I have been grumpy for the past couple of days, as you have probably noticed. In my defence, 1) I think I am perfectly justified in the things I have been grumpy about, and 2) I have not been feeling well. I have had just that general feeling of "the ick" since I woke up yesterday morning, escalating to an on-and-off stomachache and myriad poos today. I don't think there is anything left inside me to evacuate. Delightful!
Still, it has been an excuse to vegetate on the sofa beneath a duvet and drink proper Lucozade, which are two things you can only really get away with doing when you're ill. And, thankfully, I have a surfeit of riches to enjoy in the video game department right now: I've just recently finished Silent Hill: Townfall, so now I'm on Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, which seems marvellous so far, and I'm also dipping into Star Wars Galactic Racer and Little Goody Two-Shoes, the latter of which is a nice spooky season follow-up to Silent Hill. Oh, and hopping back into Super Mario Galaxy 2 at the times where the stomachache and/or need to poo precludes anything that requires me to pay attention, like following a story or flying a plane.
It is also… fortunate(? I guess?) that this has happened during a week I have off work. I mean, obviously I would prefer to not be ill at all, but if you're going to be ill in a manner that is not exactly debilitating or preventing you from doing normal things, it is better to do so at a time where you are not expected to be sitting at your computer doing something vaguely useful and being at the beck and call of Microsoft fucking Teams.
Anyway, I am hoping I will feel a bit better tomorrow. Andie has gone away for a few days as her mother is having a hip replacement operation tomorrow and will need a bit of looking after, so I'm on my own in the house until some point next week. Assuming I do feel better tomorrow, I want to make at least some vaguely "productive" use of the day — and I use the term loosely, because I am on holiday. By "productive" I mean either recording some new YouTube videos, or perhaps going to the cinema to see the new Resident Evil movie, which I have heard lots of good things about. Or perhaps even both!
I have not been to the cinema for a very long time. The last movie I saw in the cinema was with Andie, who doesn't watch a lot of movies other than stuff she has Legitimately Acquired and puts on in the background while she is working. That movie was Bridesmaids, which came out in 2011. I have watched a couple of movies on DVD or Blu-Ray since then, but not many, so I just thought it might be a nice… novelty to go to the cinema by myself, go see something that Andie most definitely will not want to see, stuff myself with popcorn, treat myself to the comfy chairs and so forth. I will make a decision on that in the morning; I'm more inclined to go do that tomorrow on a weekday when it will be quiet, rather than at the weekend, but if I am still feeling like The Great Mighty Poo is performing a selection of arias inside me tomorrow, I may rethink that plan.
Anyway, I am off to chew on some chalk, drink some milk and lie face-down for a bit, I think. To a brighter and hopefully pain-free tomorrow!
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