At some point in my dreams last night, I remember realizing that I can dunk a basketball and did so, with relish. I don’t recall any of the before or after at this point.
Here at my dad’s physical therapy appointment, I said good morning to a man and he says, “What’s that son?” I repeated it and asked how he’s doing. He gave me a fist bump.
He says blessed, paused and said “And so are you?” I tilted my head to the side a bit and he says, “I knew it the moment you walked in the door.”
I nodded and he said “I feel things that get by most people.”
I grinned and said yeah, most people don’t really see that preemptively and he said, “I know you.”
I just nodded in silence and we had a moment, then he continued on with his therapy program.
I’ve been more drawn to taking care of my hair. It has been getting more soft over the past few days, and is doing that thing I’ve talked about before with I believe Wanted and LotS where it ‘fixes’ itself to look amazing, without me doing much.
I decided on a whim to play basketball today while on the phone with my ex. She called me on the verge of a breakdown and so, I took my basketball with me and while we were on the phone, walked over to our apartment’s court and practiced my dribbling and shooting with one hand.
Kinda trippy to think back now but it was in the twilight hour when the sun was just beginning to go down, so it was dark and only got darker as I was playing and talking with her.
I calmed her down pretty quickly, before I even got to the court so for the majority of the time, I was dribbling between my legs and shooting one handed, anywhere from the post up to the 3-point line and scoring more frequently than not.
At no point did I get caught up in how she felt. My vibe was pretty nonchalant yet caring the entire time, but I was both focused on the conversation as well as my exercises.
My older half brother has an issue with some guy he let stay in his place that I’ve kept out of for weeks up until today when I overheard him talking to our mom about how the guy pulled a knife on him.
I got pissed about that and told my mom to give me the phone and demanded that he explain exactly what was going on. I don’t feel the need to go into word for word details, but basically my brother decided to let this guy stay with him and the guy got drunk today, put hands on his wife who was also there and pulled a knife on my bro.
My brother is involved in some kinda new drama so often I find it perplexing, so I usually just give him advice, calm him down or check him as I feel is necessary.
This time however, I felt driven to let him know that if I needed to come down there and throw the guy out myself, I would. Even as I said it, I realized that it wasn’t necessarily my place to interfere. He let the guy in; he should be able to get him out.
My mom also said while we were talking and she was listening that she didn’t feel comfortable with me going down there and ending up going to jail. I trust my mom’s intuition for the very most part and that was enough for me to subside, slightly.
That was when my ex had called me.
I’m watching the Selena documentary on Netflix for the second time. I watched it the first time with my ex awhile back.
I REALLY hope they come out with a similar series for Sade one day.
In other news…the actress they chose for her is great.
That bawdy 🫠
Friendly remember to and for myself to look into this herb.
My mom told me today that if my beard gets any longer, imma have to start braiding it.
4 minutes Spear of Athens II
Made a new friend today, a Kenyan girl.
3 minutes LB, 4:25 HS
Had a conversation with the previous girl on the phone. After it was done she texted me saying, “your voice is like music to my ears.”
I said how’s that and she said ‘I can hear the confidence behind it’.
Today would be the day I run Spear of Athens II but, due to feeling very irritated and on edge over the past couple of days - likely due to my toddler and baby boy - I decided to push it forward. Maybe I’ll run it tomorrow.
Been talking to this girl. Had a cool phone conversation a couple of nights ago. She’s very much into me but I’ve been having this feeling, a feeling I’ve felt before. It felt like walls were closing in around me that I didn’t appreciate.
Sure enough, today she asks me if I’m talking to other girls.
I replied, “Talking talking, not at this point. But I do talk to other women.”
She replied, “So if you are talking to others or will in the future should I do the same?”
“I’m only asking because I typically give the person I’m speaking to the respect of it just being him.”
“Especially if my interest is there.”
To which I responded, “I agree with the principal, to an extent.”
She then said, “Well if u have that interest in looking for other parties definitely let me know and I can back off accordingly.”
I replied, “I have interest in finding what I’m looking for. If you can’t handle me talking to other women as that goes, then I can probably be content with you as a friend. You’re a lovely person regardless.”
She replied, “Noted I’ll fall back.”
There’s a few things I would unpack here for my own benefit.
One, I only just started talking to the woman a few days ago. We have not met in person. Far be it from me to assume ‘this is the one’ and drop everything else, for her.
Eggs all in one heretofore not quality checked basket, and such.
Second, I used to be the guy who would do exactly that; assume, “oh yeah, I like this one even though I don’t feel particularly right about her, let’s focus on her” much to my later chagrin.
Third, there’s a red flag in there for me. “I don’t want you talking to other women if you’re talking to me” gives off strange vibes that I haven’t quite put my finger on. Were we dating, that would be at least worth a discussion. Were we serious, I would be in agreement with what she said. But we aren’t.
Fourth, I’ve been back on the app we first met on a few times just to keep it active and seen her online a lot of the times I went back tf uh no.
I actually felt a sense of relief when this came up as I felt like nothing would really come of this woman besides sex with a lot of strings that I’m not inclined to be attached to.
Made out with and played with her clit in the Jacuzzi at our apartments.
I haven’t used any of my titles for like 5 days lol so I guess I completed an unexpected washout.
I just haven’t felt like using them, honestly. Which is fine, I 'spose.
My guess is it’s probably the main store title equivalent of Informaticon giving you the nudge to hold off. Or that new “intuitive nudge” stuff MR. Sovereign mentioned.
If you come across where he talked about that, please send that my way. I might have missed it.
I do not recall where. It’s within the past year I seem to recall.