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My Dinner

I made quinoa with veggies for dinner tonight and it was pretty damn good. I ate at the high top table while watching youtube videos. Alex, the cat, climbed up onto the table was was just sitting watching me eat. Just staring at me (the usual). He hardly ever sits on the table so it was a bit strange but I enjoyed the company.
So Im just chillin' eating my dinner, I take a bite and then I notice a tickle in my nose. The tickle gets stronger so I try to swallow my bite before I have to sneeze. I couldn't get it all down but I think a hand over the mouth will suffice because its going to haaaaaapeeeeeen!!
I turn towards Alex (away from my precious computer) and sneeze! Out of my mouth comes an explosion of quinoa and half chewed veggies and my hand did not block much. It all comes raining down around Alex and sounds like a mix between a splat and a sandy rain noise.
Alex doesn't move. Just keeps staring at me.
I remove my hand which is covered in a quinoa slobber and I start laughing. I show Alex my nasty hand and tell him that I just sneezed. He looks down at my hand briefly and seems disgusted but also curious as if to say, 'dont you think Im gonna lick that, gross, but what the hell just happened?!'
So I go over to the sink to clean off my hand and thats when the whole ordeal replays on my mind (that sound of the food splattering on the table!) and I start laughing so hysterically that Im bent over the sink and cannot see for the tears in my eyes. My windows are open so the neighbors can probably hear me and I wonder if they think Im laughing or crying. That makes me laugh harder. I cannot breathe.
When I can stand again, though still giggling, I grab the rag and clean up my ABC food thats all over the kitchen table and chairs. Alex is STILL in the same spot watching me. I giggle to myself for awhile afterwords and just giggled again as I wrote this.

Highlight of my day? Sneezing my dinner around my cat.

Or crouching around a garbage bag, with a friend, that was overflowing with pastries next to a coffee shop dumpster taking nibbles out of the delicious food. That was also a pretty hilarious part of my day... Especially when someone walked by and didn't know what to say to us. I bet we looked pretty crazy. But hey, I got some delicious free food out of it!

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