lemon dill carrot salad

this morning i woke up with the glorious feeling. it was just starting to get light. that meant that wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, i slept through the night! cpap confirmed it. 7.8 hours. heavenly. i felt so chipper. so cheerful. so  confident and at ease. what a difference a good night's sleep makes.

in the morning i joined the group going to the rio vista to look around and go over the flow of the tours. we are having the ribbon cutting on friday and i'm the floor manager. what this means is i wear a headset and trouble shoot all problems that crop up. unfortunately no one else will be wearing a head set. just kidding i'm not wearing one. the rio is looking great. beautiful really. it took 9 years but it's finally happening.

me and some work pals. no one can pop their eyes open to the extremities like i can. talent. i wore a skirt today, just because. everyone was talking about it.

i have my own office at work, but the wall is glass and the door is almost always open. it's only closed for confidential type talks and when i'm in a zoom/teams meeting etc. and so, i don't actually get much privacy. people are always popping in and actually i like that. but today i was trying to write an email that was sensitive, and confidential, and i was trying to write it with authenticity and care. a lot of care. a lot of love. so naturally i was crying while i wrote it. and people kept coming in, interrupting and interrupting and then i had to switch between feelings laura to normal laura back and forth. i know what you are thinking--why didn't i shut the door? i'm thinking the same thing but you know what they say about hind sight--you're looking at your own bum.

i took some ot time and left an hour early to complete my dinner tasks. the night before i had made the lemon dill carrot salad, and put the chicken thighs in a balsamic chipotle marinade. all i had to do was sear, and bake the chicken, make the rice and mash and crisp some chickpeas.

and i finished right at 5. perfect timing. i fit everything in the green box and carried it down stairs. arriving in mom's kitchen i balanced the box on top of her garbage can to take things out and put them on the counter. when i got to the rice, i needed oven mitts. i turned around to grab them and the green box took the opportunity to slide off the garbage can and on to the floor, flinging chicken far and wide. sigh. not again green box. mom said her floor is so clean we can still use all the chicken and that is what we did. we scooped it all up and i cleaned the floor while mom cleaned the green box.

despite the dumping, the meal was pretty yummy. i was pleased.

after dinner we did our blood pressure and our easter jenny oaks baker musical devotional and then we decided to start a game of dominos. we knew we wouldn't finish but we agreed to start and finish it another time. mom was on a roll. dominos is her kinda game. 

while we were playing bethany went out to get me the promised peanut buster parfait (for helping her with her taxes). she got martha one too. and what was extra special, is she remembered how much i love the hot fudge sauce and she got me extra on the side. she gets me. it was so decadent and delicious. martha and i had a lovely indulgence and only got hot fudge on a few dominos. mudsy was diligent in detecting any chocolate smudges.

at 8:30 we went our ways. me to go to shoppers to get my prescription and some cottage cheese for mom (she's making lasagna). i cleaned them out of lasagna. a store employee had to get a ladder to retrieve the last cottage cheese for me that was pushed way to the back. then i cruised the neighbourhood like a creep, looking for empty big water containers for my cold sewing project. i didn't find any.

i put the garbage and compost and recycling out and felt virtuous.

back at home, mei-mei was enjoying the catnip pillows mom got for her. we played a little on the bed (her favourite play zone) and then i decided to get out the circle tunnel. it's been put away since beirut days. she was very curious and bravely checked it out. i think she's going to like it. i played with her in it for a while and then we did our bed time routine. and what you say? you have a routine?? yes. that's the regulating influence of my husband. i don't know what to tell you. it just happens and it's because of him but i couldn't tell you why. believe  me if not for him, i'd be just a random scattered person of yesteryear.