One Wild & Precious Life in Magical Realism

All I can say is carpe diem babies, seriously.

Yesterday lunch - baby kale salad with $14 worth of almond breaded chicken tenders from Hu Kitchen. (A picked this up the day before.) It was a good amount of chicken, but not as much as $14 worth of chicken would imply. Oh well. Left work about 10 minutes after 5pm, did the rowing circuit class and absolutely killed it. I beat everyone by 2 - 10 seconds, even the guys, and a girl asked me if I rowed in college. (Yes, I am quite pleased with myself, what else is new.) Did an hour of power yoga afterwards, did not kill it by any stretch of the imagination, but I keep telling myself it is good for me.

Took a nice shower, got dressed, headed uptown. Picked up groceries:

• 1 cucumber
• 2 green peppers
• 1 avocado
• 3 fresh ears of lovely sweet corn, with the husks and cornsilk and everything
• packet of red beets
• packet of shredded purple cabbage
• packet of raw broccoli
• container of cut mango, blueberries, and strawberries
• 2 Siggi's icelandic yogurts, 1 plain, 1 orange/ginger
• Packet of chicken breast
• 1 bar of Green & Black's dark chocolate with ginger

Got home and was so happy A got home first because the air-conditioner was on and it was so nice and cool. He had also swiffered and cleaned the floor so the hardwood especially nice underfoot. By this time it was 8pm so I fixed A a little plate of olives and baby carrots for him to nosh on, and got to chopping.

I made up a salad with the sweet corn and cubes of avocado, green pepper, and cucumber with a little white balsamic and ground black pepper. Put the mix in a bowl and ate it with lettuce leaves folded into little cups. I usually make this with ground turkey, but mentally I was not prepared to use the stove. It came out well!

After we had dinner that I washed dishes and put the chicken in the oven (dipped into beaten egg then shaken with whole wheat flour, cayenne pepper, and ground black pepper.) Hu Kitchen does a raw veggie bowl with beets, broccoli, and I think kale, but I used shredded purple cabbage instead. Made up 3 bowls of this mix, and when the chicken cooked/cooled I chopped that up and put into 2 of the veg bowls. Bam - 3 lunches (I will need to make/buy protein for one of the days, but 90% there.)

Made a mini corn salad for A's lunch with just corn and green pepper (he doesn't like any of the things in my veggie bowl) and gave him 2 of the chicken breasts to have with it for lunch. For breakfast, I packed him a plain Siggi's with a cup of mango, strawberries, and blueberries to put in the yogurt, and a green apple for snack. I am helpful.

We shared a glass of limoncello before bed, then got washed up. I went to sleep too late and don't really even remember A leaving for work this morning. Eventually dragged myself out of bed, got washed up, dressed, packed lunch/snacks/gym clothes and went to work. Surprisingly productive morning, then lunch (yum) and now an iced coffee. A is teaching a class tonight so I hope to make it to the gym, rustle up something not-too-toxic for dinner, and read before conking out tonight.

Simple stuff but I do relish the details, many things we take for granted are very worthy of observation and enjoyment.