Chinese Version
11-18－2021, Thursday, a sunny and very warm day
This morning, I translated a story about an ordinary Friday when I was working in 2016 into English. Rereading the story, I felt it was actually very interesting because it happened five years ago. So I decided to write a story about today’s ordinary not-working day.
Thursday is our weekly shopping day, I went out early in the morning and was surprised to find that it was very warm even though the windows were frosted last morning. After I finished shopping, I went jogging. I’ve been jogging for more than half a year and I can jog more than three miles an hour now. After jogging, I was sweating, taking a shower felt great!
At 1:00 pm, I had my first meal, because I’m on intermittent fasting.
At 2:00 pm, I drove my daughter’s friend to school to get her third dose of the covid-19 booster vaccine. Young people can now get the third dose of the booster vaccine, preferably six months away from the second dose. I heard that the reaction to the third vaccine is relatively small.
Before 5:00 pm., my son texted us: verbal 165, quantitative 170 (Full Score), right after he finished his GRE test. I was so happy to hear this news, as his score is above 90 percentile.
Thursday is the last day of my shift for cooking every week, so Thursday is a bit like Fridays when I was working. Therefore, it is my Happy Thursday looking forward to relaxing for three days.
At 5:00 pm., I went into the kitchen to start cooking. While cutting vegetables, I felt that the kitchen knife needed sharpening and opened all the drawers in the kitchen but couldn’t find the grindstone. Then I asked my daughter, “Do you know where the grindstone is?” My daughter immediately replied, “The grindstone is in the drawer behind the plastic wrapper.” After finding the grindstone, I sighed casually: “Wow, the kitchen has a new owner!” I suddenly realized that I was “retreating to the second line” and felt relaxed and happy.
Today is one of the milestones in raising my children: my son got good scores on GRE and my daughter took charge of the house now.
The dishes I cooked for dinner: onion and tomato with fried egg and ground beef, second cooked pork belly vegetables, fried green pepper, and home made wonton in red oil. At dinner, Alex told us a good news, which gave me a excuse for drinking: Congratulations Alex! Dinner with wine, meat and interesting topics was fun.
Little Episodes
My off-duty cooking dinners:
11-14-2021，Sunday’s dinner:
11－07-2021，Sunday’s dinner:
11－06-2021，Saturday’s dinner:
11-05-2021，Friday’s dinner:
