Busy but also restful weekend somehow
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Me and Jade went out to dinner Friday night, trying a new place that had delicious delicious indian food. They specialized in southern indian food and they had idli, which are amazing and incredible rice thingies. So good. I tried a daal and it was good, if on the edge of too hot for me (made my eyes water. Jade says it wasn't hot at all. I'm just ultimate white person). And I also ordered a lentil vadu, which was a donut. I thought it was going to be a donut made with lentil flour. It was not. It was wheat presumably battered in lentil flour. I ate it anyway and it was savory and tasty and have been having many regrets since.
Yesterday morning, I took Mara to the dog park and then fiddled with the laser scarecrow for a little while. I thought it was fine that I was going to be a little later to the farmers market. Normally I leave at 20 of 9, because it opens at 9 and I like to be there then because it gets crazy busy. I arrived at 9:30 and went, huh that's weird, why is there a line to get into the parking garage? Well, as it turns out, there was a festival. I got parking on the roof and the market was bananas busy and the festival had live music going by 10.
B let me take shelter at the A Farm stand, hiding behind a display. We chatted a bit in between customers and then I headed home. After that, I alternated cleaning and playing video games all weekend. It was great. I'd play video games until I was partly bored of that, then put on music and get some cleaning done. I did a deep clean of kitchen surfaces, including behind and under the microwave and toaster oven. And the tops.
I reorganized the dog's stuff, cleaned around her food bin, took all the stove thingies out and scrubbed the bowls. The oven on the stove is actually dead and maintenance is coming tuesday because that's the first day I can be home to watch Mara. (stove top is fine)
I swept the whole hardwood floor area, dusted the tv area, cleaned all the shelves around there, cleaned the balcony door of dog snot, put uup the two blinds that had broken and wiped down the coffee table.
This is all mainly because I'm resigned to living here and so I might as well clean the apartment to a standard that makes me feel good. I enjoyed cleaning the house we lived in before, because I liked the house and it was nice and I wanted to keep it nice. But I don't like the apartment so I'd been neglecting it. Jade doesn't really clean. (her parents place is pretty spotless so I'm sure she can see how gross it is, but chooses not to deal with it. I've always lived in a gross house and I enjoy a clean place) (last time she vacuumed was after I had stopped vacuuming for like, two months straight and a friend of hers was coming to visit). (her shit is everywhere but I've just been making piles of it in the places she sits and she removes it to her room, which is perfect)
ANYWAY.
I also made a mint ice cream base with chocolate mint from the A Farm, which they were so kind as to let me harvest some. It gave it a lovely taste, different than most mints. I ran it in the food processor with the sugar and when I opened the food processor, it was so minty it made my eyes water.
I made a vegetable medley for yesterdays dinner since I have nice produce right now. I've never made a vegetable medley before. Just saute shit in a pan with spices. Wild. It was excellent yesterday and I found out just now that sauteed zucchini is a horrible texture on day 2. so I'm never doing that again.
I went ice skating today since they started public skates back up at a local rink. Ohhh boy am I sore already. I was so fatigued like, 45 minutes in. Like quelle surprise, I didn't skate for three months, no wonder I'm not used to it. But it was good!
Laundry yesterday, turns out I picked the dryer that didn't work fully so I got partially damp stuff which is hanging all over my room.
I think that's most everything. I'm going back to my room where the AC is still on. I turned off the living room one because it seemed cool enough but it has warmed up a bunch in here. Put my laundry away and go to sleep early.
Me and Jade went out to dinner Friday night, trying a new place that had delicious delicious indian food. They specialized in southern indian food and they had idli, which are amazing and incredible rice thingies. So good. I tried a daal and it was good, if on the edge of too hot for me (made my eyes water. Jade says it wasn't hot at all. I'm just ultimate white person). And I also ordered a lentil vadu, which was a donut. I thought it was going to be a donut made with lentil flour. It was not. It was wheat presumably battered in lentil flour. I ate it anyway and it was savory and tasty and have been having many regrets since.
Yesterday morning, I took Mara to the dog park and then fiddled with the laser scarecrow for a little while. I thought it was fine that I was going to be a little later to the farmers market. Normally I leave at 20 of 9, because it opens at 9 and I like to be there then because it gets crazy busy. I arrived at 9:30 and went, huh that's weird, why is there a line to get into the parking garage? Well, as it turns out, there was a festival. I got parking on the roof and the market was bananas busy and the festival had live music going by 10.
B let me take shelter at the A Farm stand, hiding behind a display. We chatted a bit in between customers and then I headed home. After that, I alternated cleaning and playing video games all weekend. It was great. I'd play video games until I was partly bored of that, then put on music and get some cleaning done. I did a deep clean of kitchen surfaces, including behind and under the microwave and toaster oven. And the tops.
I reorganized the dog's stuff, cleaned around her food bin, took all the stove thingies out and scrubbed the bowls. The oven on the stove is actually dead and maintenance is coming tuesday because that's the first day I can be home to watch Mara. (stove top is fine)
I swept the whole hardwood floor area, dusted the tv area, cleaned all the shelves around there, cleaned the balcony door of dog snot, put uup the two blinds that had broken and wiped down the coffee table.
This is all mainly because I'm resigned to living here and so I might as well clean the apartment to a standard that makes me feel good. I enjoyed cleaning the house we lived in before, because I liked the house and it was nice and I wanted to keep it nice. But I don't like the apartment so I'd been neglecting it. Jade doesn't really clean. (her parents place is pretty spotless so I'm sure she can see how gross it is, but chooses not to deal with it. I've always lived in a gross house and I enjoy a clean place) (last time she vacuumed was after I had stopped vacuuming for like, two months straight and a friend of hers was coming to visit). (her shit is everywhere but I've just been making piles of it in the places she sits and she removes it to her room, which is perfect)
ANYWAY.
I also made a mint ice cream base with chocolate mint from the A Farm, which they were so kind as to let me harvest some. It gave it a lovely taste, different than most mints. I ran it in the food processor with the sugar and when I opened the food processor, it was so minty it made my eyes water.
I made a vegetable medley for yesterdays dinner since I have nice produce right now. I've never made a vegetable medley before. Just saute shit in a pan with spices. Wild. It was excellent yesterday and I found out just now that sauteed zucchini is a horrible texture on day 2. so I'm never doing that again.
I went ice skating today since they started public skates back up at a local rink. Ohhh boy am I sore already. I was so fatigued like, 45 minutes in. Like quelle surprise, I didn't skate for three months, no wonder I'm not used to it. But it was good!
Laundry yesterday, turns out I picked the dryer that didn't work fully so I got partially damp stuff which is hanging all over my room.
I think that's most everything. I'm going back to my room where the AC is still on. I turned off the living room one because it seemed cool enough but it has warmed up a bunch in here. Put my laundry away and go to sleep early.
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Date: 2019-07-15 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-15 11:32 pm (UTC)I looked up how to make them once and decided I would gladly pay someone to make them for me.
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Date: 2019-07-16 03:13 pm (UTC)I still can't even get simple stuff like butter chicken quite right, much less anything more complicated.
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Date: 2019-07-15 11:46 pm (UTC)(Both sibs have the farmer gene; I don't. I may be getting a mild case of geriatric gardening syndrome starting, though.)