Veggies mustard and rice for lunch, got off work early pre-holiday, walk to target and rejecting big box, cleaning plants and setting up the apartment, Trader Joe's trip for pre-thanksgiving shopping, chhyang extraction and rewatering, rice beans and egg sauce for dinner [Wed 22]

So I'm writing like four days after the fact, some of the things may be missed out but here we go anyway.

For lunch I got about to finishing the remainder of the mustard greens I'd bought way wayyy back that had been chilling in my fridge, the fermented one, and mixed it with the chickpeas, ate with rice.

This was the last day of work before the thanksgiving break began, so they gave us the day off after 12 EST which meant I was free from 9 in the morning, whopee!

I used that time to go to Target to pickup a rubbermaid box set and a carpet brush. Actually I'd ordered to rubbermaid sets but they were so friggin' large it wouldn't make sense for me to bring them both, so returned one immediately, apologizing profusely and brought one with me. Still don't know where to put it all, the box sits in my living room currently. The carpet brush helped me with carpet cleaning significantly.

Broomed the apartment, turned the carpet around so the dirty side is hidden from view so that the mess I created while attempting to carpet clean doesn't show, and then took out the plants from their tables and gave them a nice cleanup. And then finally reorganized them, it had been a while and the new arrangement looks nicer, a bit novel anyway.

The apartment was quite clean at this point, almost ready to go but small bits and bobs left, besides the bedroom of course, that I'll write in a different post.

Went to Trader Joe's in the evening, bought pie crust, potatoes, and several different chocolates, apple cider, among many other things. Big shopping for thanksgiving, man going to a grocery store on the eve of Thanksgiving isn't a good idea, not that it needs saying anyway.

In the evening I lightly squeezed out the chhyang from my rice brew, and rewatered the rice mash, and took them all out of the fridge so they can still break down and ferment for the next several weeks. I've written about the process of extracting chhyang in a step-wise manner to get multiple batches out. Anyway, it was good and I'm proud of it and fingers crossed the experiment works out but even if not I tried something and failed and whatever.

Since I'd already gotten my 10k steps, didn't go out on a separate walk, had rice and the leftover beans for dinner, mixing in eggs to make a quick sauce, yum yum yum, so good, with some achar. Man, I know I shouldn't be eating a lot of rice, but can you really blame me?