They read my mind June 26, 2008
Posted by charmingbutsingle in General Clumsiness and Related Stupidity, Single Girl Cliches, Snippet.trackback
For the third night in a row I shuffled through my neighborhood fancy organic market to get some soup, praying that this $4.99 carton of warmth would fill me with enough nutrients and goodness to kill off the miserable summer cold I have. I spent most of last weekend shivering under blankets and I’ve been hoping that this weekend I would feel stronger, less full of snot and able to sip a glass of wine with friends. Alas, it seems somewhat likely that my fate is to nest and go on soup runs again this weekend.
After picking a hearty cup of chicken chowder, I turned my attention to the drink aisle. As an aside, My Mom, when she wasn’t force feeding me liquid Jell-o, always insisted that we drink Gatorade when we were sick as children so we wouldn’t become dehydrated. I hate Gatorade with a passion and after having my tonsils out a year and a half ago, I was left weak and defenseless against my Mother and her Gatorade habit. She pretty much broke my will to ever drink the stuff again – the thought makes me gag. I’ve replaced it in my “sick regimen” with the now trendy Vitamin Water, which is kind of a laughable name because a bottle of the stuff has more than 30 grams of sugar. Despite that, I feel “healthy” when I drink it and my favorite flavor is “multi-v” lemonade.
But back in the drink aisle. I was passing on the Izze (has anyone tried low cal Izze Esque?) and looking for my Vitamin Water when I stopped dead in my tracks.
I don’t know how I missed it, but POM got rid of its unfriendly glass jars for its teas in favor of plastic bottles with screw caps. I swear on a million Bibles that I have a half-written “Open Letter to the Makers of POM Wonderful Tea” post on my computer somewhere, wherein I implore them to rid the world of their clunky drink jars. You simply have no idea how many times I spilled POM on myself. Literally each time I opened a damn bottle of the stuff, I ended up with some part of me splashed in pomegranate-laden drink. (Hibiscus Light Green Tea is my favorite.) And I’d (hopefully wrongly) assumed that I was the only grown woman who couldn’t open her freaking drink at lunch. It was maddening.
I squealed a little bit and grabbed some for dinner. It literally was the highlight of an otherwise bland and Mucinex-filled week. Which clearly means it is almost time to pick myself up and get back in the race. Or buy a cat and learn to knit. (And I hate cats.)
You HATE cats? How can any sane, intelligent human being hate cats? Since you are, surely, both sane and intelligent, I can only assume that the cold has discomposed your mind a little.
Dieu a fait le chat pour donner à l’homme le plaisir de caresser le tigre. - somebody or other
Inky
I’ve never personally tried to drink POM out of those glasses, but I do have a lot of friends that use them as glasses and they work pretty well…other than water spilling on you every once in a while and the crunching of the bones of your hands when you try to clean the bottom of the glasses. I hope you feel better soon : )
Oh and as an avid knitter, there is nothing wrong with learning out how to knit, it helps with dexterity ; )
~Japxican
I LOVE the old, straight-up glass POM glasses, with their snap-on caps. I drank a bunch and now use the containers for rice, split peas, polenta, you name it!! I also NEVER spilt the tea on me, drinking straight from the old-style glass containers, so I’m wondering if you were maneouvering while driving (or heavy drinking thinking) or something…. hehehe. j/k - cheers!
I will have to try POM. I’ve seen it in the stores, but I’ve never tried it! And I hate cats too…They shed, and they are annoying, and they sometimes pee on things. I know from experience!
Hope you feel better this weekend!
Noooo… summer colds are the worst! I hope that POM juice clears up any remaining snot and tomorrow you can be spilling wine on yourself instead.
Yes, I hate cats. They shed. Also, they seem to hate me too.
And to clarify, the drinking of the POM tea from the tall glasses wasn’t the problem. It was the opening of the POM tea. Those snap on lids? Ohmygod, am I the only one who couldn’t pop one off without ended up wearing my tea?
i agree that the lemonade is definitely the best flavor of vitamin water… i can’t drink many of the others.
when i was home with the flu once, when i was very little, my mom had reheated some ham and i stuck it in my mouth straight out of the microwave. i burned the shit out of my mouth. ever since then the taste in my mouth whenever i’m sick always tastes like hot ham and i am not a big fan of ham since the taste of it makes me feel like i’m sick.
such strange connections from our childhoods
I thought that even the word ‘cold’ was never uttered in your part of the world during the summer months. It’s generally so hot down yonder that nuns curse openly about the heat and birds burst into flame in mid-flight, but you…you managed to catch a cold.
You are, indeed, a unique snowflake, CBS.
Oh, but you could re-use the old glass bottles as drink cups forever ever. Or am I betraying my lack of dish ware here?
I have to say, I was sad to see yet another plastic bottle for the “recycle” bag when POM switched over. but I’m kind of a hippie like that.
Hope you feel better soon. Summer colds are the worst because all you want to be doing is being outside playing.
I’ll admit it: I rather miss the warm liquid jell-o from when I was sick as a kid. Just not the same when you’re all ‘growed up…
I have that same summer cold. It seems that it has swept the nation. I also spent last weekend in bed. Mucinex DM Extra-Strength.
Pennsylvania hasn’t banned smoking in bars yet or I’d try to go out. If I was to inhale any smoke tonight, I think it would officially kill me.
Anyway, I can sympathize with you. Hope you’re better soon.
I HATE cats as well. And cat people are so strange! Yes, you ALL know what I am talking about! Cats are evil and they hunt down people with deadly allergies and rub all over them. That’s just plain evil!
Yuck!!!
AMEN girl! cats suck!
I had that summer cold this weekend too. But I stuck with ginger iced tea that I made myself.
Glad you got a little pick-me-upper from the new bottle. It’s the little things that make our day, right?
POM is awesome…
I was sad when POM got rid of the curvy bottles for their pomegran juice and even sadder when they made the switch for their tea. The glass bottles were much better for the environment and reusabe. I have to admit, I did spill a bit of tea every time I popped the top. You get used to it just like I did with the Yoplait containers.