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| Waiting for Dinner |
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oh, so hungry. waiting for dinner. when will it ever be ready? i feel like a kid back at my mom's house after all these years. so i got my old job back for the summer -- waiting tables. same shifts as before, lol. do some things ever change? studied for so long to become an editor/writer, only to spend my life waiting tables and caring for others (ie. housewife). i never saw this coming as a kid; we are born with that glimmer of hope in our eyes that maybe we will make it out of the pile and soar above only to realize that it's not what you know, it's who you know that'll make you succeed. what a joke! today it rained so much. i think the monsoon followed me back to Orillia from Bangladesh. i've never known it to rain so much -- my daughter and i were down by the lake today eating ice cream and the lake looked like it was ready to overflow. we just couldn't get out of the rain no matter where we went. it was one of those days -- leave the house and it's so sunny that we needed sunglasses and by the time we get half way to the ice cream shop it's pouring rain... so we ran but still got soaked and sat under the awning licking away at our ice cream cones, i had mint chocolate chip, and my daughter had cotton candy flavour. then the rain subsided; we thought we were in the good; two minutes later the downpour started again, no where to run to, cars whizzing by splashing us with filthy puddle water. we run to a nearby stripmall seeking shelter and wander the stores looking for warmth out of the freezing rain. took us two hours of stop and go like this to get home; i think we browsed half of the stores in downtown Orillia trying to wait out the rain. finally, wet and tired and bored, we brave the downpour and just make a dash for home. we arrived home sopping wet, our clothing stuck to our skin, to realize the rain had finally stopped. lol. this is the embodiment of murphy's law. i wonder if we had tried to wait that extra ten minutes if the rain would have stopped? would the downpour have continued out of spite? guess i'll never know the answer to that question. 6pm and dinner looms on the horizon like a setting sun. shake'n'bake chicken, mashed potatoes and salad. i'm so hungry i could eat anything. i hope at least there is gravy for the potatoes. blah. such bland food but entirely edible when you're starving and cold. sitting around in the old pink plaid flannel pajamas trying to warm my weary bones as my daughter sits next to me on her laptop playing online games on the Neopets website in her warm flannel pajamas too. thank god for wireless internet. damn this cold dampness -- i forgot how much it irritates my arthritis. i took two extra strength arthritis pills earlier but to no avail. this is what i get for spending so much time on my feet over the years, working as a food slave long hours just to barely pay the rent and bills. hark, hark! my mother calls announcing that dinner is ready. mmmmm. food. at least tomorrow she promised to take my daughter and i out for some Chinese food and i must admit, i'm looking forward to it a lot. :)
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