i got a chance to use the safety can opener. i had to look up how to use it online because i couldn't figure it out. i opened up a large can of water chestnuts. the lid came off effortlessly, the edges smoothed over so there's no danger of accidentally slicing my fingers.
when my 2nd aunt was at the cafe yesterday, she told my mother how she almost got scammed by someone on the phone who told her he worked at walmart and said someone had opened up a new account in her name. my 2nd aunt didn't think it was strange that this person spoke perfect chinese, i'm pretty sure walmart doesn't have a team of multilingual operators. she ended up chatting with the guy on the phone for 3 hours before she finally suspected maybe he was trying to scam her. she told my mother she didn't tell them anything important, but you don't chat with someone that long without them learning a thing or two about you, so now we're all in danger of getting scammed. good thing if anything speaks to me on the phone in chinese who's not a family member, i immediately hang up, much less answer a phone number i don't recognize.
my mother told me my sister promised her catering clients too much variety, and ended up not having enough time to properly make everything. when we pointed this out to her, she got really mad and said we were gaslighting her, which i don't even think she knows what that means but heard it somewhere and now uses it regularly as a response to virtually any criticism of her. the biggest fail was not cooking the chicken properly, just soaking thawed chicken in warm stock. naturally the chicken never got cooked, and i had to be in charge of simmering the chicken back in the broth until a meat thermometer said they were safe to eat.
my sister's godmother came to the cafe early, around 3:30pm. after explaining her taxes, she paid her federal online, while printing out her state to be sent in by mail (no refund or payment). i also helped her buy a new electric tea kettle; she wanted a small one but the only 1.2L kettle we could cost more than the larger 17L clear glass kettle. she ended up getting the glass kettle, i told her she could easily return it if she didn't like it.
i still not use to the time change, and that becomes apparent when i'm working at the cafe and it already late yet there's still light out so it seems early. i finally left around 6:15pm, having not eaten anything the entire day, taking with me some leftover frozen chinese dumplings.
when i got back home, all i wanted to do was watch some television and snack a little bit. i ate some cheese crackers while watching the news.
the same thing happened today that happened yesterday: my heat never turned on. not in the morning, and not in the evening. it was warm enough that the heat wasn't needed. when i got back home today, it was 68 degrees outside, but 72 degrees inside, and bear in mind i normally turned up my heat to only 65 degrees. this is another sign that winter is over and we're now in spring.
around 9pm i boiled some chinese dumplings. these had raw shrimp in them so i tried to cover up that seafood taste with a lot of dumpling sauce. i ate while watching the play-ing tournament game between the bulls and raptors in toronto. chicago ended up winning though it was a close game, supposedly the first 10th seed to win in this new play-in tournament. bulls play the heat friday night, the exhausted winner then get the privilege of playing the well-rested bucks in a 7-game series starting sunday. basically the NBA is setting up any team that competes in the play-in tournament to fail.