harbl, this makes me sad because I am imagining you knitted these things and that makes it super sad because people will say oh you can just make some more then. BUT that isn’t how it works (at least not for me).
a girlfriend once knitted me a scarf then we broke up and i gave the scarf away, i can’t remember to who
i lost my gloves in korea. if i had knitted them it would be better because then they would have been no loss at all.
lol estela! i did knit the scarf but not the mittens. but good mittens are hard to come by and i liked those. he is taking it more seriously now. he texted me at 2 am yesterday (probably drunk) that he felt bad. i feel bad for being mad at him. they are just objects. that scarf had mistakes in it.
i lost my favorite scarf in a cab (or somewhere else?) on new year’s eve/bday one year and i was so sad about it for months, but then i found another one very similar and now that it’s been a few years i can’t even tell the difference between the one i have now and the original. things will get better, harbl. keep the faith.
it’s rainsnowing
lxy and jerby, the other day we had some rum at the pizza place that has 50 types of rum. one was oronoco and i thought it was meh and the other one was something that also ended in o that i can’t remember the name of but it was very good. what was it!
anniversario!
oopsie, one n only.
aniversario.
the proper full name is pampero aniversario.
ends in two os.
aniversarioo.
that’s how estela would spell it.
i am cracking myself up over here, people.
no that wasn’t it, i would have understood/remembered that
looking at the rum menu on the net i can’t find anything matching that description http ://www.joesquared.com/menu2/#rum
it’s raining.
HI LXY
my phone battery died as i was texting you back so here’s what it said:
>>maybe if you profess you’re undying infinite love for me, i will send you a box of jaffas<<
DEAREST RUBY,
I THOUGHT I COULD NOT POSSIBLY LOVE YOU MORE THAN I ALREADY DID, BUT NOW I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE! HOW MUCH MORE LOVE CAN THERE BE???? ONLY THE VAST EXPANSES OF TIME, HERE AND HEREAFTER, WILL TELL. I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED AS MY LOVE INCREASES.
YOUR FRIEND LXY, FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN.
omg ruby, i discovered last night that the jaffas in my fridge were MOLDY. tbf they were there for many moons and i have a habit of not eating candy so i forgot about them. still, sad.
ewww!!
i had a bag of jaffas for ages and ages, but i kept it in my dresser drawer, and they did not mold. << pro tip
ok so i’ve hidden two boxes of jaffas from jordan, before he can eat them all. but i’m terribly lazy about visiting the post office. so expect them sometime in the next... 18 months
lol i’ve got some things to post to you ruby that are refills of other things i bought to post you but ate, that were refills of things i bought to post to you but ate, etc etc
yesterday i was eating a popular confectionary item i’d somehow never eaten before thinking, yum these things are so ruby, i will get her some for that phantom parcel.
it’s the thought that counts! <3
<3<3 today i thoughtfully ate both of your buzz bars.
i’ll get you some more though (unless you don’t like them).
you can eat the buzz bars—i was never a huge fan of them, i don’t like marshmallow all that much (unless it is in MALLOWPUFFS).
all the jaffas are gone now, except the two i have hidden! 23 boxes eaten in 12 days. i think we made them last a long time, considering!!
considering how rotten you are <3<3<3.
takes a rotter to know a rotter, lady <3
<3 i thank you.
i hate posting things to death.
it’s raining.
they closed the pool :(
rip ruby’s recentest pineapple lumps.
!!!!
you are a naughty thing, estela
i should note that the two boxes of jaffas for lxy are still in tact
o ruby, goodie! <3<3<3<3
i’m ashamed to report there was also a (replaceable) surprise for lxy that is also rip, but this time f. is equally to blame. we were just really hungry.
it was mealmates, wasn’t it.
*crunch*
mealmates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i found a stash at a nearby store, i nearly fainted with joy.
they also had raro! i’d clean forgotten about raro.
