How to Create Your Own Indoor Succulent Garden

How to Create Your Own Indoor Succulent Garden

                            

CHOOSING YOUR DESIGN

        An easy way to start off your succulent garden is by finding a simple glass or ceramic container. Which ever way you decide to arrange and decorate these it will come out beautifully. 

        Pinterest has so many different designs to choose from if you decide you want to purchase a planter, or make a DIY planter. Just browse around and find something that matches your home, whether it be modern and minimalistic, or colorful and abstract. Pinterest allows you to save time finding something specific through its search engine that uses key terms to show you specific items in the fastest way to skim possible; by giving you a summary of the article through a detailed image. By clicking on the image you would be redirected to the purchase site or the instructions blog site.  

THE PERFECT SOIL MIXTURE

        The perfect soil mixture should allow for good drainage. Succulents are gaining popularity during these drought seasons because they use less water. Succulents are meant to grow in areas where water is scarce. This is what makes them so easy to grow, but people tend to forget that over watering your succulent is also a bad thing. The main reason succulents die is due to root rot. Overwatering your succulent and not having the ideal draining system causes your plants roots to sit in a bath of water to rot. This is why the ideal soil consists of very porous components (referring to rocks or other materials with very small sponge like holes that allow for water or air to pass through).

        Between the soil and the moss, you provide some moisture to the roots to keep them hydrated. The charcoal adds nutrients, and the stones and sand allow for proper drainage. At the bottom of your planter be sure to place a loose cloth to prevent the sand and stones from falling out from the water draining holes.

PLANTER LAYOUT

        Succulents can be categorized into 3 main groups:

1. Thrillers: tall, attention grabbing succulents which become the centerpiece of your arrangement. 
2. Fillers: grounded succulents which grow outwards and tend to propagate (create smaller “baby” versions of themselves) faster. They are called fillers because they fill the top of the soil to cover any open/empty spaces. 
3. Spillers: succulents which grow in a vein-like manner. Imagine a necklace full of beads. These add a bit of chaos to your arrangement so it doesn’t look too clean and it makes your arrangement  look more natural. Spillers tend to drip over the edges of the planter. 

        To create an appealing arrangement your planter should include these three basic types of succulents. In a similar arrangement as shown in the images below. 

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How to do a Propper Throw In Soccer

The purpose of the throw in is to restart play (of soccer) when the ball exists the side of the field. Everyone probably thinks that doing a throw in, in soccer is probably the easiest thing to do. However, doing a proper throw in soccer may seem simple but it is very complex. You have to be very cautious with the technique, having both feet on the ground, making sure you don't jump, the range of how far the ball goes, and making sure you pass it too the right person. I will be explaining step by step how to do a proper throw in. So if you barely learning how to play soccer or struggle to do a proper throw in, stay tuned this may help you.

Steps:
1. The first step is to make sure you do not pass the white line. If you pass the white line it, will be considered a foul and the referee will make you retake the throw in. In addition, make sure both feet are touching the floor. It does not really matter how your feet are positioned; as long as they are touching the floor. Because if you put your feet up or if you jump, they will make you re-do the throw in and if you do the same mistake they give the ball to the opposing team.

2. The second step is the technique you must use while doing a throw in.

 The first thing you want to do is grab the ball with both hands and try to reach your back with it. Your arms should be at a 90-degree angle, so that when you swing to toss it in, you get the farthest range.

After you have your arms at the 90-degree angle and you swing it; you must get it over your head and release the ball as soon as you make eye contact with the ball and your arms are completely straight, at a 180 degree angle. Following these steps should improve your technique while throwing the ball.

3. The third step is to make sure it goes to a far distance and/or to a teammate. You have to make sure the ball goes at a far distance because if do a soft throw, the referee will make you retake it. The only way you are able to do a soft and short throw in is if you throw it to your teammate and they receive it. Furthermore, you want to make sure you are passing it to your teammate or else if you just throw it in randomly there is a good chance you will loose possession to your opponents.

