Went to the doctor. Good news! Not strep!
Bad news, there’s a chance I’m not going to school at all this week depending on how bad my flu/flu like virus is.
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Hopefully you’ll get better soon! Although I do have to say, a week of excused absence was always great news to me haha
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Always good news! Hope you get to feeling better soon. Rest up!!
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March 25 2026
Posting later than I wanted. Forgot to post I guess, or just thought I did already.
I feel much better today. Had a bit of a fever today though, so this means also no school tomorrow… drats. Maybe school friday.
But lets focus on the good. Im feeling MUCH better today! SO much better. Not ready to do anything too intensive (doctors orders to just rest up until im clear), but its nice to relax.
In other news… Im 170lbs again. Lost 5 lbs since sunday, with a chance of a bit less if I was inflammed a bit this morning. I expected this. Ive been eating not much lately, not much appetite. But today Ive had more of an appetite so thats good.
Breakfast
3 eggs cooked with butter
a bit of mozzarella
some frozen cherries
a bowl of granola and milk
Lunch
1 bowl of canned vegetable beef soup (prepared as directed)
1 slice butter bread
The soup was quite good
Im on season 5 of big bang theory. So Ive watched a little bit of it the past few days.
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March 26 2026
Mom said yesterday’s fever didn’t really count since it wasn’t actually a fever(but enough to take medicine) (it was like in the 99s). And also no fever today, so, I have school today!
Not doing anything in strength. My back WAS feeling good but it hurts a lot again. Not sure if the medicine took away the pain (it likely did, the naproxen at least), or if its because I’ve been sitting in a recliner for the last few days almost the entire day (probably had an effect). In any case, Il be doing only some stretches pretty much. Not putting my body under any significant stress yet. I’ll wait until next week.
12 minutes until breakfast.
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My back was KILLING ME before I got home. Then I took some more drugs and I’m fine.
Take a lesson everyone: Stay out of school and take drugs, and everything will be fine.
HA.
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How do I start enjoying video games? I don’t see any desire to want to play them. I want to get Pokemon platinum to play but I don’t have much desire to play it. I want to get it because I want to enjoy playing video games, because I want to be normal. I know I used to like playing pokemon games, so I want that.
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Normal just means average. You don’t strike me as average. Why would you want to downgrade?
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Why did you stop enjoying Pokémon games?
I am playing Firered at the moment
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@BethB I don’t see it as downgrading. Maybe becoming normal is the wrong phrase. Il call it, “learning to accept having fun”
@T3hPwnisher Great question. I was about to say no clue, but, I remember why. I finished Pokemon Moon and didn’t feel like getting every Pokemon so I just turned off my 3ds and never really picked it back up.
Part of (still only possibly) getting Pokemon Platinum is the surreality factor. It feels like its “out of bounds” for me. Like, I’m not supposed to have it. Only the other people are supposed to have it. That’s how a lot of things feel with me. Having fun is one of these things, I think.
Perhaps give Moon a replay and see if you still like it.
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I suppose that’s reasonable. Im still mad Its not ultra moon because I can’t catch any of the ultra beasts… (or whatever the group of Pokemon nihilego is)
I think the fact you are mad about that shows you still care and would still have fun with video games.
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Yeah.
Holding the 3ds is giving me great joy and flashbacks hahaha need to charge it though.
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Must have been a long time. It was DOUBLE DEAD. The time and date reset. Interesting.
WOW haven’t heard the Pokemon moon theme in awhile. I think il look at my old player. 60 hours of game time
Aw, I have to delete this save file to get another. Oh well.
Litten is cute so that’s my starter. I think Im going to like this game again.
Time for bed
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March 27 2026
Back is still killing me. I wish it would stop hurting all the time. Il have to take more medicine.
These days, I pretty much just replay the games I like. The idea of learning how to play a new game doesn’t seem fun to me, as I have to spend the little free time I have learning how to play vs playing. Sounds like this replay will do you well.
With the back pain: rarely is passivity the solution to pain. I would consider getting in some movement. Be slow and deliberate, but start moving your body through space and try to find what triggers the pain. Get some blood flowing.
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Yeah, I already remembered that critical hits exist, so I’m remembering stuff.
I’ve found that today, looking down, and bending backwards hurts, but if I gently push with this, I can go further. So Il do a little of that while revisiting old fun: Watching a video on beating some older Pokemon game while only such and such (only having lets say one pokemon, etc)
Today was not too bad. My back pain isn’t as bad as it was yesterday, so I don’t think il ask for more medicine. We are starting the research unit for English, so that’s going to be fun. I love research. But its on problems we face, which isn’t my top 1 choice (doing research on a fun topic, I was thinking about like bugs and stuff hehe) but its not an issue at all.
Oh, and a kid didn’t know how to spell a word.
Taco.
She said “T-o-c-a”
And believe me. it was NOT like a haha I’m pretending to be stupid hahaha. No. She was a bit confused when she found out that’s not how you spelled taco. This is high school, remind you.
I know what my research will be on. The lack of the ability to logically, critically, and analytically think in today’s youth
Edit: Also, just saying, gen 3-4-5 have the BEST graphics, in my opinion. Not saying highest resolution, I guess the modern gen 8 and 9 games would be that. No, gen 3-4-5 have the BEST style-quality. Love gen 4. I hope my parents do let me buy platinum.