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Friday, December 12, 2003

it's tomorrow!

No way should I be up this late. This is really dumb of me. But since I'm here, I have to tell you the wonderful, wonderful news:


Diet Cherry Coke has come to our town.

Yes, I know it sounds too good to be true. But it is true, it really is! I have one of those new funky-looking fridge packs in my refrigerator to prove it. My dad (I have the best dad in the world. I really do, and not just because he has been such an ally in the quest for diet Cherry Coke) brought me some today; I was just going about my housewife-ish business, making my Christmas card list and getting lunch for the kids or whatever, and the doorbell rang and there he was like Santa Claus in overalls, with a brown paper bag from our own little small-town wannabe supermarket, containing a 12-pack of nirvana just for me. yay! My only fear is that now that they've teased me in this manner, the northern CA bottler will stop making it for some reason, and I'll be left with a serious addiction, instead of a simple craving, and I'll have real withdrawals. But I'll stop borrowing trouble and just go load up on it while I can. Carpe Diem! (Carpe... colum? carpe colum non calorum cum cherrium? You can tell that the full extent of the Latin with which I am familiar came from Dead Poets' Society, phrases in books, and high-school chorus, can't you?)


Anyway. I just had to share the joy.

Speaking of joy, today (since it IS today; it's 1 AM almost) is Nutcracker Day, which means, in my daughter's way of reckoning time, it's actually Tomorrow. Whenever a day arrives for which she's been waiting eagerly (like, for instance, Thursday which is Awana day, or a Saturday on which DACY THE MAGNIFICENT is going to be home all day), she sprints out of bed, clobbers me awake, and says, "Mommy, I just remembered! Today is tomorrow!!" It's very Little Elizabeth in Anne of Windy Poplars, really, don't you think?

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