scandahoovian

We had a bake-off competition today at work to raise money for the food shelter.

Ok... hold that thought. There is one of those flashing banners on my screen and Tula is going nuts. She keeps looking at the back of the laptop like she expects it to be there and then peeking back around and it's freaking cute...and I wish you could all see it.

Where was I? Bake-off. Yes. There was so much sweet stuff it satisfied even my enormous sweet tooth. But what was my favorite thing? Among all of the cakes and cookies? The enormous plate of lefse. Which hearkens to my Scandahoovian roots and also to my happy days as the co-president of the Scandinavian Club at Concordia. Our slogan? "Got Lefse?" We did lots of exceedingly dorky things, such as dress up in our sweaters and do the shoddish down 8th Street for the Homecoming Parade, make meatballs and kringla and all sorts of things for a dinner complete with making our own ornaments (nisse, hearts and the like) and go to the Nordic Roots Fest at the Cedar in Mpls once a year. We also had a retreat in WI every year where mostly we did lots of drinking, folk dancing and watching movies in various Scandinavian languages. (See, I told you, exceedingly nerdy.)

BUT...my absolute favorite thing to do was to sell lefse at the Homecoming game. You know you live in MN and go to a Lutheran/Scandinavian college when there's lefse at the Homecoming game. We'd buy like 8 cases of Freddy's Lefse and sell it for a dollar a piece. Butter and sugar your thing? We'd do it. You want brown sugar instead of white? Got it. Nothing? We can do that too? How about cinnamon and sugar? Or just butter? Possibilities abound. Lefse is IT, man. So go and find yourself some and make it up the way you like. And if you're lucky enough to have someone in your family that makes it homemade - LEARN how to do it. Me? I'm a flipper/roller. And I'm damn good at it.

One more class session left!!

Quote o' the day:

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." - George Bernard Shaw