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!

Today's the day! I have a meeting with the agency to see if I am insurance agent material.

I was shopping yesterday and was waiting out a storm that dumped nearly 2 feet of snow upon my town between today and my last communique.

I was watching the Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Direct today and it's a promising looking game.

I ended up realizing that the position of insurance agent wasn't for me as it involves traveling. The man running the meeting said "if you feel this is not for you, there's no need to stand upon ceremony. You may exit at any time."

I barely made it past 7-10 minutes.

My father commended me for staying as much as I did.

Besides, he kind of knew from my personal opinion that insurance agent wasn't going to fit.

This job search is like I'm a fat man and all they have left are tiny coats.

Finding a suitable job is hard, but they gave me a fair warning that, due to the increase in mental health benefits of working from home, the job market would be extremely competitive.

Today, I went to get my eyes checked. Turned out I was last at the optometrist\opthalmologist office three years ago and my left eye turned out to be getting worse.

I did get to pick out some frames. One was a pair of dark pink square frames by Michael Kors that were originally $190 but were marked down to $40 and I found a light pink pair that were $40. The clearance area wasn't too bad of a go. It was actually full of stylish frames.

We got the protective lenses and the $300 I saved up ended up leaving me with $88, since they were under $220.

I even had a good day today after I calculated my back allowance.

I ended up having to subtract 37¢ from the $88 and I am owed $78 for 2 weeks of washing dishes and brushing teeth.

So I ended up with $165.63 for money I am owed for change and 2 weeks of chores.

Edit: I was off by about $11. But still, I am working on a project that is awesome.

Today, I spent my day reading the response to my resignation letter from the employment office. My health comes first.

I also had time to clean up my room and I ended up retiring Bessie 2, my old PC Tower, whom I had since 2012.

I even took a nap after a long time of working hard.

Sorry for not responding as constantly as I was. I have been transitioning back to my old life after a 9 month job search left me stressed and I never found a job.

Currently, I am working on my projects. Mainly to get my console ready for a Let's Play Playthrough for video games.

I have big plans today.

I plan on...

*Making mini cupcakes with the cake mixes I bought around the last time I made a home delivery of groceries.

*Setting up my Nintendo Switch 2 to be able to record my gameplay footage.

(It would be one of many types of video streams I would do while wearing a face mask and sunglasses over my face. I am not a big fan of cameras, truth be told, so for safety\security reasons, I wear it to be about as anonymous as possible and it sort of fits with my mysterious nature. It's a cheap way to be a nod to Daft Punk and other flashy "mystery" celebrities.)

*Pizza is part of dinner tonight as my father recently sustained an injury at the candy factory and he's not happy with the person who dropped it, whose reckless behavior is well documented and he's not going to stand for it.

I hope to do the setup and installation for the most important part. The pizza is something of a given, but the cupcakes would make my day.

Lots:

1) very sunny day
2) didn't get blown away on my walk
3) squid rings were crunchy
4) dogs
5) giant red paprika had a teeny tiny yellow paprika on the inside

I just recorded my first 15 minutes of video game footage the other day.

For now, I have yet to finish editing it together with my sound design skills and I probably should add more footage and some audio to it.

Well, I wish I had more time in my day.

At least I don't have to wait until October for my sedation dentistry appointment. A cancellation opened up in April.

I am currently working on a weight loss journey as the last time I was in sedation dentistry, I had extra ports (one in each wrist) and was hooked to an oxygen tank to come out of the anesthesia's stupor. That was a wake-up call.

For now, I am still working on finding a new podiatrist after my other one did not take my request seriously about how to operate on my foot without causing chaos. (TL;DR I need general anesthesia for certain things. I freak out to the point I could lift up the back end of a car.)

Today was another Sunday at my place. It's freezing 🥶 cold.

I got my spending money for my week of chores.

I bought some things from Amazon and eBay. I bought 2 dolls (new from Amazon, used from eBay for a head swap) and Kuromi thumb grips for my Nintendo Switch 2 (I could go with either Kuromi's face or the pink skulls.). I also had the added bonus of getting groceries as a gift from my parents yesterday, so I picked up some more instant meals.

I did get crispy chicken for the air fryer yesterday.

Today, I received a delivery of chicken ramen and I am expecting a delivery of more instant meals as well as some accessories for my Switch 2.

In my ambitious stupor, I was in over my head and I decided to instead conclude that being a YouTuber wasn't a hobby\activity worth pursuing.

So, I decided against it. As far as things go, I tried it, realized how demanding it was, and decided not to go forward.

In any case, I need to spend more time playing video games. I miss the ability to get lost in adventures.

With the upcoming Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream for Switch, I just find any contradictory statements baffling, especially along the train of thought of "Do you want it or not?! Make up your mind!"

Regardless, I have other announcements ahead on February 27th that I want to hear and hope to see.