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Wed, Jul 11, 2007

Tapioca

Posted at 7:01 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

The first time I ate tapioca pudding was when I was 7 years old, when my youngest brother was born. My other brother and I spent a few days at my maternal grandmother's house, and she made tapioca pudding one day. I think there were raisins in it.

That was also the first time I read a book that wasn't a picture book for myself: Grandma had given me the first Bobbsey Twins book for Christmas and I took it with me. At Christmas in the middle of first grade I hadn't had the vocabulary to manage it, but by July 4th between first and second grade, I read it fairly easily. My parents refused to let me learn to read before the school started teaching me, so i was a comparatively slow starter.

I soon made up for lost time when it came to reading...

I'm thinking about tapioca because I bought some ready-made tapioca pudding at Costco this evening. I wanted some comfort food. I haven't been sleeping well or swallowing properly (choking on well-chewed grapes is not a good sign... fruit doesn't usually get stuck). It's just as well I'm such a hermit -- between lack of sleep and esophageal spasms, I'm feeling really cranky.

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