Diary of a Random Day (Blog 243)

7:20: Time to get out of bed. :( I got up a little sooner than usual today, as I went to sleep early because I was bored. Anyway, at this point I turned my computer on and went back to my lovely covers, as I waited for everything to get loaded. Boy do I hate waiting for my various files to show up on my screen. It never gets any easier. For a good few seconds, it looks like everything has been deleted. :S I guess it’s not as bad as the first time that happened, though. Genuine horror. But in bed, I don’t have to worry about that stuff. I just pretend it’s not happening. Instead, I think happy sleepy thoughts.

7:30: Time to get out of bed AGAIN. (With the help of my alarm clock that gets louder and louder - I have about five seconds before I get deafened, which is a great incentive. If that’s not enough, my neighbours could complain about hearing… well not RUBBISH, just music they don’t like). I then got dressed in my cold(ish) room. On the plus side, it could have been a lot colder. I never sleep with my windows open shortly before my blood test, as the last time I did, my white blood cell count was lowered. Eek. To be fair though, that weather was basically freezing and I’ve stopped doing that, now. Extreme sleeping is a thing of the past. Now I only practice the milder ‘enhanced sleeping’. Now it’s also time to check the daily websites I like to visit. (There are a few).

7:50: Yep, I was checking for twenty minutes. As I said, there are a few. It’s only cyber stalking if I visit the site of ONE person/group/etc. for that long. My tweet gets posted, as does my Wix joke and shape of the day. Despite being fairly straightforward, this is actually one of my least favourite parts of the day. Note how long this takes. I spend a good ten minutes making sure I don’t accidentally write something like #(expletive) off. That’s a genuine fear, even if I don’t mean it. Like a written form of Tourette’s that’s literally impossible to explain. Lifetime ban.

8:00: I took a new bottle of milk, waiting for me on my doorstep. I could have grabbed the milk already in my fridge, but that’s partly been used and you don’t get the delicious cream on top.

8:05: I took my D vitamins. I then poured the milk on my Coco Pops Coco Rocks. I then started the wait for the milk to go chocolatey. However, at this point I ate a single spoonful of cream and pops. I simply couldn’t wait for that. I then watched a 5 minute Youtube video. My day doesn’t sound too exciting yet, but I’m sure things will get better. Right?

8:10: I watched another video as I ate my slightly softened breakfast. (As they’re advertised as rocks, they’re not that soft, I suppose. As I said, slightly softened. Does that matter? Well it does to me. My blogs are 100% fact and always will be. Sensible Simon). For the sake of curiosity, the video was a Bill Bailey sketch that I’ve seen before, but that didn’t matter as I was concentrating too hard on the food. I’m not comparing Bill Bailey to rubbish, but I WILL watch any rubbish when I’m eating. It doesn’t really matter. Ok, fair enough, I don’t want to watch anything too surprising, or I may spit food out everywhere. Well that’s what I’ve seen on TV, but I can’t say that’s happened to me yet. I guess I haven’t been surprised enough. I guess I’m just a rational and calm person. Sensible Simon.

8:15: I washed my teeth and all that stuff. Making things a little more interesting, I used an electric toothbrush. And blue soap. :O

8:25: I gave Twitter and Wix another check. Yep, looks good. Phew.

8:26: Time to Youtube-chill out for a while! A big day is ahead.

8:45: Back to this writing business! Now how the hell do I make the preceding, unembellished and poorly written facts (that you will never see in their original form) interesting? Let’s go!! Also, I guess some Seether on my CD player will make things easier for me. (Me later on - you know what? I think it did).

8:50: No wait, before I get into working too much, there’s this album I’m interested in ordering. Ah. A bit pricey. Maybe I could get it for my birthday. Back to business!

9:15: Time for a short break and to REALLY listen to Seether. ‘World Falls Away’ is a great song.

9:20: Back to business!

9:40: Second/third (who knows? I've lost count already) draft is done! Things still aren’t exactly great yet, but the first one could have been written by a ten year old. Very boring (more so I mean) and lacking in punctuation, but factually accurate, I guess. Factually accurate with very fast, non stop talking. :S Time for the third/fifth draft! Well, one more Youtube break.

9:44:35: I felt lazy, so the break was just a little shorter than earlier. Back to bizness!

