The Coffee Flavor of the day is Creme Brulee. It is still too hot to drink but as soon as I take a sip I will give you a full account of its flavor.
Well the first Turban Thursday Fondren has ever seen began today. My family is at a loss as to why I have donned a turban and gone out into public. Well, g dangit, if I am going to live here for the next three months I need to have something to look forward to. A man at mass told me he liked my headdress. My brother told me I look like Mammy from Gone With the Wind.
While I was at the grocery I asked a lady if they had any safety pins. She said they did not, and then another lady who worked there said to me as I sauntered to the exit, so as to continue my quest for safety pins at the Walgreen's, "mus be yo birfday," to which I replied, "No'mam it's just Turban Thursday."
I recounted this anecdote to my brother. He looked at me with disdain. "She was referring to the safety pins, not your turban."
"No, she was talking about my turban," I replied, "Isn't it a common for some ethnicities to wear turbans on their birthdays?"
"No. But it is common to get a safety pin and pin a dollar to your shirt on your birthday."
Just in case you, my readers, aren't familiar with this tradition I shall attempt to explain it to you. My brother is referring the common practice certain ethnicities have here in Jackson. On one's birthday said person will fetch a safety pin and attach a dollar bill to it, and then attach it to their shirt. This lets everyone who encounters this person know it is their birthday, and hopefully so that, since now that the world knows, the world will proceed to give the person a dollar to attach to their shirt. By the end of the day the stack of money can be quite large. Something I learned in Catholic schools, if you put the bulk of the money in your purse it does not look as if you have accumulated very much and so people feel bad for you and give you more. People are less inclined to give money to a person with money exploding off their chest.
If this explanation leaves you unsatisfied here is a helpful site I found http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081022113243AAWBMaF.
Anyway, I refuse to accept this as what the woman in the grocery was referring to. I maintain people wear turbans on their birthdays. I mean, who doesn't like wearing turbans besides Canadians?! It seems like a very birthday thing to do to me.
OH MY GOODNESS this coffee is amazing! Ahhhhhhh the tannins..... it has a nice brownish color, and smells very cremey with just a hint of brulee. Ahhhh it taste like.... some sort of french pastry... the name escapes me now I guess I will just have to ask the barista.... how embarrassing.
Yesterday I saw an attractive male in the car next to me just as i had started to role down my window.... this is the worst. What if they think you are rolling it down so as to talk to them or to be flirtatious. I wanted neither of those things! I was just extremely hot. So instead of being comfortable I was just sitting in a hot car second guessing my motives and too embarrassed to continue rolling down the window. It was awful...
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