Kind of.
Not really.
The whole “insta” thing is growing, isn’t it? Instapot. Instagram. Okay, maybe it’s just those two things and not a trend at all. It should be, though. If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we have “instatherapy” and “instaclean”?
I don’t have an instapot, not yet at least. I’ve looked into it. I just don’t know if I am ready to commit over $100 to my collection of appliances that get used up to a dozen times and then forgotten. Sorry juicer.
Also, I need to consider all the ways and degree of severity in which I can injure myself with this appliance. So far, the appliance that has done me the most harm is the dishwasher. Those heating coils at the bottom? You do not want to lay your wrist across one that hasn’t cooled down.
Instagram? All I knew of Instagram is it is social media that mostly revolves around pictures of food. Or at least it used to. I don’t think
food is a focus anymore. Or, maybe it is. I don’t know.
I have an Instagram account. I don’t think I set it up. I assume Randy set it up for me. Or maybe all humans are issued an Instagram account. I have one, but I don’t know how I got it. I see other people post pictures from Instagram and then I think that I should probably see what it’s all about.
So, I tried logging into Instagram.
Well, where the fuck is it even? Why can’t I find……what? Wait. Wait, wait wait. Is this a phone thing? Instagram is a phone thing? Man, I can’t do a phone thing. I can’t fucking see. Stupid Instagram.
You don’t need it anyway. Social media is already a huge drain. Just forget about Instagram. Try Pinterest again. Maybe, clean up your space there since it’s mostly different banana nut bread recipes and pictures of Norman Reedus. I don’t think you’re doing Pinterest right.
I guess what I am saying is, when I say I am “catching up”, I’m not catching up at all.
I’m good with that. I think I can let Instagram go by the wayside. Well, or I could get my eyeglass prescription updated so that I can actually see my phone.
Still on the fence about getting an instapot. I mean, what are the odds I accidentally turn it into a kitchen bomb?
Love my Instagram but you’re right, it’s a damn phone thing. I haven;t figured out why I need an Instapot, It does a multitude of things that I already do with non-instapots. Except make yogurt. Why would I make yogurt? Anyway, really like this post. Try Instagram!
Ewwww Yogurt. Blech.
I dunno. Maybe? I mean, I hate doing anything on my phone. We need Instagram for laptops.
I’m a snapchat drop-out. I have potential, but I don’t apply myself.
Hahah…Yeah, right there with you.
I’m avant-garde and go for the slow-pot. Yes, I know, it was a thing in the seventies. But you wait, everything will be S-l-o-o-ow again, and I’ll be there first.
I do understand the slow cooker. We have a rapport. And it’s never injured me. I don’t think. Maybe it has and I don’t remember.
I have burned myself on it, but that’s because I was being a fuck wit. Probably.
That is usually the source of my injuries as well.
I’m going to offer the obligatory “get off my lawn” statement: does everything have to be “insta” these days? And do we have to abbreviate perfectly good words? And why does everything “insta” take up so much fucking time?
I’d probably be less grumpy about this if every couple of years we didn’t have to devote months to learning some entirely new thing that will supposedly save us a lot of time. You know what would save even more time? Not having to reinvent the damn wheel every few years.
We need instant because of time, man. We need time for Netflix and playing games on our phones!
OK I get the whole use the Instant Pot a few times and it goes into the kitchen electric graveyard with all the rest of the gadgets BUT I actually use mine! A lot! Ping me for recipes!
I will do that!
Instagram is the best thing for new Moms and Dads to take a million pictures of their babies and post them to everyone they know instantly! I love cute baby pictures yes I do all 7 million of them, yes I do!
Oh man, I NEVER get tired of cute baby pictures. Never.
I hear you. Instagram confounds me. And now there’s SnapChat. I’ve been trying. And failing.
I play with snapchat with my son on his phone. I don’t have it on mine, though.
My insta pot is arriving today. Basically because I have huge turkey breasts in the freezer and lots of vegetables.
I haven’t exactly cleaned my house in oh since the election–not really—since I came home from vacation in January, was sick and then sent to specialists. I have a great heart though finding that out was an adventure. And really bad cataracts (takes forever here to get an emergency appointment for eyes) so I have a kind of excuse. but I DVR’d episodes of Hoarders to motivate me in my two day clean up. I figure it should really take much much less time but I have new dishes sitting in the box, boxes to break apart, and other things I really hate doing. it’s times like these I wish for a partner to share everything with but it wouldn’t be fair to him. Though I’m very clean under the mess.
