OK, so that didn't work out the way I would have liked for it to, but what can you do? Suck it up and be embarrassed being an American every day for four years, I guess. Anyway, life goes on.
So, on to nicer topics, shall we?
I get these cravings for certain foods sometimes that last for weeks. Some weeks, it's a certain kind of cereal. Sometimes, it's spaghetti and meat sauce. My ice cream with Nerds candy phase has started now. When I was a kid, I'd usually go to Dairy Queen and get a Nerd Blizzard (usually grape). I don't think they even make them anymore or they're just seasonal or something. I haven't spent enough time in the USA to find out. (And I'm also craving quite a bit of food from over there. I need to start making a list of the food I want and the places to eat it at. It's my favourite thing about travelling--food. It might tie with seeing my family.)
Recently, I've lost my last living grandparent and she used to be one of the ones who would get me those Blizzards so it makes me think of her. I didn't go see her the last time I was in the USA because I had been one of the lucky ones to contract COVID while I was there. I'm kind of glad that I didn't go see her, in a way. She was one of the ones who made the nice moments of my childhood, um, nicer. I am lucky to have had a grandmother like her.
So yeah, I have gotten a box of Nerds and put them in soft ice cream. Good stuff and good memories which I hope will linger.