Living Retired — ‘Salad Queen Meets Muffin Man’
Living Retired — ‘Salad Queen Meets Muffin Man’
By Gary Chalk.
Over the years Jan and I have used different names that we affectionately call each other.
Some names I call Jan include ‘Dear,’ ‘Honey,’ and when I want to upset her ‘Janice.’
A few of the names Jan has called me include ‘Gary’ and well, hmmm, that’s pretty well it unless you include “Gary what the hell did you do that for?” Or “What were you thinking?” However, these names are so commonplace I don’t consider them special.
Last week we came up with some new names for each other. It happened as we were making a special dinner to celebrate our anniversary…
Jan was chopping vegetables for the salad when she suddenly proclaimed, “Gary, I like that I am the Salad Queen.”
Before I had a chance to respond with, “Janice what brought this on?” Alexa awoke and said, “Okay, playing ‘Dancing Queen.’”
‘Friday night and the lights are low, looking for a place to go, where they play the right music, getting in the swing, you come to look for king, anybody could be that guy.’
Just like that our kitchen was transposed into an Abba concert! … Read the rest here
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