!! also they had toffee milk bars, which my younger sister and i were completely obsessed with when we were little, we spent every cent we had on them. our mother didn’t like us eating sugar because her family has a lot of diabetes but our aunt in london sent us these embroidered cheesecloth tops with puffed sleeves so we’d wear them down to the shop and buy toffee milk bars and smuggle them into the house in our sleeves and then we’d eat them in bed later that night. we had an obsession with midnight feasts that we got from reading books about girls at english boarding schools, in the books someone would always get sick from overeating but we had cast iron stomachs.
we used to smuggle packets of raro to school—we’d tear off a corner and lick our fingers and dip it in and it eat straight!!
also: I LOVE TOFFEE MILKS!!!!
i had a suspicion you might, based upon empirical observations i had previously made about you and jotted down in a notebook.
i was amazed to see them, i thought they were an olden days thing.
do you like pixie caramels? they had those as well.
omg YES pixie caramels are even better than toffee milks! i haven’t had one in years and years.
pxy caramels
i’m now looking forward with great relish to eating the one i will get for you.
one of each, please.
raro is like kool-ade which they used to sell in big packets with sugar added. i once got in trouble for having a bag on grape kool-ade in my coat pocket, for snacking on in just the way ruby described.
i think they only sell kool-ade without the sugar now. poor children of today.
is it like
oops
with vitamin C!!
i think they only sell kool-ade without the sugar now. poor children of today.
;_;
Children of today can buy sugared Koolaid in giant plastic jars!
My enterprising young capitalist of a son got in trouble in 2nd grade for selling his classmates hits of Lucas. A nickel a shake.
OMGLOLLLLL!
<3 stories like that make life worth living.
it’s raining.
it is snowing.
(in new zealand where I am.)
I am shivering.
it is snowing again.
the electricity has gone off, I don’t know how long it will stay off for.
my parents are asleep and don’t know. i hope it’s back on before they waken. my sister and I are sitting in front of the fire and she is half-asleep but pretending to be awake, resulting in gibberish. our rooms are too cold to go and sleep in. but this very minute is delightful, such stillness, the fire, the snow on the mountains that you can see in the bright darkness, and also I can hear a train. there is a baby lamb in the next door paddock, I hope it’s keeping warm with its mother, it was gambolling around this morning with a thrilled look on its face so the snow last night can’t have bothered it much, the dear foolish little thing.
every single status update on facebook from my nz friends has been about snow—for several days!
“it’s snowing down south”
( ^_^ )
I see london
I see france
I see the sandbox’s underpants
that lamb is ridiculously cute, you should see it, we die of joy every time we drive past it. it’s pretty pleased about things.
“your slip is showing”
( *o* )
pix plz
JAFFAS: IN TRANSIT
!!!!
I needed this today and so happy I could find it again:
it’s raining
yes but is it hurricaning?
it hurricaned somewhat. it was pretty windy but not as bad as they said it would be (as usual). i didn’t lose power but like 800k other people did!
so glad i did not return home to any domestic outrages :)
i am on an island
this was in weather.com’s twitter feed http://twitter.com/#!/apppppel/status/110805155120812032
this on an island talk is always quite mysterious to me, i wonder which island, how many islands are there, how did you get there, is it foggy, have you got some emergency milk duds, etc.
it’s raining.
i love jergins’s blog posts about being on the ocean! he should write a book, he is a good writer
;
i’m having a lxy drink and making chili
harblous that’s marvelous <3
sitting here drinking coffee
i keep wanting to come to the sandbox and be the only one posting and wait 2 days for a one-word reply in tru sandbox style
sitting here drinking wine
things will never be the same
i think you are right, my dear sister.
that’s the way it is
the first half of this thread is full of terrible, amazing lolz
i think that was a really weird time for me. O_o
but i think things will be the same soon enough.
it’s raining.
look what i got in the post today
(no jaffas, tho)
girl! you lucky thing! no one told me about pixie caramel.
omg pixie caramels are even better than milk duds! idk if they still make them, but a few years ago they came out with giant pixie caramel BALLS
lol my mum would never usually spend this much money on lollies + shipping ($55!!!)for me (and never gets me xmas/b’day gifts) but i think she’s feeling the pressure to keep up after i told her my mother-in-law gave me an heirloom diamond ring and took me on a shopping spree
wow!
damn it, i took tomorrow off and i must make myself go post your things, smoove!
of course the post office will be ridic tomorrow :(
it’s raining.
i reviewed this thread and was reminded that i did, in fact, know about pixie caramels before now. i did not know about the giant ones, though, but i really really really want them.