A lot of us in one way or another, have a journal, whether is on a blog form, a journal app, or a physical form of sorts. I see lots of people posting their journaling notebooks or what have you, other folks use dedicated apps and automated ways to journal. All of these options interest me and I love to experiment with them all. However, I have always seen my blog as my digital journal. I write things I don’t mind other people reading. This doesn’t mean that I don’t have dark thoughts in my head, those, I post too – most of the time. No matter how personal, they usually end up on my blog.

I basically blog my mind, openly and no f*cks given – sometimes 😜. I am yet to find a topic or subject which I wouldn’t dare to post to my blog. I guess if I have a very dark thing in my mind, something that may or may not get me in some sort of trouble, I don’t even bother writing it. Most of those I talk to someone about and that’s usually my wife. Don’t have that many people around I can talk to these days.

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine today. She asked me how thing were going of course, we haven’t seen or talk to each other in a while. We always talk about fitness, well-being and such. She’s a gym rat, dedicated and she currently training for her second competition. So anytime she asks me how things are going, she’s most likely more concerned about my healthy habits.

I am always opened with with her and I told her I’ve been slacking. Like I have been working out here and there but there are never good workouts. What’s a good workout? Well, in my book, a good workout is when (in my case) I am holding the kettlebell with intent. When I am putting effort and watching my posture. When I have a plan and I execute with everything that I’ve got. When I go out and get it!

Lately, if I workout I just swing it. I just do things because I want to just close my rings. Never have a plan, I do things on auto mode. When I go for a run, normally it’ll be at least 3.5 miles. The past few times I’ve run, I am done as soon as I hit the 2 miles mark. After that I don’t care anymore.

I am not sure what happened to my motivation or desire to take care of myself. All I want to do is play video games and drink beer.

Today was a “working from home” day. Marley, caught a a fever last night. She wasn’t feeling well. Not to risk her cousin’s well being at grandma’s, I stayed home with her.

Not her normal self, which hurts more to me than to herself. Not eating or playing just laying on the couch shivering and watching movies. Eventually called the doctors office, mostly to my wife’s request. At first I was advised to wait it out for a bit since all symptoms had just started last night.

Midday comes around and Marley, on her own accord, tells me, “papá, I want to go to the doctor”.

That took me by surprise.

I called again, and they scheduled us for a visit. She was so cooperative and so well behaved. Usually that is not the case.

After examining her, the doctor decides to perform a strep throat test. Doctor comes back , “Glad she asked to be seen, test is positive”.

There is something about Marley that we cannot quite explain. Well, maybe we can but not in a conventional way. She has this six sense, she sense things, she sees things in ways that for some people may be somewhat creepy. For us, this is a normal thing. Which is why, a lot of the times, when Marley talks — we listen.

I have finished Ghost of Tsushima. Not only have I finished it, I platinum it, meaning I have completed everything in the game and there is nothing left to I do. Well, maybe to find a couple of clan banners and “Mongolian records” but that’s not fun 😅

I loved this game so much that just like any other game that I had gotten so into it as with this one, I want to replay them. Replay them over and over until I am sick of it. Like Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey, I have probably replayed those games at least 3 times. The only difference is that they either had New Game + and was able to replay with all my goodies or at least I could use armor or weapons I had purchased as extras. Also the DLC’s. Ghost of Tsushima doesn’t have NG+, at least not for now. I know many games out there don’t have it right at launch, they get updated later with.

So, I had two options, just keep playing, roaming around looking for trouble or restart the game and lose everything I have.

Last night it occurred to me. Why don’t I create a second PSN profile? And that’s what I did. I have created a new PSN account/user just to play Ghost of Tsushima as a new game without loosing what i have done on my main account!

I am pretty sure people do this all the time but for whatever reason it had never occurred to me to do so before.

For Tsushima!!!