while oates is away, hall will play
do you think that's true in real life, too? hahaha!
i am EXTREMELY tired, but stupidly updating this blog. oates has abandoned me for the motherland. there'll just be one P in Aplaud for a few weeks. sad! and it's so noticeable bc we update this thing so often. :(
do you know how cashews grow? i bet you don't. it may behoove you to go search your neighborhood google images page for the "cashew fruit". yes. cashew fruit. i said it. don't believe me? here, i made it even easier for you: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=cashew+fruit&btnG=Search+Images.
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waaaaait for itttt.....
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altogether now: WOAHHHH!
glossing over much, if not all, of the cashew conversation my family and i had over christmas lunch at DUANGRATS (quite possibly one of the best thai restaurants in the DC area), here are the most important lessons i learned that day:
* cashew trees bear fruit. filipinos eat this fruit. you use the cashew as a handle when you hold it while you eat it.
* and this is straight from the province - chicken farms and all - the smoke from the roasting of cashew nuts makes chickens sick. they get all droopy, their beaks run, and they require medication in their water to get better. =/ it may be the funniest and saddest thing you've ever learned in your life.
* a filipino riddle:
A: what do you call a princess sitting on a cup?
B: a cashew!
* HAHAHAHAHA!
anyway!
2006 has almost come and gone. what a crazy fast year. come 2007, oates and i will once again be joining the discovery channel's "national body challenge" program in an effort get (and stay) in shape. i can only hope the final results reflect our current determination. we'll see.
i wish you well - lots of laughs and good times - for the new year. it got cliche somewhere down the line, but i am slowly re-realizing, if there is such a thing, that we only live once and that we ought to just do the things we want to do. well, to a point. hedonism doesn't really get you too far. anyway, anyway, anyway... new year, new me. you've heard it before, but i think i'm serious this time. 2007 is not ready!
my very best to you!
xXoOOOxXOXoxoxXOXx
(a la nacho libre: little kees, big kees, little hug, big hug, big hug, big hug, little kees, big kees...)
:D
posted by Hall @ 2:34 PM
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