At first I felt like I was drinking medicine, but after a while the flavor just kind of grows on you. So much so that now the taste of regular Coke no longer seems to appeal to me.
I feel like such a freak.
Cherry Coke Zero has become my favorite and I don’t have to feel bad when I drink a couple of them because of the whole zero calorie thing. And I personally like the taste a lot more than Diet Coke of any variety–there’s not that sickly sweet flavor and that disgusting aftertaste. There really is more of a Coke flavor to Coke Zero.
Okay, so sometimes my brother can be a dick. I laugh about it, but he’s always getting me with stupid stuff.
We were watching like Animal Planet or something and it was all stories about amazing animals and their feats. So during the commercial, The Girl blurts out “Penguins can fly!”
I scoffed like really loudly, “No they can’t. Whoever told you that is stupid because penguins can’t fly.” I probably sounded a little too irritated, but she’s always coming out with stupid shit to try and get as much attention as possible. She’s still trying to fit into our family because she only came to live with all of us during the summer, and now we’re staying at my Dad’s house. Three strong willed adults leaves a couple of kids that don’t really get away with a whole lot, especially the lies she likes to tell. (The most worrisome thing for me is that she actually seems to believe her lies, even the really crazy ones.)
Anyways, that whole penguins flying thing had me just snapping out as fast as possible to tell her that it wasn’t real. She kept insisting it was true, and we got into this whole deal, going rounds and rounds.
Then my brother goes, “Check this out” and turns his computer.
On the screen was like a National Geographic type show with penguins flying around. “The only penguins that are able to fly and who love to migrate to like the Bahamas.”
For a minute, my brain just stalled and I was like “It’s impossible, but it might be true.” And I was really kind of getting into the idea of it, when there was a snap and I was like “No way. I call Shenanigans! It’s like that spiders smoking weed video. FAKE!”
And my brother laughed and turned his computer to the spider video.
It was good to laugh like that, and thinking about it now, I’m still laughing.
That’s the kind of thing I get nostalgic for afterwards.
BTW, my brother just said that Hank Hill got raped by a dolphin. Seems legit.
I thought I would revisit my sci-fi epic. I work on these stories every once and awhile; hardcore space opera, baby, the only opera I enjoy.
They’re badly in need of editing and I need some smart sci-fi brain to go over them because I’m not sure what’s possible or not and my way of writing has changed since I started the series. Still, they’ve always been my favorites 🙂
Title: Sapphire
genre: sci-fi
series: Facet of Empire
Summary: Sapphire is brought to the prison planet Hades to find the notorious muderer William Hedell.
