Four- Thirty Thoughts<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t really like the taste of food that much.
\nNot really.
\nNot the way I\u2019ve seen other people truly enjoy it.
\nHowever, I do have one exception.
\nThere is one taste that I spend 10 months waiting for,
\nand two months savoring.
\nEgg Nogg.
\nI crave it in April.
\nI crave it in June.
\nI crave it in the heat of summer and two days after
\nthey\u2019re out of it at the grocery store in January.
\nAnd in those two blissful months that Egg Nogg is
\nflowing like a breath stealing, cream-colored stream….
\nMy thirst for it is insatiable.
\nIt hit the stores yesterday.
\nI purchased my first half-gallon of the season
\nin a fevered state, and I could feel it slip down my throat
\nfrom the moment I reached for the carton.
\nI perused the dairy section for a full fifteen minutes
\ntrying to decide which flavor to try first.
\nBecause when Egg Nogg is an option, the selection of
\nstyles is seemingly unending.
\nLite, Traditional, Laesch, Kemp\u2019s, Premium, and on and on.
\nI chose carefully.
\nThis was not an impulse buy.
\nThis was not a key chain or a lock de-icer.
\nThis was, after all, Egg Nogg.
\nI left the store with all the eagerness of a twenty-one year old
\npurchasing his first legal bottle of booze.
\nAnd when I got home, I poured myself the perfect glass of my seasonal addiction.
\nBut when I tasted it,
\nwhen all of the sweetness of it ran over my tongue,
\nI thought of you.
\nAnd I realized that maybe I was never meant to have
\nany of the sweeter things in life.
\nThat maybe I shouldn\u2019t set my heart on something
\nthat I\u2019ll only be able to have for a short time.
\nBecause it only makes everything more difficult when
\nthe Egg Nogg isn\u2019t available anymore.
\nI dumped the rest of the glass down the sink.
\nAnd I left the carton in the fridge.
\nMaybe someone else will drink it.
\nSomeone who won\u2019t become as addicted to it.<\/p>\n
written by barbie dockstader angell.
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Four- Thirty Thoughts I don\u2019t really like the taste of food that much. Not really. Not the way I\u2019ve seen other people truly enjoy it. However, I do have one exception. There is one taste that I spend 10 months waiting for, and two months savoring. Egg Nogg. I crave it in April. I crave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbieangell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}