20191020 Dallas trip, #achievementunlocked, and poor decisions at 5am

So,

I am now officially affiliate.

I made an emote.

I have two subs and friends that are supporting me via streamlabs.

whoa.

so much love.

I also just came back from a VERY quick trip to Dallas.

I need to plan better next time.

So what had happened was

A streamer friend I found via Resv’s community

said he would be in Dallas from such-and-such date

to such-and-such date

and I SWORE it read 10-9 - 10-14

I took days off

and contacted him the sunday prior

(my plan was mon-thurs)

and he said he will be there in March.

How I misread that?

IDK

But I had already taken the days off…

I spent Monday helping out at the house with Dad,

mom had some stuff to do.

ON Tuesday I had a doctor’s appt I had forgotten about.

So it’s good I didn’t leave Monday.

Friend A had his parents over, so I couldn’t stay at his place this time.

Which is fine, he has always been very gracious with me.

Married friends were out of town

so I could stay with them starting Wednesday night.

So it more or less worked out.

I brought two bags.

my bag I purchased for the NY trip last year

the Spirit friendly one.

and then a wet bag with clothes inside.

dry clothes.

I ended up wearing the same top and hoodie for most of the trip.

To be fair,

it was cold.

Was it hot and sweaty, that would have not worked for me lol.

I don’t re-wear sweaty clothes, ya’ll.

I still feel like a brought too much?

I also forgot body moisturizer, so I bought spray cooking oil.

It was a blend of coconut and sunflower?

My lips were chapped,

I didn’t have anything and was considering buying a plastic lip balm.

Then I ultimately decided

to drink more water

lol

so I feel less conflicted.

I left my toothbrush on accident at my married friends’ place

and my tooth powder

which BTW

I really like compared to the other charcoal powder I have.

so I need to repurchase the brush at least

I am using a rando travel one we had…

I only bought one garment

I like bodysuits, I can not lie.

Maybe spent 50 on fuel, round trip.

I have an efficient car.

bought one meal.

Friends cooked breakfast for me <3<3<3<3<3

Bought a gallon bottle of water for the entire trip.

So I had water to drink on the road.

so maybe spent 120 ish.

Flying would have been pricier.

my friends don’t live near each other lol

so what I would potentially save

in money and time getting to and out of Dallas

would be eaten up in uber fees.

Do I enjoy the 5h commute between cities?

that would be a hell negative.

but I wasn’t able to attend my friends’ marriage

due to my financial situation

and I had not met Shinji, my godcat. lol

Also, it isn’t that common to be able to hang out with Friend A’s parents!

I was pretty happy to be able to break bread with them

and just hang out on the couch watching Schitt’s Creek.

They drove 10h to be with Friend A. so THEY WIN.

I luckily had my other wet bag in the car.

I used that for dirty laundry,

and kept the original wet bag for clean clothes.

My compartmentalized Muji bag was for supplements and skin care.

I brought the gimble but didn’t use it.

I feel I can improve on packing,

and that I need to remember body moisturizer.

But overall not bad.

I also learned a little bit more about swinging

which

even with the knowledge

IDK if I would have been able to interpret that for INKTOBER.

It was nice to learn from friends

people I know

and am comfortable with

who can break things down

knowing I am a vanilla monogamist lol

I can still learn more about non-traditional relationship structures.

I still have yet to read The Ethical Slut.

Back to minimalism and zero ish waste:

my friends have a lot of stuff

and I know Friend A is trying to pair down.

But I didn’t get preachy

told them some of my struggles and left it at that.

My friends all have stuff they like,

or stuff that support hobbies or work,

and they live fulfilled lives,

independent of their belongings.

They are happy, hard-working people.

and I am glad they are happy and follow their passions.

It made me really excited to go home

and tackle my stuff again.

It is going to be a great week.

I wish Dallas was closer.

Prime video makes drives go faster.

Maybe because if you have a bunch of short media

ie songs are 3-5 minutes

it feels like forever to get from A to B

because you have to go through SO MANY SONGS

but if it’s a video there are not as many between.

I noticed music started making me sleepy

so I swapped to video

and when I was in Houston I swapped to audible.

Dallas had a lot of detours/road closures and

awkward toll roads that I don’t remember agreeing to get on,

and prime video

doesn’t let you access navigation from the top of the screen

like other auditory media.

Until I was clear of all the closures and detours,

I didn’t use prime video.

So here I am at 5am

I got home at midnight Saturday morning

had work at 8am

slept right after my shift

I slept through a wedding reception,

a stream meetup,

and woke up at 2am.

cooked at 3am.

tatertots and eggs, for those who are wondering.

Logged into squarespace and was mortified the font changed

spent A LONG TIME fixing the font/design,

and here I am blogging at 5am.

I have work in 4 hours…

for 10h lol

I am going to nap for a little

but I hope this post was helpful or entertaining.

#achievementunlocked

I tried doing an ig post with Lily Allen / T-Pain’s 5 o’clock in the morning

while cooking

they didn’t have the song T.T