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Thursday 18 August 2011

School of hard noughts

Today was a day of learning.  I didn't intend it to be one; that's just how it played out.  Here are some of the things I learned:
  • after you put the cream and sugar in your coffee cup it is imperative that you put coffee in the filter before you pour in the boiling water
  • after your second try at making a cup of coffee, it would probably be best to drink it.  Leaving it in the kitchen while you do the washing is second-best.  At best.
  • pineapple sticks, as lovely as they are, do not go well with Special K.  Go figure.
  • after you try out several outfits, and choose one, remember to put your underwear on before you think you're ready to leave
  • if there's  a thunderstorm warning, put the plants in the protected part of the patio; if you don't, when you go home, don't get hysterical when your fuschia appears to have gone missing; think about checking to see if it rolled down the hill to the path
  • don't trust yourself to not look when you go into clothing stores; don't push the limits by trying things on; do give yourself a chocolate croissant for buying nothing, even though, if you have to say so yourself, you looked pretty sassy
  • always believe little kids who are screaming at you when you're walking across an intersection under construction; stop for a few moments after the cement truck speeds around the corner
  • see if you can just let that big bag with the featherbed in it stay where Dave left it when he went to Toronto; who says feathers are light?
  • believe in your ability to eat no more than two toasted-coconut marshallows before dinner
  • if you're going away for the weekend, get real about how many pairs of earrings you need to pack; ditto for shoes
What's that thing about old b**ches and new tricks?

10 comments:

  1. What is a pineapple stick?
    Oh wait, I'll go google.

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  2. OK, it's pineapple on a stick.
    Um, frozen? Deep-friend? Candied?
    What?

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  3. No actually, it's pineapple cut in sticks---some fast food places serve them for kiddies' healthy snacks. I got mine from a grocery store but when we were in France last year, I got some at McDonald's. I was disappointed that they didn't come with crème au chocolat

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  4. Great job! It's important to keep mentally active by learning new things.

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  5. Wow, where the heck are you shopping? I've been positively combing the city looking for dresses, and coming home empty handed and depressed.

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  6. @ Jamie: I was at Kaliyana (kaliyana.com)and at something Mountain at Bank near 3rd. There's also a very nice consignment shop whose name I can't remember on Richmond Rd near Tweedsmuir on the north side of the street and 3 wild Women just west of that. None of them are inexpensive but they're a bit quirky, which I love.

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  7. I put raisins or blueberries on my Special K. Yum!!!

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  8. Boy that must have been some day. However This am I learned it is not wise to try to fill the coffee pot with water for the coffee maker and try to close the filter container simultaneously. Somehow a whole stack are now drying around the kitchen. I can cut them and use them in a smaller personal coffee pot.

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  9. I think the store is Magic Mountain on Bank and Ricochet on Richmond ;) good job not buying anything at those stores but that's a pretty dangerous combination of tempting venues!

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  10. too funny!! i relate to the stayin outta the stores and not tryin things on.

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