Feel like shit

I didn't do any ebay listing last night because I felt so tired and crappy. I drank, watched YouTube, and went to bed around 2. I woke up at about 11:30, and felt like I'd actually slept pretty well. But I still feel like shit.

I tried logging onto Valley Medical's site to see if  I could check my covid test results and of course I can't get into the site because I need a bunch of numbers which I probably could have asked for from the test place if I'd known to ask. I'm supposed to get a phone call if I'm positive, and an email if I'm not.

In any case, my stuffy nose is letting up but now the "stuff" is down in my lungs. Since I'm stuffy and cough-y the best thing to do is not go out this weekend.

I honestly don't know if I've got the 'rona, have got some other bug that's going around, or feel this crappy because I've been drinking too much. So I'll have to taper down and then off of alcohol. And I found some nice kava powder on Amazon and have that coming in a few days. Kava's great for doing that last bit of tapering off of alcohol and really it's like nibbling a little bar of the finest Lindt chocolate after being used to wolfing down one of those super-sized bars of Hershey's every day.

Louis Armstrong famously said that smoking weed made him feel loved, and I've never felt that from the small amount of weed I've smoked, but kava definitely makes me feel that way. And it's a funny feeling, because once I don't need it, I don't have any craving for it. I'm just glad I could order it from Amazon instead of having to go to the kava bar in Santa Cruz.

I had my coffee, vitamins, little bottle of Yakult, and dragged myself through doing some things, like shining my shoes. I didn't get hungry as I generally do later, and wasn't sure what I could eat. I got out a package of dried squid, which is a sort of low-budget beef jerky 'cos it's squid jerky. It's been a comfort food for me since I was a teen. I managed to eat half of it.

I hunted down Ebay things so packing tomorrow will be easier, and there's only one thing I can't find. I took little sips of alcohol when I got shaky, real trickle-feeding. And eventually I actually felt a little hungry, so I ate the other half of the dried squid, and finished off the small amounts of pickled herring and kim chee I had, plus some Parmesan cheese to moderate the delicious spicy kim chee juice. And that all went OK.

I did more looking for things, started a load of laundry, and fixed up two hard-boiled eggs. So I'm eating and that's good.

If I've got covid, it's about 2 weeks being sick then in all probability getting better. If the drinking's the problem, I'll have a few days of being uncomfortable then I'll be tapered down and I'll have the kava on hand. If it's both, well, the soonest I can get one of them over with the better, and I can be clean from alcohol in a week.

At least I'm not on cigarettes, Kratom, weed, mysterious pills and the newest taste treat for guitar players in New Orleans, heroin.

Oh, and with instant coffee no longer a thing, I'm possibly in a bit of coffee withdrawal. I can get down to one cup at the start of my day, but I'd been having coffee at night too or any old time. I've learned that iced, my regular French Market chicory coffee is Not Too Bad(tm) black.

And I'd also been eating pistachio nuts. I used to get a 1-lb bag and eat way too many, but this time I'd decided I'll weigh them out in 2-oz. portions. That had me having a reasonable serving of them every day for the last week. They still bollix up my digestion though so I think I'm just going to avoid them.  I've eaten enough of them in my life, including the very best way: eaten fresh, right off the tree.