Monday, July 19, 2010

It's Flitch Day!!


I know none of you know what that means, but I'll tell you (in due time). First, this is the first blog post I've written in 6 ½ months. Since my stroke...I don't know if it will be funny, but I need to train my mind to write again. It's kinda like physical therapy , except it's for the mind...and you will be my guinea pigs.

I could write a lot... Me crashing 25 miles an hour on my brother's quad into a tree (proving I could ride it just 2 months after my stroke), my newfound fascination with Sesame Street, how long it takes me to write something, or how I can't work or drive... but that's all boring. So I will write about Flitch Day.

You're probably thinking that Flitch is a funny twitch, or a light switch (if you have a lisp). Flitch Day, is (are you ready)... a measurement in BACON. That's right, a measurement done with bacon. I guess you couldn't find a more fitting topic for me to start writing again. Wikipedia defines it as: a side of salted and cured pork. An entire side, like half of a pig. Wikipedia continues: The awarding of a flitch of bacon to married couples who can swear to not having regretted their marriage for a year and a day is an old tradition, the remnants of which still survive in some pockets in England.

We are owed 12 flitches, I think. Well, I probably should check with my wife. I can tell you that it's going to join my lexicon of daily definitions! Right next to “knock on laminate” and “I want to go to there.” In fact I have added flitch to my Word dictionary. It's bothered me since I started typing this how flitches would end up on my computer with a red line under it. Not any more!!

In fact, I think I will have a flitch for dinner. Maybe in a hamburger or maybe on it's own. Perhaps smoky or cured with maple syrup. But, it's too hot to toil over bacon in my kitchen and it would be a fire hazard to cook a flitch on the grill. Wait I've got it...I'll order flitch from a restaurant.  That way we would use someone else's flichten AC!!!!!  

9 comments:

AndreAnna said...

Glad you're back in the saddle, dude!

Michael C said...

Thanks AA!! It's short but with time I'll get back to what I used to do!!!

meleah rebeccah said...

This is now officially the BEST DAY EVER. I am beyond THRILLED to see a blog post by you! And you my friend NAILED IT!

And here's to ordering flitch from a restaurant with working air conditioning!

:)

Eva said...

That was a flitchin' fantastic first stab back in the blogosphere! Well done, fellow bacon lover! Can't wait to read more!!!

cmk said...

So, so happy to see you back here in the blogosphere! And, you did good. :)

LesleyG said...

Wow. WHO KNEW?!


Also? Driving a quad? Into a tree? Two months after the stroke? Dude.

Michael C said...

Thanks...

And yeah, driving a quad...never should have done that. I think I blacked out momentarily.

Anonymous said...

Bacon!

Lemon Stand said...

A 'flitch' of prime pig? I am soooooo not giving this ammunition to my husband as I have posted his obsession with bacon many a time with nary a change in the pegging of the bacon meter. Ask him what he wants me to make for dinner? Bacon Helper is his mantra!

Still, I'm more than willing to read anything you care to write... I'm just not sharing...

PS Welcome BACK!!!!