Well I guess summer is truly over.
I just had to close the window in my bathroom because it was too damned cold in here.
And on a pleasantly sunny day, no less.
Oh well. At least that means the sweltering heat is gone, too. I will not miss those hot afternoons that were so hard on me.
And what the hell, if it gets cold enough I can always turn on the heat. Or put on some clothes for a change.
Sorry if you didn’t know I usually blog nude until now. I’m almost always naked, to be honest. I only get dressed when I am going to leave the apartment, and I do not leave the apartment much these days,
Especially now that Joe’s shift has changed. He is working 3 pm to 11 pm now, and that means he gets off work way too late for us to go to dinner in the McD’s parking lot during the week, and so that’s not been happening.
We meet on Zoom instead. And that, in turn, means I only leave the apartment once a week, on Sunday night.
And it’s beginning to bother me. I have started feeling a tad cooper up. Stir crazy. Which you can appreciate is a rare thing when you are agoraphobic.
So I am going to do my best to get dressed and go shopping tomorrow, just to get the hell out of the apartment.
The money I am saving by not having to pay for McD’s twice a week will pay for the cab rides. And I can pick up some things I don’t have the time or energy to get when I am doing my usual Sunday shopping.
Like sugar free jam, There’s a number of good ones out there. Maybe some cans of soup or the like.
Normally I would be looking for microwavable convenience foods like burritos or pot pies, but they come with carbs and so I am leery,.
It’s bad enough that I get things like pizza when I order in, and fries with my McD’s. I really don’t need to add more carb laden foods to my diet.
Been missing the chips and pretzels and such lately. I think my body craves simple carbs. It’s tired of all the nuts and berries and such I eat.
They are so much work to digest.
Well, too bad, body. That crap is not coming back into my diet. You are just going to have to learn to live without it.
Part of the problem is that, as I predicted, I have been super hungry lately.
I knew this would happen when I finished my course of antibiotics. They were suppressing my appetite, and I knew that when that stopped, my appetite would come back with a vengeance,.
And so it has. And it can be quite annoying being really freaking hungry all the time. Really wears on my nerves.
Oh well, if it gets bad enough, I will take some insulin. That usually helps.
More after the break.
The harsh bite of cruel deprivation
Truly, we live in the inky shadow of our own dooms.
When I went to do my shopping last night, they were COMPLETELT OUT of Diet Coke.
THEY WERE EVEN out of generic diet cola.
I WAS FORCED to get Diet Pepsi, and now, every sip of it tastes like the cruel whip of desperate deprivation and poverty.
Surely, this is what it was like in London during the Blitz.
Seriously though, I do wonder what the deal is with Coke products being in short supply. I can only assume that the issue is not enough labour.
Because clearly, the demand is there. And I guess we know who is winning the cola wars, because the Diet Coke shelves were bare and the Diet Pepsi shelves were fully stocked. Not a single bottle missing.
Then again, maybe Coke products are stuck in a scarcity cycle. People feel like Coke products are scarce, so the minute they go on the shelves, people buy all they can and hoard it like crazy.
And then, whaddaya know, people see bare shelves and that affirms that it is indeed scarce, and the cycle continues.
Luckily, I don’t. like, hate Diet Pepsi. It’s not my preferred beverage but it’s okay.
I never checked to see if Coke Zero was available. But I don’t really regret it. Truth be told, I think I like Diet Pepsi just a hair more than Coke Zero.
Coke Zero tastes weird. Like cinnamon and mint and unhappiness.
Whereas Diet Pepsi, while nowhere near as good as Diet Coke, at least tastes “normal”. It’s a recognizable flavour. Nothing in it surprises me.
I even have pleasant childhood memories of when my father kept cans of Diet Pepsi in the fridge for when he came home after working out at The Spa, and I would do errands for him in order to get one.
I’m sure I was being a huge pain in the ass to him at the time, but I was happy.
FINALLY finished Wheels of Lull. Christ, what an irritating mod. Very “innovative” in the most annoying sense of the word.
Maybe I’m just getting old and crusty, but I want my quest mods to stick with recognizable objects and locations instead of throwing me into whatever geometrical wet dream their maker had the night before.
That seems to be the sort of thing that impresses people, though. Judging by how much of that bullshit shows up in the top rated mods, that is.
Oh well. I finished the stupid thing, and now I am playing a new character. An Orc, created using a mod called Character Creation Overhaul. which adds things like character classes and specializations to Skyrim.
Oh, and the latest from Mystery Project is that D left a bunch of comments on my character profile, the main gist of which is “show, don’t tell’.
So I am going to add a ton more sample dialogues that illustrate the points I am making about the character’s personality.
See, I can take notes! Not a problem. I’m there to give the bosses what they want, after all, not the other way around.
What can I say, I’m eager to please.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.