diarist | punker | anarcho-minimalist
64 F
and it is damn beautiful #STLWX
i had a frreshhhh shower, and gonna walk to the gas station in a bit, maybe. idk what I will get, but it will be there waiting for me.
hope everyone is having a nice Saturday evening, wherever you are :)
Be back in a bit!
hello
had a nap. then went to the vneding machine and snagged a pop and a packy of Oreos. Fucking stunning, mid-60's night here. I feel good. And no nerve pain since I took the Lexapro again. #goodtimes
i got nothing special to do tonight, it seems.
I had a great time at the O'Leary Family reunion. A lot of familiar faces and a lot of unfamiliar ones that i became familiar with. Good conversations, good memories, good times.
I also came home and awaiting for me in the mail was the long-awaited bottle of Lexapro that I had been w/o for quite a while and I took one just now + a copy of Bonnie Kristian's latest book was in the mailbox, too! :)
I will read it as soon as I finish the remain 90-ish pages of the book I am currently reading and then I will leave a review for BK's book on Goodreads, Amazon, etc.
I got a large Diet Dr Pep pop and I will finish it and then pick up a couple things from the grocery store before it rains. It is 66 F outside right now & windy and DAMN, it feels good! A nice break from the heatwave we have been experiencing in STL.
Be back in a bit!
Stilllll Smell Her On Youuuuu
I am listening to Nirvana right now after trying like DAMN to get (at)Jack to ban me from Twitter by continuously harassing him for a half hour.
Was fun.
I am also trying to get banned from Mastodon because i do not want to use social media anymore.
.............
Anyway, tomorrow is the big family reunion and i am looking forward to it and i am not terribly symptomatic from the lack of Lexapro like i was earlier. Tomorrow I am getting a refill but that is going to arrive after the reunion so....big deal.
I am having a good time tonight even though i yacked my brains out after a crappy dinner.
I compensated by filling up on blueberries after the fact.
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I wish there was something interesting to do tonight but it seems pretty status quo as far as I can tell.
Be back in a bit
Big Reunion Tomorrow
Tomorrow is a big, BIG family reunion out at a VFW hall out in the middle of nowhere, and I have to be ready for it. My clothes are chosen, clean. I have to be up early tomorrow so we can grab breffy before we get there, so a shower will be later tonight instead of right now (like I want to). I will shave, use AXE promenade on the hair. And make sure my phone is charged for the event (in case any needs to get ahold of me). My dad will still be in the hospital of course, but we are visiting after the event and one of my sister's will sit with him during the event. Gonna be a full day, for sure.
As for today, I am getting my meds (Lexapro) in the mail and it is arriving just in time. I need that med for (minor) anxiety but as of right now, I need it just so the “cycling off” stops and it doesn't feel like my whole body is one big funny bone.
It's a nice day here, not too hot, yet, not “cool” either. I had bold af coffee + blueberries for breffy and I am def ready to start my day.
That's about all for now.
Be back in a bit!
Hey
i figured i would do a bloggy since i have nothing better to do at the moment. It is 12:27 AM and i am at the standing desk and wide the fuck awake because I slept well + have a lot of coffee.
I am thinking about minimalization (which i know isn't a word), and downsizing and shit like that, and thinking if there is anything that i need to “rid” myself of. I think i am pretty good for now as I tok care of some “loose ends” just a few weeks back and those were a long time coming in terms of getting rid of them. Emotional attachments, people. Emotional attachments.
Now that i have the uber-cool hiking canteen that i have wanted for a v v v long time (w/ included pouch + strap), i think i can aim for having that as my go-to water container for treks. I would like to me minimal in a dogmatic sense in my everyday life and have that be the ONLY container I use for water. In fact, I have no reason to continually re-use Gatorade bottles for my water i drink on a daily basis, so I will use the canteen instead, I think.
Be back in a few!
a bloggy! look at that!
dad did well with surgery. he is healing well
i went grocery shopping today
i also rejoined Insta because i always wind up there when i am bored and look at pictures, so, may as well have an acct
already starting my next budget
#EdX starts October 3 and i am v much so looking forward to it. gonna be dope.
tonight is nice. i had coffee and am feeling p wired at the moment.
also thinking of tattoos
added a “slam/death/something or other metal” band to the Crucifux playlist called “Mental Cruelty” and they are fucking h.e.a.v.y. Great music!
Also, added my Newgrounds acct to oleary.io, so that is p cool.
Be back in a bit!
I guess I am paying for this platform. Finally.
I need to pay for a year of write.as because it has been my favorite #writing #app since i started #blogging (in 2006). It is like $50 a year (or $4 a month which i missed this month's payments (oops)). So i will go ahead and pay the $50 so i can have all the features because this platform truly does value your #privacy (though I wish there was a Yubikey 2FA option available), and this thing is incorporated w/ the Fediverse pretty well (Mastodon), and is just easy as fuck to use.
But also, I am getting pretty inspired to create more “content” or at least do more stuff online than I have been doing in the past two weeks. I am awaiting the EdX course to start on Oct.3 but that is a ways away (one month to the day, specifically). I need to find something to do before then, but I am good with spending this time reading #books that I have been meaning to catch up on as well. I have one from SLCL about book #publishing that I wanna get in to + another book by Bonnie Kristian that I wanna start (as soon as it arrives). I respect her and the amount of work she put into it (even though the subject matter is about religion, and I am atheist) and I ordered it from an indie bookstore that is in like....upstate NY or some shit because I
A) wanna support indie bookstores B) say “fuck you” to Amazon C) hope both the store and the author make more money than an Amazon or Books-A-Million sale would D) because I support the author and bookseller because I enrolled (or hope to enroll) in a possible online course that this upstate NY bookseller is offering that is about the publishing business.
As you can tell from that list + the book I am reading right now, I am thinking about giving a PRO book a go. “Pro” meaning I want to publish a book the legit way. A lot, a LOT of hard fucking work goes into writing/publishing a book though. I wrote a couple little books in the past that I made into #ebooks and I am proud of them, but I have one, ONE good book in me that needs to see the light of day.
More on that later
Be back soon
Finally productive. On Labor Day
I started my laundry just a bit ago and it is gonna be done here in a while, which is totally necessary even thought it is almost 10 PM because I am going to have to be at the hospital at about 8:30 AM tomorrow for my dad's surgery prep. Still no word on when the surgery will be, but we will find out.
I also got a pop a bit ago, have another one in the fridge, and will get yet another when i go to fetch the laundry. This is important for me because i have no coffee at the moment. Soon though.
Ahhhh, Diet Dr Pepper. Perfect.
I didn't do shit this Labor Day but sleep for 18 of its 24 hours. I don't know why. Just...tired af i guess.
That's about all for this blog post. Be back soon.
An update on dad
Saw two doctors in there today. His hand....fucking brutal. It looks as bad as can imagine a hand to look. I could glance at it twice, then i had to look away. So bad.
They decided they are going to amputate just under the elbow, my dad is in the school of thinking of doing so NOW (meaning Tuesday, because Labor Day) and they are still wanting to debris it (clean it) a bit before then.
He can't have more opiate-based painkillers because that fucks him up too much. So they need to make a move quick. The decision has been made. A move has to be made ASAP.
Hope it happens soon.