Nibbled by ducks.

[nwhiker]

It's not even 2pm. It's already proving to be a GRRRR! of a day.

I went walking in the local wildland park. No dogs allowed, YAY, but of course jerks bring them anyhow and don't clean up after the poopmachines. I stepped -thank goodness just the tip of my book- in some dog shit. Just pissed me off.

I had a very late lunch yesterday, so just ate an orange for dinner. This morning, I did not eat, because of my Weight Watcher's meeting.

Then we were going to lunch with dh, so I decided to go ahead and skip breakfast at 11 after Weight Watchers, and just have a slightly larger than usual lunch out at noon.

But then dh's schedule got rearranged for him, and we were only going to be able to take 45 minutes for lunch. It is the only day this week he can make time for us at all, and since Linnea had been requesting to go for lunch with him, I decided we should go ahead and go.

However, because of this we decided to go to the cafeteria in his building rather than the better one more choices that takes 10 minutes to get to. The cafeteria in his building is pretty meh, to say the least, but there were a few things that I know Linnea likes, and dh said that the visiting restaurant of the day was Chinese, so I figured she'd be happy.

Yeah, no, NSM. She threw a fit, demanding to go to the other place, being rude to both of us, and refusing it eat.

I told her in no uncertain terms that the planned trips to the Asian grocery and to Daiso were cancelled.

Because this is Linnea, however, as soon as she realized that Chinese food was in the offing, she cheered up, and completely forgot about her rudeness.

Anyhow, lunch. I decided to get the "Shanghai meatballs", which from what I could tell came with noodles and broth. I was also ordering for Linnea. The people serving did not appear to have a good grasp of English, so when I told the women "rice" for Linnea's lunch, the man understood rice for mine and put my two meatballs in a box with rice. Um, ew? But whatever, I figured it would still be good. Linnea, got both rice and a side of chow mein with her sesame chicken, which at this place appears to be fried chicken with a few sesame seeds on top, no sauce at all.

We get to sit down, having found a table, oh miracles, and I start cutting my rather large meatballs into pieces, with plain rice and some soy sauce, they ought to be fine. Only they're very pink in the middle.... pink to the point where I am not comfortable eating them. I'm down to rice and soy sauce... and the rice isn't cooked either, it's still hard.

Grr. And since I hadn't had dinner the night before, or breakfast, I'm pretty hungry. Dh got mapo tofu, which he was willing to share with me, but it had red bell peppers in it, and nope. I'm one of those people who does not taste anything BUT bell peppers if they are in a dish. I know people add red bells because they are pretty and brighten a dish, but they are a 100% overwhelming taste. So I just had half of his chow mein.

Which really did not make me happy. I don't have a large calorie budget and wasting it on mediocre Chinese is a choice, but wasting it on the oily chow mein? Ugh. Still, I was hungry enough to eat it anyhow, because there was nothing else to do, since we were limited on time as well.

Linnea had one piece of her sesame chicken left and kindly offered it to me. I picked it up with chop sticks, took a bite and.... it's fucking RAW. Hard and chewy, and clearly raw chicken thigh. Spit it out, and stupidly tell dh what the problem is. And of course Linnea panics that she's going to die because she ate the rest of the dish, and raw chicken will kill her right? And... and....

We reassure Linnea, and leave. Very clearly we will NOT be getting lunch from the Chinese place when they visit again!

And go home. And Linnea demands to know why we aren't going to Uwajumaya or Daiso, and it's like hello? Even if you got better later, your rudeness has consequences. In this case, you were warned that we weren't going.

I HATE doing that, depriving the kids of something I've promised because of deplorable behaviour, otoh, that level of rudeness is just flat out not acceptable.

Blah.

It's not even 2pm, and it's shaping up to be one of those days that are not objectively that bad, but where little annoyances pile on top of little annoyances.