10:10: Third/fourth draft is done, time for the eighth. Let’s turn the music off so I can concentrate harder. This is serious stuff now.

10:35: You know what? I think I need another break from writing. I think I’ll categorise the emails for my music site boss. A bit dull, but it’s time for CD player music again!

10:37: Ha! I deleted four emails in a row! That’s never happened, before. Usually I just move them into different folders! :D

10:45: Emails have been checked. Now I know it may SEEM that I haven’t done much work today, but I’m still a little tired, and will come back to blogging later. Please don’t judge me. For now, I will try coming up with some more jokes. :S

10:50: Just banged my elbow on the radiator. Ow!

10:55: Here’s a joke!: What do you call a tiger that’s part of a mob? A fangster! :D I’ll post it on my site later.

11:00: Another joke! This is going very well: What part of a town gets the most people prosecuted? The suer. :)

11:15: Time to leave home and get food! This part of the day also sucks, because I have to check my dogs are safe and snug inside, and that I’ve locked the doors. It shouldn’t be a problem, but I do like to check very thoroughly. Sensible Simon? I guess so. Bye!!!

11:45: Got home with curry, crisps, Pepperami, spaghetti, chewing gum AND grapes! Dogs nice and safe!

11:50: Curry cooked and watching the news. Pretty everyday stuff? Actually, there was a trick to the preparation - Before cooking, I took the pieces of chicken out and ate them, leaving only the rice. I then microwaved the rice. The chicken in this particular meal tastes better cold, for whatever reason. Don’t worry though, I didn’t eat RAW chicken. Nope, the meal in question was ready made. No poisoning! :)

12:15: Finished eating nutritional (and semi nutritional) foods for now, and have started chomping on chewing gum. Let’s go back to work!

12:30: Ok, NOW let’s work. Just needed to watch some Youtube videos. Chomping is over.

12:40: Still kinda wondering what to write. Let’s have some grapes. Tragically one of my grapes seems to have been stabbed. Who by? God knows. Some maniac, I’m assuming. Let’s have a read through this blog again, and try to make improvements. Now that I’m documenting everything, I’m starting to realise how dull my life is right now. It seems I was in denial for quite some time. :( Sill though, lockdown should be over soon!

13:00: Time to watch the news headlines! Great! Now let’s get back to writing!

13:15: You know what? I fancy a fruit scone. You may think I eat a lot, but I don’t eat so much later on. I’m not pioneering some special method, or whatever, where you can do what you like and not get fat.

13:20: Scone eaten and enjoyed! But it’s sugary right? I guess I’ll use mouthwash again. Dear God those dentist hygiene appointments hurt!

13:22: Mouth washed! Now let’s do ANOTHER draft! :D

13:30: Getting sick of doing drafts, but don’t know what else to do. Hmmm… Let’s tickle the dogs.

13:35: Dog tickled! I really think another draft is for the best. Don’t want to come across as some kind of freak.

13:45: Millionth draft done! If you don’t think this blog is good, that will be extremely embarrassing for me. Hmm… Let’s READ the news this time. You know what? I’m not going to make fun of the news. Err… You know what, let’s just end my diary here, and predict what will happen later, so I can get this stuff posted.

16:30: I’ll probably be chilling out with Youtube again.

17:00: Usually, I’d start my mighty one hour and fifteen minute workout at this time, but there’s no exercise today. Today (and yesterday) are my recovery days. Let’s be sensible. As no exercise happens, that means no need for a bath. That’s normal, right? However, I’ll probably go for a short walk in the local park. Should be lovely. :)

17:30: Back from the park! (I’m assuming). Absolutely wonderful and delightful I’m sure. Now let’s wig out on guitar.

19:00: I’ll most likely be enjoying my spaghetti.

21:30: Time for beddy-byes. My damn medication means I need a good 10 hours sleep or so. :( Still though, life’s boring anyway. :)

The eagle-eyed out there will have noticed there are some pretty large gaps in time later on. I don’t know what I’ll be doing and I don’t care. If it was fun, I’d say so. I guess more joke writing and email sortings. I’ll tell you what, that scone I’ve just eaten really wasn’t necessary, I’m so full right now. :O No? Not amazed? Well that’s the best you’re going to get. Bye!