Confession

I have a confession to make. I have a gummi problem. It's all because of german (which is also the reason that I now call them gummis instead of gummies). I've been taking german at school for the past few years, but even that might have been okay. However, I've been to a few german club meetings, although not many. At one of them we did a gummi bear tasting. We tried gummi bears (not gummy bears, whch now just sounds weird to me!) from several different companies and rated them. Haribo was, quite naturally, the winner. It is a german company that makes many gummi candies, although we can't get a lot of them in the US. And from that point on I was a little obsessed (no, really, only a little. I know what serious obsession looks like. Harry Potter anyone?).

I sort of collect Haribo bags of diferent sorts, like the frogs, and I've got a bag of gummi bears from France when I went last summer and of gummi peaches from Sweden which my mm brought me. But I did not realize how bad my problem was until last night. I was with my family and we had gone to see Julie and Julia, the new movie (which is very good). At one point we see Julie go into a grocery store. Behind her, in the back of the shot and HOLDING NO IMPORTANCE AT ALL is a rack of Haribo candies. I kind fangirled, like squealing quietly etc. over the Haribo, and grabbed my brother. Over the background of the shot. At this point I realized that yes, I really do have a problem.

Moving on. Grammar. Many people in this world not have any, so every so often I'll be adding a small grammar point onto the end of a post.

Of v. Have.
As in "I should of gone to the store." This is, incorrect. When you write this, what you are presumably trying to do is write down the sounds that your mouth makes when you say "I should've gone to the store." They sound very similar, but they are not the same. When you say 'should've' you are using a contraction of 'should have' and thus if you decide to write it out that is what you should write. 'Should of' does not make sense.