2 entries from srah blah blah tagged with 'childhood':

Tales from tiny srah

When I was much younger and an avid reader of food packaging, I was always fond of diglycerides. Mostly this is because in my mind, "diglycerides" was pronounced "diggly-CER-uh-deez," which sounds like a totally awesome dinosaur. I still pronounce it that way in my head, although I've since learned the correct pronunciation and know better than to call them by their dinosaur name in public. Strangely enough, my brain has always pronounced "triglycerides" as "triglycerides" and has no desire to turn that ingredient into a three-horned version of the first dinosaur. I got a kick out of the ingredients in...

srah - Thursday, 6 April 2006 - 8:20 PM
Tags: childhood, food

They're willing... for the shilling...

"I used to sell cookies too, you know," I said to the Brownie who came a-shilling at my place of employment. She seemed singularly unimpressed. I gave the best eight years of my life to the Girl Scouts and for what? I can't even impress a first-grader! I'll bet you didn't know that I was a Girl Scout for eight years. I'll bet you never would have guessed it from someone as rebellious and tough and... okay, I bet you would have. I don't even know who this girl belongs to, but in exchange for buying one box of Peanut...

srah - Monday, 20 December 2004 - 9:36 AM
Tags: childhood, girl scout cookies, girl scouts