It’s time to play a little game called True or False. Determine whether the following statements are true…or false. Correct answers and explanations follow.
1. Christmas decorations may be put up whenever you feel like it.
2. Star Anise smells divine.
3. You can never have too much Bob Caskey.
4. It’s difficult to work a 9-to-5 and bake your own bread.
5. Hancock Fabric is a great place to meet friends.
6. Nicholas Cage deserves our respect.
1. False. Although I’ve begun planning for Christmas, it is not yet time to decorate. Always decorate for the holiday closest to you on the calendar. This means Christmas decorations may be put up on the day after Thanksgiving, but not before.
2. True. I picked up a 99 cent package of star anise at an Asian grocery in Ridgeland on Saturday. I left it sitting in the car while I ran some more errands, and when I came back my car smelled like pho. Some people may not want their cars to smell like pho, but it was fine with me.
3. False. I’m counting at least 7 barn dances called by Bob Caskey that I’ve attended in the past. Then there’s the time I saw him in the parking lot of Wal-Mart, wearing red pants. I’m trying to decide whether to attend RUF’s barn dance on Friday, and I’m thinking I need a break from Bob and his friend Charles.
4. True. What with all the time needed for rising, kneading, and rising again, I found it very difficult to get a loaf of oat bread made and baked. When I saw the recipe I imagined myself coming home from work to the wonderful yeasty smell of baking bread. Of course this couldn’t happen, because I was not there to bake it for myself to smell.
5. True. Who knew that I would run into three friends at Hancock Fabric? My mental associations of the fabric store are linked to memories as a child of (what seemed like) many, many hours spent wandering among bolts of fabric while my mom flipped through pattern books—feeling my brain activity shut down out of boredom. Now I’ll have to readjust that image. Cool people hang out at Hancock Fabric.
6. False. What is he thinking?
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3 comments:
Funny, when you said "put up" decorations, my backwards Okie mind was thinking "put away" as we new people who used to say, "it's time to put your toys up" and so forth.
Have you altered your blog or switched to that new and improved version they keep prompting me to switch to? Lately, when I come to your blog I only pull up the green background and none of the graphics, title bar, etc. I'm skeptical that switching to the new and improved version won't change my layout somehow.
As for Nicholas Cage, I was never able to respect the Jimmy Stewart wannabe.
I love the way my hands and breath smell after leaving Saigon--I NEVER get peppermints, because that would ruin the sublime after-effects. I _am_ going to decorate a _little_ bit for martinis and mistletoe, but only to get us in the mood.
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