Mental meanderings ahead.
I made an angelfood cake recently and realized how very set I am in my ways. In 2014 (or so) I started using a lovely blue wine bottle to set my angelfood cake on upside down when it was done baking. This has become THE bottle, the only bottle I’ll use for this exalted purpose. I could at any time get rid of that one and use the next empty wine bottle that comes around or use one of the two or three others I have kept for no other purpose except that I liked them. (Mini-hoarding – no judging please.) But no, it has to be that one. We are all such creatures of habit, aren’t we? There’s nothing really wrong with that – we wear our habits like comfortable bathrobes. The danger is in having these habits set like concrete in our lives. My favorite story about that is what happened to my mom when she joined the University of Minnesota chorus in the 1970’s. She came to the first rehearsal on a Tuesday night and, as was her custom, arrived plenty early and was the first one there with a sea of empty seats to choose from. It was in a huge lecture hall with seating for over 300 people, so she found out where the alto section was and picked a random seat. A few minutes later, a second lady came to the alto section and told Mom that she was in her seat. Ha ha! That’s probably a little too set in your ways. It’s sort of like what happens when you get overly attached to the pew you sit in at church. Mom got up and moved for her and they later became good friends.
Next topic, pipe cleaners. I need a couple pipe cleaners for the little rabbit I’m going to be making and mentioned offhand to my husband that I wished I didn’t have to buy a whole package of them. He inquired, “You only need two?” Yes, just two. He disappeared for a moment and returned with two pipe cleaners. What? Somehow it had never dawned on me that pipe cleaners have any purpose other than for use in crafts. He had some for cleaning out his tobacco smoking pipe. Yes, pipe cleaners are for cleaning out pipes, fancy that. I bet you all knew that already though.
I’ll probably be deleting this in the morning as is my habit.
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