Dim Sum, Jurassic World, Taco Night, and Pilates

Tuesday was a busy day.

I got a bit more sleep than I had the night before. I got up in time to shower and dress and have a huge salad (to get some veggies in and keep the hunger at bay until lunch). Then it was time for my mother to pick me up for lunch.

My mother, my aunt, cousin (my aunt's grandson), and I had dim sum for lunch at AmerAsia, a nearby dim sum restaurant. I love dim sum! Over a lunch of tasty scallion pancakes, bao tse, beef and garlic dumplings, and so on, I asked my aunt and cousin what their plans were for the afternoon. My aunt said that she had some things to do but since my cousin was with her, she wasn't going to be able to do them. (He's a good kid most of the time, but he's eight years old and sometimes he acts like he's about two years old, tantrums and all.) I suggested that I take him to a movie while she got her errands run and my mom said she'd like to go to a movie, too.

I checked the movie listings on my phone and we decided on a 1:15 showing of Jurassic World in 3-D. So after lunch, my aunt headed off to run her errands while my mom, cousin and I headed off to the movie theater. We got there with just enough time for my cousin and I to hit the arcade and play a game of Terminator Salvation together. We each had a huge, plastic gun that we used to shoot at hoards of Terminator robots and our skill level was such that our four tokens ($1.00) each lasted all of about a minute and a half.

Then we went in to pick seats. (Actually my mom and cousin went in to get seats, I had to visit the bathroom.) As soon as I sat down next to him, my little cousin said he had wanted to sit in the last row. (When I was his age, I always longed to sit in the front row, so I understand the desire to have an extreme seat at the movies. In fact, for years after I stopped going to movies with my parents, I would always sit somewhere in the first three rows of the theater.)

Anyway, we stuck to our chosen seats (until nearly the end of the movie when my cousin asked if he could go up to the last row for a bit and, given permission, did). The movie was pretty good. Not nearly as good as the first Jurassic Park movie (which is the only one of the trilogy that I've seen), but fun so long as you check your brain at the door (as a friend of mine used to say, spelling out the sole requirement to enjoying summer movies). Even though the movie was about a hyper-intelligent transgenic dinosaur hybrid and potentially militarized velociraptors, the most ridiculous part was Jessica Chastain's character's costume, part of which was worn with unintentionally hilarious results all the way through to the bitter end. (I'll leave it at that to avoid spoilers! Ha! Although I just realized that Jessica Chastain is not in this movie. That's Opie's kid, Bryce Dallas Howard in the role. Those interchangeable actresses!)

After lunch, we had time for one more video game before meeting my aunt to hand off the kid.

But the day wasn't over yet, not by a long shot!

I came home and it was late enough that I started dinner almost immediately. We had planned on tacos, so I used my new food processor (the new-new one with the slicing and shredding blades, not the old-new one which was just a food chopper) to slice red and green cabbage, grate cheddar cheese, and make salsa. Then I made the seasoned taco mix (using a soy-based meat substitute instead of tempeh this time), guacamole, and calabacitas (a mix of zucchini, onions, garlic, corn, and jalapeno since I didn't have any green chile) as a side dish. That was all done just in time. Dave got home, watered a few droopy plants outdoors, then we sat down to eat. (I had a salad with a few taco fixings on top, Dave had straight up tacos with blue corn taco shells.) We had to eat quickly because we had a pilates class to get to.

Pilates was fun but kind of a pain since our instructor just returned from a three-day pilates training class in L.A. and was in hyper-serious mode. We did our best anyway!

Dave and I came home via Sonic, where we got big icy drinks as a post-pilates reward.

At home, I did the dishes and set Roomba off to do her thing while Dave practiced his clarinet in between going out to shift the running hose around different parts of the garden.

Then I lay down for a few hours sleep. I've been having the craziest, most intense dreams recently. Last night, I did something I have never done before in a dream, I lied to another person in the dream! Tonight, I dreamed a pottery dream, but the details were gone before I woke up. Anyway, get up I did, and now it's almost 2:00 a.m. and I can't get back to sleep. (Doesn't help that I got on the computer!)

Maybe I'll put on some Netflix. The latest season of Orange is the New Black was released last week and I have yet to see it (since I haven't had the time or inclination to binge watch anything). I also bought a season pass on Amazon for the current season of Inside Amy Schumer and I have yet to catch up on those episodes. And there's a new series by Andy and Lana Wachowski on Netflix called Sens8 that I want to see. So many things to watch, so little time!