We ran out of Coke... ;_;

[windandwater]

Now I'm drinking Mountain Dew instead. =D;;

For some reason, my back hurts. Almost like I'm gonna get my period, but not, and I know it isn't THAT time of the month because I just had it. Maybe I'm just stressed out. Monday. 12:30pm. omgidie. I think I need to take my mind off things, but then I might get lazy or forget something and I should dig out my Immigration materials out from whatever box I stuffed them in when I moved. *flailgibberdie* It's still freaking hot though. I thought we were moving to cooler weather, since the big fires have started and all, but no... it's still hitting the 90s.

I still want to bake.

Comments

distraction of the chibi kind?

[boy-of-twilight.livejournal.com]

*is under a table in the white room coloring with a little plushie doll in his lap*

Re: distraction of the chibi kind?

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

*quite obviously looking for the missing chibi*

... Riku?

chibi!

[boy-of-twilight.livejournal.com]

*not paying you any attention of course*

Re: chibi!

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

*sees the bit of color in the otherwise white room and heads towards it*

... Riku? Why are you under the table?

Re: chibi!

[boy-of-twilight.livejournal.com]

*blinks up at you innocently*

Cuz it's too big?

Re: chibi!

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

Everything is too big for you because you're so little.

*blinks when he sees the crayons and the plushie*

... what are you doing with those.

Re: chibi!

[boy-of-twilight.livejournal.com]

We're coloring! Wanna see? *holds up picture for you!*

Re: chibi!

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

*asdfghjkl;cuteasdfghjkl; kneels down to look closer*

That's. That's very nice. Is it you and me?

Re: chibi!

[boy-of-twilight.livejournal.com]

Uhuh! That one's me and that one is you! *points and points*

Re: chibi!

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

*putting his arm around you; resisting urge to put the plushie someplace safe*

Why are we wearing the same clothes?

Re: chibi!

[boy-of-twilight.livejournal.com]

Cuz I wanna be like you when I grow up! *beams up at you*

How come you wear a dress?

Re: chibi!

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I already told you that you'll grow up to be like me.

And it's not a dress. It's sorta part of my belt. *tugs your hair*

Re: chibi!

[boy-of-twilight.livejournal.com]

*reeeeaches up to tug your hair back and grins* Namie says it looks like a dress too.

Re: chibi!

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

...

*I'm sorry your call cannot connect at this moment please try again*

Re: chibi!

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

W-who. Who is Namie, Riku?

Re: chibi!

[boy-of-twilight.livejournal.com]

*holds up the plushie proudly* This is Namie! I hadta rescue her cuz she was stuck waaaaay up there.

*points over to a tall dangling bird-cage thing with an open door and a chair pushed under it*

[chibi-faolan.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

Just for you. :3

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

They totally took the cocaine out of it in the 40s or something. XP!!

[chibi-faolan.livejournal.com]

Earlier, actually. 1904, I think it was...

Except they still use "extract from the leaves" for "flavor."

Always the real thing. ^_~

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

... wait, don't the stuff from Coke and cocaine and chocolate come from the same type of plant? Or am I being crazy?

[chibi-faolan.livejournal.com]

Coke was made with cocaine, that's why it was called coke. It was invented as a hangover cure. Around the turn of the century, the government started requiring that ingredients be printed on labels, and all of a sudden, everything turned out to either have cocaine or heroin in it. Coca-Cola changed the recipe early in that era, so they didn't suffer from the fallout like a lot of the other elixers did. They added caffeine instead of cocaine.

Thank you, A&E...

But a year or so ago, I was looking on Coca-Cola's website, and though it doesn't have the exact recipe, it does describe it in general terms. And one thing my eyes pulled out of the wall of text was "extract from coca leaves, for flavor." Granted, the tiniest amount has a huge taste, so you'd taste it long before you'd have enough to actually effect you. And it's metabolized very quickly, so it's not like it'd show up in a drug screening, either. But still. I remember sitting there and thinking, "damn... real thing, indeed."

As for chocolate... I'd wiki it, but I've got pipsqueaks to delete and irate parents to give the finger to.

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

Ah. For some reason I keep thinking coca and cacao are the same thing. Duh.

[chibi-faolan.livejournal.com]

'salright, I couldn't remember if it was different parts of the same plant or not. Isn't chocolate a stimulant, too?

[windup-boytoy.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's a stimulant per se. It has caffeine. And it affects seratonin levels.

[chibi-faolan.livejournal.com]

Mm. Caffeine = stimulant.