[159/365] don't ask me shit about work cos I'm on my champagne shit

[cosmolinguist]

I hardly slept at all last night -- lethal combination of bad mental health for both me and Gary -- which left me so tired I could barely function today.

But it worked out okay.

• I had a chill easy work day, where I could do some important stuff without spending a lot of time on it.
• This meant I could get some useful stuff done this afternoon: D and I ran errands to the post office, Boots because both Gary and I needed meds (he has hay fever and can take human allergy meds as long as I get the right kind! the vet said I can get them there but they're cheaper from a pharmacy), and Martins for sandwiches for lunch.
• At Martins, we ended up talking to the staff about how people describe the cakes they want in the glass cases. One told us the proper names, the only one I remember is one's a bavarian. Gesturing at another, the other staff member told us "That gets called the square one, the custard one..." They were very genial about it. Just as we left, one told a story about a lady who's come in every week for sixteen years and every time says "I'll have two barbarians." All that time, two barbarians. I love that.
• On the way back home, we stopped at a yard sale we'd seen on the way. I went to so many yard sales with my grandma when I was little. She liked them anyway and I was excited at the kind of stuff that could be bought for a quarter. I've been thinking about her so much lately that it seemed appropriate to visit one. All the dishes and crystal looked like they could've come from her cupboards, or my mom's. It made me so happy to see that kind of stuff again.
• I was really sad about not feeling up to going to see the new Spidermovie like we'd planned (it's so rare that all three of us get to do things together) but I assured the others I was fine with them going without me and they ended up saying it would've been really difficult for me because apparently it's a really flashy/strobey movie. With my nystagmus being so bad already from the lack of sleep today, this is the last thing I needed.
• And I actually had a great time while they were out. I sat in the garden with cold drinks, I made dinner, I walked the dog and played with him, I listened to podcasts because the aforementioned nystagmus meant I couldn't read or look at my phone much.
• Janelle Monáe's new album came out today! Thanks to lovely diffrentcolours buying it and putting it on the file server, I can play it already on my phone. Even though I'd already gone to bed by that point. It sounds like bed is an appropriate place to enjoy The Age of Pleasure anyway!

Gary has settled down easily today, but my own mental health is no better disposed towards sleeping than it was last night, unfortunately. I'm so bored of spending time awake in bed. It feels so lonely.

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[cosmolinguist]

Yay for all these Js!