You know that saying, “The best laid plans…” I don’t even know the rest of the quote, because people usually say that much and just let it drift off. I have more than once made a play on words with it for Lame Post Friday. I totally planned on making my Lame Post Friday yesterday, when it actually was Friday (to me anyways; I am aware my WordPress timestamp is different from my own clock). It is Saturday morning and I am once again posting Late and Lame.
Shall I make a Minnie blog post?
I throw in a picture to pep things up. This is me at Herkimer Elks Lodge wearing Minnie Mouse regalia about to drink ice cream cocktails. It is appropriate, because I may be headed to the Lodge (I feel like Fred Flintstone whenever I talk about “The Lodge.” Sometimes I mention the Grand Poobah) later today for Designer Bag Bingo (I have been calling it “Designer Purse Bingo” all week). I kind of do not want to go. I am intimidated, because I hear the caller goes fast, and some people don’t like it when you talk, and I like to talk. Also, I am not a Designer Bag kind of a girl (you may have noticed). Still, my friends are going, which makes almost anything fun, and I do like to support the Lodge (Fred Flintstone).
But then, Ilion Elks Lodge is also having an event (it took me a minute to find it on Facebook): the Jan Burling Memorial Culinary Cook-off. You get to try samples of chili, soup, appetizers, and dessert, then vote for your favorites! Yum! At least, I must assume it will be yummy. Surely it will be yummy (and I reserve the right to call people Shirley). I love to eat! And there will be no pressure, unless the chefs put pressure on me to vote for their entries, but I can handle that.
So I have choices. It is nice to have options, they say, but whichever I pick, I will feel bad for not picking the other. Then again, whichever I pick I will no doubt have fun at, so I will concentrate on that, shall I? My only question is: Should I wear the Minnie Mouse ears?
Designer Bag Bingo is at the Herkimer Elks Lodge, 124 Mary St. Herkimer, NY, $40 per person, doors open at noon, games start at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14.
The Jan Burling Memorial Culinary Cook-off is at Ilion Elks Lodge, 8 West St., Ilion, NY, from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14, $5 admission.
