I’m not religious but I sure do love Easter Candy-
So let’s start with the fact that I have 3 bags of candy in my desk drawer- Sour Patch jelly beans, SweetTart jelly beans, and SweetTart gummies- I love Easter- I love the candy- and my dentist will always love the bill- but that does not deter me from buying and eating way to much candy
So in the past week I have learned more about what it means to eat Kosher and how truly complicated it really can be- basically separate kitchens have to be maintained to ensure that food is prepared in a Kosher manner- and that doesn’t even cover the things that you cannot control- like how it was prepared and packaged- and from all of this I have learned and decided that as I age and have to depend on others to take care of me- I most definitely will demand all of my food be kosher- because that way I know they paid attention when they were making my food and I won’t have sloppy low-end food- HOORAH- for Kosher food
On a completely separate non-Kosher note- I love Buffalo Chicken Wraps- oh so much- I miss the wraps station in the Lincoln dorms- but on the upside there is the little Seafood Shanty right across from where I work that makes a pretty decent Buffalo Chicken Wrap-
If you know me- and have noticed from any of my blog posts a major part of my day and my life- is the food I consume- it can literally consume my day if I am hungry- I will start asking everyone what they are having for lunch- and when lunch has come and gone- I will start on what they are making for dinner- I will ask anyone at any time- and yet the people of Mass- especially my new co-workers are just not food centered people- they just have meals- what ever they make in passing- I like my new co-workers don’t get me wrong- but back in the day at the Hospital Tracy and I would go in to great lengths planning what we might have for supper regardless that is was 9:00 a.m.- and you know that we could always tell you whose turn it was for Breakfast Club on Friday- and how we had conned them into bringing the things we liked-
I’ve decided to also give everyone who gets in my car a disclaimer from now on- especially because the weather in New England is so random- one day rain- one day snow- one day bright sunshine – and all in the same week- the disclaimer goes a little something like this- ” We may not make it to our destination alive but if we go down I promise we will be going so fast- death will be instant.” I think this is a fair statement for all those who may ever ride with me- especially after I drove home the other night in the midst of a downpour- and seemingly drove my car through a pond on the road- that cannot be good for my car-
Different Subject-
So some of the smartest people I know – I met in High School- now I’m not saying all of the kids that I went to school with were brilliant HARDLY- but a handful of those people are brilliant to name a few -Mrs. Knight the human calculator- Mr. Wampler who could fix most anything you put in front of him- Mr. Ross(either/both)- just an all around guru of knowledge- and my friend Mr. Decker who could negotiate anything he wanted-
….so knowing this- it is really funny that one of my favorite memories of my friend Mr. Decker- comes from our time spent working at Panks- where we were having a conversation about new books that we were reading- and Mr. Decker says I wish you could just sample a book before you bought it- and you see the light bulb go on in his head- and he says – “someone could make a lot of money if they came up with a way for there to be all of these books- that people could just borrow them- read them- and return them” (imagine the face of someone so proud of their self – and ready to make millions) – to which I reply- “you mean a Library- I think someone has already beat you to the punch”- and the happiness just drains away- its been years- but it still makes me laugh-
Memory 1 of Mr. Decker reminds me of Memory 2 of Mr. Decker- so you must know he was all boy- and anything that dealt with the menstrual cycle truly freaked him out- and made him really uncomfortable- so one day I hid brand new wrapped tampon in the compartment of his car door- and while he was driving home that evening he heard the rustling of the plastic wrapper- and thought- oh hey- I left my reeses pieces in the door- awesome- so he reaches down and grabs the plastic wrapper freaks out when he realizes what he is holding -tries to throw it out the window- the window was closed so it bounces back- he nearly careens off the road trying to roll down the window and get rid of it- and lets just say the conversation the next day was hilarious- he was so pissed that his happiness of reeses pieces was ruined-
And my final notes for the day- So I was in target the other day shopping for Easter candy of course- and this little boy starts yelling- “I WANT TO GO TO MAMA’s”- over and over again- at some point the LITTLE BOY told his MOM to stop being STUPID- at the top of his lungs of course- so finally after trying to reason with him- his mother says fine I’m calling your dad- to which he yells- “This is my carriage- leave it alone” carriage of course being New England for shopping cart- so the mother starts digging for her phone and as she gets it and starts dialing- the little boy yells at his mother “STOP CALLING – and HANG UP the phone and I’ll behave” – It was comical and so sad all in the same handshake- the little boy knew exactly how to play this lady- but how sickening that anyone’s kid would ever act like that- just another reason not to have kids-
