my life is not that interesting

On Purpose

I successfully made salted caramel sauce.

I did not successfully sauce anything with it yet, as it's easier to just spoon it directly into my mouth.

Accidents

I started playing Stardew Valley.

Along with moving back outside to write (cleaned porch, new cushion!), I'd been trying to find another equivalent to Farmville while waiting to get into alpha testing for the new Glitch that is apparently coming out. I like semi-casual stationary gaming to relax with some kind of plot and Pokemon Go is--not that, it's for walking and whatnot. So.

When I was sick in late Jan/early Feb, I decided to test drive my new tablet with it after trying to get into it last year. This time, it worked, and also, I rediscovered my love of farming games. There's something ungodly soothing about planning, harvesting, and selling crops and raising livestock; it always zens me out. Stardew has the added advantage of an actual plotline and people, which I ignored for the first two years until I had a comfortable savings, two barns and coops, and sufficient livestock to afford having friends, picking a house husband, and raising toddlers, cows, bunnies, pigs, goats, sheep, and ducks.

(The side effects of being a late Gen X kid; I remember the Reagan years and bankruptcies and the economic death spiral of 2008. Want to know why I am still ambivalent about buying a house or even a car (should I want to drive)? See above. This pretty much informs all my gaming. I'm in Year 7 with a million in Starview money and a regular monthly income (cheese, mayo and fruit trees) of 10,000, but I am still doing careful crop math every season for maximum profits and worry about grass invasions. I feel crazy buying chairs and tables. It's very weird.)

Anyone else playing? Anyone know how to get tea?

Comments

[misbegotten]

it's easier to just spoon it directly into my mouth

Yes!

[lemon_badgeress]

it's easier to just spoon it directly into my mouth.

it’s statements like these that make me so comfortable sharing a name with you XD

[writerlibrarian]

I also relax playing Stardew Valley.

Tea answer https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Tea_Sapling

[kore]

(The side effects of being a late Gen X kid; I remember the Reagan years and bankruptcies and the economic death spiral of 2008. Want to know why I am still ambivalent about buying a house or even a car (should I want to drive)?

One of the things that still bitterly amuses me abt the Millennial/Boomer wars is...we went through a lot of that with the Boomers first. //GENERATIONAL HIPSTER Down to "Well I've seen people sink all their money into a house they're unable to sell and they can't afford to stay in, sooo...."

[timespirt]

Carmel sauce is great all by itself...LOL

Do you have to pay for the farming game or is it free?

[cathyw]

the farming game is not free; if you play on PC, keep an eye out for sales on Steam

[seperis]

I have it on my tablet from Google Play; it was 7.99 (I can't see if its the same price now), but it has no in-app purchasing or ads.

[timespirt]

Thank you hon.

[wychwood]

Who did you marry??? Make friends with Caroline to get tea

[cathyw]

And then if you go into the shop (possibly the back room off the kitchen of their house) it will trigger a cut scene.

[akacat]

Wait, did you play Glitch too?? I loved that game so much! My icon on FB is my glitch avatar.

[unavee]

I sunk so many hours into Stardew Valley a few years ago, but I haven't played it much since then and haven't tried out all the new updates. There's tea now?? :O

[deird1]

There is tea. As well as fishponds, and a movie theatre, and many other things.

[gracerene]

Salted caramel sauce!!! That sounds delicious.