The Potato Witch

~ I slept very fitfully yesterday, and only slept for about 4 fitful hours today before eventually just giving up and getting up. If I can sleep later, I'll do so. The "fun" part about managing undiagnosed lousy health is that much of life becomes, "How can I get by with the least pain and inconvenience?" It's hardly convenient to be sleeping for small chunks of time or at strange hours and being in R's way with some things, but the alternative is forcing myself to try and sleep at "normal" times and not being able to, disturbing R's sleep them anyway, having to nap during the day because I didn't sleep at night, and it all amounts to the same thing in the end anyway. This way I'm just eliminating the stress of trying to force myself to do what I can't.

~ I realized I hadn't eaten in almost 24 hours, nor had I drunk anything, so I made a quick meal out of some breaded cod fillets and cubed sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes were already prepared and just needed microwaving, and the fish took 20 minutes in the convection oven, so it's not like I did much, but it was the most substantial meal I've eaten in about 3 days. Right now, ease of preparation is kind of taking priority.

I also made myself a mug of iced chai latte. It's gone now, so I think I'll make another. I'm not thirsty, but then again, I never am; my body is terrible at sending me thirst signals so I have to drink out of habit or enjoyment or else I don't drink at all.

~ Managed to read and review 2 manga titles so far this week (There are Things I Can't Tell You, and volume 2 of The Fox and the Little Tanuki), and I'm on track for a 3rd this Friday. Good start to Manga Month.

~ I started watching Bob's Burgers because it's available through Amazon Prime video right now. It's pretty decent, though there are aspects of the humour that I don't always find amusing. But that'll happen with anything, I figure, and most of it is still pretty amusing, so I'll stick with it until I get bored of it. Good to have on while I'm knitting.

- Night before last, I slept about 2 hours. Didn't sleep at all yesterday. It took until around 2:30 in the morning for me to finally fall asleep, which was probably made a bit easier by me taking more muscle relaxants than I ought to have. But then I slept until nearly noon, barring a brief period in which I woke up to feed the cats. That was the most sleep I've gotten in a mostly-together span of time in over a month now, and lemme tell ya, compared to yesterday, today has been great

- Yesterday did have a good point, though, when R and I went out early to go to the local farmer's market. They've reopened to "necessities" vendors only so far, which is to say foodstuffs and soaps, essentially. They require masks to go in, there's a guard at the door keeping track of how many people enter, and there are directional arrows to follow so that traffic is only going one way. This made it far better than the time we went before, during which it was crowded and noisy and nearly impossible to navigate because people were just going everywhere, and it was so overwhelming that we hadn't gone back in nearly a year!

It was pretty relaxed yesterday, though, with very few people. We got some baked stuffs as treats, indulged in some chai, bought some cider to drink on the way home, and also had breakfast in the form of a sausage from a vendor outside the market. I get that the lower turnout might suck for vendors, but no lie, if it was like that more, I'd go more often, because yesterday wasn't actually intimidatingly crowded.

- Today we watch The Assent, which was actually pretty decent for an exorcism movie, though it had moments that made us have to pause and rant about how freaking terrible and ableist a lot of things are. The main character has schizophrenia, and is fighting to retain custody of his kid after his wife dies, and he's pretty much just a hair's breadth from having his kid taken from him because he can't find a job that will hire him. And he's getting berated for not finding a job (not for not looking for a job, but not actually getting hired for one, as though that's his choice or something), and considering there are tons of single parent situations which social services wouldn't be keeping an eye on, or abusive dual-parent homes in which kids are left in unsafe situations, it rankled that this guy had extra scrutiny because of his schizophrenia, which was generally under control until he kept getting stressed out about possibly losing his son to the system. Imagine that.

We also watched Ju-On Origins, which sure was... a show. I meam, it only seemed to tie in a very little bit with the movie franchise, and I feel like as a story it would have done better to be an original concept and not try to tie itself into a larger franchise, but eh, what do I know. It was infuriating, though, that Netflix put standard content warnings up for depictions of people smoking, but no warning about a graphic rape scene, domestic violence, and child abuse. I guess they figured all that stuff would be covered under the "violence" warning, but for fuck's sake, you warn me about characters lighting up cigarettes but don't warn me that I'll have to sit through a scene of a teenage girl getting raped?! Fuck you, Netflix!