Now as long as you follow all these steps you should have a better understanding of how to do a proper throw in, in addition, it should help you improve on your technique as well. So go out there and practice until you master the technique and learn how to do a proper throw in.

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How to Perfectly Cook a Maruchan Cup Noodle

If your a sucker for instant Mexican food you have to try the Maruchan Cup Noodle. To make these cup noodles is not much of a problem, nor do you need to know how to cook. As long as you follow these simple instructions I guarantee you that your instant Mexican food will be amazing. 

1) The first step is to choose one of the two most famous flavors

For those who are addicted to sea food flavor I personally recommend the one with shrimp. 
Yes, it comes with SHRIMP!! The only bad part is that it just does not bring enough shrimp to satisfy you.  

If you are more of a chicken lover, do not worry. There is also a chicken flavor soup. 

If these two flavors do not do the trick for you, you can visit your local market to find new flavors that you might like. 

2) The Procedure 

First thing is first, open and take off the lid. Once you have done that add water. Enough water that there is at least 2-3 cm of water above the soup. Do not add to little because then the soup won't cook well, or to much because then the flavor will go away. 

Once you added the water put it in the micro. 
If you like your soup crunchy I suggest adding 1 minute and 30 seconds.
If you like your soup well done the ideal time would be 3 minutes. 
If you do not know what would be the ideal cook for you or is your first time, I suggest adding 2 minutes and 15 seconds. 

3)Add your spice!!!

If you are one who loves the taste of lemon, don't you worry. Adding some lemon on your soup will just make you love it more. Adding your own spice into it is important for your satisfaction.

On the other hand if you are spicy lover tapatío is the best hot sauce you can choose for this soup. But be careful because this amazing hot sauce can heat things up really fast.

4) Enjoy!!

Once every has been done and added you can now enjoy this gift filled with many flavors that will wish you had another one in your hands. 

How to Spin and Toss a Rifle

Colorguard is an addition to most marching bands. The reason for colorguard is so that when the marching band goes to competition, they'll be able to score more points for adding a story line to their musical selections. The colorguard's jobs are to make the show look pretty, tell the story, and have fun.

  Learn How to Properly Hold a Rifle

In order for you hold a rifle is pretty weird. You have to know the parts of the rifle there are four main parts to the rifle. There's the Bolt, the nose, the neck, and the butt.

 Learning The Basic Spins

   The basic spins are Drop spins and double time spins depending on who teaches you. There can be many different names for the basics. Drop spins are easier and require a little muscle because they are one handed. To start a drop spin you hold your rifle with the butt to the left and nose to the right. Your right hand should be under the neck, while you left hand should be on top of the nose. After that you push down on the nose with your left hand and quickly put your left hand to your side. Then you flip the rifle around in your right hand as many times as you want until you feel confident doing them.

Learning How to Toss A Rifle

 The last thing is learning to toss. Learning to toss is by far the hardest thing ever! It's hard because you have to learn to aim(really, but not really) just so you know 100% that your rifle isn't going to come straight down and hit you in the head. There are three steps to tossing which are similar to drop spins, there's prep which means you're in starting position. There's toss you toss by pushing the nose of the rifle down really hard and while pushing down you're raising your right hand to give your rifle a little extra height then you let go(and hope for the best). Depending on how hard you push and how tall you want it to be you can easily toss a 1-8. Meaning that your rifle will spin making 1 complete circle while going up all the way up to 8 complete circles.

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Proper etiquette in the gym

Going to the gym has slowly becoming one of my favorite hobbies to do whenever I have free time. But every time I workout, I've always notice how some gym members often forget how to properly behave in the gym, or follow the unwritten rules of the gym. There are so many things that people do in the gym where it affected other people simply because of their behavior, so I will only list 4 very important things from my own experiences. Here are 3 things you should and should not do when working out at the gym.

