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What's your addiction???
Published: 11/10/2008 11:05 AM
Last Modified: 11/10/2008 11:05 AM

What up, buttercups!

As I'll allude to in tomorrow's (Tuesday's) column, I wanted to hear what some of your addictions are -- or were, if there are some really interesting (and preferably legal) snippets you'd like to share from your past. Like Dolly Parton said in "Steel Magnolias," "If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past." The same apparently can't be said for puberty and a noticeable, full beard, but whatever.

One of my addictions that didn't make it into the newspaper was Zesta crackers. Since I was a kid, I have LOVED saltines, especially the Zesta ones. Seems like I may have told y'all this before, but when I was in elementary school, I'd scamper (makes me sound like a squirrel) into the kitchen during commercial breaks to top crackers with quartered pieces of Kraft Singles, followed by hamburger dill pickle slices -- I called 'em hors d'oeuvres.

Now, as an elementary grown-up, I can go into the kitchen, fully intending to have only one or two saltines to fend off a hunger attack. But 15 minutes later, I've hors d'voured an entire sleeve. And then the guilt sets in, which makes me eat another sleeve, and so on and so on.

I also used to be VERY addicted to TV shows, most notably in high school when I had no social life. It had become a problem, I finally surmised, when I found myself praying for Valene from "Knots Landing" after she fell off a horse and had that brain trauma in the show's 12th season. Remember that? And she cut her hair, and fried up Betsy and Bobby's hermit crabs for dinner? Poor thing. It was an awful hair cut.

OK, enough about me. What's your addiction? Make it clean(ish).

Peace, love and hermit crab fritters ... xoxo


Reader Comments 5 Total
Amy Kakes (4 years ago)
ZESTA saltines are high on my list of addictions too!!! I used to devour a half sleeve after school with either butter or Miracle Whip. Sometimes I would put a piece of cheese on them and them run under the broiler (pre-microwave era).

Right now....Jalepeno Cheetos....OMG!!!

My girlfriend.....Cheezits. She can go through half a box if I don't take them away from her.
Jules (4 years ago)
Ok... although I've had several addictions that I've healed quite nicely from - my latest one is Nutella and bananas!! OMG, it's to die for!!! The best time to try it is when you're home alone, watching (insert fave tv show here) and getting ready for beddie-bye... good times and great eats!
Jason Ashley (4 years ago)
Ooooh, Nutella! LOVE Nutella, Jules!

And I'm so glad I'm not alone in the Zesta department, Ms. Kakes. Those jalapeno Cheetos sound good, too. Actually, now that I've typed that, I think I've tried them. Knowing me, I probably inhaled a whole bag. Long live carbohydrates! xoxo
Jackie (4 years ago)
The older I get the more addictions I acquire. So I'll only mention the one I'm currently plagued with.

Black jellybeans!

Oh, my!
Linny (4 years ago)
I am behind in commenting on this blog....but here goes.

After reading about the lip balm in one of your columns, I am right there with you!!

Since both my Granny and my mom always called them "lip chaps" so I of course say the same thing...Yah I am a dork....But anyhoo....I must have 10 in my purse, one in my workout bag,one on the table as I watch tv,one or two in my truck, ooh but don't they melt nice in our Oklahoma summers???
Ahh the good things in life....
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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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