Bad Mummy! No Cookie!

• Reading up on preserving, including the book: Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects by Karen Solomon
• Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson. Really enjoyed this even tho I thought it was about 50 pages too long
• Spotting coyotes outside my “office” window. I love urban wildlife.
• Being sick without having to compete with The Former Mr over who is sicker
• Grocery shopping with The Mook. I save the big shopping trips for when she’s with her dad, but every so often on our way home from daycare, we’ll hit the convenient (but damn expensive) grocery store to pick up something needed that night for dinner or breakfast the next morning. We made a game of her finding an avocado (it’s dark green and egg-shaped) and then she helped me pick out an avocado. She, of course, wanted to visit the fish and lobsters in the tanks, so we did and she was sad that there were no fish (“People bought them to eat them, right?”). We were distracted by the bread options; we are both fans of crusty ciabatta rolls, so she helped me decide between big ones and small ones. Then onto olives from the salad bar; The Mook loves olives and pickles and other salty stuff. We were like pinballs around the store – fruit! fish! cupcakes! bread! olives! fish again!

PS – And when I say sick, I mean sick. I’ve got $234 worth of anti-biotics (you know, the same cost to feed Mook and I for a month) and I’m just taking the time I’ve got to sleep and try and get better. BUT I’m still writing – or attempting to – and I’ll be hitting publish on a couple of posts over the weekend.