1. Proper attire

When going to the gym, members should have the right clothing when working out. We have all seen far to many people who would wear inappropriate clothes such as jeans, fitted clothes that reveals to much, and/or anything that is not sportswear. Most of these people tend to be either flashy by wearing fitted gym wear to the point where it's got everybody's attention or people who forgot their gym clothes. Either way, other people might find it unsuited for being in the gym. Finding gym wears is very easy to use, just search "Gym Attires" online and a bunch of websites offer proper clothes for you to choose from. What I would recommend for men is a simple and cheap clothing which is a white T-shirt(can be a color at your choosing) and gym shorts with a tennis shoes. For women, a simple T-shirt and either a track shorts or a leggings with tennis shoes. Comfortable and moving freely is really the goal of having an appropriate clothing when going to the gym.

2. Focus on your exercise, not others

If you haven't know, there are people in the gym whose intentions are to attract other people. The gym is a place where people work out to be healthy, achieve a desired physique, and/or de-stress for various reason. The gym is not a dating place to meet cute girls or guys. Trust me, I've seen such situations where a man and women flirting at each other with little to no activity in their workout whatsoever. So to properly work out in the gym without distractions is to simply understand why you have signed up for membership in the first place instead of wasting your time and money. There is a place and time for everything but the gym is for working out. That's it.

3. Clean up your sweat after using the equipment

One of the most important thing for working out in the gym is to be hygienic. In my experiences of going to the gym, I've seen many people who doesn't clean the equipment once they've done their exercise. It is out of respect for others who will be using the equipment right after as well as for a health situation. Sweat can be very dangerous because it has the ability to transmit infections from one person to another. So it is best to wipe your sweat from the equipment and use hand sanitizer before and after workout.

Re-rack your weights!

Last but more importantly, putting back weights after workout has been an issue to many gym goers as there will always have people in the gym who uses the equipment and fail to put it back. Don't be that person. Either these people don't have any respect of others or they're just lazy. Whatever the reason, please, Put. Back. Those. Weights/Equipment. A gym is a place where people share equipment, so with respect from each other, re-rack the equipment for others to use later on. So the next time you work out at the gym and use it's equipment, return it back. There's no harm done if by doing so.

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1. Health Risks of Sweat

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How to prepare the perfect Michelada :)

Summer  is about to end, but that doesn't mean the time for  good micheladas is over. Every time is a good time for a michelada. I don't know about you, but every time I go out in the hunt for a michelada I return home with my hopes down... :( it is so hard to find a place where I can drink a decent michelada, so I gave up on my quest to find a good one. I decided I would create my own recipe. I started combining different thinks and watching a bunch of You-tube videos to find the perfect combination... Until I got it!!!!!!!  

I want to share the secret ingredients that make my michelada, The perfect michelada.  

Let's go over the ingredients we are going to need for our perfect Michelada!!!!!

Ingredients:

The Perfect Michelada

• 1 teaspoon of chili powder (Tajin)
• 3 teaspoon of kosher salt
• The juice of one lime 
• some cubes of ice
• 1/4 cup of tomato juice (Clamato)
• Mexican Sauces 

• Bufalo Sauce
• Pekin Sauce 
• Chamoy (not a Sauce)
• Mexico Lindo Sauce
• Maggi Juice (Jugo Maggi)

Directions:

1. Combine the salt and chili powder on a small plate. Rub the lime wedge along the rim of a large lager beer glass, and then dip the rim into the chili salt. Fill the glass with the ice. Pour in the lime juice, tomato juice, pekin sauce, chamoy, bufalo sauce, Mexico lindo sauce, maggi juice and beer. Stir briefly to incorporate. Garnish with the lime wedge.

Very simple to make yet very hard to find the perfect combination of sauces that create a perfect michelada. Is is very important that you use a Corona as your preferred beer.  

WARNING!!!!!!!!!!

