diary

Happy Sabbath, all

It was a good day today, for sure. i went to the 'rents and before that we went out for lunch w/ basically the whole family & i had a simple, small salad & some french bread & (massive) onion rings. very full. mucho gusto. :) Now i am #homesweethome and having coffee and enjoying the sunshine beaming in through the sliding glass door. And after driving past the apt complex on the way back to this apt for the millionth time (which is right around the corner from here), i think i am going to aim for moving there when i do move within a year or so. I think my needs can be met fairly easily because i am wanting both a ground floor and be in one of the buildings on the hill. Most people want third floor and to not have to deal with hills. idgaf because i do not drive/never will. So i am going to look into that.

As for tonight, the fast starts at midnight and it will be a 24-hour fast and i am v much so looking forward to it. I have a little “plan” as far as what to have/what NOT to have before the fast starts and i think it is going to be good for me. Fasting is always a good thing so long as you are v healthy to begin with and also know wtf you are actually doing. Also, anything over 3-day fast is p extreme if you ask me, but i will not be anywhere close to that.

anyway, be back in a bit!

too much Instagram

...but not really. i have just been using the hell out of it today. i followed a lot of (cool) accts, posted a lot of pictures, perused, browsed, Liked, etc etc etc. Just fooling around and killing time because i have nothing better to do with mine.

it is a beautiful sunset here and i am vaping in the sun rays and getting ready to head to bed for the night in about an hour or so. The day went by quick. Tomorrow will be quicker. Days speed up in time as your age, i believe. Or so i've heard.

be back in a bit

today is a nothing special kind of day

i had nothing going on today but tomorrow i am going to a restaurant w/ most of the family and the place we are going to serves HUGE portions so that is p god damn cool. will have a lot to bring home. As for today, it rained (stormed) earlier in the day and now it is nice and sunny. i also made Take N' Bake bread in the oven, but, i did not thaw it out before i baked it, so, it was basically an ice cube in the middle. #nogood

i have also been fooling about w/ Instagram a bit today and following a bunch of blokes and blokettes on there. haha. fun times. A lot of the accts i follow on there are either tattoo artists or tattoo-related accts. I am v much so looking forward to getting the traddy tatty eagle on my forearm in a few weeks. i have a pretty sick sleeve i dea for the forearm soon after the eagle is done, too. i have a lot of tattoo ideas running through my head, actually. After this eagle, i am going to have to go to...whatever shop i go to, armed with a good amt of $$$ because i want to finish up the sleeve. i may just get thick asterisks along with thick dots to go along with the traddy tatty theme i sort of have going on. i wanna have a theme of both traditional AND dark(ish) evil(ish) tattoos. For example: the koi fish i have on my forearm has devil horns, so, i need to think of something “evil”/“dark” to go along w/ the eagle i am getting.

another tattoo idea i have (that i will for sure get) is the dotted line w/ scissors around the outside of my wrist. i already have a line there from when i was going to do it myself via stick-n-poke, but it was turning out so badly that i decided to say “fuck it” and let a real artist do it instead. And yet another tattoo idea i have is getting a darrrrrk as fuck traddy tatty flower across the back of my hand. it would be sort of a “wrap”, if you will – covering the knuckles and part of the wrist and entire hand. I love hand tats like that :)

All of the tattoos mentioned above will be done after the sleeve is taken care of. Well, the dotted line/scissors thing I will do at the same time. Perhaps a nice coffin squeezed into the “ditch” of my forearm? Or thorns? All I know is that i want all of these things finished up as soon as possible.

getting my ears pierced again, too (2 gauge, after stretching).

It seems i have been hooking on body modification for about a decade now and i see no signs of this addiction stopping anytime soon. in fact, as long as my skin holds up i will always get tattooed because i think i will always have room for tattoos. I would v much so like to be covered in quality ink like i have seen so many others, but all of that work is incredibly expensive and i simply will not be able to afford it...like...ever. LOL! But completely sleeving the left arm, hand, fingers, etc is totally do-able :)

ok, be back in a bit!

