Holy geez was this a whopper of a Sleepy Day.

I’ve done the math, and I slept a total of fourteen hours today. The only break was when I woke up around noon as a half-asleep zombie to put some food in my face before going right back to sleep.

I was so sleepy, I forgot to take my morning meds. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I take all my psych meds in the morning, and those are the most important meds to my mental well-being.

And face it, there is no point in being physically happy when you are mentally miserable.

So as you can imagine, it was not a particularly eventful day. I slept, I ate, I slept some more. When I finally manages to truly wake up at around 4:30 pm, I felt like I was finally creeping out from under a rock. These sleepy periods of mine really do make me feel squashed flat. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it has something to do with my need to sleep on my front.

But now I have 14 hours of sleep, a decent supper of baked beans on toast with an orange and some NSA cookies, and a liter of diet cola behind me, I feel a lot better. Not necessarily wonderful or even back to what I laughably call “normal”, but I at least feel human, and that’s a marvelous improvement.

In other news, I am pleased with myself because I told Joe that I wanted to go to Costco with him and Julian next time we went, then made sure to be ready to go at the right time, and then went with them, and then spend a significant (to me) chunk of cash buying healthy-type food when I was there.

Any of those steps was a potential failure point. I might have never said anything, or said it but chickened out at the last minute, or gone but not spent anything, but no. Mission accomplished! Yay me!

I bought three things. One was a three-pack of English cucumbers (the long skinny kind) for three bucks, which is a buck a cucumber and usually you can get them cheaper than that,but what the heck. I love cucumber, and that cuke is going to be the source of many a tasty cucumber, bacon, and mayo sandwich in the future.

My mouth is watering just at the thought of it. Mmmm.

Growing up, we only had the other kind of cucumber. The shorter, thicker, fatter ones. The standard cucumber, in my view. When I first came across an English cucumber (or, more properly, the European cucumber), I thought it was a standard cucumber to which something extremely bad had happened.

I still feel that way sometimes, to be honest.

But they taste just the same as the standard, and so unless you need big slices of cucumber for something, they are more or less the same thing.

The other two things were an eight-pack of cans of baked beans and an eight pack of cans of chicken soup.

The baked beans are your bog-standard baked beans you can get anywhere. But the soups are from Campbell’s “County “Kitchen”, which is funny because half of them have quinoa (pronounced ‘kee no wa’, apparently) in the and I am pretty sure that down home country kitchens are not up on the latest trendy ancient grains.

Depends on what country your country kitchen is in, I suppose. I mean, the stuff came from South America in the first place. Presumably, there are lots of country kitchens with big jars of quinoa there!

So I am finally getting around to trying quinoa. I assume it is not as trendy as it used to be if it has made it all the way into Campbell’s soups already. Hell, I think Denny’s has a quinoa salad now, and Denny’s had got to be the Reader’s Digest of food trends, in that once it is there, it has lost all of its coolness points.

Not that I am slagging Denny’s. I love it there. But part of what I love about it is how unpretentious it is. I am always the most comfortable at low-pressure, low-status, down-home kinds of restaurants. Any place where they are overtly trying to tell you how you should feel about yourself for eating there is too high-falutin’ for me.

I do, at most, middle-falutin’.

Now where was I… oh right. I am pleased with myself because I went and got the kind of foods I wanted. The kind of foods that will make my meals tastier, more satisfying, and healthier all at once. I eat way too many PBNJs and way too much junk food. I plan on improving my nutrition by buying better stuff and spending more on healthy grocery based meals instead of far more expensive restaurant based meals.

I mean, the three things I got at Costco will be the centerpiece of like twenty meals, and all for the cost of one restaurant meal. It just makes sense.

In order to buy the stuff, though, I had to borrow substantially from next week’s budget, meaning I will be going into next week with $65 instead of the usual $90. Yipes.

Oh well, it is totally worth it. Better food is a better investment than nearly anything else, after all.

Oh, and one last thing…. I will be getting the CT scan on my umbilical hernia area tomorrow. I am quite happy about it, because CT scans are non-invasive and also do not require me to be entombed within an MRI machine, so the procedure should not be unduly unpleasant, and on the plus side, it gives me a feeling that progress is being made on that front.

I am really hoping that the thing can just be patched up endoscopically and so it will be a minimum amount of hospital time invested in a new, better me.

Who knows, maybe this will fix some of my digestive issues.

That’s all for me for today, folks. I will talk to you again tomorrow.