
Agree on the oats thing. I don’t cook oatmeal for myself (I’m a kasha girl), but I like it raw as a snack, mixed up with some other stuff. I wish I had not taught that trick to my kids, since they leave oats all over the place now.
I homeschool my kids. I’ts not really a big deal, though it’s a big committment of time and work. It’s my job, and that’s how I treat it. Usually it’s fun, unless my 6yo is being a booger like she was today, but she recovered.
I’m still a whiz at Gregg shorthand and I use it every day at work. My bosses, after some initial surprise, find it easier to quickly dictate the outline of a letter or memo to me standing in their office than to use their Dictaphones.
Other than a couple of secretaries my age, most folks I work with find this astonishing. Wow, super-fast code language!
I sometimes write notes to myself in shorthand, especially when I don’t want anyone else to know what I’ve written…This is OT, but I remember taking dictation, 20 letters in an hour or more, in shorthand. They always tended to mumble on Dictaphones, I’d sometimes have to guess what was said, and as for how-do-you-spell-that - forget it!
I never get lost. Hell, I once boarded a plane for Hartford, CT, drove to Albany, NY (trust me, I didn’t make these travel arrangements), and found a specific warehouse without having the address.
I’ll go to places once, won’t go again in years, and be able to just drive there at a moments notice.
My wife finds this a very useful talent - pretty much ensures that I’m going to do most of the driving.
Just realised this looks a bit contrary to my earlier claim that I had no real food dislikes. I guess what I meant is that I can’t think of anything much that I cannot or will not eat.
Most people are astonished that I’m going to school for a second undergraduate degree, in a field pretty far removed from the one my first one was on. I’m now in Mechanical Engineering, and my first degree was Biochemistry. I simply discovered a field I enjoy more, and know what kind of career I want, while the first time around, I just did something more or less at random because I didn’t know what I wanted.
One guy today was amazed that I have time to shower in the mornings before class. I pointed out to him that the class started at 10:30am, but still, for him, it’s really hard to wake up that early!
I can pipette using a bulbwith either hand. That seemed to blow the minds of most of my former coworkers. I just had to develop a lab method once which involved about 60 test tubes, with 3 solutions pipetted into them. My arms would get tired, so I learned to switch!
Painting, drawing, cutting, I can do a very good and long virtually straight line.
When I put it up against a straight edge, tho, you can see some variance. But for most of my work purposes, it’s as straight as needs to be. Saves time more than anything else. I’m ambidextrous too, so I can continue this almost straight line from hand to hand.
I rarely get lost. Even when I AM lost, I know where I need to be heading, so I end up not lost. Like the dragon slaying Oscar, I seem to have a “bump of direction.”
I have a cousin with perfect pitch. That always just kind of freaks me out.
Not own a car or a telephone - obviously this means my life is lived differently than most people I know. Have 3 dogs and 3 cats in a small apartment. Eat a diet that’s 90% animal products. That’s about the extent of my (daily) weirdness.
I hope you have been to various specialists? Because that’s really very bad.
I also have issues with fiber which is why I now eat almost none and have the best poop of my life.
Oh, don’t worry…I do that too, have for years…not a huge deal. It’s called “normal” for many of us. Though the pooping 7 times a day lately…not so much fun.
I know an even more extreme example: My cousin first got a B.S. in biology, then realized that wasn’t her main interest, so went back to school and got a Ph.D. in history. She’s now a history professor at a small college.
That for 8 years I have not really had a home, but have only had to spend one night without a hotel room, apartment or on transport.
When I left the US in 2002 to obtain health insurance overseas, I had only a one-year visa for the Republic of Georgia. Since then I have moved countries as often as every 30 days, though more often 90 days.
This means I only have what I can carry, and I run my software company from where ever I can get online with my Mac laptop… be it a cafe in Laos or an apartment in Germany. I’ll be in this country for about another month, and then will be on the road again… spending March to June in the Balkans, Turkey and hopefully Iran.
It’s often hard not having a real home (and short term apartments are expensive), but at least I have health insurance and am my own boss.
"Also, I can get up and get out the door in the mornings in five minutes flat with no artificial stimulants. "
My dentist wants me to brush my teeth for 5 minutes twice a day! I usually only do 4 minutes- my toothbrush has a 2 minute timer, so I go two rounds-I find it easier to do if I sit in my rocking chair-I get too impatient when I am standing.
I had some gingivitis when I started seeing her, so my previous efforts were not enough.
May not seem astonishing, but more like downright strange. I listen to Disney music everyday. Not all the time, but on my way to work during the busy commute. Also, I only listen to music/soundtracks from the Tokyo Disney Resort theme parks, not the feature films.
My husband and I often do this, because I’m a restless sleeper and he’s not always ready to go to bed with me. If he comes in later, I’ll wake and find it difficult to get back to sleep. He also will spread way out and awaken me with an arm on my head. He doesn’t mind the couch, and we have a loving relationship and a very healthy sex life.
IANAD, but I am the daughter of a gastroenterologist, I can tell you that you have a very good gastrocolic reflux, which is a very good thing.
I vigorously* exercise almost (5-6) days a week, barring illness. The only other people I know who have this regimen are my younger brothers and my SO. It shouldn’t be as rare as it seems.
