The horror of food robots

I spent last week alone at home, and it was the last week before the start of the school year. In honor of that, I wrote, looked for cover images, and played on PS5.

The first days of writing went quite well, but then I made the mistake of starting to look for cover images for my writings on Pixabay, especially for the one I'm working on right now that I'd most like to finish. The working title of which is On the Beach, but it has to be changed because there's already a famous book with the same name.

When I went through tens of thousands of images, my eyes didn't like it. I finally had to stop because I felt so miserable. It's also a shame that the time spent looking for images is taken away from writing.

So first I suffered from eye pain, neck pain, and headache. And the next day I started getting nausea. I even dreamed that I was vomiting.

So that by the time the school year started, I could be in a state of sick leave.

 

 

So, when you're already nauseous anyway, what to eat when food feels nauseating? Where can you get protein and iron on a zero-carb diet when all meat feels disgusting? And an empty stomach makes you even more nauseous.

On Thursday, I rushed to the library before closing time to pick up my reserved books. It was a bit annoying that I couldn't reserve one book because it was in the library, and it was still there the night before. But someone had already borrowed it that morning. Exceptionally, I took 3 books from the free book shelf, one of which was on my list.

And I was in a hurry to also buy socks on the same trip, since Clas Ohlson also closes at seven. Maybe it wouldn't have been worth it, the price of thermal socks had just gone up by 3 euros. 26 euros for two pairs of Heat Holders socks.

 

 

When I got home, I was met with a frightening sight: a food robot. Of course, it stopped because of me, even though I tried to walk on the other side of the road. It hasn't been many months since a robot followed me all the way home, it didn't dare to pass me at any point. Pretty slow food delivery if it comes at my walking pace. Food robots are so pathetic that I don't understand how anyone can use them.

 

On Saturday I would have liked to celebrate the release of my debut novel, so it would have been a book launch, but feeling unwell and feeling like throwing up prevented that. I had big plans: opening a bottle of sparkling rosé wine, having a few drinks and going to a bar, but no.

 

 

 

I thought I wouldn't be able to play Tomb Raider 2 Remastered without cheats. I had always played the (original) game before only using cheats. At first I had great difficulty with the controls. I switched to modern controls when I couldn't accept that the jump button was the cube. Then I had to constantly google which button did something, like grab a ledge or dive. When I got through the Opera house level, I stopped, at least for now. It's a wonder I even got that far.

 

Autumn dress mania

Autumn came with a bang. It was literally the last moment to go on a cruise if you wanted to go on a summer vacation. Even a day later, it wouldn't have worked.

And exactly the same thing with my own health. I wondered about the swelling in my stomach after the trip, and a day or two later severe endometriosis pain began.

My computer screen has started to scare me. Sometimes it goes dark unexpectedly, and only comes back on when I close it and open it again.

Dresses

I bought dresses from online second hand store. Two dresses from the same seller saved on postage, the dresses themselves only cost one and two euros. These were on sale for a long time but nobody bought them. A black party dress (size 38) and a violet-gray sheath dress (38).

 

But then when I tried to buy the third dress (a black sheath dress, size 36), the online store wouldn't let me do that. Every time I got the message "Your bid failed. Please check the information you entered and try again." The product in question was on sale with supposedly safer service. It's really safe to buy when you can't buy at all. I then corresponded with their customer service, and finally I was able to buy the dress.

 

 

Then I was sad to find out that all these dresses are too big for me. The usual story, lots of clothes but nothing to wear. Too small, too big, see-through, too short, ill-fitting. I still don't know what to wear to my grandma's funeral.

Movies

This fall I would like to do many things, but they all cost (too much).

The book The Long Walk is one of my favorite works of Stephen King. I've been waiting for decades for it to be made into a movie. And now it's premiering on the day of my grandma's funeral. It's been many years since I last went to the movies, can you still buy tickets the same way you used to? I mean buy online and pick them up at the box office? But I hear that movie tickets cost 20 euros these days...

The last Downton Abbey movie is also premiering on the same day. But I hate a certain DA character so much that I can't stand it. Killed Sybil, fu.

