I have found a new way to survive toddlerhood with S. So far, it has been a time of nap refusals, becoming overtired, followed by tantrums due to exhaustion. Regardless of time or mood, she constantly demands to be picked up so that she can look in the fridge and pantry for snacks. 

I have started to imagine her as an aloof teenager, who will be too busy to be home for meals, so I don't have to cook or clean up after them. 

Me - "You coming home for dinner?"
S - "No, I have plans, bye. Taking the car e-bike."   
Me - "Did you need lunch?"
S - "No, I'll buy it, can I have $20?"
Me - "Do you want breakfast?"
S - "No, going back to sleep."

HA. I laugh because I bet she still won't sleep in past 7AM when she's a teenager, because I sure didn't. 

I'm sure there will be other things to be concerned about, as there always is with offspring. It's never easy, but anything worth having in life is worth working for. 

My usual coping method for stress continues to be chocolate chip cookies. I guess my post partum hormones are still influencing my food cravings. We finally had time to stop by Nemesis Coffee, and I could not resist a $5 chocolate chip cookie:  

They call this their chocolate cashew cookie, baked in their Dope Bakehouse. Crispy, yet soft, with a hint of salt to kick up the sweet, as well as pools of melted chocolate. This is the best chocolate chip cookie in Vancouver, the GOAT of chocolate chip cookies, followed closely by JJ Bean (that one is a bit too sweet for my liking). 

Yum.

7:11AM – Wake up, check Instagram… Right. Earth Day today. H just got off work, but doesn’t pick up his phone when I call… Sometimes. Anyways.

7:19AM – H calls me back! I get out of bed, and get coffee #1 from the Nespresso machine.

8:00AM – Girlboss marathon starts.

9:37AM – Crap, going to have to drive fast to get to Yyoga.

11:27AM – Best yoga place ever – clean and lots of hot water. Unlike at home, where my boiler is slowly failing. Back to Girlboss.

1:20PM – The bus will be here soon, but… I’ll just skip through this last episode…

1:30PM - Gotta get to Nemesis!

2:00PM – Another Translink fail. What happened to the Skytrain today?

2:15PM – @Nemesis:

I had the heirloom grits…

and a latte with whole milk, because they don’t have 2% or skim…

I guess they control calories through smaller food portions. I mean, it was great and all, very fresh, loved the mint and so much flavor in each bite, but the whole thing cost $17. Not sure if I can come back. I tried a bit of their tomato jam, which looked very unappetizing by the way. M seemed to like her coffee and bacon scone. C had a cappuccino, which I think I should’ve ordered to avoid all the fatty milk. Overall, I wouldn’t go out of my way to come back, because there are a few other (better?) brunch and coffee shops in the neighborhood. Perhaps I had set my standards too high, because the reviews have been so good.

Went up to visit C’s brother’s apartment, and what a view! Another pro of living in a downtown apartment.

Still not sure what my role is in this mission to save the world from overheating. It’s hard to boycott all the things that are slowly killing the planet, because it’s just so convenient to not be conscientious about it. We’re all here for such a short time, and it would be so easy to just ignore all the devastating storms occurring around the world, the floods, the hurricanes. I shouldn’t suffer all this stress over something I can’t control, but I always tend to stress about the uncontrollable. I’ve heard that we can all do our fair share, and our small contribution will be a part of the world wide movement. Not sure about that because the large oil corporations and the governments seem pretty manipulative… Maybe one day, we will think of using coal and fracking the same way as smoking cigarettes.

Maybe it’s time to donate some money to help out organizations who are fighting climate change. Leo Dicaprio seems to support a few different ones.

#earthday

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