Nov 9, 2019

I woke up at around 8:30 this morning. The sun was up and I was relieved to know that it was a Saturday where I had no obligation to get up early.

I sat in my bed and reached over to look at my phone. Nearly a dozen notifications from various applications presented themselves, the majority being from discord. I began to go through all the messages and pings I had gotten durint my slumber.

Soon afterwords, I decided to check out the new anime episodes released today. Saturday is sorta like a huge release day for a lot of large animes. Shows such as Detective Conan, Sword Art Online, My Hero Academia, and One Piece all release throughout the day on Saturday.

I noticed that both the Sword Art Online and My Hero Academia episodes had been released. I watched them both, starting with SAO and then moving on to MHA.

By the time these episodes finished, it was nearly 10AM and I realized I should probably get up and get ready for the day.

I started by going downstairs and cooking breakfast. I settled on making french toast, as I have numerous times before. The only difference is that today I began experimenting with using a french baguette as the vessel for the french toast. As opposed to having my normal three or so slices of normal bread, I cut numerous slices off a french baguette and made multiple at one time. It tasted exquisite.

Shortly after breakfast, I began my normal routine for getting ready for the day. I hopped in the shower, brushed my teeth, shaved my peach-fuzz mustache, got dressed in actual clothes, etc...

I then realized how bored I was going to be today if I didn't find something to do. I messaged a lot of my friends and anxiously waited for anyone to respond. I got unlucky. Nobody could hangout today.

At around noon my mother left. Today she had to take some testing to attempt to become a certified teacher. She had a goal of getting another job as a tutor, but for some odd reason, a state certification was required.

My mother has a bachelor's degree majoring in psychology as well as a master's in education. The only difficulty is that it's been thirty years since she attended Syracuse University and since then a lot has changed. She isn't used to the computer-based standardized testing of the modern day and has trouble keeping up.

Needless to say, after she left for the test, I decided to have some lunch. It was around 12:30PM at this point, and I made some kraft mac n cheese and poured myself a glass of cola. I actually somewhat hate Kraft mac n cheese, however, it was all that was really in the house right now so I sucked it up and dealt with it.

The small microwaveable bowl of Kraft mac n cheese didn't last long, however, so at around 1PM or possibly 2PM I made myself some ramen noodles as a snack.

At around 3PM, I got a text from my mother. She had already gotten her reading test score back. Unfortunately, she had failed the test. This was her fourth time failing, and I honestly think that at this point she should give up. The amount of time and money she has spent on these tests is getting ridiculous and it's going nowhere. Oh well.

She got home around 3:30 and we then decided to go to church this Saturday afternoon, that way we could just rest tomorrow. Mass began at 4PM and my mother still needed to do some things to get ready. I knew the ride there would take around thirty minutes, and concluded we would certainly be late.

However, we ended up going to mass this evening anyways. We showed up fifteen minutes late and just sat in the section where the parents with children sat because it was the only place that wasn't taken in the church. Mass went on and was rather standard procedure.

We left church at around 5:30 and our way home began pondering what to have for dinner. We ended up settling for some McDonalds, ordering a McChicken and drink for each of us. This total costed just a bit over $7 and fed a family of three. It was certainly a good deal.

We stayed there for a while but after I leaving I took a large Dr. Pepper home with me. Normally I'd just get coke, but today I just felt like changing it up a little.

Soon after I got home, now being around 6PM, my mother asked me to go to the grocery store with her. I agreed as I had nothing better to do.

At the grocery store, we picked up some fresh bakery dough. My mother and I planned on making homemade spinach and sausage rolls tomorrow, as well as homemade pizza. All these dishes are rather tasteful, and I can't wait for tomorrow.

We also picked up a slew of other groceries for general meals. For example, a large back of potatoes would provide me snacks for the next couple weeks.

We finally headed home and by the time we got back it wad around 9:30. We brought in the groceries and shortly after I realized how late it already was.

My phone was dead when we got home so before writing today's chapter I had to let it charge a bit. In the meantime, I practiced learning opening 1 for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure on the piano. I began making slow progress, but it is certainly going to take a while.

I also decided to snack on some cashews. They were unsalted though so I had to add my own.

Eventually, after waiting long enough for my phone to charge, I began writing this chapter. At the time of finishing it is around 10:30 and I will be uploading this chapter at 11PM as usual. Stay tuned for tomorrow's chapter, peace out.