My Sunday night was spent with JTH and ALK. As is usually the case on Sundays, we juggled our schedule between ALK’s two handbell practices.
On Sunday evening, we picked up at ALK from her first practice at Bearden United Methodist Church. We had little time between this practice and her 7:30 practice at St. Mark United Methodist Church. In the meantime, we shopped at K-Mart, Borders, Target and Weigel’s. The last stop was especially significant as they were the first place we had been that carried Chewy Gobstoppers. JTH had been raving about these items for weeks though we had been unable to find them. After eating them, I honestly felt that they tasted like Skittles. JTH was not pleased with this comparison.
After dropping ALK off for handbells, we drove to the new super Kroger in Farragut. Having completed our mission of finding the ChewyGobstoppers, we were feeling lucky. We decided to try for the holy grail of snack foods, Mallomars. After weeks of searching, well, we struck out again. We did find that the store carries Pinwheels, another Nabisco product that looked nearly identical. Why would they do this?
Well, at least we got to catch up with JDM who was working in Guest Services.
We then attempted to find a book for JTH’s mother for Christmas at Books-A-Million. Once again, we came up empty. They were hocking Frozen Hot Chocolate at the place. Does that not defeat the purpose? After picking up food at McAlister’s Deli (for ALK) and Papa John’s (for us), we picked up ALK and returned to my house.
We then watched Say Anything. None of us had seen it, though it is an iconic film from 1989 starring John Cusack. I had seen an interview with Cusack earlier and the week and felt compelled to watch the film. We all enjoyed the romantic comedy. JTH and I did our best to explain artifacts from the 1980s to ALK including cassette tapes, boomboxes, etc.
It was a good day.
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