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National Waffle Day 2024
There’s actually no bad time to have a waffle, so let’s celebrate National 🧇 Waffle 🧇 Day.
🧇 Crunchy Crenellated Pancakes 🧇
A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. ~Mitch Hedberg
I’m generally more inclined to pancakes but if somebody is manning the waffle iron, it’s hard to say no.
I like mine as a platform for ice cream and chopped strawberries. I can eat them for breakfast with butter and syrup, but I’d still rather have pancakes in that format.
Of course, there’s the handy dandy toaster waffles. I don’t recall ever having put a pancake in the toaster, so waffles hold the edge on that front.
You might get the idea that I’m both easily amused and reasonably indiscriminate in my choice of breakfasts. You’d be right, particularly if someone else is making them.
I recall we even had them for dinner sometimes. Mom had a waffle iron the size of our dinner plates.
It was perfect. The waffle took up the whole plate. Butter it, lay on some syrup and dig in.
A bit incongruous having waffles for dinner, but if that’s what was being made, that’s what we ate.
Certainly wouldn’t complain about it. Mom had a knack for getting the waffles just right.
Golden brown on the outside. Soft and cakey on the inside. Good times.
I know we have a waffle iron but we haven’t had it out in ages.
The frozen ones are just too easy to make it worth getting it out, slopping it up, cleaning it up and putting it back.
Life’s a bit too hectic to luxuriate making waffles the hard way at the moment.
Maybe, if I can get caught up on my work, that waffle iron will see the light of day again.
We’re getting pretty close to Pumpkin 🎃 Spice season, so that’s a great reason to break the iron out again…
🧇 Fight For Your Right To Waffle 🧇
How to Make the Best Waffles!
The waffle iron I have is similar to Mom’s. Gloriously plate-sized.
I’m also a fan of Belgian Waffles when they’re available. They’re particularly good for capturing berries and whipped cream.
There’s something inherently cozy about waffles and pancakes. I’ve been on a big cozy kick lately.
We had a quick cold snap this week that made it feel like 🍂Autumn🍂 had started early. If only…
Waffles also remind me of the absolutely legendary “Waffle House Wendy”.
Hailey is a young woman who was just trying to get through a shift at her job at the Waffle House when the usual drunken donnybrook started up.
What made her so legendary is how she just swatted that chair away. It’s a metal chair. Not a light aluminum lawn chair. An actual steel chair like the ones in my own kitchen.
Somebody tossed this thing, potentially a deadly projectile, at her head and she just swatted the thing away like it was a balloon animal. Absolutely epic.
Southern girls are simply made of sterner stuff…
“Waffle House Wendy” Fired a Year After Fight Video Goes Viral
🧇 Life Interrupted 🧇
Why can’t I just eat my waffle? ~Barack Obama
You could say I’m waffling, but I’m really just trying to dig myself out of an avalanche with one of those tiny wooden spoons that come with an Italian Water Ice.
That’s how far behind I am and it’s been taking quite a toll on me. Some nights, I don’t even go to bed.
Even with all that extra time, I’m getting nowhere. Not slow, not fast, just nowhere.
It’s weighing on me because I have things to get on with and I’m still struggling to get to stuff that ought to have been done two or three weeks ago.
But, what are you going to do? When you’re buried and overwhelmed, it’s hard to make any kind of progress at all.
When I get like that, the insomnia takes over. In some cases, that’s beneficial. I’ve long made use of the occasional all-nighter to power through stuff.
Not in this case. I’m just overwhelmed, overwrought, overworked and stressed to the edge.
But there will be no rest until I get caught up.
However, the nice thing about it being the weekend, I can sleep in. I can catch up on all the lost sleep from the week and wake up refreshed and ready to get back at it.
I don’t recall if I mentioned it previously, but I have a solid line on this year’s Holiday Season Serial Romance. I’ll say more about it when I’m not exhausted.
Suffice to say that The Lights of Pine Hollow is finally more than just a title. I’ve got some character names. Some motivations. Some side plots and a bunch of what makes my annual stories a crazy yuletide romp. Can’t wait until I have the time and bandwidth to get started on it…
That’s basically it for today. Great day for a work coma after a long week trying to clear the logjam. I hope your weekend is restful and restorative.