                                  DO NOT ABUSE THE USE OF ALCOHOL.

                       IF YOU DRINK DON'T DRIVE.

                                  

Here is a picture with the sauces you need for this recipe. Available at any Latino supermarket.

 

How to feel confident on a soccer field

In any sport it can be hard to feel confident, mainly for two reasons: It might be the first time you play or after a long break your skills may be gone. In soccer, there are players with years of training or they practice a lot to become better. When is our first time trying a new sport we might it can be overwhelmed and we might quick right away. Or when we start playing again after a long time your skills may be gone and it can make you feel unmotivated. The good news is that there are ways to feel confident in a soccer feel.

1. Practice on your own: 

Practicing soccer on your own can help you gain a comfort level with the ball. After practicing for a while it will make you a better player on the field. The more you practice the more you will become better at having control of the ball and it will help you learn new skills until you start feeling comfortable with the ball which will make you a competitive player. Things that you can practice by yourself are:

• How to pass the ball, shot or dribble 
• How to hit the ball from different angles
• keep control of the ball with your feet and try not to look always at the ball
• practice on your position to get better at it. 

2. Figure out the problem:

When it's your first time playing soccer it might be frustrated to know what is your weakness. The way to figure it out might which one are your weaknesses is by playing with your friends/ family.

When a player is trying to play soccer again it would be a good idea to play for a couple of times in a team to figure out what skills you need to work on again. For example, if you are a defense and your opponents passes through you and makes a goal, your weakness it will be defending the goal and knowing this can help you practice more and more in a specific weakness.


3. Things that might make you insecure:

When is your first time trying to play soccer or if you want to start playing again it can be difficult due to the lack of belief or confidence. Here are things that might make you insecure:

• Inner feeling of not been good enough 
• Negative thought and lack of motivation
• Low energy level
• Worrying about a simple thing: Believing that you can't meet or exceed their expectations 
• Easily intimidated by other player or comment 

These are some basic things that may help you feel confident on a Soccer Field. So don't be afraid and don't let nothing stop you from trying to play. Always keep a positive mentality, practice and keep trying never give up in anything that you are doing.


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Three Ways to Adjust a Steel Watch Bracelet

One of the most common bands seen on watches are metal bracelets. The thing that sets this type of band apart from resin straps, rubber starps, and nato straps is the adjustability on the wrist. With non metal straps the wearer can set straps to fit just right, or a snug fit, because of the buckle latch that are seen on belts. With a metal bracelet, the wearer can not do that kind of adjustment because those bracelets use a clasp instead of buckles. This means that the metal bracelet is a little more complicated to get fitted to the proper wrist size.

To adjust the size of the metal band, you must remove the links by pusing out the pins that are holding them in. Some metal bracelets have arrows on the links pointing to direction that the pin must be pushed out of. You must watch out for these markers because you risk getting the pin stuck if you try pushing it in the opposite direction of the arrow. There are three ways to remove the pins and links in order t get the proper fit .

• Method 1: You could buy a pin remover. This is a tool that aligns with the links and easily pushes them out. The pin remover can be found in watch repair kits or can be bought separately online. It would also be useful to have in case you buy another watch with a metal bracelet. This would allow to swap out links and pins easily, and without frustration from the comfort of your own home.

• Method 2: the most simple approach to getting a metal bracelet propperly fitted is by having someone else do it for you. Taking your watch to a local watch store that replaces batteries, and does watch repairs should be adequate. If there is not a local watch store, than a major retail store like Macy's would be perfect. This method is the easiest way for you to get your bracelet fitted. This could also get you familiar with a small, local watch store that may have different metal bands to purchase, and gets you in contact with someone that fix your watch if anything were to happen to it.

