Gym pool, Oppenheimer with Family

July 24, 2023: Ok so it’s not even noon yet but some interesting stuff as already happened. To start off with, I had my meds at 6am with some yogurt, because I decided yesterday with Papa that I’d need to have the night meds kinda early to be able to eat popcorn at the movie we’re gonna go see with grandma and Jodi and Bill. And then what I did is I went to the gym. At the gym I didn’t do the whole workout that Will had written me, but I did do most of it. I also asked at the desk if Chloe was around, so I could ask her if she was going to make me a new list of exercises to do. She wasn’t in today, but I left a note for her with the gym upstairs receptionist. Then I finished my workout and swam for a bit, wearing the yellow swim suit that Kallen had given me, for the first time. Took a picture in the hot tub too. Then after that, I also ran into Maya from my yoga class in the locker room. Maya said that she’s not gonna be at yoga this week, but should be the week after that. I also told Maya about the upcoming interview at the Bilingual Education Center. And then, on the way out, I also was able to talk to Hannah the front desk receptionist again. I told her about having gone on vacation to Wisconsin the last week and my dad not coming. Then I drove home, and funny enough, when I was walking out of my apartment I ran into the girl Anniki, who I had talked to a bunch the other week. I told her I hadn’t seen her around recently and had been wondering where she was, and of course I also told her about my vacation in Wisconsin for the last week, which is why I hadn’t been around. Then I dropped my gym stuff off at my house and picked up the notes notebook I’d forgotten on my bed, and went over to Papa’s house. Decided not to eat more there right away because I’m trying to not eat when I’m not hungry, even though I’ve only had my vanilla yogurt this morning. Ok so now we’re gonna chill here for a bit and then I’ll have dinner and my meds at like 5:30pm, so I’ll be good to have popcorn when we go to the movie, Oppenheimer, with Jodi and grandma. Oh, and Papa and I also just did that conversation thing that that Jessica asked me to do, where we try to have an engaging conversation for like 10 minutes on a random topic. The topic I chose was basic, it started with “where do you live?” and it actually led to a conversation about jobs and moving and places we’ve lived in the past. We also did eat lunch after 12pm, which was a pizza flavored “supreme,” with me last eating at 1:15pm. There was one girl from my TBI support group call who I messaged a bit right after the call. She said that disability actually made her feel more independent because she could manage it herself. I also responded to a woman from Make A Wish who emailed me saying they might need a translator soon, and she’d like to do an hour long call about the opportunity. So I sent her a few options for dates. And then played a hand of Canasta with Papa, which I won, and we drove downtown to go to my shunt series where they did X-rays to make sure my shunt was working properly. I know I talked to the technician a bit about my accident too, but I forget her name. I feel like it was Violet or Megan, but I have no idea. Papa does think I did a good job driving downtown though, even though he thought it was a bit confusing. Now I’m just gonna wait til 5:30pm to have my dinner, just so I’ll be able to snack on popcorn at the movie. Ok so now I’m heating up a Trader Joe’s mac and cheese that has 20g of fat, so I’ll just eat like half or three quarters of it. Ok, I did that and Papa got back from his walk and ate the rest of it. Did my meds a bit early, at 5:03pm tonight, just because I heated up the mac and cheese too early. Then it actually worked out really well because my alarm for “two hours since the meds” rang right before we got there and ordered popcorn. Honestly the movie was good, but it was also a bit confusing. Everyone else seemed to think the music was too loud, which I hadn’t noticed that much. I did really with there were subtitles though. And then at the very end of the night, I asked everyone for a selfie, because I’d hadn’t taken much of a photo yet.