Sunday Morning Live From the Coffee Place in These Foolish Things

And now I’m sitting at my favorite coffee place tapping this out, sipping a half-caf drip coffee with nothing in it (fasting! More on that in a sec), and waiting for the live music to start at around 9:30.

I was supposed to be meeting my friend Diane (met through our mutual friend, C.) for coffee at her suggestion, but she got the vax yesterday and sounds like she’s down for the count today! I do worry about taking the updated vax knowing I’ll probably need a good day of recovery. But I guess now is the time to get it while I’m unemployed.

Ughhhh. Have I told you lately how much I HATE being unemployed this time? That’s a joke - I know you know this. But I seriously wake up every day in a state of panic just knowing I don’t have a source of income. And it feels a little bit (a lot) like I don’t have a purpose. Why do we place SO MUCH importance on our jobs?

The networking thing was fine. I walked in and immediately met a woman who owns a Chinese herb company that I found really interesting, but she was super aggressive. Now, I know that’s how networking events work - they are built for aggressive people making their moves and broadcasting who they are and what they do and what they want and need, etc. You really have to glean nuggets of wisdom or whatever and make it what you need for it to be, and I suppose the nugget I gleaned off of her is to be aggressive…and to get on TikTok. She told me that Gary Vaynerchuk has invested some cash into her company and he told her that she HAD to be on TikTok! After checking it out, she’s actually quite good at it!

What would I do on TikTok? Not sure.

In all honestly, I do have a TikTok page. I’ve used it to post my collages that I’ve played around with over the last year. Kind of a fun way to post a little bit of a creative outlet, but I really would like to think of something that maybe I can talk about. Like, maybe hiking the trails with your dog or something? Not sure how to monetize any of that, but…just some thoughts.

Also met another guy at the networking event who’s created a funny novelty product and sold it for a while, until the pandemic and I guess the product was no longer profitable. He’s working on another project and asked me if I knew any mechanical engineers. I told him that my DAD was a mech engineer. Ha! And he took my information and actually sent me an email asking if my dad would consider working on his project. hahah! You never know what you’re going to get when you go to these events!

Anyway, I started another one of those fasting-mimicking diets yesterday. Yes, I started a fast on a Saturday. I mean, why not? I literally have nothing going on these next several days and have had this fasting kit sitting in my pantry since before I moved here. I think they expire in like a year, so I needed to use it up (all of the foods you eat for five days are included in the kit). And these fasts are suuuuper healthy for you. All of the nutrition you need are in these space-soups and fasting bars. They supposedly help with cellular cleansing and they definitely help with mental clarity - at least for me they do! So I decided to start this one while I’m feeling like I need it.

Another reason I feel like I need it is that I got the results back from my skin biopsy. Yep, it’s squamous cell carcinoma and I have to get the shit dug out of my shoulder. Ughhhh. They don’t consider this serious, but it’s still a fucking pain to have your skin cut out when you don’’t really want to have someone take a knife to your shoulder, you know? This should supposedly happen within the next couple of weeks.

Sigh.

Always something, isn’t it? At this phase of my life, it feels like a game of Whack-a-Mole with my freaking health.

Okay. Jazz is playing on the patio now and I think it’s a good time to close.

Happy Sunday, y’all. Make it a good one!
GS