Crunky: strawberry

"Condensed milk strawberry Crunky" to be precise. Thanks Kazuyo again! (^_^) After a good experience with the plain Crunky, this strawberry variety is bit harsh. It's too sweet and too milky. Ah right, "condensed milk", of course. I used to like condensed milk as a kid, but somehow changed when I grew up. This chocolate is just too heavy for my liking.

Happy Mother's Day!

Bought mini fruit tarts and dinned out as usual. Nothing special. I offered a trip to Richmond but she wanted to work on the garden instead. Oh well.

Finally, the day has come. I was asked to drive my "Mrs. Always Right" aunt home. It's a bit of a hassle, plus I don't really like her. (Bad me.) Maybe she sensed it, and asked her usual church friend to drive her instead.

Yup, this is what bugs me. She already has a ride set up, but came to me because she doesn't want her church friend to make a special trip before going to work. Seem OK to her if she ask me for the same thing before I go to work? Nice logic, eh? Just because I'm a relative? The reason why she's kind of bossy in my household is because she took care of my mom before she got married. So my mom owes her lots. But hey, I'm not part of the deal.

Italian

Pastry for lunch, pasta for dinner. Too bad the restaurant wasn't that good. But at least we know now.

Classic cars

Dropped by Michael's in North Van after work. Dollar Giant had raised their price from a dollar to $1.25. (T_T) There was some kind of classic cars fan gathering in the parking lot. Plenty of interesting-looking cars with hoods opened. There was even one that looked like model T! Others were rounded, or huge (30's 50's etc). Didn't seem like there was a theme, though. Wish I had more courage to take pictures. (This one was taken from within my car.)

Turns out I have nine 40% off Michale's coupons for next week (from trying to use up coupons this week). Don't think I can use them all.

New office

My chiropractor moved to a new office. It's street level. For the past 20 years he's been on the 3rd floor of an office building. The new place is way bigger and nicer. It will be prime property when the new sky train opens. The rent is about the same as the old place. Wow.
Sakura in my area are almost all gone...

Flower pot etc

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Story told by mom again. After she swept the bathroom floor, dad saw that it was wet and didn't go in. Instead, he pee into one of mom's empty flower pots, then emptied it into the laundry room sink. Yes he rinsed it, but still super gross. Sigh... yet another story I didn't want to know or hear about.

Besides that, mom asked him to fetch some corn starch from the basement and top off the container in the kitchen. He did it with water chestnut powder instead. The packages are so different, there is no way to mix them up. Did he forget which one mom said? But that seasoning container has never held anything else but corn starch. Mom tried to salvage the water chestnut powder and made some water chestnut dessert (just in time for some kind of birthday gathering at the church). But of course the dessert failed.

My aunt dropped off a load of my late uncle's old clothes. Whatever fits went to my brother and his gang. The rest, donation box. Dad was trying things out too. With his z= 2x belly there's no way anything could fit. (My uncle was slim.) Observation made by my sister-in-law: dad kept trying on stuff that he had already tried on. So, did he really want to get some of those old clothes, or just his hording nature, or did he simply couldn't remember which one he had tried on?

Wind storm

Apparently the wind storm last night was strong enough to cause power outage in some area, but it wasn't that bad near where I live. However, most of the sakura are blown away. Oh well there's next year.