Today was a long day. It went better than expected, especially considering I was woken up at 7:30am. How I lived to tell this tale is a mystery. That's actually unnecessarily dramatic, but I'm here for it.
J was the one who woke me up so early. I actually didn't mind it so much since I had went to bed early the night before. Regardless, I hate mornings and he decided early on that he wanted to be 65% of a shithead today.
He didn't want to eat his cheerios (spit out the one bite he took) and then only ate 1.5 cups of yogurt with mini m&ms. Then he wanted to wear his rainboots in the house (which left scuff marks on the floor that my mom just mopped like last week) and I wasn't going to fight him about it. He also kept following me around, shoving a mini cookie in my face, demanding that I eat it even though I said I didn't want any.
Afternoon my mom tried to get J to do some homework and he was being a good student at first, but then he spiraled.
I texted Da and said two things:
"I'm glad I'm not a parent," and, "Today is definitely a "I could use a drink" day."
But it got better when my mom made supper and the macaroni was absolutely delicious. It was the same brand we always get, Kraft, but today it was just amazing. My belly was very happy.
One of the best things about today is that I somehow managed to keep myself distracted and barely even thought about how it's the 2 year anniversary of that dreadful day. I don't know how it didn't creep into my mind and hopefully now that I'm in bed the intrusive thoughts won't take the reins.
Fuck intrusive thoughts and PTSD.
I think Let's Go Eevee helped a bit. That game is so easy compared to Leaf Green (which is the only other Kanto-region game I've played). LGE makes me sad in a few ways. The soundtrack (compared to Leaf) is too... Peppy? Like they've added unnecessary beats or something. I don't know music diction. Another thing is the lack of battles with wild pokemon. Just throwing a ball at it feels like cheating (unless it's like a quick ball in the other games). Also, "secret techniques" replacing certain TMs and HMs feels really weird, but it does give you more room for a variety of moves. Finally, I think it's insane that I've already finished the Pokemon Tower (Cubone/Marowak) plot point and I've only been using Eevee (I named her Fluffee actually). If I remember correctly, she's level 42 right now.
I suppose this game would be the best way to introduce a newbie to pokemon since it really isn't hard at all. Maybe one day I'll get J into the games since he's already interested in my plushies lol.
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