{"id":1393,"date":"2011-05-23T00:36:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T07:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2011-05-23T00:44:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T07:44:37","slug":"what-monday-again-i-thought-we-just-had-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"What, Monday again? I thought we just had one&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Welcome to Monday and once again, it&#8217;s time for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nevergrowingold.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/meet-me-on-monday_22.html#links\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Meet Me on Monday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Those of you playing along with the home game will remember there are 5 questions following the icon which are to be answered and then I do the link up thing with Java&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nevergrowingold.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Never Growing Old <\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Blog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">So, the Icon, to make this official:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nevergrowingold.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Meet%20Me%20On%20Monday\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i1230.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee487\/nevergrowingold\/MeetMonday-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0 What is your favorite bagel flavor?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2.\u00a0 If you had an extra $100 right now, what would you spend it on?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>3.\u00a0 What is the last thing that you felt guilt about doing?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>4.\u00a0 Soft serve ice cream or hand dipped?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>5.\u00a0 Are you allergic to anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And now, my answers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. I am a traditionalist in that I like Montreal style, chewy on the outside, chewy on the <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1397\" title=\"lox-and-bagels 2\" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lox-and-bagels-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>inside, dense bagels. I could be cute and say the best were the ones I made myself but I only did that once so it hardly counts as favorite. When in doubt, I go for the cinnamon raisin bagel, toasted with just butter&#8230;but if there is a little schmear available, like herb and garlic cream cheese or some lox and cream cheese, then I reach for the standard\u00a0sesame\u00a0or poppy seed (either will do because, really, they are the same thing, just different seeds&#8211;it&#8217;s like saying vanilla ice cream with chocolate sprinkles is a different vanilla ice cream from vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles even if it comes out of the same carton).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">2. This is going to sound lame I know but I really need some new baking pans, so 2 loaf pans &#8211; nice heavy weight ones, like Langostina; a couple of new cookie sheets (well, jelly roll pans, technically because of the edge) and 2 new muffin pans. I bought a silicone muffin pan and was not impressed so back to the old school style. Yeah, I warned you, lame. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">3. Let&#8217;s see, are you talking about today or over the past week or within a year? What level of guilt? Picking my nose in the car guilt, backing into the\u00a0neighbour&#8217;s\u00a0car guilt or, what does this switch do, crap, there goes Australia guilt? I&#8217;m Catholic so I always carry a little spare guilt at all times just in case someone else looks like they&#8217;re having a good time and need that touch of remorse to make it extra special. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">4. Oh honey, any ice cream is good. On our wedding day while we waited to meet the photographer at Beacon Hill park, we stopped at the Beacon Drive-In for soft serve <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1398\" title=\"01300035\" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/01300035-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>cones&#8230;My first memory of Rome is walking out of a gelateria the night we arrived and seeing the Coliseum at the end of the street. \u00a0Amarena (sour cherry) and Bacio (hazelnut chocolate). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">5. I used to have a few allergies, mostly grass pollens but not so much anymore. Odd how that works. I do still get itchy ears if I have too much honey but only if it&#8217;s local. Greek or Turkish honey doesn&#8217;t cause the same reaction because the plants are different. So far that is one of the few check marks in the positive side of physical effects of, um, maturing gracefully. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ta-Da&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And a Happy Victoria Day. I may not be a true blue monarchist but over the years on this holiday I&#8217;ve toasted her Majesty&#8217;s memory many times and got quite toasted myself&#8230;So, as soon as the sun is over the yardarm, splice the mainbrace and raise a tot to the old <del>tart <\/del>girl&#8230;The Queen!<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1404\" title=\"-Oil-painting-Queen-Victoria-on 2\" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Oil-painting-Queen-Victoria-on-2-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Oil-painting-Queen-Victoria-on-2-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Oil-painting-Queen-Victoria-on-2.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Monday and once again, it&#8217;s time for Meet Me on Monday Those of you playing along with the home game will remember there are 5 questions following the icon which are to be answered and then I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=1393\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[331],"tags":[335,333,338,332,334,336,340,337,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}