Guavas with mom & Kathy + slamitaire with Jodi, Kathy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

My third February! This time I decided to border my photos in “white diamond,” which is new and interesting. I’m still working on finding things to care about, and I think this project can be a good starting place. Let’s get to the day... In the morning I did my medication at 9:22am with the last quick bites protein pack that I’d brought back from my old apartment recently. Today, I also pulled out my recent notes notebook #15 and noted a couple places where I had been saying I felt happy. I admit now I know that when I was feeling “happy,” it was really just because I was failing to see how badly the brain injury had impacted me, and I was beginning to see it as helping me, not hurting me. I have now decided that I just need to find a way to accept it as something that is not good, but is there. I also noted that I loved what I did in notebook #15 with marking specific statements with a big star, which makes it much easier to skim and read the notebook again, focusing on my important statements. The other thing I did today was I went to Guavas Cuban Café with mom and her friend Kathy. At the cafe, I had the shrimp bowl, which was pretty good. I talked to Kathy a bit about how a recent mistake had made me realize how impacted I am by the brain injury. 

After we ate at Guavas, the three of us all came over to my dad’s to play some multi-person solitaire, which I’ve decided can be called “slamitaire” ... though of course “solitears” is always an option as well. While we were playing the game, Jodi came by too, and she joined us. Jodi stayed a bit longer than mom did, and later on we decided to go over to her place to try to watch a movie. Unfortunately, the audio and video weren’t synced up properly so we couldn’t do that. We ended up just watching the Grammys, which I’ve never done before.