Boxing Day

Boxing Day is December 26, the day after Christmas. It is a statutory holiday in Canada, but I think not in the U.S.

Nativity scene

 

'Nativity scene' is an expression for a display like this with statues of people and animals for the birth of Jesus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BENTO = box lunch

BENTO is a Japanese word; the closest English expression is "box lunch".

How many foods can you name?

On the left, on top of the rice is:
- some kind of dumpling
- shrimp tempura
- something like a sausage, I think

At the top of the left side, the yellow thing is a TSUKEMO - pickle. This is a pickled DAIKON - Japanese radish. Just under it are 2 peanuts and a piece of pickled ginger.

On the right side, at the top is a piece of seaweed tied in a knot, a dumpling (I forget the Japanese word); the yellow triangle is a piece of scrambled egg; under it is half a hard-boiled egg and some miscellaneous tidbits.
The main course is chicken with GOMA - sesame seeds - on top, garnished with a piece of that fake crab which is really KAMABOKO - fish baloney.

Curiosity killed the cat.

... is an expression meaning: It is dangerous to be too curious (or nosy).

Don't let the cat out of the bag. ...

... is an expression meaning: Don't tell the secret.

snow

It snowed on Friday. It's unusual to have snow in November. The roads were crappy. It took me more than 2 hours to drive home and I fish-tailed several times. There were a lot of accidents on the road.

crappy - is vulgar (rude) slang. 'crap' is the rude slang noun for poop. 'crappy' is the adjective.

fish-tail - is slang for when a car moves left-and-right on wet roads. The slang comes from the way a fish tail moves left and right when a fish swims.