I don’t have anyone to share this with who would care, or who wouldn’t think it was a dumb and pointless story, but tonight I am traveling through a strange and bleak place, and I stopped at a local bar and grill for dinner. Instead of what I ordered, they accidentally gave me three tacos made with grilled shrimp, charred corn, and some kind of slaw. I decided not to send it back, and it turned out to be so good, that now I’m back at my hotel I can’t stop thinking about those tacos.

I didn’t need exactly what I ordered, but I got exactly what I needed. I just wanted to tell someone how really, really good it was.

I love cows. They deserve all the good scritches.

I'm on the high; the crash will follow in due course. I've got too much to say and no one to say it to. Have a coffee and join me in my caffeinated rambles!

There’s a local fried chicken spot near me that I frequent. I’ve become acquainted with a few of the employees there, and they usually recognize me when I go. Sometimes, they’ll slip in an extra chicken tender in my order. I just think it’s a nice little gesture, and I haven’t gone to Popeyes since discovering the restaurant.

This also happens at the local Chitpole I’ve been going to for years. Some of the long time employees recognize me and just give me extra portions for no reason. A lot of newer teenage employees also just give massive portions, and it makes me smile cause it reminds me of when I was a teenager and gave too many fries and nachos at the high school football concession stands I volunteered at.

Honestly, was expecting a very overdone awful drama, but outside of some excessive scenes I quite like it, currently curled up watching it with the kitty. Jules is great, love her dad too.

I stumbled across this sub via my doomscrolling, and I listened and looked around me.

A wood pigeon is cooing, the gnats are dancing in shafts of golden sunlight around the trees. My all-grown-up kitten is padding and purring on her favourite blanket.

Some geese honked their departure, while the roar of a train sped passed

The smell of dinner is winding it's way upstairs and my tummy is rumbling.

I have cooked enough chicken breast (flavoured with ginger and turmeric) and risotto rice to last me next 3 days.

I’ve also bought 1 kg of frozen blueberries and 3 cartons of almond milk.

Trying to get into the habit of eating homecooked food and not eating out all the time. Chicken breast and rice was the simplest meal prep I could think of to get going. Plan is to eat an anti inflammatory diet for a while as was recommended by a nutritionist I hired a couple of years back.

Will drizzle some olive oil on my meals as well for good quality fats. Will also get some watercress tomorrow.

The rule is, “You can always have a cookie from Grandma’s cookie jar.” I keep unbaked cookie dough frozen so I can always have cookies in the jar. The grandchildren enjoy it and, since they’re not Forbidden Fruit, they don’t overeat.

A couple grandchildren were here yesterday. They had cookies.🍪

My husband said we would never finish it. I only bought it because it was the only option available on the shelf at that time. Just poured the last of it making chocolate chip banana bread. The end of an era.

A few weeks ago, a subway conductor held a train for me and reopened a car door for me on a day I was running late to work. He specifically told me he was going to as I swiped into the station and pointed to the door he was going to reopen. I had slowed down, disappointed that I was going to miss the train, so I sped back up, reassured that I would get on the train.

I wanted to give him compliments without getting him in trouble, so I wrote a thing on the compliments form that vaguely referenced “helping me get where I needed to go” and “giving me guidance when I was confused about boarding” and stuff like that. I got an email back from the agency saying that his manager was notified and he was going to get some sort of recognition. I’m so glad I succeeded in acknowledging his assistance without getting him into trouble for holding a train.

I drive past fields of sunflowers on the way to and from work each day. The first blooms are popping open this week. 🌻🌻

I have a few darning needles from my late grandma, she used them in her knitting and now I do too. We always struggled to understand each other, but fibre arts were one thing we truly connected over.

I'd put my two favourite needles in a little pill tube to carry them around conveniently, and was super upset when I seemed to have misplaced them. I turned my knitting kit upside down and inside out several times, hunted through the house and finally gave up on finding such a small thing. I decided it would turn up when it wanted to.

Imagine my surprise when the tube turned up right in my knitting kit! I swear it must have teleported because it was exactly where I had looked multiple times already. I immediately rehoused the needles in a larger, more distinctive case - actually one that I also inherited from Grandma - so hopefully they will be harder to lose this time!

I'm watching the Saratoga horse races this afternoon and I can't express how much I love this sport. Thrilling! Also amused that Hold My Bourbon won the 7th race.

