Best football game I’ve ever seen, aka Vikings with Mom

November 12, 2023:

Well, I’m starting today out with the phrase “best football game I’ve ever seen,” but that’s an incredibly, incredibly low bar for me. At first I was thinking of saying that I’d never even been to a football game before, but then I realized that I actually had stood on the field and shot photos of football when I was at ASU. To be clear, I never understood the game at all, and couldn’t even ever follow it. Today, I learned that both teams start at the 20 yard line, whereas I think before I’d assumed that the game starts in the middle, like in soccer. Also, one of my important thoughts that I had this morning before I even went to the game was: “Life is so much better than I thought it was.” I’d done the meds at 7am with yogurt, and decided I should buy new perfume in the future, which I haven’t done in many years. I also wrote this down: “In a way, my recollection is actually better after the TBI because I never ever would have written down the things that most people don’t even try to remember anyways.”

This morning, I also organized a lot of my old photo of the day misprints, which was interesting because they started back in 2022 when I was still at Fogo trying to get back to the life I had before the crash, which low key was not good at all, even if I had been able to achieve it, which I can’t do anyways. In the morning, I also decided that writing things down literally forces me to organize my thoughts, and also that I don’t know if I could have coped with a TBI pre-cell phones, since messaging myself notes to remember things is such an important coping strategy for me.

At the football game, which mom took me to at like 10:30am, I learned a lot of things about football. We sat between two other small groups from Medtronic, which is where mom got the free tickets from. Also learned what a “sack” was. I definitely also wrote this down, in bold: “I could not have enjoyed a football game before starting to feel happy.” Funny because I am not a sports person at all, so it’s kind of amazing I was able to enjoy the game.

Well at any rate, the Vikings won, which it seemed like they would the whole game. Afterwards, mom drove me home and I made my dinner at like 6:45pm, having my meds at 7pm with some Trader Joe’s mandarin orange chicken and the 0g fat rice, which I also really need to buy more of soon. Oh, and before eating dinner, I also ran to Dollar Tree to pick up two 6-color pens for note taking, which unfortunately don’t seem to write as darkly as the 6-color pens I picked up from Sabathani randomly, over a year ago.

Today, I’m grateful for: showers, just because I’m gonna take one tonight, which will also be a nice time to think and feel regenerated. I’m sure I was grateful for more earlier in the day too, but I’m just writing what I’m currently thinking. Oh, I’m also grateful for the existence of this blog, and I just remembered that the other day when I as at Bernie’s show, I literally was able to introduce myself to some people as someone who “writes a blog about my life.” Funny how that’s what my photo of the day project has turned into now.

In the shower, I kind of also thought about the fact that you can’t really achieve moments of enlightenment without having problems first. Also thought that I’ve gotta get a whiteboard or something I can write on in the shower, or maybe use a pencil to note things on the wall. The other random as hell thing I did today was I messaged a guy on the Spanish site Lang-8 who I remember from before the crash, who I interacted with back in 2019 as well, asking about something before going to Perú. Today I asked if he’s on HiNative as well, which I also just signed up for.