Sweet Thing I Want You
Mar. 15th, 2026 03:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lupestripeIt's been three weeks without alcohol, the longest period without drinking in my adult life, and things have developed a pretty decent rhythm. This will change on Tuesday as we are going to a St. Patrick's Day event, but this whole thing was about reducing alcohol consumption rather than cutting it out entirely. We have also forgone any snacks and have reduced bread consumption too. With increased exercise - made a little more difficult this week due to an annoying blister on my foot which has only just cleared - I surely must have lost weight, but it doesn't feel like it. I doubt I'll ever be happy.
It's been another largely pedestrian week. Work has been work, while I have managed to squeeze some writing in too. I'm feeling a little pessimistic about this right now, wondering what the point of it is, but at least I am still motivated to do things. Hopefully I can harness this energy over the coming days and weeks. I am still very tired though and generally depressed, things have changed little from my negative post last week. I should probably go and get my ADHD diagnosis sorted out, but things keep cropping up.
The only other thing that's happened this week was Al Song came to visit on Friday. We met up at 7pm, after he had toured the Zitadelle, and I guided him around Spandau. We then met up with Wolfie at Cappuccino for dinner. They had run out of pizzas, which was a little frustrating but afforded us the opportunity to try their pasta dishes. They were quite delicious, although the mushrooms on mine became a little too slimy towards the end as they had spent minutes sat in the sauce. Normally, I would swerve pasta at a restaurant as this type of dish is much easier to make at home, but I'm glad we got to try some. Wolfie had been wanting to sample their pasta dishes for a while so this gave him the perfect opportunity.
We headed back to ours after this, via the supermarket, and Al stayed until around 2am. It was great catching up with him again - this was the first time we had seen him since late December - and I do hope he can stay another year with his current teaching program. He has fitted so well into Berlin life that I am somewhat envious - he has certainly found it much easier to make friends here than I have - but he has also been a catalyst for me doing things too. He wanted to come around tomorrow, but I'm too busy with writing, but we've arranged quite a few meet-ups in the coming weeks, which should be fun. I also managed to give him the Anubis mouse mat and the candy I bought for him while at Nordic Fuzzcon the other week.
It's been another largely pedestrian week. Work has been work, while I have managed to squeeze some writing in too. I'm feeling a little pessimistic about this right now, wondering what the point of it is, but at least I am still motivated to do things. Hopefully I can harness this energy over the coming days and weeks. I am still very tired though and generally depressed, things have changed little from my negative post last week. I should probably go and get my ADHD diagnosis sorted out, but things keep cropping up.
The only other thing that's happened this week was Al Song came to visit on Friday. We met up at 7pm, after he had toured the Zitadelle, and I guided him around Spandau. We then met up with Wolfie at Cappuccino for dinner. They had run out of pizzas, which was a little frustrating but afforded us the opportunity to try their pasta dishes. They were quite delicious, although the mushrooms on mine became a little too slimy towards the end as they had spent minutes sat in the sauce. Normally, I would swerve pasta at a restaurant as this type of dish is much easier to make at home, but I'm glad we got to try some. Wolfie had been wanting to sample their pasta dishes for a while so this gave him the perfect opportunity.
We headed back to ours after this, via the supermarket, and Al stayed until around 2am. It was great catching up with him again - this was the first time we had seen him since late December - and I do hope he can stay another year with his current teaching program. He has fitted so well into Berlin life that I am somewhat envious - he has certainly found it much easier to make friends here than I have - but he has also been a catalyst for me doing things too. He wanted to come around tomorrow, but I'm too busy with writing, but we've arranged quite a few meet-ups in the coming weeks, which should be fun. I also managed to give him the Anubis mouse mat and the candy I bought for him while at Nordic Fuzzcon the other week.
