Insert crude "piehole" reference here

Today was Mabon, or the autumn equinox to you non-Pagan-minded.  I.e. the day when the light and the dark in our 24 hour day is equal. I only remembered it in the middle of today, after which I paged CK and said, "YO!  Today's MABON!"

And he was all...yeah? and? You want to do something, don't you?

Shishkedarnit.  You know we've been married too long when my pitches out of left field end up mere flyouts.

Dude, of course I wanna do something.  It's MABON!

Which actually doesn't mean much to me, but considering I grew up with the drugstore tinsel versions of Santa and the Easter Bunny, I'm kinda eager to find cultural holidays I can really embrace as my own.

So I looked it up and Mabon revellers celebrate with meals of apples, beans, butternut squash, hazelnuts, root veggies, things of that ilk to represent the second harvest.  Yummy stuff.  Stuff I had zero energy to make, especially given that we'd yet to go grocery shopping after coming back from the wedding in upstate New York yesterday.

I pouted at CK.

He said, "Apple pie?"

We bought our pie and came home.  Unloaded.  And found our pie sitting on its side.  Dumb grocery cashier.  Who in their right mind packs a pie on its side? 

Dumb, dumb, dumb.  When's your birthday?  Be sure to invite me so I can turn your cake over, mmkay?

So now my Mabon pie resembles a Klingon's forehead.  I'm still gonna eat it, but instead of counting my blessings and giving thanks, I'm probably gonna be dreaming up some revenge fantasies that involve apple pies.  Guess that's what I get for not making my own damn pie.

I just realized something.  I really like the word "pie."  I've said it a lot during this post and I'm still not tired of it.  Pie, pie, pie.

Happy autumn.

Comments

[Lara]

Happy Mabon!!!!

[shilpa]

weird but i saw a lot of you at the Renaissance Festival if that makes sense at all? :/

[Josh]

Here's a Klingon phrase you could say to that cashier next time you see him. And I'm not kidding about this one:

Hab SoSlI' Quch!

Translation:
Your mother has a smooth forehead!

(Note: this is a powerful insult; don't say it to friends.)

http://www.kli.org/tlh/phrases.html

[queenalpo]

Yeah, Shilpa, it does, actually. I don't know why, but it does.