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family day long weekend:

friday--i remember naught but i had a nap and we had steak.  mom and dad have steak most fridays.  the steak was paired with some tender asparagus and mom's proverbial baked potato.  "i'm sorry i can never think of anything else to make but a baked potato," she said to me once.  i offered up several alternatives to the baked potato.  to each suggestion she sang this refrain, "i'd rather have a baked potato." "then you shall have one."  in any case i enjoy the baked potatoes in question. we always have them with imperial cheese and how can one complain about that?  

saturday--a slow lazy morning morphed into a day tending to my tender green chubbies.  some needed new pots and most needed water. a rotting stem and root were detached and some babies were plucked from their mother's stems all while listening to podcasts. speaking of mothers, the mother has grown two weird and lovely flower stalks with little peach bells blooming high above her head.  i love the mother.  my amarylis is also in bloom and it is glorious.

in the late afternoon i went to freshco.  as soon as i remembered that you need 25 cents for the carts at freshco i regretted my decision.  it was busy inside and i regretted it a second time.  let's say i didn't linger. i got my stuff and left.  back at home i made a salad with a red head of lettuce, julienned carrot, green onion, apple sliced thin, and orange pepper and fennel.  the dressing had lime, ginger and rice wine vinegar as it's major flavours. meanwhile i was cooking bacon in the oven.  thanks to mom, who insisted we get them, my fire alarm kept going off.  i would just get it off, get back to slicing the apples and it would go off again. i let out an annoyed roar.  izzy skulked low to the ground and looked like she wanted to die.  i beat it with a wooden spoon, stomped on it and threw it out the window...but actually i just turned it off.  anyways long story short i also caramelized some onions, sliced some tomatoes and pickles and toasted some cheese buns with some garlic powder and bacon fat.  downstairs mom was cooking burgers with bbq sauce and havarti.  we enjoyed our deluxe but very messy burgers.  then we watched finnland beat russia for the gold medal in men's hockey.  dad just couldn't comprehend why the canadians were not in the gold medal match. "it would be so much better if was the canadians playing." he would say.  the canadian women rocked the hockey where the canadian men couldn't pass muster and that was enough for me.

sunday--mom and dad watched church from home. i wore a navy top with a navy and white striped skirt, and navy knee high socks.  my earrings were felted hearts that i made.  one was red and the other navy.  red lips under a navy and white plaid mask.  i don't know if it was clear but the theme was navy.  evelyn's daughter, my ol choir best friend, is back and she sat with me during sunday school which was so nice.  she's so funny because she's kind of vocal like her mom.  i could hear her murmuring agreement to people's comment and she even 'aww--ed' some of mine.  after church i had a good couch catch up with evelyn.  so that was nice.

it was a gorgeous sunny blue sky blustery day and i had a hankering to wander. mom and dad came with me.  we went to kits beach because i thought there would be so much to see even from the comfort of the car if needed.  sure enough dad stayed in the car because it was too cold.  mom came out with me for a while but soon went back to the car.  there were 2 buskers.  mom wanted to give money to one.  the other one, a bit farther down the path was in love with me.  he knows it and i know it.  i wandered a bit and took a few pictures.  i've been feeling in a photography mood for the first time in a long time.  i didn't go far but it was nice to lose myself in a photography wander.  inadvertently i took a bunch of pics of a guy saying his prayers under a willow tree.  i just liked how his red hoodie popped under the yellowy green of the willow tree.  it wasn't until i noticed he kept bowing down to the earth and getting up, that i was like, heyyy, this pattern is familiar--he's praying!  

we got home just in time to replenish our burger toppings and cook more before theresa came over.  it was funny because she texted me and invited me over for pasta and salad and i was like oh i'm in charge of burgers tonight do you want to bring your rump roast over?  and she did.  i told her it was byob--bring your own bun. and she did.  she also brought me a jade plant in a jar.  she really relished calling it a SUCKulent.  weirdo.  dinner was delish and then we played team skipbo.  theresa and mom were a team and dad and i were a team.  we each won one game.  theresa did some embarrassing things like trying to play cards from my pile.  ha.  

monday--eventually i got up.  that much is true.  i even swept, mopped and emptied the litter box.  what a super star!  did i put the sheet on my bed?  the sheet that's been clean and laundered since earlier in the week?  no.  no i did not.  but i did make progress by moving said sheet from the kitchen to the bed.  so that's true too.

i picked heather up at the mall around 11:30.  we went to boundary bay beach but first we bought subway.  in reality it doesn't matter what sub heather chooses but in actuality i dissolve into groans at the mere mention of a veggie sub. "so BORING!" i wail.  then i told her jordan has similar agonies over the fact that i always order the same sub.  heather was like "and yet you get on my case about the veggie sub!" i shrugged and gave her a side eye look down the nose, if you can imagine that, "i know what i want," i answered snobbishly.

we also stopped for chips, water and chocolate almonds and thrifty's.  i sent heather in alone, saving foot for the beach.  h was also hoping to find vanila slice but alas there were none to be found.  we ate in the car in the parking lot at boundary bay.  

it was sunny but there was an icy easterly wind.  we took the back trails by the meadows of long grasses where the eagles and hawks were swooping.  we saw some of both swooping low.  at one point the hawk was hovering in one spot thanks to the wind.  heather said she was having fun in the wind. i said she was hunting.  having fun hunting amended heather.  the trail we were on didn't seem to be looping back so i asked a guy in a scooter where the trail led to and he confirmed that it led to the road or the beach path both of which were far far away so after a certain point we turned around.  we made it back to a bench and rested foot while the icy wind whipped at our faces.  "i think i'm smiling but i can't feel my face." i told heather.  we made it back to the car.  i'm not sure how long we were walking but it was a lot for foot.  we even forded some sand pits which is good for foot.  foot was weary and sore by the end.  i took a few pics but not a lot.  there are more trails we want to see but we are saving them for another day.  i brought carrots and heather brought grapes and snap peas and we ate nary a one.

after dropping heather off at the skytrain, and picking up the cat food cans that the naughty crows had strewn about, i was laying on the couch worn out and happy with said worn and weary appendage propped up on the arm rest when mom called. she said dad was game for a scooter/bike ride to a&w to buy some burgers for dinner.  i agreed to go but lay in that one spot for as long as i could before rolling myself off the couch and limping to the bedroom to put my socks back on.

dad left before me.  he zoomed off while i was getting my bike out of the shed.  it's fine because i can easily catch up with him.  and i did just before he was about to make a wrong turn.  he hotly contests that it was not in fact a wrong turn, that he would have ended up at a&w anyways.  we'll never know because i yelled "hey!  this way!" and led him in the (right) direction.  we got the burger orders without much todo, besides dad having to urgently blow his nose in front of the cashier after we got our order.  no big deal.  gotta do what you gotta do.  the ride home was colder and the wind was blowing up my sleeves.  i regretted not wearing my mitts.  

after we got home and inside mom asked me to park dad's scooter better.  he parks to near her wobbly chair.  and she must needs have room to do her wobbling. once outside and on the scooter i determined to take it on a joy ride and thus i did do.  i took it for a spin around the block.  but first i pulled the arm rest right off and put it back on.  again, nbd.

this is not from today.  it was a week or 2 ago.  but you get it.

behold the mother and her fluers

the head that sat above the navy outfit:

and i went through a phase recently where i made shopping bags out of my old shirts.  this is my favourite one.  karey used to have this same blouse in blue.  

to be honest there's still 4 draw string 'produce' bags to be sewn.  i am making them out of old leggings.  reduce REUSE and recycle man!