I love your last line. I am also very clean under the mess. Haha
“instatherapy”
YES please!
Right? I need it RIGHT NOW.
Oh dear. I had never heard of the InstaPot. I want one. But I wanted a dehydrator too, and it’s sitting in its sealed box, taunting me.
Good to know about the dehydrator, because I have contemplated that purchase as well.
Instapot? Never heard of it. Instagram? That I can do, but pintrest? Don’t even know where it is or how to access it – with or without glasses. How ’bout Insta-buzz – that’s something I could get behind!
Oh man..I would pay a premium for instabuzz.
Oh BAY-BEE you and me both! I’m reminded of Carrie Fisher’s brill words:
“Instant gratification takes too long.”
Oh yeah.
Hahaha..I love her. 🙁
My life is too boring for Instagram. &/or I have too much anxiety. I’m not posting pictures of myself because I hate taking pictures of myself even more than shopping for clothes (trust that is a lot of hate) and I like having anonminity anyway. My food is rarely that pretty and when I do go out it’s never to some sort of scenic place that looks picture perfect. So I use my Instagram basically commenting on other people’s things.
I’d be all about instaclean though. And instahealthy. And instajoy.
Damn…we could put insta in front of SO MANY THINGS!!!
I am on Instagram almost exclusively for the pictures of cute dogs. I find it’s one of the best social media platforms for people like me who would rather just do away with that whole pesky “social” bit.
I AM a fan of pictures. But I don’t want to figure out another social media thing. Google+ and Echo was the end of that for me.
All of the insta stuff reminds me of a song on the new Jeff Beck album. The album is called “Loud Hailer” (which is the English term for a bullhorn) and the song is called “Right Now.” He sounds pretty good for a 72 year old, and his new singer, Rosie Bones, is hell on wheels.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwzbAj0ws_w
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I’m not on Instagram either, don’t have a phone with a camera so there’s not much point in doing so, but I did enjoy it when Aussa was in Costa Rica and I could see what shenanigans she was up to before she came home and wrote about it.
My parents had a pressure cooker that they mostly used to make stews in. I remember the stews as being quite tasty.
My sister got one of those Polaroid cameras for Christmas one year. I think they were calling it the Swinger or some such nonsense, which is sort of funny considering the reputation those cameras gathered in the intervening years.
I don’t really move fast enough to need much insta any more.
And to Pia: It took just shy of one year to get my cataracts fixed, and it was an interesting year (read that it sucked mightily) but now I don’t even need glasses any more (except to read) so hang in there, you’ll be glad you did.
Funny, we were JUST talking about Jeff Beck Saturday night at my company party. I haven’t heard his new album, I will have to ask Randy if he has.
Instatherapy? If only!
wouldn’t it be nice, though?
Personally I gave up on Pinterest and Instagram and Twitter because it was overwhelming me. I still have Instagram because my world travelling nephew uses it to keep up updated on which country he is in.
I would rather spend my time reading blogs – especially yours – and no, I am not sucking up – just stating a truth. A real truth. Not an alternate truth.
Oh and facebook. I do spend alot of time there keeping up with family and close friends who live not so close.
And Ravelry – because I am a knitting fiend.
And I can’t watch the news anymore – it is toooooo frightening – so here I sit, head in sand, knitting, swimming, and wishing there was an instaclean because the kitchen floor is getting tooooooo scary.
Thank you so much, I appreciate that. xo
I don’t watch news either. I can’t.
I use Instagram it’s becoming fun-ner I guess. I mostly like to look at pretty pictures. That’s what I do on Pinterest but I’m hyper there too. I have like 106 different boards.
I guess I could give it a try. But not today. Probably not this week. Maybe it will be a spring thing. haha.
LOL – you can actually check Instagram on a computer – I do most of the time. I haven’t found out how to post to a computer but, details ……………….. LOL again.
I love my Inst-tribe – they are the most supportive, encouraging people I have come across in SM. You should try it sometime – it really is a great community.
xox
See? Now that is a good endorsement.