Less despair

My mood has finally lightened.  Dan assures me he started meditating and does understand the principle.  I haven't started eating but I'll take coconut water once a day to ensure I get my electrolytes and a bit of protien and sugar (yes there's all that in the stuff.)  That means I am much less at risk of death, but still able to slide on over there with a simple stop drinking if he's slacking.
I wish I could trust him better, I'm getting genuinely hungry now.
My energy is still very brief.  I can get up and do a few things, rest a bit, do a few things, but other than the base chores required I'm doing little else.  Watching video, mostly documentaries as that's my fave, but also some entertainment stuff on netflix.  I discovered Richard Hammond's documentary series on youtube and now I get why he's not reacting at all to the loss of Top Gear.  I'm sure he won't miss Jeremy's bullying all that much.  Poor James May is the one having to get creative.  I should get over there and check for new videos.  Best thing I can do for him is watch his stuff to show support.
He's not cute like Richard or captivatingly outrageous like Jeremy, but he does have a sweet gentle humour.
I'm still working up the energy to take a bath. Mostly I wont need much but getting the bath drawn and stuff will be tiring.  My accident injuries are still healing in spite of the all the stress they've been under and the lack of food too.  Also, I want the current youtube video to finish.  I was going to watch tv but the satellite dish got covered in fresh snow.  It's probably melted off now, or will be soon.  The snow is already starting to vanish.  I just remembered I also have an OTA digital antenna and could have switched the TV's internal tuner for the channel I wanted.  We only get two OTA channels here in lovely downtown nowheresville but only one is reliably clear!  I tried complaining to the stations but I know it's not a high priority and I don't know if it's even a legal one.  Only the poor people pretty much don't have their tv piped in around here.
I also realized today that I can turn the wall of the tiny house into a tool hanger on the one end. Put up the hammers, axes, etc., from floor to ceiling and edge to edge and get a lot of tool storage and an interesting looking wall.  what's more, without significantly decreasing the space where I want to park the car.


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