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My Life Thus Far
2015-09-10 06:44:20 (UTC)

My Lunchtime Sadness

Can't say I really did much with my day. Mostly, I spent it hanging out with Snookums, running errands. He had a few loose ends to tie up before the next Fall semester starts, and he's getting his internship set up with Kitsap County Department of Emergency Management. I still can't help but feel like he's out of his depth with this degree, but that's not a very nice thing to think. He's done very well in all of his classes, and has maintained his Dean's List status since he started. I'm so proud of him. Considering he attempted to get his degree 6 years ago and basically just quit. I'm still worried he's going to get a job in this field and realize he doesn't like this job any more than he's liked any other job he's had. I guess that's yet to be seen.

After stopping at the college to pick up some paperwork, and getting his hair cut, we stopped at the mall to get him a new outfit for his internship interview. While he shopped for dress pants, I looked at lipstick at Sephora. His idea! I picked out 6 or 7 shades of Kat Von D's everlasting liquid lipstick and let him pick. He chose a deep raspberry shade called Bauhau5. I have no idea how to pronounce that, but I LOVE the way it looks on me!

For lunch we stopped at a new restaurant in the mall called Potbelly's sandwich shop. As I suspected, there wasn't much there for me to eat. I chose the chickpea veggie salad off the menu board. Only to pick up a paper menu and see that the chickpea veggie comes with blue cheese and egg. Would it be so hard to have one salad that's not loaded with animal products? When I realized it had cheese and eggs, I immediately tried to tell the guy who took our order. He cut me off mid sentence and said "you tell her if you have any modifications". I apologized and let him know that I didn't know that, this was my first time. He snarkishly (is this a real word?) relied "I know, that's why I'm telling you". I most definitely felt like an inconvenience in his life, and that my desire to modify the original recipe was an annoyance to him. The girl who made my salad was very nice, and offered me extra cucumbers and tomatoes since I wasn't getting egg and cheese. But that wasn't enough. I won't be back. Between his attitude and their lack of options for me (basically two salads, everything else has gluten and isn't modifiable), it isn't worth my time. I really don't enjoy salads. I think I only ever liked them pre-vegan because of the cheese and bacon.

In response to my lunchtime sadness, I made a kickass dinner! Saffron rice with gravy, blackeyed peas, collard greens stewed in fire-roasted tomatoes, sautéed summer squash, those Japanese mushrooms the kids and I like, and broccolini. It was so freaking good! The whole time I was eating it, I felt vindicated! Take that, shitty restaurant options! I really feel like opening a vegan café would be a great idea. I don't know what all it entails, running a restaurant, but I'd love to provide vegan options in Kitsap county. Going out can be so depressing.




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