A Facebook status update I’m not brave enough to post: “Grace is blown away by how blatantly sweets bloat her belly!” I have not gained any weight in the past month of cookie consumption. However, I caught a glimpse of my profile at the gym yesterday and I swear I looked pregnant! I came home and investigated by exposing my mirror to my gut. It’s positively protruding in a way it wasn’t before this recent bout of baking, and I am absolutely not “in the family way.” Let this be a lesson to me (please, please, please). ___
A few weeks ago I bought a new coffeemaker—a “spare”—from the bargain bin at Walmart. Enter Murphy’s Law: Our regular coffee pot shattered into smithereens about 3 days later. So it worked out. However, I noticed right away that the new machine made the coffee considerably hotter than the previous one. Now, I like my coffee hot—I’m not like Will, who typically waits ’til the coffee is lukewarm before consuming it. But this brew about torched my tonsils! Then I read, recently, that really hot drinks help kills germs that like to lurk in our oral cavities—you know, cold germs, flu germs, whatever might ail you in this germ factory called Planet Earth. So I’m drinking more coffee, and feeling quite justified.
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Ben’s new boots arrived yesterday, and they are fantastic! Everything we’d hoped and dreamed. Only bummer is: Ben has gym today and tomorrow, so he has to wear his sneaks. But Thursday, watch out! This kid’ll be stylin’.
4 comments:
I love the word sneaks. It just occurred to me that I haven't heard it in a long time and I'm not sure if it's because I'm not a kid anymore or because people don't say it in the south. I should investigate that.
I had a Canadian roommate in college who called them "tennies" (as in "tennis shoes"). I learned from Harry Potter that the Brits call them "trainers" (as in..."cross-trainers"?). But I'm with you: I really like "sneaks"! The term implies "stealth"--one never know what surreptitious adventures await when donning one's "sneaks."
Another thing you can do without toasting your tonsils is to gargle with Listerine daily! Then put some skim milk in your coffee so that you don't injure yourself! ;-)
Hate to do this to you, but I remember hearing this on NPR:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/27/hot-tea-cancer.html
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