Interrupted
My Life Thus Far
More Blessings than Curses
I'm a little in awe of how well I'm coping with life these days. Even the setbacks aren't quite as devastating as they used to be. I can't pinpoint a place in time when things started to change. I'm just noticing that each day is filled with more blessings than curses. I've developed stellar coping mechanisms. Perhaps this is how "normal" people feel? Bad stuff happens, but you don't get caught up in it. You adjust yours sails and find the headwind.
Snookums wanted me to stay home and rest today. He feels that I do too much, and I don't focus enough on resting my back and taking breaks. Silliness! I'm fine. I did spent the morning resting and hanging out. I watched a few episodes of Naked and Afraid, then took a nap, but this afternoon I decided to take the kids to the Bremerton Farmer's Market. It's in Evergreen Park, which has that amazing play ground we took the kids to last week. They had such a great time, I figured they'd like to go back. It definitely was a win:win. I got to pick up some local produce, and they got to play at the best play ground in the county, hands down.
We came home after the farmer's market (and playing for a while), and I cooked up some of the vegetables we bought. Pattypan squash, Dragons Tongue bush beans, yellow carrots, a banana pepper (the first I've ever seen that wasn't pickled!), and some heirloom variety of tomato that looked like a tiny Roma, but it wasn't entirely smooth (it was almost wavy), and when I cut them open I was shocked to discover they have no seeds! I love them. I'm starting to get ideas for what I want to grow when I have my own garden again! Seedless tomatoes are high on that list! Anyhow, the kids ate everything and seems really excited to try the new to them veggies. Keenan couldn't stop talking about how much he loved the bush beans.
When Snookums and I were dating, we used to go to Shari's late at night on dates, because its the only place open around here past 10pm. My mother wouldn't let us have a normal dating relationship, so we would sit in Shari's, drink coffee, eat pie, and talk. So, every once in awhile we do that now, only it's a little different now that I'm vegan. I had a taste for breakfast, but the waitress just couldn't seem to grasp that I didn't want eggs or cheese, or butter. She had to ask me 4 times to repeat my order, and I still ended up with vegetables swimming in butter. It was really frustrating. How hard is it to not get any animal products? And then, as if that wasn't bad enough, when I asked her if the vegetables had been cooked in butter (because I could see it in the bottom of the bowl), she asked "is butter an animal product?" It's very astonishing to realize how many people don't even know the basics of where food comes from. She avoided our table the rest of the time we were there. I could have left a shitty tip, but if she had any preconceived notions about vegans, I didn't want to confirm them.
Tomorrow I get to certify the girls I taught the bra certification class to on Wednesday. I hope it goes smoothly!
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