I told mom allll about prion diseases today and really freaked her out 😅 I’m terrified of that stuff yet love to blabber on and on about it. Chronic Wasting Disease, kuru, fatal familial insomnia, Jakob Creuzfeldt, and so on. Prions are to me, by far, the scariest things in nature because your brain could produce a misfolded protein at any time, and Jakob Creutzfeldt can be either completely spontaneous, or it can be caused by improperly sterilised surgical instruments. I remember an instance of a man having brain surgery and he was infected by the unclean instruments. I’ll bet his family had a HELL of a lawsuit, as they should have. Negligence costs lives! It’s said that 1 in 1500 people in the UK have misfolded proteins in their body. Prions. It could take years to get sick. I don’t know stats for the US or any other country. Bet it isn’t much better. That’s one reason I would never eat deer meat! What if someone ate the wrong deer and CWD became zoonotic? I’ll bet that’s already happened more than once, honestly. Probably many times. Eating an infected deer, I mean. I think we’d know by now if someone contracted it. There is no known cure, so if there was an epidemic of CWD we might be in trouble. Where I live, a ton of people hunt their food and eat deer meat. It freaks me out because what if it jumped? The deer that have it are basically zombies that are wasting away. What would that do to a person?

I would rather be covered in spiders for the rest of my life than have a prion disease. That’s saying something 😂

Got along good with mom today, despite me freaking her out with prions lol. There’s a really good YouTube video by Casual Geographic (can’t recommend this guy enough, he is freaking hilarious and great with words without resorting to saying dumb shit like “unalive”, AND you learn stuff about animals!) that discusses scary animal diseases. I knew most of what he said, but I learned things that were new to me also. Watch that one and the damn dolphin video, because holy crap. Dolphins are fucked in the head! Beautiful creatures but they’re the psychopaths of the sea. I would still interact with one, but I’ll never see them the same way again 😆

What is it with me not being able to stay on topic? Good grief. It’s like some stream of thought shit. Or maybe it’s adhd. Attention span of a gnat 🥴

Well…I’m probably losing my peer support person, Kellie. I couldn’t think of a damm goal when I saw the peer support supervisor, and I honestly thought she was going to get back to me about that, but she didn’t. Kellie told mom over text that I wouldn’t agree to any of the goals they came up with, which isn’t true. All I said was that I wasn’t sure I wanted to do the goal of swimming every week. That’s too much and I want to do other things as well! Also, pools are basically people soup and pee. That’s why I much prefer the lake beach at Paddy’s Creek. I’m sure people pee in there too, but lakes are huge so I don’t worry about it. There’s an indoor pool close to my parents house, but…people pee soup. 😣 Kellie won’t go to the lake beach, and I haven’t asked Karen about going yet. I miss Denise SO much, it’s not fair! She was almost always up for the beach. Anyhoo… even though I’ll probably lose Kellie, I’ll still have my individual support, Karen. She’s more likely to do stuff like Denise did, but I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ She rarely has time for me anymore, I don’t think I’ve seen her for a few weeks, and she’s supposed to be here once every week. It’s really a bummer…often times, she’ll have a freaking opening at 9am, which…no. I have explained why I won’t do that and I’m not going to explain it again. I wrote about it here. It’s somewhere down there. *sigh* I don’t think it’s fair to take me off peer support. It’s not set in stone or anything, but it’s likely. ☹️ I just didn’t want to go swimming every single week! That really came back to bite me…but I don’t think I was being disagreeable at all. I just politely gave my input and we ran out of time.

Lol Friday my parents neighbour asked me if I was “channeling Stevie Ray Vaughn” 😂 I said I didn’t know what the hell I was channeling. I was just wearing my black hat, black shirt, black pants, and of course black boots. All black everything. It was definitely the hat haha. Him and his wife both asked what band was on my shirt and I told them “Fields of the Nephilim”. They commented they’d never heard of them and I said that they were a gothic rock band that was mostly active in the 80s and 90s and that’s why they didn’t know them. They love music and said they’ll check the Nephs out, but Carl McCoys voice will probably scare them away because it’s deep and a bit growly. lol I always try to get people to check out my favourite bands but I never tried with those two 😬 Hey, maybe they’ll like it…but probably not. 😛

I still need to post a pic of my cat statue that’s made in that style I was talking about in a previous post. I’ll come back and add it here later tonight I guess. Maybe some stranger will stumble upon this and be able to tell me something.