July 10, 2022 = 9:21pm - 9:41pm
I'm out here on my own...
Yesterday after I arrived and earlier today I had put together a short shopping list of some amenities and foodstuffs that I felt I wanted, and after breakfast today I went out shopping. Shopping while waddling absent-mindedly behind your mom is one thing, but being the person pushing the cart, looking clueless as you're trying to figure out where the hell the next item is is something completely different. Eventually after like 30 minutes of hobbling around I got everything I had I my list, but I happened to forget one important item: Ziploc bags. Ah well, I can get them next time I got out shopping. Hopefully it won't be as expensive as this time ($152 for a bunch of little things, ouch...)
I made some burritos with my groceries! Browned up a pound of ground beef, threw spice mixes in there, portioned half for my 2:30pm lunch-dinner and the other half in a plastic container I bought for dinner tomorrow. It's not much, but the fact that I'm finally making my food and doing it how I want feels rather satisfying. I'm proud of myself. If I could talk with my old therapist, I'd tell him that we were right, being out here alone in a new setting is exactly what I needed to get better and start doing things for myself. As for getting away from my computer and laptop, well, that may take a while longer... I'm planning on going back to traditional pencil-and-paper artistry once The Punisher is finished. I have a much larger GD 1.6 project I have on pause for Punisher, but I don't know if I have the time or motivation to work on it later this week. I think other actvities should take priority.
It doesn't feel like I did a whole lot today creatively. I got a whole lot more of Punisher decorated today, which is nice. I still have the post-drop parts to begin decorating and touching up the final part to give it some more color, and that's about it. After work tomorrow it should be completely finished and ready for Cyl to playtest it and decide if it's [REDACTED]. Oops. Anyway, I've been worried sick that she wouldn't like it - I've been putting a LOT of energy into making it plays well and fun and that the decoration fits a RobTop-level standard all-the-while checking my insatiable urge to overdecorate. A video of everything I have done can be seen embedded at the bottom of this journal entry.
Speaking of work, I'm super excited and super anxious about how everything's going to be from here on out. Work hours, conditions, duties most of all, and how I should schedule my days and free times accordingly. I don't have a solid sleep schedule, so this will definitely help me get back into a nice groove. I've been super exhausted this last hour, so I think it's about time I go to bed. Cya'll tomorrow. =:)
One last thing: As I was scrolling through my GD level html page to remember how to do embeds, I remembered that I still need to put a bunch of new levels up there. Coincidentally, I also need to write up a new CD on my CD's page, as I had made a "JamsDisk Mk II" about a month ago and I never wrote a copy of the songlist on there. Tomorrow after Punisher is done? Tuesday?