Weird Dreams and Good Food

Dear Diary! I don’t know, what to write here, so …

My Day

Today was nothing spectacular (mostly). I woke up this morning, at 7am, because I had a nightmare. This was unusual. I don’t really have nightmares.
I dreamed, that I was Patrick Jane (from “The Mentalist”) and saw Red John (the main enemy from the show) approaching. I was unarmed and then fight or flight kicked in. Not really though… I just froze up, and couldn’t do anything. Now I was stressed, because I knew, he’d try to kill me. Not the best experience, you know. This lasted till I woke up (no shit – ironic). I quickly realized, that it was only a dream. But you know how it is. My brain was not really getting it, and still thought I was Jane, so I tried (just like Jane) to calm myself down. I’m not sure, but I think I even tried to hypnotize myself to calm down. So my brains impression of Jane was not too bad, I have to say.
This cycle happened like 3 times. Realize I’m not Jane -> try to calm myself down -> get tired -> think I’m Jane -> back to the beginning. In hindsight this is really funny. Not so much in the moment though.

Sooner or later I finally got back to sleep again and then my usual morning/ daily routine kicked in. Get up, eat and start to study. Then, at 3:15pm I went to the gym, for the first time this year. Which is already a good achievement.

In the gym, I had a first. I was squatting. At first I had 80kg on my shoulders for 12 reps. This felt good, so I tried 5kgs more on each side. The next set felt okayish. I only got to 8 reps, so that’s okay. Last set: once again with 90kgs on my shoulders. First four repetitions felt good. Then in the fifth i realized, I leaned too much forward. But I wanted to do at least 8 reps. I go down for the sixth, and… Damn. I can’t do it any more. Just throw the weight off.
My first real set till muscle failure. I don’t feel too bad about that. It was not to bad to get the weight off, since there were bars, for this exact reason. I tell you: without those, it would not have been fun!

Back from the gym, I went shopping with my brother, since I / we wanted to cook pulled beef/pork burgers. When we drove off, we both heard something crack. We weren’t sure what it was. Maybe we just drove over some icy-snow which then cracked. But when we arrived at the store, the car smelled like rubber, which is hardly a good sign. We ignored it, so it’s not too big a deal; mhm.

Once back from shopping, I already started cooking. My sister was baking a cake, and watching “Leverage” on her tablet. (Some TV-show.) I then asked to watch with her (she had headphones on), to which she agreed.
Now I can admit it. I didn’t really like this show [haha]. One guy was trying too hard to be cool, one girl was doing unnecessary cartwheels, when the nerdy guy showed his computer-room some weird *beep-beep boop-boop* sounds were played (which – I don’t know whether it was just the song, or because of “computer goo beep” – was really annoying) and so on.

But my main problem was, that the “bad” guys, were bad through and through. This is something that annoys me with a lot of shows. “Why?”; I hear you ask. Don’t you think, it’s way more interesting, if both / all sides have their good points? At least I do. And also, to me it seems like bad writing, if the bad guy is only bad for the sake of being bad, and he hates poor people, and he’d do everything just to get a little richer, and so on and so forth.
I don’t know… Maybe it’s just me, but (to me) this seems like lazy and uninteresting writing…

Anyway. Back to cooking. Well; you can hardly call it “cooking”. Just cutting some pickles, onions, tomatoes and salad and putting the meat into the oven. Half an hour later, I could take it out, and we had to pull it. I thought I was good at pulling meat. But then my mother and sister helped me, and of course, I was the slowest.
But then the eating part. The best part of them all. I definitely was not the slowest there. And I gotta say: It was really tasty. Some good moisture, some vegetables and most importantly: good meat. What more would you want?
Another upside: Hardly anything to clean. Not too much pans. Really a wonderful dish.

After dinner, we played a round of Uno (Card game) since my sister was over with her husband. It started out really good. I was down to only one card like three or four times. But I couldn’t close the deal. So i got 2nd last.

No-one wanted to play for another round, so I went upstairs in my room and studied a little more. In the afternoon, I was reading the lectures, and just before, I solved (or tried to solve) some exercises. I could solve 4 out of seven, I know how to solve two more, and that leaves only one unsolved. Which (I think) is really good. This took me only about 3.5 hours, which I’m also happy about.
My plan is, to get through one sheet about every two days. Up until now, I did even better than this. But every exercise gets just a little harder. So soon it’ll take like 8 hours for one sheet. Or at least that’s what I’m expecting. I’ll tell you more, once I know it!

Before, I couldn’t focus any more on studying, so I wrote you – my diary entry. Hopefully my focus did returned a little. I gotta learn some vocabulary / definitions… If this doesn’t work out, I’ll just watch some more of “The Mentalist”. It’s more fun anyway :/

But before that, time for a midnight burger snack. Luckily, it had one left over.

Well, that’s it for today! I’ll see you tomorrow!