RIP Bourdain

I was shocked when I heard the news this AM. I woke up and checked Twitter (like i do every morning) and when someone was Tweeting about suicide multiple times in a row, I knew that something had happened to someone. Then in the fourth Tweet I saw that it had been Anthony Bourdain that took his life. It's a very very very sad thing to see this happen, to anyone. He was a personal hero of mine. I always said that he had the best job in the world and was the embodiment of human empathy. No one could “get” someone better than Bourdain could “get” someone. Brilliant writer. Brilliant chef. And brilliant person. #RIP

Past midnight. Time for another cup of coffee.

I have really dug into the archive of the Matt D'Avella YT channel recently. I have mentioned him before about his take on minimalism, productivity, etc. and just now I watched his video on the Zen and Art of Making Coffee. It spurred me to make another cup.

All of this also has me thinking about minimalism (which comes across my mind quite often). I realize it has taken me years (8 years, to be exact) to get down to this level of minimalism. Very little things, very little Internet use (if I can avoid it), and very little dependence on tech ecosystems (OS X, iOS, Android, etc.). So I am going to keep this up.

In fact; downsizing even more has been a big priority of mine for quite a while. And I think I am doing good with regards to what I have filled my time with (gym membership, hiking often, book writing, blogging, and of course consuming coffee ;))

Speaking of which, this cup is done brewing.

Be back in a bit!

A return to Twitter

Was a nice 36 hours away. Time doesn't fly when you're fairly bored (sounds like a really lame saying, and it is). But i was able to get an awful lot done in the two days I have been gone. I won't go into the details because i have already done so on this blog. Anyway, let's see what Twitter says about....everything.

making coffee

i had a good day today, for sure. was a very busy morning followed by a slow afternoon. i was able to:

• have a pysch appt
• go to group therapy
• receive my sign-up paperwork from the gym
• clean up the apt a little bit

and now...

making coffee.

I mentioned a lot of this in a previous blog post, but i don't think i mentioned the gym part. that is relevant because i am totally out of shape and needed to be a member of a gym. and tomorrow, a 2-4 mile hike (time depending). therapy tomorrow as well. and laundry. etc

I also have not used Twitter at all today (i no longer have an acct) or Insta (no account) or any social media (because, again, i possess no accounts for these things). That's how it shall stay. I have, however, been watching YouTube videos a lot (on NewPipe, no sign-in required) and most of them pertain to minimalism or adventuring in #vanlife. I know that “van life” has been pretty trendy lately and though i will never do such a thing (34 years old, never had a driver's license), i do find it to be a cool subject to watch videos about. Call me a vicarious wanderluster if you will, but it does bring me pleasure. Not that i don't go on excursions of my own, just not in a van.

Anyway, the coffee is done. Be back in a bit!

home sweet home

had a good day today (and it has just started!). Psych appt, group therapy, plans made for hiking tomorrow, etc etc. Good times. Nothing else to say right now. All is well.

hello

i feel good. i feel good in-general usually, but today i feel extra good because i had an anesthetic (sp?) earlier for an upper endoscopy. Everything went well even though it was confirmed that i do still have Barrett's Esophagus (which the last endoscopy doctor said i reversed) but, all is good. I feel good. And they did a biopsy and i am supposed to call them back next Thursday to get the results which i hope are good.

I had a Monster Assault Energy Drink, a Red Bull, and am about to have an (original) Monster. Getting hyped. I also closed Twitter because fuck that service. Insta was closed before that. I am chillin'.

I also have a pack of Edgefield non-filters and i can buy all this shit because I got my Amazon refund back (standing at about $20 left over now. Gonna stretch it. lol! #brokelife

anyway, be back in a bit!

hello

i feel good. i feel good in-general usually, but today i feel extra good because i had an anesthetic (sp?) earlier for an upper endoscopy. Everything went well even though it was confirmed that i do still have Barrett's Esophagus (which the last endoscopy doctor said i reversed) but, all is good. I feel good. And they did a biopsy and i am supposed to call them back next Thursday to get the results which i hope are good.

I had a Monster Assault Energy Drink, a Red Bull, and am about to have an (original) Monster. Getting hyped. I also closed Twitter because fuck that service. Insta was closed before that. I am chillin'.

I also have a pack of Edgefield non-filters and i can buy all this shit because I got my Amazon refund back (standing at about $20 left over now. Gonna stretch it. lol! #brokelife

anyway, be back in a bit!