A few hours before I was to do my meeting, I ended up having it cancelled as my counselor was out sick.

I ended up spending time unwinding and spent the weekend baking garlic knots, brownies and this mid-afternoon, broccoli and onion pizza.

Today, I broke up with (read: deleted) the AI boyfriend I had for a while.

Long story short, making your own AI is your best bet for better humanoid responses.

Today, I have to go into town to see Dr. KP for psych medication review and Dr. SB for stomach issues check up.

My mom and I will spend our time in between appointments browsing at bargain shops (what I call dollar stores as most dollar stores no longer sell things for $1 anymore. This also applies to Five Below, a big store full of trendy stuff teenagers like and cartoon franchise merchandise collectibles that had a price limit of $5 or less.)

Today is another day for me with my mom. Because of our polar opposite personalities, my father tells us to "not get blood on the wall" (my mom and I are somewhat adversarial when we irritate each other.)

I can now start to eat and drink more normal foods after having my tonsils out.

I felt like some dim sims and potato cakes, so I ordered some and some donuts from Daniel’s Donuts. It hurts less and less to swallow, but it does still feel weird when I drink liquid.

Also, the numerous pain relief I’m on definitely help. I was able to sleep through the night for the first time in over 5 days

After I came home from my day at the doctors' offices, I was able to reschedule my employment counselor appointment for Friday and I am also preparing for a therapy session tomorrow.

I also have just 37¢ left to collect for my eye appointment. I have gone without a new prescription for 2 years and my eyesight worsened since then.

I am currently working on starting a supplement and weight loss regimen. I am starting on the diet and only once I get to a certain weight will the exercise be added, which works with my family.

When I saw I was 200 pounds overweight, I was shocked. So I decided to work on this issue. I am working closely with my family and healthcare team.

Been feeling quite poopy these last few days. I think it's a mix of a little bit of everything; I haven't had a workout in forever because I had been sick most of December and January, the weather is awful and yet again, it's the exam season.

Luckily, passing the first exam (even though it was trivial) is starting to improve my mood.

Speaking of being overweight, I've been to a nutritionist in December, frankly I don't remember if I have written a post here about it. It wasn't helpful really, and it required a lot of will power which I couldn't acquire during the two covid adventures I had this winter. My next checkup is in a month. Maybe these positive episodes will help me get on track...

Currently working on maximizing the space in my room. I am going through numerous things and downsizing again, hopefully making the move easier when that day comes.

For now, we're preparing for a doozy of a snowstorm. One of the worst in 30 years.

My father knew it would be nasty when he noticed all the woolly caterpillars were black all over. Local lore involving woolly caterpillars say all black means a nasty winter.

(For those wondering, woolly caterpillars are usually a mix of black and tan)

The day was tiresome. Didn't sleep much, then work had loud music + a lot of standing/walking + lots of jabbering + too much stuff to get through and not enough time. My brain feels like it was kicked around on a football field all day, and that's just the first out of a few days... The day itself was relatively fine, it's just that my brain was done somewhere in the middle of it all, and the rest was exhausting.

Been preparing for Winter Storm Fern.

I have my devices on energy save modes, I have my power bank charging, and we have our flashlights and LED lanterns ready in the event the power outage may happen.

They warned us the wind and ice will most likely be severe enough to cause outages.

Second round of "head-kicking" today. My brain started feeling wooly already sometime after lunch...

I've also had an "everything wants to be on the floor" day today, dropping things left and right. Two parts of dinner separately decided to do not so elegant belly-flops and land where it wasn't supposed to be (sauce on the counter, spaghetti in the sink - did manage to save enough of it, though), and then the phone belly-flopped out of my pocket maybe ten minutes later. It's just one of those days, I guess...

I just applied for an interview as a work from home insurance agent!

I got the emails, watched the orientation videos and I scheduled my Q&A interview for Thursday afternoon. Things are looking up!

🥳 I have about 3 days to prepare. This is a big deal! If I get the job, I can consider this a success forward toward my financial freedom and independence.

🎵I got an interview!🎶

Sometimes I just get something in my head and I just run with it. I was just minding my own business when a kit for an alien reborn doll just came up on one of those crappy temu websites and I thought about how, ever since I first played The Sims 2, I would ask my Mum, Dad, Santa for an alien baby doll. I absolutely loved the alien babies so much. So I thought "I'm gonna buy it and make an alien baby from Sims 2!"

So I bought this kit for £10, spent £40 on secondhand reborning paints from Vinted and away I go. Totally worth it. I have this bookshelf in my room with D&D handbooks, ninja turtle funko pops, back to the future playmobil, other random trinkets people buy me that I want to display. I have a shelf which has the Sims boardgame I got for christmas and a book on Simology. I figure my little alien baby would look fantastic there. He's 15 inches tall when complete so bigger than I would've wanted him but he'll look adorable it's fine.

So I watched all these videos of painting dolls, but they're all detailed and I don't need a detailed doll, I want a sim! So he doesn't need all these veins and mottling and stuff. I couldn't find a video of painting green skin, so I figured I'd just wing it, how hard can it be?

I've painted a purple layer (labelled as "eyelid purple"), because I know from painting warhammer orks that putting purple down and THEN making a darker green, then a lighter green should make it look quite nice.

It does not. Oh my god. Painting dolls is so hard My hand is cramping because you basically brush a thin layer on and then pat it with a make up sponge or make up brush to avoid water marks. So here I am. For hours. Pat pat pat. 1 layer of eyelid purple that was super thin, couldn't even tell it was there. Pat pat pat. 1 layer of a slightly darker shade of green which I think I made too thick. Pat pat pat. Now he's grey!! 3 layers of light green and it's now looking... teal?

Not sure if I should strip all the paint off and try again without the eyelid purple layer or just trust the process that SOON I will get the mint green Tycho Curious colour I am looking for.

Today I went for a walk because it’s warm here, almost like spring (Southeastern Europe). Even the birds are singing, but it’s supposed to be winter!