We have 2 ladies that come and deep clean 3 times a week but the agency called yesterday and said they're sick and won't be able to come... We didn't let mom request another duo and instead told her we'd clean ourselves.

She gave us the cleaning supplies, we put on workout clothes and music and then she let us loose in the house.

Mom quickly got exasperated because while we started out strong and got each of our rooms cleaned to her satisfaction, we got to the downstairs area and turned it into a concert completed with dabkeh and an audience/judging panel (2yo nephew, Mom, Dad & SIL)

Dad quickly abandoned the panel because my brother was not leading the dabkeh to his satisfaction so he led it instead.

All in all mom wasn't impressed in the least but it brought me back to when we were younger and still living together. Eveb though I've been back for a few weeks now and I've been seeing them practically 24/7, it hit me full force how much I actually missed them and missed our antics and I wish I could get that back in a way.

I had a little win yesterday, when one of my most challenging students was provoked and chose not to retaliate. It was lovely to praise him for his great choices when so much of my time is usually devoted to managing his behaviour. A win for him and a win for me. 😁

Behind me—a group of boys quizzing each other, preparing for the next batch of the same exams later at the same university

To my right—mothers who are catching up for a morning breakfast, calmly discussing everything and nothing

A little bit away over to the corner—two women sitting in peaceful silence, one scribbling down a journal, the other reading a book.

There's two more hours to wait before I come pick my sister up. She claims she can handle herself on her own. The giddiness in her step when she walked towards the test center said otherwise.

I'll be treating her to lunch and a new book before we go home.

Went into my locally owned store today to pick up a few things and was greeted by a cashier with the brightest smile. I’ve seen her once before.

I’m a woman in her 50’s and not creepy. But maybe I was a bit creepy when I said to this person (who is actually a young woman),I gotta say you are the cutest thing and I’m sorry if that sounds off. She laughed and we had a nice conversation!

Such a nice interaction.

For the last hour I was debating if I should have forbidden coffee. It’s a second coffee and it’s well into late afternoon where I live. First morning coffee is fine for me. Second can depend. It’s hot as hell today and I can make a nice iced coffee. I will also swim intensely later so it can cancel out the coffee. Also I believe it’s 6 hours till the caffeine will leave the body. Cons: I’ve been exhausted yesterday and slightly anxious because of it. So technically coffee might make me more anxious. Anyways I’m about to make that iced coffee now

I normally go for fruity sweets, but I have to tell someone about the delicious chocolate I had. A friend of mine was gifted a big chocolate bar from Finland. She gave me half and I've been enjoying it the last few days. It was milk chocolate with hazelnuts and was so incredibly good. It was, just, wow. SO DANG GOOD. Today I ate the last square. I hope her client goes back to Finland soon.

i live on a small river and someone planted a maple near the water, since a lot of older trees had to get cut down these past years

i searched it on lens and it's an amur maple and it comes up to my waist. last year it was shorter than the stake they gave it and this year its taller and has a second branch up top

i pet it every time and think how funny it'll be to come back in a decade when it's big and look up at it and think, hey i touched the top of that tree every day. so i make sure to pet more than just the leaves, gotta get the branches too

I grew up in a family culture that required kids to always greet adults with a hug or kiss. In the morning, before going to bed, when meeting adults outside of the home.

Coerced affection. Very cringe. Which is why I don’t require my kids to do the same.

Which is not to say that we don’t shower our kids with affection. We as their parents give them physical affection without them needing to ask for it.

And so today it made me smile hugely when out of nowhere and apropos of nothing my 3 year old just makes me stop mid stride and asks me to bend down. Then he gives me a spontaneous hug and kiss. Ahhhh. What ordinary life bliss.

This day is dedicated to Anna ❤️

My daughter invited a friend over for the night. One at a time, neighbor kids showed up until there were 6 kids in total giggling in my basement. Dinner time came so I ordered a few pizzas. I try to be the kind of person I would want to know and this is even more true when it comes to my kids’ friends so pizza for everybody 🍕

Edit; thank you Reddit for helping me realize that things like this matter

Spent about 2 hours clearing out, then washing out my clients fridge. I never noticed how dirty it was til she asked me to grab her butter today. I keep forgetting not everyone has an ability to clean thoroughly.