Forgetting to eat.

Sometimes I get so caught up in writing or reading or researching, I forget to eat properly (or at all).

Like today. I got to over 10k on my WIP (yes!) but I got so caught up I forgot to eat anything other than the salt and vinegar rice cakes that were right in front of me. Then I checked the clock and realised it's gone 4 and I got up at 10.

And now it's too late to eat properly and my tongue burns from all the salt and vinegar flavouring.

I make poor choices.

I clearly cannot be trusted to look after myself. So here's my question: Would one of you like to come round and parent me? I may be 26 but I think it's obvious I need someone to tell me to get up off the computer and make myself some soup, already, or go outside, it's a lovely day, and you're starting to look like gollum and have you just not got dressed properly today and how about you clean those plates up.

Cause I can't seem to do it myself.

I am no good at ironing or dishes. I once tried to iron something and I melted it.

My husband is half scottish. I'm not sure I can handle a full blooded scot.

McCardey, that was fine. Though if you could stand over me, shake your head and tut slightly, that would be even better.

mccardey said:

Oh believe me, I am. The thought of you wasting the best years of your life.. and in my day .. and what is this nonsense about salt and vinegar thingummies? That isn't food! That's nonsense is what that is! Some soup and an apple. Outside. And then you can come in and clean up your room.

(Was that too far? It was, wasn't it?)

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I was just 13 again for a terrifying, dizzying moment.

It worked, though. I jsut found myself insitnctively putting stuff in the bin, and then I decided to drink some apple juice for the vitamins.

scarletpeaches said:

Remember to take your coat off indoors so you feel the benefit when you go back outside.

(No, that never made any sense to me, either.)

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Nor me.

Nor did being told to wash my face when I was crying. Somehow it would magically make me feel better. It didn't.

scarletpeaches said:

"Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about!"

Um...what? As a five-year-old I actually said to my mother, "I might as well carry on crying then."

Got belted for my cheek.

Oh well.

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"Eat all your food. There are starving children in africa!"

"Send it to them, then."

Never understood the logical fallacy that because there are children starving in other parts of the world that I should be forced to eat when I was full.

I think I need someone to message me around about 1 or 2 just to say 'yo, have you eaten yet?' I also need to make myself breakfast BEFORE I sit down to work.

Or the only proper meal I have in a whole day is dinner.

Today? Carbonara!