standing O

 i'm feeling a bit more normal. normal as i'll ever be. 

this morning i woke up from .a dream about plants. some lady was in the house working on plants and moving all of my plants to sub-par locations and butchering them. then brother roeder came over. and i wanted to show him the snake plant that he gave me previously. (not irl) but i couldn't find it. when i did it was between two dressers in a shadow and all chopped up. i was like, that's it! this lady cannot move my plants! i started looking for a good location, found one and then woke up. haha... the day before i had a dream that i was with katie going to the pool and a lady at the counter said no, she couldn't go in despite her having her id and money and everything required. when we questioned her as to why katie couldn't go in, the lady said something about katie's turquoise tankini skirt bottom! she said people who go drinking on yachts wear that kind of tankini skirt bottom! lol. i got mad at the lady. "she doesn't even drink! she's a mother and an awesome a+ student and you don 't know anything about her!" haha. the more i think about this one, the funnier it is to me. katie got discrimination based on her tankini skirt bottom. loooool.

my lover and i went for a walk. it was cloudy to the east and some blue sky to the west but when i got home the blue sky was gone. we saw a poster for a missing cat named mui mui. :( 

i had a raspberry smoothie bowl for breakfast--a typical weekend type breakfast for me. 

i had a list of things i wanted to accomplish today. i went over the list with hunsy bunsy:

1. take out the garbage--something smelled like poo-poo. my guess was the old cat food from the fridge that i threw away the night before.

2.  wash the dishes. i was a survivor of the week previous. i just skimmed in to this week. not a week i did dishes, so there was a pile of rank empty cat food tins and a bevvy of glasses that i set to soak after my protein drink and crusty cutlery. you get the picture.

3. do me laundry. specifically i wanted to give my garments a nice oxi-soak. brighten those whites greys.

4. water the plants. i have been watching them wilt and dry up before my very eyes for days. haram!

5. grocery shop

6. make supper.

and not to brag or anything but i did do all six items on the list. not that i'm rad or anything, but i am. the dishes took me 55 minutes. i know because kept setting ten minute timers on alexa and extending them. i lay down to do some research on oxi-soaks and a wave of inescapable sleepiness washed over me. and i had a little non-cpap nap.

then mohammad called me and coaxed me up from bed and i sorted the laundry and went downstairs to have lunch and put on the wash and the MUCH anticipated soak. i took the garbage down with me too. not that i'm an over-achiever or anything, but yah.

i played with mei-mei as she requires and i watered the plants who thanked me with parched throats and husky gutteral rasps. spider plant in particular looks much revived. then off to kins and save-on for the shops and home again jiggedy jig.

i was making pizzas. on naan. toppings were: 

1. my roasted tomato/garlic puree for the sauce. (MY toms from MY garden. *arched eye brow proud pointed look*)

2. caramelized onions. yes every time.

3. mushrooms because i love a mushroom man.

4. black kalamata olives because my mushroom man is also an olive man to his core and every time i make pizza he asks me if it will be mushroom and olives. this time i said yes. he's not even here to eat it but i ate it for him.

5. prosciutto

6. roasted whole garlic cloves

7. fresh basil

8. crushed pineapple--YES

 9. borsin fine herb sauce

10. mozza and also freshly grated parm.

i made 4 pizzas with various of these toppings. two white and two red. and i took the avocado oil left from roasting the garlic cloves and i drizzled it on some arugula (after i found the arugula, i couldn't find it for about 5 minutes but it was right there all along. arugula's got stealth game) and then squeezed a whole lemon over it and tossed in the lemon zest. that was the salad. mom said "very lemony" i said "yea it cuts through the grease." and she looked at me bewildered. she had no idea of lemons doing this. she asked me many lemon based follow up questions, my favourite of which was, "will lemon get oil stains out of clothes?"

after a delectable meal we played quiddler. mom was really beating me until a key moment when she gave away a z which is worth 14 points and i took it and the winds changed in my favour.

i came upstairs and did MORE DISHES, wiped off the stove and so of course had to sweep the floor too. someone come give me a pat on the back, or a standing ovation or something. 

get over yourself, says mei-mei whle sunning herself on the dresser top bed that she's recently annexed for herself although it was put there expressly for her, she doesn't see it that way. she sees herself as conqueror. also she's slightly annoyed that with all my accomplishments i only pet her a bilion times and played with her 3x and fed her delicious gravies 1x and emptied her litter box 1x. she demands more devotion.