7/16/2011

        I don't really remember when I woke up.  Jeremy played Oblivion for a good 90% of the day.  I still wasn't feeling all that great so we went to the grocery store down the street, because I wanted soup.  I got soup and milk.  I needed milk for my strawberry mix, it's the best.  I prepared taco stuff for everyone else for their dinner and I made myself two cans of chicken noodle.  Was very delicious too, the cats were going crazy for the leftover broth.

Hikage enjoying the broth.

Broth on Hikage's chin.

        After watching Jeremy play Oblivion for many hours I started to bore.  So I got back to reading Oliver Twist.  I had never read it as a child and have always wondered what it was about.  So far it seems to be the same type of rags to riches story I've read of Charles Dickens before.  Though maybe I'm remembering wrong and they were different authors but I'm almost sure of my memory on this.  When I was younger I had read tons of books, but they were all the abridged "Illustrated Classics".  So I've been wanting to reread a lot of the classics I had read years ago and read classics I haven't ever read.  This decision came about when a local bargain bookstore Jeremy frequented was closing shop.  They marked a lot of their books down to $2 a book.  So I bought two boxes worth of books, a lot of classics and some manga.

        I recently finished reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.  Now that was a depressing book.  It would start to be uplifting and then just drop again and again.  The poor guy never caught a break.  The version I had bought had left out the last paragraph as per Sinclair's wishes in the novel form, so the end-notes had stated and following the end-note had printed the actual last paragraph.  The book without the last paragraph made it a more uplifting hopeful book, with the actual ending paragraph made it feel like the guy should just give up on everything.

Spice drops, blue sharks, gummy bears, orange slices, sour gummy worms, gummy butterflies, gummy worms, Swedish fish, peach rings and sour patch kids.

        Okay, now that I've gotten that all out, after I read some and watched Jeremy play Oblivion some more, I had decided I wanted more gummies.  I finished a bag of gummy worms a week ago, thought I wouldn't want them for a while longer, but I really wanted gummies again.  So we went to Winco which has all sorts of gummies to scoop into bags.  And since we are not ones with self-control we went a little overboard.  Deliciously overboard.

        Being that he didn't eat much and I just had mostly broth soup and since I started to feel better we decided to go to Jack-in-the-Box.  I really prefer In-and-Out Burger's burgers, but the nearest one is an I-99 exit away.  So I'll settle for JITB.  So I gorged myself on delicious, horrible for me, fast foods.  I love that they have funnel cake there.  I always have to order one whenever I get food there.  It for some reason unbeknownst to me reminds me of my mom, and secondly, reminds me of the Jersey boardwalks so I like it.  My day isn't quite over yet but for the rest of it I intend to read some more Oliver and maybe play some SNES games on the Wii.  I'll end this with another cute picture of Sophie in his box.