The fact that these
cereal bowls are pink and turquoise should give you a clue as to just how long I've had them. See boys and girl, there was a time long long ago when that was THE color combination. We're talking the 80's with a little carry over into the early 90's. Which is when I got the set of which these bowls were a part.
I was working at Target at the time, and living in my first apartment. Came across a set of dishes on clearance for $5 because one of the cups was missing. I needed dishes for my new apartment. Plus I could easily take a cup out of one of the complete sets, put it in the clearance box and *voila* have a complete set of dishes for $5. A complete set of pink and turquoise dishes.
Now I've long since gotten rid of the set but I kept the bowls. Why? Because, though they are indeed ugly as hell, they are the perfect size for cereal and the perfect side steepness. And if you think they're ugly now after nearly 20 years of fading you should've seen them new. (Now that I've written this I'm finding it hard to fathom how long I've had these bowls... TWO DECADES!!!)
This is my second cup of coffee in the morning. My first cup of coffee, as I'm sitting around in the morning thinking "Fuck I really don't fucking want to go to fucking work fuck fuck FUCK FUCK FUCK" and having breakfast, is in a real coffee cup, like my Empire Strikes Back coffee cup. Then I pour a cup into one of my insulated travel cups (I have three just like this, two brown and one blue) for the commute to work and the long trek in from the parking lot. About 30 minutes or so after arriving at work I use it for my third cup. Then my fourth a little later. And often a fifth if I'm finidng it difficult to make it through the afternoon and remain awake at my desk.
The fact that these cereal bowls are pink and turquoise should give you a clue as to just how long I've had them. See boys and girl, there was a time long long ago when that was THE color combination. We're talking the 80's with a little carry over into the early 90's. Which is when I got the set of which these bowls were a part.
Pics of my stuff continues (I've stuck with it for 2 days now! Go me!) with my Empire Strikes Back coffee cup. I actually have two of these, picked them up at Barnes & Noble a few years ago while there for a little post-Christmas calendar shopping. Along with the calendars, these cups were also 50% off. Too good of a deal to pass up, even though the prequels had tarnished my deep nostalgic love of the original movies. But no matter how crappy episodes 1, 2 and 3 are I still fondly recall that summer when I turned 11, me and my brother seeing Empire over and over and over at the River Hills downtown. And here, in 50% off coffee cup form, was a reminder of those good times. But mainly I got them because I was low on coffee cups, always seemed to run out of clean ones before the dishwasher was full enough to run a load. What else could I do? Wash cups by hand between loads? C'mon, I'm not Amish.
