Mock trial, organization and trivia with Liam

November 4, 2023: Starting this in the morning, not night, because I don’t wanna stay up til 2am writing my photo of the day again.

Ok, another nice day so far. Meds at 8am with some yogurt, and then Papa texted me that he’d pick me up for mock trial in 15 minutes, if I wanted to go. I did wanna go, and I’m glad he decided to pick me up since I had randomly been up til 2am last night and was a bit tired to drive. I’m experimenting with starting this writing much earlier in the day, and not waiting til night to write everything down. Now I’m at mock trial on my computer.

Briefly, I thought that I didn’t even make a post for the 4th, and then realized I had. The photos I have are a random pic from the mock trial practice I went to in the morning, a picture of the calendar I made when mom was over after practice, and a picture from Liam’s house at night. I also had one of all the Fogo notepads I threw away too. When I had grabbed them, I did it because at the time I was using them as my notebooks to write what happened to me that day. I’ve since moved to actual hardcover notebooks. It’s a vast improvement, though I will say that the Fogo pads taught me to number every page, because so many pages would fall all out of the pads and I wanted to know in which order I wrote the pages.

After mock trial, Papa dropped me off at home and mom actually came by to help me order a new credit card and something else I've forgotten about. The other cool thing that I know I learned yesterday on was that when I’m content with my life, I enjoy mock trial a TON more. I know that because I kind of got the urge to go to every single practice. I’m actually glad that my life is busy enough that I can’t go to every single one.

Grateful: I’m grateful to have Liam as a friend today. That’s kind of the reason I was thrown into a crisis when people at the retreat said that post-TBI friends will be better than pre-TBI friends. In the great talk Liam and I had today, I really realized that I’m not sure I’m ever going to accept that I will have serious impairments for the rest of my life. So we arrived at something bad, but it was an excellent time together.

I gave him back his jacket that had been left at my house, and he gave me a dangly earring I’d left at his house. It’s kinda nice that I don’t actually have to write about every single thing that happens to me in the day. I think a big part of the reason I was drawn to doing that initially was because of my background in journalism, and wanting to get everything out there that I had made notes on. It’s just hard, because the brain injury makes me take notes on EVERYTHING, since I’m constantly terrified I’ll forget something. I even talked to Liam today about me trying to include fewer extra details in my daily posts. Can’t believe this has turned me into a blogger.

Anyways, now let’s kind get back to the earlier part of the day. At mock trial today, I had a great time and felt very useful. That kind of made me want to do more of it. I’m not gonna be able to go to regionals since it’s on the nights of Open Door, but I’ll try to do the weekend practices with Liam, since we’ve figured that out we work well together as coaches.

At mock trial, Liam and I had also decided to try to do trivia again tonight. So I went to his house at like 6:30pm, and he showed me some of his planting projects and other things in his house, like a collection of bottles that came out of his backyard when they dug it up to install a fence.

Then, we walked over to Burning Brothers together. At trivia, we did much worse than we normally do, probably because we didn’t have Lily with us, or anyone else who knew a ton of the answers. There were one or two questions I kind of helped with, but for the rest I was useless. We did not do well at all, getting below 50% right. I felt like I understood the gameplay a bit better this time though, since we had way fewer people.

During trivia, we decided I’d take my meds with some of the snack food they were selling. We got a bag of guacamole chips that were like 15g of fat for a cup of them, and I had about that amount with the meds at 7:15pm. Liam finished them.

Then, we finished trivia around 9pm something, and since there was no food truck tonight, we walked back to his house and decided to make a “dinner” thing, since 14 grams of fat in chips is not dinner for me. He had a big pot of rice, and some veggies. He actually also made a sauce that included Japanese BBQ sauce to put on them too, It was a good meal, nice because it tasted good and was enjoyable to eat even thought I wasn’t hungry all hungry at the time I was eating.