• Method 3: the most tedious, but cost effective, approach is using push pins and a small hammer to force the pins out of the links. This is a DIY method that mostly requires two tools, maybe three, and can also be found around the house. Just like the pin removal tool, you will have to align the push pin with the pin inside the link and use the hammer to push the pin out. Most watch pins are easy to push out, so you don't need a lot of force when hitting down with hammer. Also this method requires more attention because you risk damaging the watch or the bracelet if you miss hitting the push pin. This method is great to know because if done right, you won't have to purchase a new tool or drive around looking for a watch store. But if something does go wrong, then you might want to look for a watch repair shop.

This video will provide a better look at methods one and three. That way you have a better idea if what to expect when trying either of these methods to adjust your steel band.

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How To Barbeque

Something that can't be denied, is that people love their food. It's not just that we need food to nourish our bodies and be healthy, but food is just so delicious we would eat it even if we didn't need to. Barbequing your food, is another way of cooking, that will have your food tasting heavenly. If you've never Barbequed before or if you have some experience but just need to brush up on your knowledge, you've come to the right place. This is an overview on the things you need to know before you start barbequing.

Choose Your Grill

When it comes to barbeque grills, there are two main types. These would be charcoal grills and gas grills. Charcoal grills are grills that cook food from burning charcoal briquettes. These grills are known for giving you that amazing smoky, grilled flavor in your food. These grills will definitely give you the best flavor, but calls for prepping the charcoal, lighting it with either lighter fluid or without, depending on the charcoal, and disposing of the charcoal at the end. Gas grills are the more popular type of grill and you see these much more often in the backyards of homes. These grills are powered by propane gas tanks and are popular because of how easy it is to get them fired up. These grills don't take much preparation because they don't need charcoal and the hassle of preheating the grill and disposing of the ashes at the end.

Grab All Necessary Equipment

In order to make sure you’re ready to cook up some mouth-watering food, you should make sure you have all the right tools to do this. You should make sure you have your grill of course and the correct fuel for each, charcoal or propane. Next, you should make sure you have cooking tools like a spatula, some tongs, a basting brush to season your food as they cook if needed, a grill brush to properly clean your grill, and a meat thermometer to make sure your food is properly cooked. After that you can obtain other tools you might need depending on what you are cooking and preference. Anything from grill mits to an apron, are things you might want to grab but is not required.

Clean Your Grill

Unless your grill is brand new, you want to make sure it is clean, to try to make sure you're going to be cooking food that is clean and won't cause you harm from the nasty residue and such from the last cook out, and just because it is kept outside, you never know what kind of stuff is on there. If you are smart and keep your grill

Start Cooking It Up

Now you don’t just automatically start cooking once you either have lit your charcoal or turned on your gas grill, you have to let it heat up. You should wait till the flames have died down and the coals are white and hot before you start cooking, and on a gas grill give it 15 min to get to a suitable temperature.



Proper Cooking Temperatures


















The number one thing about cooking raw food like many meats on the barbeque is to make sure that your food is cooked well enough so that it is safe to eat. After cooking your meats for the time required, grab your meat thermometer and stick it inside through the middle and towards the center and check the temperature of it. Ground beef should reach a temperature of 160ºF without any rest time first. Pork and Ham should reach a temperature of 145ºF, but make sure it sits of the flames for 3 minutes before you check the temperature. Turkey and chicken should reach a temperature of 165ºF with no rest time.

Seasoning Your Food

Marinades and basting sauces will burn in the grill temperature is too hot or if exposed to heat for too long. When your marinades and basting sauces burn, you won't get the flavor you were hoping for. It will taste dry and without enough flavor. To avoid this, keep an eye on your food while it on the grill and keep track of cooking times.

Don't Be Afraid to Get Creative

A big part to barbequing is being creative, there are many ways of cooking things on the grill but also many things to cook. When people think of barbequing they think of burgers and hot dogs, and those are both very delicious but there are plenty of other foods that can be grilled. Steaks, ribs, fish, shrimp, vegetables, fruits, potatoes, and even pizza are just some of the things you can throw on the grill and enjoy.

Enjoy That Food!