Living with your parents...

I had this brief lucid moment this morning where I thought I was in my room from high school, and it was shattered when Robin came through the door. (In high school, I lived in my parents' basement, and the door was at the top of the stairs.)

We're about to move to my parents' house in Lawrenceburg for the summer (different house - this new one doesn't have a basement). I realized my blood sugar must be low.

Which is good, because that means I get an Ale8 slushie, but it also made me realize - we're moving at least twenty minutes away from the nearest Ale8 slushie.

I told Robin, "I just realized, we're moving at least twenty minutes away from the nearest Ale8 slushie."

"As opposed to two and a half hours away?" she replied.

We decided to move in with my parents for the summer and build up cash so we can move to Bowling Green in the fall for Robin to start grad school at Western.

I feel like I should pause here for a moment and talk about Ale8 slushies. First of all, it's my favorite drink. I became hooked on them when I worked at Amazon doing returns. I could go to the Marathon station on Buckhorn, grab a 32 oz slushie, go to work, leave it in the car while I was inside, and I could finish it with my lunch.

By the time I went to work at Manchester Center, I was hooked on the Ale8 slushie. I mentioned it to my coworker, Dave and he was like, "Ale8? And a slushie? Where?"

Up to that point, I only knew of two places in Lexington to find one and both were in my neighborhood, which was nowhere near Manchester Center.

Dave and another one of our coworkers (I forget her name so I'll call her "Camille") found a BP that sold them at the corner of Versailles Road and Industry, which to this day is the farthest west I've ever found an Ale8 slushie.

If anyone is reading this outside of Kentucky I feel as if I should explain. Ale8-1 (or "a late one," according to the package) is a regional soft drink bottled in Winchester, Kentucky. It gets harder to find the further one gets from Winchester.

When my parents lived north of Frankfort, I was in town for the 127 yard sale and wanted to start my morning with an Ale8. I had to drive all the way through Frankfort to Wal-Mart on the south side of town before I found Ale8 in a bottle and I had to pay a premium price. I think it was $1.79 a bottle, as opposed to the fifty cents a bottle costs at Kroger in Lexington.

So in Lawrenceburg the closest place I know to get a bottled Ale8 is Frankfort, and I would have to pay through the nose for it.

And I don't know of anywhere to get an Ale8 slushie that's closer than Lexington.