posted 2005/08/06 at 10:38
You know, I remember when I was young I would actually get up earlier on Saturday mornings than I did the rest of the week. I'd bring my Popples out to the living room with me at around 6 in the morning to watch the weekly Australian Rules Football show on ESPN, then watch a bunch of cartoons (Popples and Rainbow Brite were my favourites), then finally catch the old WWF syndicated shows (Superstars of Wrestling and Wrestling Challenge) before my father would take me to the mall to shop and play video games at the arcade.
Now, well, usually I'm sleeping in until well into the afternoon on Saturdays, I can't see any footy anymore because the only show I know of is on Fox Sports World (which I don't get), I find most cartoons being produced today are insipid, no need to ask about the wrestling, the arcade at the mall closed years ago, and I hate going to the mall because some of the people there genuinely scare me. I'd like to think it's because I have higher standards than most people, but I have a feeling the real reason for all this is that I'm just getting old and cranky. Sigh.
Anyway, I'm a little less than twenty-four hours away from seeing Penny for the first time in over four months here. We're not going to have that much time together, so I'm going to have to do everything I can to maximize that time together. I have to say, though, I'm having entirely too much fun playing with Penny's present here, and I may need to pick one up for myself after Penny leaves here.
I should also mention here that while I was out shopping yesterday, I finally had a chance to stop at Steak n Shake. While I didn't go crazy trying out all of their desserts -- on that front I only had a (very tasty) chocolate malt -- I had a Coke with cherry syrup, and I fell in love with it almost instantly. I had a couple of fountain drinks like that when I was really, really little, but this was the first time I'd had one in forever. I'm guessing I love old-fashioned fountain drinks because my mother worked in a pharmacy back when she got out of high school, and of course back then pharmacies had the old soda counters and all of that fun stuff. I swear, I must have sublimated a whole lot of my mother's tastes for things when I was in the womb.
Anyway, I'd better go figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of my day here. Seriously, how does anyone wake up and function at this hour on a Saturday?
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