Laziness is ...
... getting some cheese from the fridge, reaching blindly into into the dish drainer for a paring knife, sitting down in the living room, realizing that the knife you grabbed is actually a citrus zester, and spending the next half hour zesting Monterey Jack onto your crackers.
You have a citrus zester. Heh.
Posted by: sac | November 22, 2005 at 18:30
I think you may have inadvertantly started a new dieting craze.
Posted by: L Man | November 22, 2005 at 18:41
I wouldn't even know what a citrus zester was if we hadn't gone into a Swiss Army knife store once (yes - they used to have their own stores) where the pretensious clerk demonstrated a model that included a "ceeetrus zester". He said it that way with great aplomb while looking down the bridge of his uplifted nose. When we just stood there looking confused he repeated, "You DO know what a ceeetrus zester is, yes?"
Novel pronunciation not withstanding, he was still just a clerk in a knife store. You on the other hand are just a novelty ;-)
Posted by: 21stCenturyMom | November 22, 2005 at 19:21
Alex, is that you?
I swear, you husbands are all the same. :)
Posted by: deb | November 22, 2005 at 20:23
That IS lazy.
Posted by: Lisa V | November 22, 2005 at 23:07
Lazy or no, it shows a zest for cheese and life! As your wife's people know, cheese is life! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I am very thankful for your blog.
Posted by: Ned | November 23, 2005 at 07:41
True laziness is not bothering looking in a thesaurus and yielding "aplomb," for use. Much less figuring out how to use it in its proper context. Maybe I just lack the sangfroid.
Posted by: prego | November 23, 2005 at 14:12
that made me chuckle.
Posted by: kim | November 23, 2005 at 19:56
I would so do this. I should be embarassed to admit that, but I'm not. I am lazy and I've got no shame, evidentally.
Posted by: Margalit | November 25, 2005 at 02:33
That was funny. :))
Posted by: Wenchy | November 25, 2005 at 14:00
hey prego:
Which part of "aplomb" don't you get? Aplomb, n.: "Self-confident assurance; poise." Seems appropriate to me.
(p.s. I think you meant to say "not bothering TO LOOK in a thesaurus.")
p.p.s. You lack to "Coolness and composure, especially in trying circumstances" (=sangfroid) to do what, exactly?
I'm so confused!!! And I just wanted a fun new way to be lazy!
Posted by: jeanne | November 26, 2005 at 22:51
Jeanne,
Thanks for the edumacation in grammar. Humor-wise, I guess you and I tread in different vineyards. Maybe I should try the old "Reader's Digest" method you seem to espouse to avoid ruffling your feathers.
Congratulations on the purchase of your new dictionary.
Posted by: ilprego | November 27, 2005 at 11:57
Prego:
Ha.
Posted by: mccannjl | November 27, 2005 at 15:56
I call it ingenuity.
Posted by: Scully | November 27, 2005 at 17:12
Ah- working hard not smart.
My speciality.
Posted by: krista | December 01, 2005 at 19:41