Well I somehow had a taxing day despite staying home because of the horrible monsoon weather we’ve been experiencing the past week. It was raining pretty badly while I was getting ready to go to work early in the morning and I don’t want to risk the uncertainty of having to commute. It was also my first day of shark week because my body really just loves to spice things up a bit sometimes. (On that note, it barely rained at all during most of the morning and afternoon pfft).
During lunch, I was instructed to book a courier service to have some food packages delivered. So I did. Only it turns out, they did not contact the recipient and we only all found out the wrong number was given when the driver got to the drop off location. Just great going there. Shouldn’t it have been common sense to first ensure that there’s someone at the other side to receive the package? It ended with the driver going back to the pick up point and them getting charged extra for that. Which is fair, given that he had to spend additional gas and all. And I was thankfully not bothered with work-related stuff for the rest of the day.
Later in the afternoon, the repair guy (actually a plumber but he does all sorts of fixing stuff around the apartment) came by to fix the leaking ceiling. Turns out it’s coming from the wall and he mentioned that some contractors will need to be hired to check the firewall and see what the problem was and what can be done about it once and for all. He stuffed the side of the wall with cement. It’s a bandaid solution at best and we can only hope it doesn’t leak even with the very rainy weather we’ve been having. We also got him to check out the dripping faucet in the bathroom. Which was a problem that has been going on for months? years even? He wound it too tight though that I’m nervous about touching it and it not closing and then we’ll have to deal with a continuously running faucet for the time being. I look forward to a reduction of our water bill in the coming months 🙏
In between that, I made my sautéed garlic mushroom again. I think I got my taste down: some of that canned mushroom water, Worcestershire sauce, Knorr liquid seasoning, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Didn’t have any fresh herb so I used the dried parsley and coriander that I have on hand. Just the kind of snack/dinner I needed after the lowkey stressful day.