In case people did not know. I am Asian and as an Asian I enjoy eating rice. Xavier does as well and if we go too long without it he craves it. His ideal lunch is some sort of protein and rice. Our rice cooker is over 20 years old and it was time for a new one. There was one that I really wanted, but it was hard to justify spending $1000 on a rice cooker when Mel was ok with a $20 rice cooker. Growing up Mel did not start liking rice until she worked at a Chinese restaurant and started eating properly cooked rice and not the typical white rice that most Canadians grow up on. Back in the day they did not sell proper Asian rice in the grocery stores here. There is another one that I liked and I had found it on sale so we got the $400 version of the rice cooker. Now some might think it is excessive for rice, but Xavier and I enjoy eating rice so it is worth it. It was delivered to me last night by a friend of mine. The method of measurement is a. It messed up as a cup in Japan is about 3/4 of a cup. Mel thought that a 3cup rice cooker would have sufficed. I will make some rice this week and get back to people on how delicious it is.
Both of the kids stayed home from school today. Olivier because he was still not recovered from the weekend and Xavier because he had appointments. Xavier had braces put on today and he had them put red in his mouth. Growing up we did not always see a dentist and it was because my father found out that our dentist was doing some shady bookkeeping. I do not remember who the dentist was, but he would put down things that were not done to claim extra money. My father confronted him about it and his reply was why did it matter if it was not coming out of our pockets and insurance was paying for it. My father was a hard working immigrant and he did not want someone to take advantage of a system even though it could be considered harmless. In his view, this dentist as shady and he did not trust others to be the same. If it was legit it was fine, but do not pad the bill for extra stuff to make more money. I am not sure the extent of it as it seems that it would be obvious if you put extra stuff on it. I did not start going back to a dentist until after we got married and our dentist is a friend of Mel’s. We do get some preferential treatment when required as she will send him a text to help out, especially when it has an impact on my treatment. Xavier got his braces today and he will have the for approximately 18 months. It is amusing that he is such a rue follower. He will listen to what he can eat and the routine that he should do. We had gone to my parents for dinner and we had some pho. He said that it was a bit hard to eat the beef, and the beef that my parents make is quite tender. We decided that he is going to go on a similar diet to what I had earlier. We had to go to Costco quickly and it was jam packed tonight which was surprising because when we normally go around dinner time it is quiet. There did not seem to be a lot of cashiers open though. We bought some things that are nice and smooth for him to digest, some mousse cakes, some onigiri. My parents are going to make him some congee as well. He enjoys it which is nice, but he is use to the seafood one and he can not bring that to school. My parents asked him if he liked salted egg and he did not know how to reply to that one.
Mel thinks that I shop too much on Amazon. She is not completely wrong about it, though a lot of things that I buy are not for me directly but for the house. I had purchased another Staub 0.75 quart cast iron pot though because I did not want to ruin my Made In 0.75 quart stainless steel. What I realized is that the size of it was perfect me to deep fry a small amount of things, or if I wanted to make a small portion of something for myself. Mel just does not understand the awesomeness of it. She will one day when I make something awesome. Xavier has not used his thermos as he says it is too small for him and he eats his food cold. Congee cold is not good, nor is a lot of soup. To help him out I have purchased some larger containers. If people can help me gaslight Mel into thinking that we have had this stuff for 20 years and I accidentally just uncovered it, that would be helpful. As she does not read my blog we have a 3% chance of convincing her that this is true.
My energy levels have been pretty good today and I have managed to eat fairly well over the course of the day. Now that I do not eat at my first wake up I only get up once during the night. I am not sure whether I should try and sleep or have a boost. I keep on saying that I will drink the boost, but the thought of doing it right now is just not appealing so I think that I might hold off a bit longer. I need to find things to eat quickly though. I bought some sourdough from a local baker and I may just have a piece of toast with peanut butter and honey or with just butter and salt. Tomorrow I have to go in for blood work and hopefully it is all good and I will be able to do treatment on Wednesday. If my white blood cells are not at the proper level than we can for sure tell Mel that she can not do a career change to being a nurse. She is fantastic as a personal support worker, but injections is where we draw the line.
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