Today felt like a long day.
Several work meetings. I ended up working a little late because I got involved in rewriting a query and didn’t want to stop until I was as done as I could get. I have several pending emails I need to get sent out, but that can wait until Monday.
I walked to the mailbox over lunch and had a nice chat with one of my neighbor’s. It totally threw off the timing for the walk, but it was good to have conversation, and to let her know how I was doing.
I did my Spam salad after work for dinner. I’m going to make a pasta sauce over the weekend with the last of my ground beef. I did a quick shopping trip to restock on my breakfast sandwiches. I had ordered a case (6) of the banana dutch cocoa smoothies, but when I picked them up they were chocolate. I didn’t want chocolate, because the I find the regular chocolate overly sweet and hard to drink. They may let me exchange them; if not, then I’ll have to use them up and then re-order and hope they get the right ones next time.
I had a nice chat with the cashier. Getting out of the house is good for me. But I have stories to write this weekend. I’m going to try and write one on Saturday and one on Sunday. No television until the story for the day is done. And that includes video games. And social media. But I will allow myself to go shopping and to the transfer station before the story is done. The drive is a good place to think about stories if I don’t listen to an audiobook.
Tomorrow will be caffeine free. If I suffer from withdrawal, I might do a decaf coffee on Sunday. Decaf still has a small amount of caffeine so that should soothe me through the last of the withdrawal effects. Ambrose didn’t experience caffeine withdrawal like I did. He could just stop drinking coffee and not suffer any ill effects. I wonder why that was. What the difference was between our body chemistries that caused that particular quirk…
I’m getting used to the blurriness. It’s annoying, but I’m finding that I keep that eye open more often than not. I’m well on the way to healing and recovery. I’m glad that I got everything done when I did, even if I should have gone in sooner. If I had gone in sooner, I would have missed out on a big chunk of the backpacking season, and that wouldn’t have been good for my mental health.