Participant #1:
You are listening to Hello Cupcake. It's Me, a podcast with your host, Michael Peterson. Hey everyone. Michael here with Hello Cupcake. It's Me, a podcast. And today is the Saturday check in. It is March 12, 2022. And how are you so getting right into it today? There's just a lot going on for me personally. I got to go out and do my monthly grocery shopping here in a little bit, and I'm going to go meet up with my sister to go do that and just have a whole day of bullfuckery planned. So what do you all have planned for this weekend? How are you going to spend it? With gas prices being a million dollars per drop, I don't know how much I'm going to be able to do, but you know, I got to at least get some of these things taken care of. So over this last week had some ups and downs emotionally. Still, the whole passing of my cat has been right there on the forefront of my memory. And I've been unpacking a lot of emotional baggage and crap that I'm just carrying around right now. And I have no idea why this is coming up right now. But you know what it's like. Okay, well, I would rather have it all taken care of while I'm still having a depressive manic episode versus waiting for me to get all better and start having good happy days ahead of me and then turn around and get all butt hurt and depressed all over again. So it's kind of good that things are starting to pop off the way that they are. But yeah, I've just been hyper emotional the last few. Well, really hyper emotional since October or November of last year. And I don't know what the hell is going on. I talk to my sister about it a little bit yesterday and she said that maybe I should get in and start seeing somebody again. And honestly, just the prospect of thinking about having to not only Hunt down a therapist, but starting all over in therapy really doesn't sound like that much fun. But we'll see what happens. We're going to trivia on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at our little local bar. And Wednesday night, I was number one in the nation for an hour and a half and that was pretty awesome to see my name up on the Billboard as number one nationwide. And when my friends showed up, I actually dropped down to fourth or fifth place because they're way smart and it was categories that they were not experts in but were more knowledgeable than myself. So yeah, that was a lot of fun. And last Tuesday when it was the Nationwide Tournament, that was a lot of fun, too. And I think I was 167th nationwide at that time. So had a lot of fun regardless. And it really does seem like that's what I'm going to start doing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from now on is just going and hanging out at the bar and just having a couple of sodas or whatever, and just enjoying myself because that was a lot of fun. And I get to socialize with people that I normally don't see. So it was like, high fives all around, right? Moving into my personal health news, outside of being horribly depressed, the new insulin pump seems to be working out really well for me. The only thing that I don't like about it is that it carries about 200 units less than my old insulin pump. So where I would be able to say, fill it up on a Monday and go until possibly that following Wednesday or the Wednesday of the following week without having to add more insulin to it. This one, I added insulin to it on. I think it was Sunday, and I made it to Wednesday, and I had to add insulin to it. So not that big of a deal, but still kind of like. But everything else is really awesome about it. It's got a lower profile. It's not as heavy. The belt clip that it comes with is more sturdy, and it's more secure. It actually kind of locks into place so it doesn't go sliding around your garments or whatever. I always wear mine up on the neck of my shirt. I just keep it clipped up there. It's just more convenient for me that way. But yeah. Anyways, happy about that. What else is going on? So for the first time ever, and I do mean ever, my biological mother sent me a birthday card, and I was really surprised by this because like I said, in all of my life, she's never given me a birthday card or anything like that. So she sent it to me, and it had $8 in there. And I thought that was really kind of sweet of her because she's super low income and really doesn't even have enough money to make it through the entire month, let alone to send me any kind of money. And the amount she sent me was $8. Not that much. But for someone in her position or a low income person, I understand how much that is. For low income people. You can make an entire meal out of $8, or there's just, like, so much more you could have done with it. And I called her up, and I'm like, thank you for the card, but you didn't have to put anything in it. She's like, Well, I know that it was only $8, and I'm sorry that it wasn't more. Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, well, it's okay. I appreciate it. But you should have kept it for yourself, so you could have gotten yourself some toiletries or maybe bought some food for yourself. And she's like, well, don't worry about it. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have sent it to you. And I'm sorry that I didn't have more. So I was gracious and I accepted it, of course. But how would I have sent it back to her? I'm not going to insult her by mailing her the $8 back. So I just thought that it was kind of cool and interesting and that 41 years of being on this Earth. She decides to send me my very first birthday card for my 41st birthday. And she always calls and does something like for my birthday. Well, not does something, but she always calls around my birthday. She never calls me directly on my birthday. She always calls me around my birthday. And I was like, in the past, I've kind of given her some shit about that. I'm like, Were you even there, woman? Do you not know when my birthday is? But the card, it's really cute. It's got this cat sitting at a desk with a Quill writing, and it says, upon to celebrate your birthday, the sun is way up in the sky, the Lake is filled with trout. You were younger yesterday. I just thought I'd point that out. Happy birthday. So, you know, very cute little Hallmark expressions birthday card and being the sentimental fool that I am, it means a lot that she did send it, but it's like, WTF why did you send it? But regardless, I'm happy about it. So, yeah, today got to go do some grocery shopping, like I said with my sister. And then I have no clue what I'm doing for the rest of the week. I undertook a little bit of a creative art project yesterday. A friend of mine had posted a picture of his uncle from World War II, and it was in black and white. One of my favorite hobbies is to take old pictures and restore them with color and try to clean up some of the cut, scrapes and overexposure marks and stuff that happens to some of those old photos. And what I do is if it's a service photo or whatever, I look at that branch of the military from the time period that the picture was taken from, and then I try to match the colors the best that I can to those colors there. And I do all of this in Photoshop. I'm not a Photoshop expert in the lease. I have a very rudimentary idea on how to make it work. And even then, I don't use the newer photoshops. I actually use Photoshop CS Two from like, back in the early 2000s. I'm not even sure if I could run the new Photoshop. Well, first of all, I can't run the new Photoshop because I don't have a computer that's strong enough to run it. And second of all, I don't have the money to buy Photoshop. Photoshop CS Two is actually a free download now, and when I was in College, it's the Photoshop that was new and current at the time. So that's the only reason I know it as well as I do but I have other friends that can they make Photoshop their bitch but anyway so yeah I took this picture of his uncle and I added coloring to it and made it look decent and I sent it to him. He was like dude that is so freaking amazing. You need to show me how you did this and all that other stuff. I'm like I just ran it through a program and spent about 45 minutes coloring it but yeah that's like a favorite hobby of mine is to take black and white photos and add color to it because it challenges me to it's like a digital coloring book for me and it challenges me mentally and gives me something fun to do.

Participant #1:
Anyways guys I think I'm going to hop off of here because I feel like I'm starting to ramble but if you have any questions, comments, concerns put them in the message section below. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast and check out all the links and stuff to my other social media. Make sure you follow me there and until next time I will talk to you all later. Bye guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. You have been listening to hello cupcake it's me a podcast with your host Michael Peterson. Please make sure to check back often as new episodes are released by weekly. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please feel free to send a message to HelloCupcakeitsme@gmail.com and until next time stay happy, safe and keep doing the best you can with what you have been given.