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Metaphor Mel removes financial weeds
Busy, busy day. I’m exhausted.
1) Woke up.
2) Got up. Right away, Go me!
3) Had a glazed doughnut for breakfast.
4) Finances are like flower gardens. They can be beautiful and reassuring. Then if you neglect them, even take your eyes off them for a bit, evil hardy weeds overrun them. So today, I engaged in hours of weed pulling. If that isn’t a metaphor, I don’t know what is.
4) Brokered a cease fire between two peacefully coexisting neighboring nations. It was easier than you might think.
5) Paused and reflected.
6) Went to the bank to turn my CD into a new one paying 4.5%. If left to their own devices banks will roll over your CD into a new one that pays you $3 for every $10,000 you invest with them. How do ever stay in business
7) The woman at the bank got me the CD I wanted with NO hassle AT ALL. She ever told me how to do the next rollover on line. She is a financial goddess!
8) Wondered if any mollusks have pages on Facebook.
9) Looked up recipes for bread pizzas. What a clever way to use up lots of idle bread slices.
10) Made my first and only proper meal of the day: ham and cheese sandwich.
11) Did Wordle in four tries.
12) Watched an episode about Saturn’s moons, part of a travelog on India, and episode about prehistoric Britain.
13) Worked on this blog.
14) Ready for more adventures. Latch hooking is on the horizon.
3b) Oops! I forgot to say that I got dressed. I most certainly did not go into the world undressed. Goodness!
Behave yourselves.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
A weedery
The English language possesses –Isn’t that cool, a word with five “s”s? – multiple words that end in “ery.”
1) Perhaps the most commonly known is “nunnery.”
n. nunnery: A building that houses a convent of nuns.
Paul’s Amazing English Dictionary
“Get thee to a nunnery.”
– Hamlet, some act and some scene. Written by Bill Shakespeare.
2) The next entry of the “ery” hit parade is “winery.”
n. winery: A place where they make or sell wine.
Paul’s Amazing English Dictionary
“Get thee to a winery.”
– Hamlet the Drunk, by Bea Sotted
3) Not to forget, “rookery”
n. rookery: a colony of seabirds such as penguins or seals.
– Paul’s Amesome English Dictionary
“Get thee to a rookery.”
– Hamlet of Antarctica by Amos Keeto.
And NOW, TODAY’S FEATURED WORD
WEEDERY
n. weedery: (1) a place where weeds are: grown, whether by design or by lazy gardeners.
(2) a place where marijuana is grown or sold.
– Paul’s Amesome English Dictionary*
“Get thee to a weedery.”
– Hamlet’s thesis, Can Total Weed Acreage across America, 2019-2020 be Fully Modeled Using ARIMA Analysis. Written in partial fulfillment of his doctoral requirements in agricultural economics.
SPECIAL NOTE: There is a tiny park on a street corner near the Agricultural Economics campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It started out as most weederies do; nobody cared enough to pull the weeds. Finally, people got serious. They formed discussion groups. It transpired that this minisule patch of weeds had an incredibly large variety of weeds. What’s more, many of these weeds were incredibly rare. Agricultural economists, who study the effect of weeds on the farming industry had an incredibly accessible source of rare weeds to study. Who says agricultural economics can’t be incredibly sexy?
* = Paul’s Awesome English Dictonary, best in the world.
Now show off your knowledge. Talk about weederies to the first person you meet today. They’ll think you’re smart.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Gourmet bunny
There’s a bunny outside my outside window! I have to watch it.
It likes to eat weeds. I like that it likes weeds.
Specifically, it prefers stray bits of weed that have been cut off by my weed whacker and have started to turn brown.
I have gourmet bunnies living out front in the hedge.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
I did seven things of varying importance today.
1) pulled weeds
2) cooked poutine for dinner
3) looked over my finances
4) diverted a comet that was on a path to collide into Earth. It would have ended all life on this planet.
5) did word-finds, an exercise for my eyes
6) worked on an adult (this adult artistic skill, not steaminess) coloring book. This was another eye exercise
7) took Number Two Son to the airport.
I think I’ve earned a good rest.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Is it safe to visit?
Weeds
If you kill a neighbor,
You’ll die for murder.
If you kill a weed,
You’ll never bleed.
I do good deeds
When I’m happy.
I attack my weeds
When life goes crappy.
If the garden looks like sin,
By all means, please come in.
No weeds! Don’t knock on my sill
Without writing your will,
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
Is it really this simple?
Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D., and travel advisor
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
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