Author: annemariedemyen

Today is Day 230 of my Daily Food Diary.  😎

Today is also August 19th  and for the second time this summer we have our air conditioner turned on! 

This summer has been less than sunny and warm.  Even on the warmest days (both of them) the temperatures at night dip to low single digits Celsius. Zero is freezing. 🙄

There are two relatively nice things about this summer. 

(1) There have been fewer smoke days from the northern wildfires.  The fire season has been terrible up north,  but the smoke hasn’t been too bad here.

(2) There have been fewer bugs this year than usual.  Less annoying, but the ones we have seem to be getting meaner.

I remember that day… I was getting ready for our big move from North Battleford, Sk. to the metropolis of Spruce Lake, Sk. (Population 50 once we moved in).

As usual when these transfers came up, my ex was off to training for his new position.  I was left to get everything ready for the U-Haul, our house ready for the new tenants, while taking care of the kiddos.  Mark was 4 years old, it was Danny’s second birthday, and Jen was 7 months old.  I had dismantled the beds, cribs, etc… I had an unhappy two year old hanging off one leg, a shrieking baby, and a four year old doing Lord knows what.  The U-Haul depot manager called to cancel our truck because back in those days they didn’t rent trucks to women. Not like I would be driving – which I explained when I made the arrangements.

I decided I needed a nice cup of tea to settle my nerves before getting back to wiping out cupboards and cleaning the kitchen sink/stove/fridge.  I made my tea and set it beside the teacup full of Lime Away – and proceeded to take a good swing out of the wrong cup. 

Having a two and a four year old, I knew the  drill.  I poured myself a glass of milk and chugged it down.  I don’t drink milk.  I haven’t drank milk since EVER.  It comes up faster than it goes down.   But I knew I had to keep it down, so I battled through the nausea and got back to work. 

I strode across the kitchen, more determined (and nauseated) than ever and stepped on a frigging bumble bee.  The searing pain was bad enough, but the baseball sized lump on the bottom of my foot was the last straw.

At this point, my father-in-law stopped by to wish Danny a Happy Birthday. 🎈 My father-in-law was seldom my hero, but he came through that day.  He scraped us all together and took us to McDonald’s for lunch. 

That gave me the time to pull myself together and for the swelling on the bottom of my foot to go down.   When he dropped us back off at our house, my ex’s boss called to see how everything was going.   That second act of kindness in one day was one too many for me.  I told him exactly how everything was going – including my dealings with the U-Haul manager.

That was too much for him.  He told me he would deal with it.  Within minutes, he called me back to tell me the truck was ready for my ex to pick up when he got back.

Just one of several moves we made back in the day, but I am pretty sure it was our worst.

Although… There was the bowl of chocolate pudding that got packed in the box of linens when we moved to La Ronge… Who does that? And that was the one move we made with professional packers/movers.

Daily Food Diary – Day 230

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(2) Eggo waffles (180)

(2) tsp butter (68)

(3) slices bacon (130)

(1 1/2) tablespoons maple syrup (78)

Snacks:

(10) Hint of Lime tortilla chips (250)

(48) oz water

Supper:

(2) Barbecue chicken drumsticks (270)

(1) Dinner salad: lettuce, onions,  cucumber, olives – green, tomato, radishes, pepper – red, sunflower seeds, dried fried onions (190)

(2) tbsp Vidalia Onion Dressing (100)

(12) oz carbonated water

That’s it for today – Take care and have a great day! 💞🌞