I have the largest room in my house. Bigger than my parents. This makes it a sort of dumping grounds. No room in the store room? Put it in Katie's room. No room in the other store room? Put it under Katie's bed. No room in the under stairs storage closet thing? Put it in Katie's closet. I try to be a good sport about it (minus one very angry incident that I would not like to rehash. Jessie and Sara can tell you all about how mad and bratty I was though.), because I have a room big enough to house a small African village.
For nearly two years now, I've had a package of caramel "Digestives" sitting on my chest of drawers. My sister, Anna, left them there one Christmas, and I always assumed they were some weird baking ingredient or something, and presumed she would eventually reclaim them. I should know better, I've had a ten pound block of melting chocolate in my closet for two and a half years now. So these "digestives" have just been sitting. Untouched. For years.
Flash back to my self discoveries post in which I went on a reading binge. One of those books was a British book in which she ate "digestives". Context led me to realize "digestives" are also known in the US as... cookies!! I still didn't put it together until this morning, when I was lying in bed really hungry and too tired to go all the way upstairs for food. Those strange "digestives" on my dresser are potentially delicious, albeit very old, cookies!
They're all gone now. I ripped the strange packaging open in seconds and smerfed those bad boys in like ten minutes because I was so hungry and they were so weird- but the kind of weird that has you eating more to see if they're still weird. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I clearly have not changed at all since last school year. No patience, no sense of restraint. It's cool, it generally gets me into some wonderfully strange predicaments. Now I'm off to clean all the "digestive" crumbs off my bed. And by clean, I mean I'll eat the big ones and brush the rest off to the carpet.
P.S. I'm not sure why I keep quoting "digestives," except that I'm so baffled that anyone would call a cookie a "digestive."
P.P.S. To Anna- I'm not sorry. I would do it again.
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