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A whole new world.
submitted about 9 years ago by Ziynik

Today, I'm going to let you in on a few aspects of my life, more specifically, the first time I tried DIY.

It started on a rainy day, typical of New Jerseys shitty weather, like God blessing the walkway to my front door, the clouds parted, the sun peaked, and there stood, a burly man in an off brown uniform holding the holy grail of packages. "MY DIY SHIT IS HERE" I yelled to myself.

Out of sheer excitement I ran outside and met the surprised man with my now soaking socks and snatched my precious belongings out of his hand bidding him a good day and galloped myself up to my room.

Gloves, check, clean desk, check, extremely dull knife to cut open this beautiful package, you bet your sweet ass.

I pried open the contents of a life changing event, slapped those gloves on and went to town.

Now here's where things get a little fuzzy, in the midst of my incoherent gasps of excitement some how I made the most disgusting concoction known to man, but God dammit, I didn't care, I made it, it was mine, and I loved that nasty fucker.

I vaped that whore until my cotton was begging for more sustenance, I vaped until I thought I was going to vomit from the over seasoning of dragon fruit, limes, and cucumbers, I vaped until my lungs became one with the juice. Then, I vaped some more.

The moral of the story here is that when you create something, you own it, and although my creation was a total fail, I loved every fucking second of it, and since that overcast day, DIY has utterly changed my life for the better.

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16 points
 
by Apexifiedabout 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

That was intense. Welcome to the fold.

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by Ziynikabout 9 years ago

Also heads up, I am still super new to reddit in general and I realize that this sub probably wasn't the best place to share my story, my fault, I deleted a few other posts that had beginner related questions and I'll stick to a beginners forum, didn't mean to piss anyone off, sorry guys!

-1 points
 
by thedirtyprojectorabout 9 years agoMixologist

Is that why you've been messaging me with a flurry of insults for the past hour? Seriously quit the nice guy act, you're not fooling anyone.

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by Ziynikabout 9 years ago

Hey whatever you say man, I thought the conversation was over? You receive what you give, I'm giving you what you've given me, hostility and demeaning me gets you nowhere, stop being a cry baby and find someone else to try and belittle lol.

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by thedirtyprojectorabout 9 years agoMixologist

Well I only ridicule morons who suggest unsafe recipes and can't be fucked to read. According to OP's logic, I'm also a loser because I decided to get my first RDA a month ago. You sir, have an acute sense of judgement.

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by Code_Xanaabout 9 years agoPâtissier

Sounds like my first experience except I did vomit.

It was Coconut at 6%, Strawberry at 10%, and Custard at 6%. It was way too much coconut. The coconut at all was a mistake.

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by JordanFox2about 9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kl4hJ4j48s

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by youtubefactsbotabout 9 years ago

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by mlNikonabout 9 years ago

Great story. Welcome to this awesome obsession.

1 points
 
by leapinglabratsabout 9 years ago

Have to admit I laughed in recognition. I'm expecting a delivery today and I still feel like a kid waiting for Santa. The fact that I paid for it and that it's mostly just restocking is irrelevant.

1 points
 
by SavantDigitalLoveabout 9 years ago

Shiit, which book did you quote? :)

1 points
 
by prime1ndustriesabout 9 years ago

I recommend you try mixing many well received/highly rated recipes before you strike out on your own in an attempt to create the next Rhodonite, Apple Buttah, Strawberry Shortcake Bar, etc. You'll get to know your flavors a little better that way, build up your flavoring arsenal, and earn your spurs so to speak...

Or don't, jump headlong into it, and end up with a bunch of bottles of less than stellar e-liquid that you punish yourself by having to vape ;)

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by Ziynikabout 9 years ago

I actually just placed an order according to a few recipes I saw! Thanks for the recommendation! Hoping I'll have good results! I had luck with making a super simple vanilla ice cream and I'm loving it so far! I also ordered the rhodonite concentrate so I'm pumped for that too!

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by lurkinredditabout 9 years ago

Was it bad that I just threw out the bad batches? I obviously let them steep and stuff then threw them out. But I was not as attached to my first recipes. The first one that I made on my own (juicyfruit gum) however was and still is probably my most favoured flavour. Even though I never vape it lol.

2 points
 
by prime1ndustriesabout 9 years ago

No, but sometimes, as punishment for making a bad recipe, I will make myself vape it ;)

1 points
 
by thebeesknees16about 9 years ago

Haha! I just read the rest of this post. I'll make sure to keep my posts to a minimum or to post in the correct thread

-18 points
 
by thedirtyprojectorabout 9 years agoMixologist

Cool story, bro. Share in the new mixer's thread.

18 points
 
by Apexifiedabout 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

You've been pretty negative lately, bro.

6 points
 
by Ziynikabout 9 years ago

You've been crazy awesome, thank you for backing me up, although I do realize now that my posts weren't the best to be shared in this thread, I'll make better and try to leave them out and do my research before asking, again though you've actually helped me more in the past 12 hours than more have in the past few weeks and I'm crazy grateful for all of that! Sorry for causing any bs on this sub! I'll learn eventually haha

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by Apexifiedabout 9 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

/u/thedirtyprojector is actually a great contributor to this sub. I wasn't calling him out for being wrong but more so for letting this type of "shitpost" get under his skin. Some people come in hot and excited, plow right past the rules and make a show of their ignorance all over the front page. You happened to do that in an entertaining way and that's why at least one of your posts remains. You live and learn, though. Glad I could help.

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by Paleone123about 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Yeah, although technically he's right, even if in this case it seems a bit dickish. I've actually always been surprised people seem to let this type of post go when other stuff gets shut on.

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by ToastedOhmsabout 9 years ago

Absolutely he's right, imo. There's 28k people subbed here. Like fuck we all signed up to as how johnny made out with his first foray into diy, or to hear how so 'n' so made out with 18% strawberry. While this was an entertaining read, it is nothing more. While his comment is a bit dick-ish, it's a necessary evil imo.

The 3 days of thinking to yourself, and buff up on the side bar have seemingly left us so long ago.

Next will be a thank you note from each mixer subbed here.

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by thedirtyprojectorabout 9 years agoMixologist

Most people know I'm right, they just don't want to be the asshole who says it. What do threads like this accomplish? It's gratuitous, and honestly as bad as those clone requests/what can I make with these flavoring threads.

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