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Quarantine, Day 211

October 8

It is 9pm and I am not going to make the mistake tonight of trying to wait till the kiddo goes to bed before journaling because that may be never. Part of my Exciting Misadventure stash of random international foods was a milk crate full of Inca Cola, which is bright yellow and looks like fruit pop when you just look at the bottle. I let the kiddo have a test bottle after determining that it was likely to be unpoisonous, if just a little flat, and he liked its weird almost-cream-soda-but-not-quite taste. He drank part of it for supper and had a bit more of the bottle with his evening snack. It wasn't until the end of that snack that my husband, who had looked up Inca Cola on Wikipedia, grabbed the bottle and looked at it, and said "This is basically Coca-Cola for Peru. It has caffeine in it." Whoops.  Caffeine doesn't buzz up the kiddo like it does for some kids, paradoxical ADHD effect and all, so I'm not sure what's going to happen. Maybe it'll help him sleep, who even knows anymore? But it definitely had sugar in it so I made him brush his teeth extra well. I can't believe a drink that color of yellow and with that kind of taste would have caffeine in it. It seems wrong somehow. 

So my misadventures with international food continue into a second day, with new fun and new challenges, like surprise caffeine. I talked to the people at the big food bank, the one I worked with back in April to pass out food in the pouring rain. They said they can basically take ramen forever, because it has a very long shelf life even past best-by. Seaweed does too, apparently, so we're good there. Sesame oil, which I have about ten bottles of that I didn't even see at first (hiding under mayonnaise!) has a really long life too, plus it didn't actually expire until months later than everything else. Palm oil was not in the USDA Foodkeeper app that tells food banks whether or not something is still okay, so I have no idea about that. The mayonnaise is no good, of course, so I'm extra-glad I don't have four hundred jars of it in my car right now. 

The real problem is the Takis, which surprised me a little. We opened a couple bags and they taste fine, taste basically like new from what I know after a few years living in Laredo. But corn chips only have a shelf life of a few months after best-by date, according to Foodkeeper, so the food bank can't take them. The rules are quite strict about what they are and are not allowed to pass out if they want to participate in any federal food programs. I can totally understand that, and food safety is very important, but it does leave me with seven (I think, I counted them but one might still be buried under seaweed) cases of twelve bags of Takis each, plus another half dozen bags in my hamper. My husband says we'll probably just have to keep them, like a man who really likes fuego Takis. We shall see. 

Oh, and I got about twenty bags of clam-flavored ramen. I had no idea that was a thing. Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but just imagining that flavor makes my mouth clamp shut. Lots of other flavors too, though. I consolidated some crates and repacked stuff so I could bring a couple milk crates full of stuff into the apartment, and put some stuff I'm going to donate in a cardboard box. I would like to keep at least some of the milk crates, but I'm not going to roll up to the food bank with a minivan full of loose ramen packets and tell them to have at it. Milk crates are very useful. The kiddo has already stolen one to use as a table, for instance. 

Kiddo ran a slight fever during parts of the day today, though he was back to doing his schoolwork and feeling better. I think I may take both of us for testing tomorrow, just to be safe. I really don’t think we have it, it’s just that any fever makes everybody so nervous these days! We haven't got any known contacts; I'm the only one who leaves the house much, and most of what I do consists of running into and out of places, never having a long conversation and never taking my mask off near people. I really think it's just some autumn bug, but we have to be sure. My folks are passing through town next week and we absolutely do not want to risk giving anything to them! If we get tested tomorrow, there should be just enough time to turn a test around and get results. To be on the safe side, though, I have canceled the rest of our week and rescheduled further out. This does not take nearly as long as it used to. 

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inca cola is goooooooodd

u should def try it :)

...also i figured that no one except alexia follows me tht nobody irl will find my blog so im just gona do what i want here... also idk who im saying this too? 

i have 1 follower. nobody rlly cares abt this soooo. yep. :|

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Weird snack I had at work

I had way too much caffeine the day I had this and also I don’t remember where it’s from. Presumably somewhere in Latin America.

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