I wonder if this actually got published in the print version.  So trans + dyke +gaming right here.  Think of this as kinda a retweet, since I don't use twitter anymore.

 

-Source red wriggler worms
-unpack all boxes from room
-set up laptop with that router thing so I can use the internet
-cancel land line
-take out the recycling
-organize closet
-mop kitchen
-clean bathroom
-take out garbage
-do linen laundry
-organize tupperware

1.  Make Dill Beans Pickles2. Clean Floor of my room3.  Mail medical things6. Pack
8. Make Kittens (this makes sense in context)10. Buy wine

I just failed the skill testing question part of my Canadian tax return.  In other words, even though I qualify for premium assistance for my medical insurance, I owe the Canadian Government $300+.  I'm hoping that I can find a nice fuzzy eraser to erase my genius fuzzy math.  Ugh.  I hate math.

You lost your Queen cd at the Grown-Up House the last time you performed in Vancouver, before you moved to back to Montreal.  I don't actually know anyone who lives there since Charlie moved out, I couldn't help you.  And maybe I was a little nervous about asking people to help me get it back because we enthusiastically broke that table in the Jail.  It was a Western themed party.

Now you're here again, and we're in my room doing chores to the mixed cd you made me, supplemented by a three page dissertation you wrote on why you picked each song.  I think even my toes are smiling, listening to Fat-Bottomed Girls, and you're blushing and trying to explain to me that you don't actually have a fetish, just a type.  And I have to admit, with your grand-Maur taking pot belly shots at you, I can understand that you're a little nervous around the subject. 

I have such a fondness for muffin tops, and there's probably going to be less of you to hug when you get back from your bike trip.  Traveling with vegans, who will make you extra wash the camping pans if you even attempt to make eggs.  You've doubled your dairy consumption here.  You love my lasagna with four types of cheese, the lasagna that your mother would never let you make.  

You are the biggest person I have ever dated, this is an observation.  Your chin rests on my head when we stand together, unless you're surreptitiously crouching so you can rest on my shoulder instead.  I can cradle the whole of you in the water, and one day I want to be strong enough to do it outside too.  Makes me forget, with my hand sometimes clenched in your hair, just how much you're letting me do this, making me feel presumptively powerful.

I am a flight enabler.  Hell, I even bought a sling to make you feel effortless.  I think you're the most free person I have ever met, I wonder what you were like before you were so clearly you.  

And sometimes on your bicycle, you whisper, the wind picks up your coat and you feel like you're flying.  Be safe love , be unfettered.

Two words I managed to get out of Montreal this week, Partner, and forever.  That later part was abridged to as long as you will have me.  Ah, l'amour fou.

Sunday and Monday night, I ate with friends.  It's a world of a difference from eating alone.  I love the ritual of it, the pre-dinner snacking and mingling.  People helping the host out by chopping things.   The actual consumption of the meal, and a chance for people to relax and refuel.  A sweet finish, and laughter, and helping with the dishes.  Hugs and kisses and people heading to their respective homes.

I had a couple of soft beets hanging out in the back of my fridge, as well as a half full box of less than perfect fresh shitake mushrooms. I also noticed a half full bag of carrots. I'm missing onions, and tofu. Or bread, and I was a little sick from the barbecue at my work today. I think I had too much pasta salad. So here's a recipe I modded to make a lovely hot and sour soup.

2 clove garlic
1 medium carrot, julienned
1 sugar beet, julienned
9 diced fresh shitake mushrooms
3 tbsp rice vinegar
3 tbsp light soy sauce (but you could use wheat free Tamari)
1 tsp red chili flakes
5 cups water
4 tbsp corn starch dissolved in cold water

Threw all the veggies in together into a pot, and then added the water. Then when it was boiling, I added the soy sauce and rice vinegar, and then the water dissolved cornstarch.

It was so good! Like a combination of borscht and hot and sour soup. Mmmm. Might add some cabbage next time.

Random fact about me.  I consider myself to have high self esteem right now.  I like to own my body, like my curves, love how others also love my soft parts.  But I'm working a night job, and that comes with certain things that I have to watch out for.  Such as cancer.  And because my body is mostly sedentary, I'm going to have to go out of my way to stay in my pants.  My shorts burst a button today.

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