My Two-Cents: Appetizers, Halloween, and Siblings
What do these three seemingly unrelated things have in common? More than one might think at first glance. Let me start with appetizers.
Appetizers, to quote South Park, “They’re what you eat before you eat… to make you more hungry.” I love appetizers. Today my sister and I went to our favorite sushi restaurant, where we ordered some appetizers. Crab rangoons and edamame, simple yet sufficient. Plus successful at making us more hungry before the actual food gets there. Apparently, we owe the ingenuity of the appetizer to the Athenians. They were the first ones to throw a bone at the eat-before-you-eat concept. I think appetizers could fit in a class of “primers.” The stuff before the big sha-bang can be pretty great on its own. Primers are like the bullpen, or the opening singer before the star-studded performance.
Halloween could also be considered a primer, an appetizer adjacent to the holiday season. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and then New Year's Eve. Personally, Halloween has become my favorite holiday; it’s like the appetizer of the late-year holiday season. One might argue that Halloween is for Children, and to that, I would say nay. Halloween is for the people. But more importantly, Halloween is for the Adults, and the adults want you to think that Halloween is for the children. I hope that one day I’m one of those weird adults who gets way too into Halloween every year -- I’m thinking Claire from Modern Family level. If you don’t know the episode I’m referring to, it’s the bit of all the children scared to go trick-or-treating at the Dumphy house because Claire goes Hallo-overboard and scares all the children away with her costume and decorations every year. Why would you not want to go overboard for the best holiday-primer/appetizer-holiday around? I rest my case.
Actually, I don’t rest my case. I have one more primer I’d like to throw out there: Siblings. Siblings are like the appetizer to any friends you make in life, essentially. Siblings are awesome! When you think about it, they're the only people we get to experience our entire lives with – childhood, adulthood, and everything else in between. The people you get to tease and fight without any real consequences. My sister and I will get into a bickering argument over jack shit, and then get bored again and decide to team up on one of our brothers for some fun. My sister was my primer friend and my first friend. She is also a fucking bitch. Her only redeeming quality is that she can quote Thor Ragnorok effortlessly and with panache. I can say both of those things about her because she is my sister and I love her, but more importantly, because I don’t think she reads my blogs. Because any nonsense-2cents I have to say, I've probably already shared with her. And she doesn’t know how to read. ;)
Appetizers, Halloween, and Siblings. Though they seem unrelated, they have a lot in common: they are three of my favorite life primers.
