[Ok, first things first. When you log onto blogger, today they’ve changed their logo so that it’s a heart. What a big ball of gouda. That’s a little sidenote to start things off, but I’ll open now for realsie.]
There are like 27″ of snow on the ground and it’s slowly melting. When you are walking from street to street, there is always a horrible moment of trying to navigate the mini-fjords that have formed at each corner. There’s so much slush around it makes you feel like you are walking in a giant slurpee. (Which begs a side question: Do Eskimos enjoy slurpees? Ice cream? Or are like all the desserts warm?)
Which makes me miss slurpees. When’s the last time I’ve had one? Some people are upset that there are some Seven Eleven’s invading the City but I’m actually excited. Sev’s make me think of home. (I think the last time I had a slurpee I was with my brother and Meredith. He was filling up the car so we went inside to get some slurpees. I got Coke flavored(the classic) and she got him like Cherry or something. When we got back to the car, he was pissed she didn’t get him Coke. This is an ongoing decision process in the Slurpee World. You know Coke is always going to be good. But there’s a chance one of the other flavors might trump it. And you always wonder if you made the right choice. Slow and steady wins the race? Or go for the gold?)
But the giant slurpee makes me think of commercials that used to come on when I was growing up about hotels in the Poconos. It was some sort of romantic hotel, b/c the rooms would have been heart shaped beds and the coup de gras being the bathtub, which was a giant champagne glass. I’m not really sure you get into those things. Maybe it’s like a 2 story room, or there is stairs, or something. But they look pretty cool to an eight year old. You think to yourself, when I grow up, that’s what I’ll do. I’ll take my woman there. Class things up a bit. Show her a good time.
Being an eight year old, you’ll also wonder if the thing is filled with real champagne. And also, because you haven’t really been around champagne that much, you’ll wonder what it would be like if it was filled with Coke! What if you had like a whole swimming pool full of Coke? Wouldn’t that be rad?
Twenty-three years later, I still think it would be pretty cool.
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