Saturdays tend to be a total MEH day for me. We rarely go out anywhere, my husband is usually busy writing sermons or articles and he doesn't enjoy the Saturday crowds any more than I do. Saturdays for most of my adult life have been less than exciting unless we happen to be on holidays! hahaha
Today was lovely. It is quite a hot day, but we got going in the late morning to run our errands. First off was delivering all the books I have read lately to various community library boxes. The first box we went to is one that we noticed outside the Air BnB our son and his wife stayed at when they were here in June, only a few blocks away from our house. We were most fortunate as the box was almost empty and it held every single book in my "deposit" bag! YES! That saved us a ton of driving around the city looking for other boxes.
From there we drove to the three public libraries we didn't get to the day my husband took me out pre-op to get books from each branch that has pop up book sales. Two of today's remaining three branches have such sales BUT I was very proud of myself. I only came away with four new to me books to add to my stack waiting at home to be read from the first round of pop up book shopping. It was such fun to see the various branches, how different in size and configuration and in types and number of books on their shelves.
After that we decided we were close enough to the Coop grocery in the north end of the city to pick up a half dozen items there that we can't get at our stores closer to home. Wow....over two hundred dollars later we came away with more than 2/3 of our total list purchased and bagged to bring home. The sale prices on so many things that were on my list for another store were amazing, so we cashed in. The things we weren't able to get can wait until next week as it turns out, so we felt quite successful in our shopping today.
We just happened to be very close to the Tamarind Indian restaurant after we left the Coop, so we stopped in for a light lunch. The food we ordered was much tastier than I remember our meals being the last time we were there.....ooh, quite awhile ago now. We ordered a couple of dishes we have never tried before: Chicken Mughulai and Chicken Mappas, along with our favourite Jeera rice and a roti. The gravies had more depth of flavour this time, or perhaps last time we simply didn't order a high enough spice level to notice any real depth. Definitely we will return there and try some of the other dishes we haven't had before and that are not featured on the menus of any of the other Indian restaurants we frequent. The portions were so generous that we have as much food in our fridge in the form of leftovers as we were able to stuff down at lunchtime!
I put the groceries away when we got home and I have been marvelling since I sat down a couple of minutes ago at the way I was able to manage walking all around the large Coop store, the three libraries and my kitchen as I wiped off and put all the groceries away. I will only do my physiotherapy once today, likely right after dinner tonight, to give my muscles and chance to relax after all that walking around. The amount of weight I was putting on my cane and on the handle of the grocery cart was minimal, so that is a huge weight bearing advance for me. Hallelujah! I have also noticed I am starting to walk more erectly and less like a listing ship when I am not using a support aid.
Hope the rest of you are also having a very good day. I know that going to a few libraries, a grocery store and lunch out is hardly worthy of generating huge excitement, but for me it was an absolutely wonderful break away from the same old, same old.
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