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Gym with Bernie, Bull’s Horn with Sam


May 26, 2023: So lemme figure out what I did yesterday. Didn’t write any of this. I had my meds at 7:21am with a bar for 14g fat. Then I went in for my personal training with Will. That was good. Saw him at 10am exactly, and told him a bit about Sam too. Also, the guy Bernie was there during my training, and he asked me the capital of Bermuda, which was Hamilton. It’s funny when he said Bermuda I thought he was talking about Barbados and I guessed the Caribbean. I had no idea where it was. Didn’t know the capital either. I also had an amazing conversation with Bernie. I mentioned something about “the accident,” and he was like, “what accident?” So I told him about the TBI and how much I’m working on my memory, and I said that’s part of the reason I love being quizzed on capitals, since I used to have them all memorized. I also told him about my photo project when I asked him to take a photo. He also told me about his band, called the Serf Dawgs, and invited me to come to a performance on June 15th. I told him right away that I think I’m busy June 15th, which is because of the plan I have with Suheily and Maeve, and he said he’d text me some more options and I could see when I could come. Then after the session with Will I texted pretty much all of my friends to see if they could talk about my relationship stuff. I literally texted Caroline, Heidi, Jodi, Hannah, Liam, Liza, Talia. Honestly I had really good talks with Talia and Heidi, and those helped me a lot. Even talked to Caroline for like 5 minutes while I was in the hot tub. I really intended on showering yesterday at the gym, but I opened up my bag and couldn’t find the green bottles of shampoo and conditioner anywhere. I figured I’d have to look at home. Then I went over to Papa’s for lunch, which was Kibbeh stuffed meatballs with rice and soy sauce. Mom stopped by for a second too, just so they could have a talk. Then I talked about places to maybe go on dates with Jodi and Papa and Mom. Then it was late enough in the day that I decided to go home and be ready for when Sam would come over. He said he’d be there a bit after 7:30pm, which was good because I’d had my night meds at 5:03pm just with some 12g-of-fat milk, so I could eat with him without being too full. We talked about walking over to the Falls, but we actually decided to walk over to Bull’s Horn, and get a drink and eat and talk. What I got was the “rotating nitro” they had, and he got a rum and coke. His came with a lime and was actually pretty good. And then for food he got a fry basket and I got the El Jefe pizza, which was mind-blowing. I chose it just because it had jalapeños, and then it turned out to have chopped up jalapeños, which was better than whole ones, and also olives and chorizo. I decided to have the pizza and the fries with ranch, which was a good decision. I’d done my BeReal on time earlier in the day, so I did one more with him when we got the drinks. I'd brought out the Canasta cards with me too and even showed them to him, but we didn’t end up playing. Something for the future. Then when we were done, we walked back to my place and hung out. We tried to watch the rest of the Monsters University movie we'd started the other day, but I admit I felt tired and fell asleep at the very end of it.

 
 
 

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