Made It!
Happy New Year to everyone! Just a quick post to let you know that we made it out of 2008 reasonably unscathed, setting charges behind us in the tunnel so that neither it nor its 7 predecessors could follow us.
When I last posted, we really didn’t have any invitations in-house, but a kind neighbor (not a Perils reader) subsequently invited us to an early nosh-and-sip, so your anguish for us was in vain. Thanks, anyway, though!
Today we trekked over to University Village, a mall-kind of place on the other side of the University of Washington from us, to the Barnes & Noble there to unburden ourselves of most of a Christmas gift card. While we were checking out, Mrs. Perils pointed the cruelty, probably intentional, of the juxtaposition of these two display tables:
Hope your holidays were joyous!
Well, what are you going to munch while reading The Flat Belly Diet? Celery sticks?
Isn’t that a book on dieting through selective cannibalism?
but chocolate IS health food. slimming too.
Especially if you eat it at breakfast, or early in the day, so’s you can burn it off the rest of the day.
Hey, I have done *extensive* research on chocolate and have conclusively determined that it is a fruit/vegetable, and thus an essential part of one of our major food groups. It comes from beans. It grown on trees. I rest my case!
Lookin’ good tonight at half-time, Phil! Or at least good enough
From the perspective of a non-chocaholic, this seems to me a trenchant comment on the fundamental contradictions of the way we live now!