Fusion with Talia, Gym and Spanish meet

August 21, 2023:

Today I started off by having my meds at 5:34am, about when I woke up. Had it with some peaches and mango cream yogurts with 6g of fat each. Then I dozed a bit more, and did an occupational therapy session with Jessica at 9am. We talked a bit about my upcoming new job, and also some personal relationship stuff too.

After that, I went to meet up with Talia at the new restaurant by my house called Fusion. We met up there for lunch, and I had the Dutch pancake, which was basically like a pancake made into a bowl shape, that was filled with some fruits. Talia had some over easy eggs and pancakes. We talked a lot about sadness and happiness, and I talked about how in a way the photo of the day project keeps me moving forward.

We took a walk after our lunch, where we stopped into Jodi’s house and talked to her a bit, and also walked to Lake Nokomis. While we were talking, we also decided that I should go to the gym afterwards. What happened was that I said that I was afraid that after this, I would just go home and nap and play phone games, and she asked me what I could do that’d be better. I said it'd be better to go over to Papa’s house, and she asked again what might be better than that. That’s when I realized that I should go to the gym, especially because Chloe had just emailed me telling me that I had to buy some training sessions. Somehow I’d gotten two sessions behind. So I went into the gym, and did the sessions right away, from the front desk person named Hannah who I’ve talked to a lot before too. At the gym, I also took my two extra BeReals, which I’d gotten when I completed my BeReal on time at 11:19am today. At the gym, I did some of my workout from the sheet Will gave me, and I also emailed Chloe and asked if she’d be making me a new workout sheet. After I did some of my workout, I went into the hot tub.

Then, I went over to Papa’s house, where we talked through all my upcoming duties for the job I’m beginning on Wednesday. We also decided that I could take my meds a touch early, at 5:15pm, since there’s never food at the Spanish meetup thing anyways. So I did that, having it with a 13g fat Indian meal. At the Spanish meetup I ran into a couple people who I talked to a lot. I just wasn’t sure I wanted to explain the brain injury to some of them, so I just took a picture of some of our feet in a circle.

Honestly the people whose feet are in the photo I chose aren’t the two who I was talking to at the end who I related to a bit more. I’m fairly confident they would have agreed to take a photo, I just didn’t get around to asking for one. The other kind of interesting thing is that one of the guys, who was from Colombia and named Francisco, gave me some recommendations of Spanish shows to watch on Netflix. One of them was Frontera Verde, or Green Frontier, and maybe I’ll check that one out later.