This post has been weeks in the making. I’m only sorry that I wasn’t able to write it when I first found this little piece of nostalgia, but with any luck I’ll at least be able to beat Vee’s upcoming post (since I’d hate to steal the top of the page from her).

No one in my current town knows what I’m talking about when I try to tell them about the Eraser Puzzle Cube of Glorious. Sadly, almost everyone around here is about ten years younger than I am — not nearly close enough to 1980 to be familiar with the awesome things I used to entertain myself as a kid (because we lived in the dark ages and there was no internet).

One of those things was this…

This is a puzzle cube. It is also an eraser. Why is that important? Because I used to collect erasers…. I also collected pencils…and bookmarks…. I still do many of these things, but let’s not linger on that, all right?

The other important thing to know about this is that, of course, since it’s a puzzle cube, you can take it apart. Like so:

Oh my God, how awesome is that?! It’s awesome, right? Say it’s awesome.

Back in the day, I had names for each one of these colored pieces, and I used them in order to 1 – recognize them, and 2 – try to remember in what order they went back together.

For instance….

As I was driving home from work today, I decided to finally stop over at the Asian market. I really wanted one of those tapioca pearl drinks that I like; I’ve been craving one for a week, but the last time I drove by, the store was closed.

Well, I get there and I find the drink I’m going to buy, but then it occurs to me that I should look around a little more. I was really hoping for some onigiri, but they didn’t have any (that I could see, anyway…), so I starting looking at what they DID have, and well…this is what I came home with:

There WAS an extra soymilk drink, but I drank it. You can imagine what it was like, walking around the store with three freezing cold items in your hands. Sort of uncomfortable, but that didn’t stop me from shopping. 

Read about each of my delicious snacks!