comfort in the mundane

have you ever noticed how much comfort you can garner from the mundane bits of life?

i had a stupendous night last night.

be forewarned, if ever there was a boring as hell day in the life post, this is it. seriously, i'm about to outline what we did last night.

okay, don't say i didn't warn you...

john was in my building for a meeting all day so he and i walked home from work together in the rain (it was lovely, first time i could walk home without fearing heatstroke since we've started staying in toronto).

we stopped at tandury place (nope, i'm not misspelling it, instead of tandoori it's spelled tandury, maybe it's like 'olde shoppe') to get some take out so we didn't have to cook. it's around the corner from us and we got a shiteload of food and ended up only being out of pocked $13. i got rice, chicken curry, vegetables (some kind of dry spicy maybe roasted), matar paneer. john got rice, mataar paneer, chana masala and dal. we also got 2 bhajis and 2 samosas. and after tax it was a whopping $13. did i mention $13 for bunches of food?

we ate our quite tasty meal (although i wouldn't get the bhajis at the end of the day next time, they were a bit dry and straw like), we sat and yakked a bit over a cigarette or two and then we watched a movie. while watching the movie john worked on a website and i folded laundry. it was also interspersed with switching laundry and stuff.

after the movie i switched the laundry again, did dishes and baked cookies (just from the pre-bought dough, don't get too excited...), while john continued working on making the website accept content from the database.

we finished around the same time, so, some more smoking, some more hanging out and then to bed. where a mostly restful sleep ensued, punctuated somewhat by cats meowing 'cause they still haven't quite figured out the new digs.

it was such a nice change to have a 'normal' night, with no commitments, no things to move, no frantic happenings, just normal plain old everyday happenings. *happy sigh*