Him: I can’t date anyone who doesn’t remember Crystal Pepsi.
Her: ??
With those two words, I was whisked back to 1993. Long walks from the high school down to the PX with the gentlemen from the JROTC. Riding in the Smurfmobile. Later, stopping at the 7-11 almost daily for a Kiwi-Strawberry Mystic and a Three Musketeers [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Overheard – Out and About
Posted in Growing, Overheard, Small Moments on 30 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In which I find the lost pendant and demonstrate the fact that I am easily confused.
Posted in Small Moments, tagged Confusion, lost and found, Small Moments on 21 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always liked books with chapter headings that give you a little preview of things to come. It’s oddly satisfying to tick events off my mental checklist as they occur. For the life of me, I can’t think of any examples of this sort of book, but I know I’ve read them.
Friday, as you may remember, [...]
More Waiting
Posted in Books, School, tagged School, Waiting on 19 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Waiting for grades, waiting for an interview response, waiting for next week, waiting for the day I can attend a school function without feeling like I’m a hundred years out of place.
Today was a longish sort of day. It snowed like mad last night and my drive to work was stressful. I remembered meter money [...]
Endings
Posted in School, Thankfulness, tagged Chemistry, School, Thankfulness on 2 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today marks the end of an era. I checked out of my chemistry lab drawer. And turned in my last chemistry lab report. Barring crazy, unforeseen circumstances, I have finished the lab portion of my chemistry minor and will finish the classroom part next week.
Other things are ending too. Quietly and behind the scenes. Soon [...]
A Season of Waiting
Posted in Growing, tagged Advent, Waiting on 2 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is Advent. A time of waiting. It is sometimes hard to wait.
I did not grow up in a liturgical church. We celebrated Pentecost with every worship gathering, not just once a year. There was only one Christmas service, no Second and Third Sundays of Christmas. No Ordinary Time. The extent of my Advent knowledge [...]