 

 

Friday 12.9.: my grandmother's funeral, the premieres of The Long Walk and Downton Abbey, the release date of the Borderlands 4 game, the start of the World Athletics Championships.

The play Murder on the Orient Express will be performed at the local theatre this autumn, which I am always interested in. But the tickets cost over 40 euros. It's a bit of a shame that I don't have a student card, I could get a discount on many things.

It would also be nice to go bowling. I've never been to the new bowling alley here.

 

Tallinn cruise on Tallink Victoria

Nine years since my last cruise and train trip. Now we took a sudden departure, on Thursday we bought tickets for the cruise on Monday, August 18.

My back hurt already on the train and I was afraid of how it would react when we arrived. I took painkillers and luckily there were no problems after that.

 

 

My body has a "funny" feature where my teeth can start chattering as if it's cold even though it's not, just for mental reasons. Now that happened when we got off the train in Helsinki, and it was because of the number of people. I knew in advance that it would bother me. Luckily, it passed pretty quickly, but the next day my mouth was sore and I had bitten my cheek.

First we went to Ruohonjuuri because I wanted Urtekram's Rasul shampoo. Its availability is quite limited, it's not available in the online stores I usually order from.

I had never been on Tallink Victoria before. There weren't many people on the ship. It's only August and so few people? Well, of course it was a Monday departure.

The cabin was a deluxe plus. The "regular" deluxes are located at the bow of the ship on deck 8. These pluses are on the sides of the ship on deck 9, and are slightly larger.

 

  

 

Drinks from the Victoria minibar. In addition, the cabin price also includes a chocolate bar, and of course a special breakfast.

 

 

I have a haabit of being out on deck when the ship is leaving port. This time I couldn't do that because the only buffet dinner was at the same time. Luckily, we were able to sit in the restaurant at the bow, so there was a good view. The ship's white wine happens to be suitable for me at the moment, i.e. low-sugar enough. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing...

I couldn't stand being outside for many seconds because it was a bit cold and windy.

 

In the nightclub, four bartenders were waiting idly. A Caipiroska cost a shocking 12 euros. I also learned about a new drink that suits me, called Skinny Bitch. It tasted a bit strange when I'm used to Caipiroska.

 

 

When the band went on a break, they started playing Tabitha's song... 💔

The special breakfast was wasted for me as I was feeling a bit unwell. The most important food for me, egg spread, was on the menu, but it tasted strange. At Victoria's special breakfast, it would be possible to order a warm food option as well, there were three different types of omelets on offer. You have to pay extra for brewed tea these days, boo.

In Tallinn, we only visited Rimi in the harbour shopping centre, Superalkos was skipped this time. It's a bit of a shame that I didn't bother to check out the shoe store's clearance sale.

 

 

I've been wanting Grey Goose vodka for a long time because of the Black Dagger Brotherhood vampire book series. Now it was on sale on the ship, "only" 50 euros. Well, you can't get it cheaper than that anywhere else, so I went with it.

 

 

While waiting for the train to leave, we visited UFF, and then hung out at Oodi. There, we found an interesting book, Kali's Song, which made it to my list.

Experience has shown that one book is not enough for a trip. This time, I had the paperback The Cat Who Caught a Killer with me, and even though I read it sparingly, I managed to finish it too early, even before the return trip.

Monday was still a warm summer day, but when I got home on Tuesday evening, it was 11 degrees in Kuopio and windy. My skirt felt a bit cold, so my teeth were chattering because of the real cold. We were the only ones on the bus.

The trip was tough for me, but surprisingly painless. When I got home, I was shocked by how swollen my stomach was. I didn't know if I should be worried.

 

 

Does Pycnogenol help with leg swelling?

I tried to do a human experiment on myself. My feet always swell and hurt when I travel by train. Now I took one Pycnogenol pill on Sunday evening, and two in the morning before the train. When I arrived, it was amazing to see that my feet were neither swollen nor sore.

Did Pycnogenol really help? I didn't take Pycnogenol on the way back, and yet my feet didn't swell or hurt. Did the Pycnogenol I had taken earlier still have an effect then, or did it really have no effect after all? I can't tell.

So the human experiment seems to have failed. I will continue to take Pycnogenol if I feel like my legs aren't getting enough blood flow.