Texting the Beautifully Mundane

Reading all her texts is hard, but at the same time revisiting them, especially the mundane and the ordinary, the non-life or death or messages dispatched from the abyss, just the simple every day conversations allows me to remember her as if she's still here.

I get lost in the conversation, an observer to my own past, and our relationship comes alive once again as I get taken back to that moment.

Here's an example of a text thread we had one afternoon. She'd plan meals and discuss them with me several times a day, and on this day she was making shish kebabs. It's a dull conversation, it's like watching paint dry, and I love it. I don't expect anyone to read it, but I post anyway.

6/23/2020 1:14:57 PM

Adri: I'm making shish kebabs again for dinner.

        Me: Everyone likes that right?

Adri: Yes, my fav.

        Me: I used to make all the time

They like it, too. You gave me a kit for the oven, remember?

        Yup.

CHILI lime chicken, pepper, onion, celery, tahini seasoning. 

        Sometime you should use good steak. Even better then.

I use steak sometimes that looks tough but is on sale.

        I like bell pepper and mushrooms, too.

Yessss!

        Red yellow green.

Me and Wes like regular bell pepper and ranch. That’s one of our snacks at the lake.

        Sometimes little potatoes

I make potatoes on side.

Mushrooms: yess. Wes asked me not steal his veggies. LOL

        Cherry tomatoes

I wish I'd kept the little grill, but the thing you got me for the oven helped. Plus I have chop sticks that I used to make me VEGGIE ones.

        U use broiler or bake?

Depends on the stick. The broiler for potatoes and steaks, bake for the veggies.

        Ah

Because otherwise they burn. But I like burnt everything, they don’t. So it depends.

        With the broiler u have to be careful and constantly check so it's a hassle
        but taste better that way I think.

Yeah, tastes more like from the grill.

        Soak wooden sticks in water first.

Yes, I do, I use chop sticks for me and metal for the shish kababs. CHILI lime chicken for tonight with VEGGIES. I did steak on Father’s Day on the kebabs.

        If they liked rice u can serve on rice.

Wes does, maybe soon Bryce will, too. I just got Bryce to like Mac N cheese. He doesn’t like the norm.

Normally I make fried or baked potatoes and corn on the cob with it. Bryce is obsessed with regular corn. Wes likes Spanish corn but I use ranch instead of sour cream. Wes loves ranch, Bryce likes ketchup… yuck.

Love you.

        Love you, too