Red, Yellow & Green Tasty Things (P.1)
You'd be right if you had a hunch that my last post (The Latest Thing to Hate) was intended for 'the other blog.' I guess Blogger's dashboard is testing the limits of my intelligence. It appears juggling two blogs was apparently more than I could handle at that given moment in time.
I decided though--after noticing the 'infraction on posting policy' a good 24 hours later--to leave the post where it lie as Abnormull has been pretty bare the past few months. Just a few posts back are thoughts of leaving Hong Kong, which were fresh oh, a good 8 months ago. So yea, whatever I can do to get this blog moving onward and upward...
Today I took my sister Abby to the local community college where the results of a math test she took awaited her. We had hoped for better news, but she's on the right track and will be where she wants to be in a month or so. I am sure of it.
After completion of that pivotal errand we made a pit stop at Radio Shack to browse cell phones; after all, what else is of more importance to 'kids' of her age...? I don't know if she'd understand my calling her a kid from time to time, but no arguing that 20 year olds are very youthful. It's perhaps that youth that accounts for thinking 2 weeks (the time until her next math test) is a lifetime away.
At 20 it's common to see how much you are capable of compared to just a few years back when there was so much out of reach. True enough, and yet my eyes still see a hint of baby fat and undeniable tenderness. The older we get the more we feel responsible to help youngins move in what we perceive is a 'good' direction; and the younger we are, the more we feel we have a whole lifetime ahead of us to investigate so many questions which 'those old people' want to answer for us.
The cell phone options dissapointed and so we made our way to Auburn where a movie theatre and host of other time wasters awaited us. I made sure to stop in at Bed, Bath & Beyond which is not known for it's edibles yet strangely is the one place I found a certain veggie chip wanted by Nick. When he asks for veggie anything, I listen intently and I speedily procure. I'd looked at a few supermarkets to no avail and then, when I least expected it (truly) there I saw the Jensen's Orchard product I so wanted. It doesn't take long for us to work through 7oz of a salty snack and pretty soon after our first bag was empty I regretted not buying more.
Abby followed as I rushed into Bed, Bath and Beyond knowing they might be low on veggie chips. On a visit last night to the Seattle location Nick and I found only shelves hawking some other vacuum-sealed, puffy, bagged snack. Auburn too had moved on from veggie chips to the new red aluminum bags of salted crisps. I searched every inch of BB & B's food presentation and was elated to find 2 remaining bags of the prized reduced fat spinach and tomato potato chip imitators.
While BB & B had moved on from veggie chips, I had not. Making my way to the register the cashier asked if I'd found everything I was looking for. I said, 'Well except for more of these chips." Not loosing out on an opportunity to move product, he offered to check the back for any stragglers. I accepted the offer. I hadn't planned on buying 4 bags--but given how hard I'd looked for these things and given I had no promise of ever finding them again--I went ahead and invested $14 in 28oz of crisps.
To be continued...
I decided though--after noticing the 'infraction on posting policy' a good 24 hours later--to leave the post where it lie as Abnormull has been pretty bare the past few months. Just a few posts back are thoughts of leaving Hong Kong, which were fresh oh, a good 8 months ago. So yea, whatever I can do to get this blog moving onward and upward...
Today I took my sister Abby to the local community college where the results of a math test she took awaited her. We had hoped for better news, but she's on the right track and will be where she wants to be in a month or so. I am sure of it.
After completion of that pivotal errand we made a pit stop at Radio Shack to browse cell phones; after all, what else is of more importance to 'kids' of her age...? I don't know if she'd understand my calling her a kid from time to time, but no arguing that 20 year olds are very youthful. It's perhaps that youth that accounts for thinking 2 weeks (the time until her next math test) is a lifetime away.
At 20 it's common to see how much you are capable of compared to just a few years back when there was so much out of reach. True enough, and yet my eyes still see a hint of baby fat and undeniable tenderness. The older we get the more we feel responsible to help youngins move in what we perceive is a 'good' direction; and the younger we are, the more we feel we have a whole lifetime ahead of us to investigate so many questions which 'those old people' want to answer for us.
The cell phone options dissapointed and so we made our way to Auburn where a movie theatre and host of other time wasters awaited us. I made sure to stop in at Bed, Bath & Beyond which is not known for it's edibles yet strangely is the one place I found a certain veggie chip wanted by Nick. When he asks for veggie anything, I listen intently and I speedily procure. I'd looked at a few supermarkets to no avail and then, when I least expected it (truly) there I saw the Jensen's Orchard product I so wanted. It doesn't take long for us to work through 7oz of a salty snack and pretty soon after our first bag was empty I regretted not buying more.
Abby followed as I rushed into Bed, Bath and Beyond knowing they might be low on veggie chips. On a visit last night to the Seattle location Nick and I found only shelves hawking some other vacuum-sealed, puffy, bagged snack. Auburn too had moved on from veggie chips to the new red aluminum bags of salted crisps. I searched every inch of BB & B's food presentation and was elated to find 2 remaining bags of the prized reduced fat spinach and tomato potato chip imitators.
While BB & B had moved on from veggie chips, I had not. Making my way to the register the cashier asked if I'd found everything I was looking for. I said, 'Well except for more of these chips." Not loosing out on an opportunity to move product, he offered to check the back for any stragglers. I accepted the offer. I hadn't planned on buying 4 bags--but given how hard I'd looked for these things and given I had no promise of ever finding them again--I went ahead and invested $14 in 28oz of crisps.
To be continued...
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