Am I living in some kind of alternate reality?

Today I got up and dressed in my The Lord of the Cats - The Furrlowship of the Rings t-shirt and dragon earrings. My youngest and I decided to have lunch at Dimassi's and do some thrift shopping. While at lunch I got the call from the vet - my little faerie queen's ashes were ready to come home.

We drove out to pick her up and came immediately home to place her beside our other gone but not forgotten furbabies. We kissed her urn, I told her I loved her, and up she went to her new abode. We laughed that she is no doubt judging us. The kids used to joke that she mean mugged everyone. 

I'm just happy she's back home with us.

We then went to our favorite iced tea place - HTeaO - and got some tea. My husband told me to make mine a double. I did get the extra large, so I guess that counts. Unsweetened, of course. And no I'm not handing over my southerner card because I prefer my iced tea unsweet. I like tea, not syrup, thank you!

At the thrift store that we went to before we picked up Kaylee, I bought an organizer for my baking pans, a paella pan, a grilling cookbook, and a picture frame to replace one that broke. Afterward we watched the newest Kevin Lee Jacobs video and discussed the recipes he made.

Hubby had a rough day at work. Mostly its just been a rough month. After we lost Kaylee, his dad died, and now this week his aunt died. When he came home he just wanted to go out to get something to eat and come home and go to bed. Remember my t-shirt I mentioned above? At the restaurant an older woman asked me about it. She didn't get the reference. We told her Lord of the Rings? She'd never heard of it. Color me gobsmacked. I read those books when I was in high school last century, and she's never even heard of them?! It reminded me how last week I wore a t-shirt that said I'm With the Banned, and the salesclerk asked about it, because she didn't get the reference. Banned books? She didn't know it was a thing.

Am I living in some kind of alternate reality? Did I fall through some dimensional time warp? 

Glad to be back home, safe and sound, surrounded by a mountain of books. And a lot of tea.