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Reset Forty-Nine, Day One Hundred-Six
Sep. 7th, 2023 04:26 amSo the thing with Wednesday is that the supermarket ads come out, and this coming week I was planning on hitting the semi-fancy market for their Monday sale, but when I saw their new ad it was disappointing again, with only a few items I'd want that were on sale. I checked Safeway's ad and it had quite a bit more, though it was still not great, so it looks like I'll be getting stuff from Safeway Friday instead. The semi-fancy market can wait until later in the month.
There was nothing planned for Wednesday's dinner, but I didn't feel like cooking anyway. In the end I just opened a can of soup. The soup was a jambalaya, which I've never had before, and it turned out to be tasty but very hot. I mean very, very hot. I don't know what the Scoville scale rating of this stuff would be, but after just a few bites I found myself thinking how appropriate it was that fire-breathing dragons are always depicted as having such surly dispositions. If my mouth felt like that all the time I'd be perpetually pissed off too. Damn! I usually don't drink anything with soup, but I had to have a big glass of water with this stuff. I went through upwards of a dozen tissues blowing my runny nose. As tasty as the soup itself was, I don't think I'll be buying it again, unless they've got a version with a lot less heat.
But one good thing about having your mouth set on fire is that it makes you forget for a while about all the other stuff that hurts. My low grade headache, sore throat and aching joints got upstaged and all but forgotten for an hour. They are back now, of course, along with an annoying itch (mosquito bite?) on my neck right under my chin. Tuesday when I went out to check on the grapes in the back yard I discovered that the last time I watered them I didn't get the hose turned off all the way and a pool of water had formed from its drips, perfect for breeding mosquitoes. I need to be more attentive. The way the region is heating up I could end up with malaria, or dengue fever.
Tonight I've gotten all yawny a bit earlier than I have recently. Maybe I'll get to be awake more of the day today. It's been nice to be sleeping through the worst of the heat, but I'm also sleeping through a lot of the light, and I think I'm getting depressed from that. Although at the moment the depression might be from the fact that I've been listening on loop to a version of Radiohead's "Creep" from the group Ships Have Sailed, and it is maybe a bit of a downer, especially with the piano and cello accompaniment. It does remind me of my adolescence though. Hell, just about everybody's adolescence, I guess.
There was nothing planned for Wednesday's dinner, but I didn't feel like cooking anyway. In the end I just opened a can of soup. The soup was a jambalaya, which I've never had before, and it turned out to be tasty but very hot. I mean very, very hot. I don't know what the Scoville scale rating of this stuff would be, but after just a few bites I found myself thinking how appropriate it was that fire-breathing dragons are always depicted as having such surly dispositions. If my mouth felt like that all the time I'd be perpetually pissed off too. Damn! I usually don't drink anything with soup, but I had to have a big glass of water with this stuff. I went through upwards of a dozen tissues blowing my runny nose. As tasty as the soup itself was, I don't think I'll be buying it again, unless they've got a version with a lot less heat.
But one good thing about having your mouth set on fire is that it makes you forget for a while about all the other stuff that hurts. My low grade headache, sore throat and aching joints got upstaged and all but forgotten for an hour. They are back now, of course, along with an annoying itch (mosquito bite?) on my neck right under my chin. Tuesday when I went out to check on the grapes in the back yard I discovered that the last time I watered them I didn't get the hose turned off all the way and a pool of water had formed from its drips, perfect for breeding mosquitoes. I need to be more attentive. The way the region is heating up I could end up with malaria, or dengue fever.
Tonight I've gotten all yawny a bit earlier than I have recently. Maybe I'll get to be awake more of the day today. It's been nice to be sleeping through the worst of the heat, but I'm also sleeping through a lot of the light, and I think I'm getting depressed from that. Although at the moment the depression might be from the fact that I've been listening on loop to a version of Radiohead's "Creep" from the group Ships Have Sailed, and it is maybe a bit of a downer, especially with the piano and cello accompaniment. It does remind me of my adolescence though. Hell, just about everybody's adolescence, I guess.
