i got to the cafe by 10:40am. weather today was sunny with temperature only the lower 50's. we had a steady stream of business. my sister was making her catered meal (grilled salmon, udon noodles, rice porridge), we tried to stay out of her way as much as possible to avoid conflicts. a lot of people ordered today, which is nice bounce back after several weeks of diminished clientele due to winter/spring vacations. one lesson my sister managed to learn from last week was to add more salt to her dishes. nevertheless, she ran late again, and my mother and i were helping her cook while customers started arriving to pick up their orders. i was also cleaning like crazy, seemed like there wasn't a time where i was busy cleaning up after my sister's mess.
i discovered my mother didn't add any salt to the new batch of tea eggs she made yesterday so they were basically just cooked in flavorless tea. we spent the day padding another temu order, until my mother discovered we weren't actually getting a 50% discount, but rather the discount saving amount shown at the checkout was how much we were "saving" from the retail value. it was basically a scam to make you think you were getting a discount when you weren't. i also spent some time in the basement bringing down the latest shipment of food containers, and figuring out where to put them. the basement needs to be organized, it's too cluttered, and finding the right containers is like a scavenger hunt. we also end up buying containers that we still have because we don't have an inventory list.
an irony of working at the cafe is even though i'm surrounded by food, i actually go most work days without ever eating anything. sometimes i don't even remember to drink, and i go home dehydrated and hungry. around 5:30pm my mother made some rice noodles. this would've been my lunch, but it was already dinnertime.
michael called me and left a message. i called him back, he was having computer issues still. too late to visit him tonight, but we made arrangements for me to stop by tomorrow late morning. i always get anxious when i get a call from michael, it's rarely a good thing, something is always broken. i've managed to fix everything so far, but i feel like one day my luck will run out.
i didn't get back home until 6:15pm. it's not so bad now, with daylight saving time, it's still light outside (sunset not until almost 7pm today). i've been waiting for my upstairs neighbors to come back, they told me they'd return in 2 weeks, it's already been 2 weeks, but they're still missing. would've been nice if they gave me an exact date, but to be honest, i don't really care. i only care in the fact that i'd like to know how my more days i can enjoy not having them as my neighbors.
i didn't think i'd be hungry, but by 8:30pm i went to the kitchen and got the last two remaining pieces of fried chicken (thigh and breast). afterwards i also had some orange slices. didn't do any grocery shopping this week, not sure i need to go. i've got enough food in the house to last me for the next 2 days.
i'm going to finish up early tonight and get to bed before midnight. feel like i need more sleep to get back my energy.