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Zorms are discount candies that you buy after major candy holidays such as Valentine's Day, Easter and Hallowe'en. Why zorms? because zoem is the sound that you make when you desire candy. Fact. At least, so it is known in my extended friends group. And now you know it too!

~zormzormzormzorm~

Often accompanied by rhythmic grabbyhands.

I had to go to a grocery store to pick up a few things, but they had no zorms! None! It was a travesty! They had other valentines tat, but meh. Gimme candy! So I googled the mall to see if they had any good chocolate stores, and they have a Lindt store! Score!

So I went to check out their zorms, since the bus I was taking home left from the mall anyway. And man - I'd never been in a Lindt store, but it was pretty rad! They gave me a free chocolate right off the start, and told me about all their sales and specials. They had a bunch of 50% off valentine's stuff, but mostly it was the milk chocolate truffles in small packages. This would have been okay zorms, and I almost went that route.

But!

Apparently it is Lindt's 100th birthday? So they had a deal where you could get ONE HUNDRED LINDOR TRUFFLES for THIRTY THREE DOLLARS! WHAAAAAAAAT. That's over 50% off :o Like, three for a dollar! Crazy cheap!

So that's what I did. And they have bins of truffles, so it was pick and mix! But man, 100 truffles is a LOT, so I got a few ones that sounded good but that I haven't tried before.

So now I have 100 truffles @_@ (okay maybe a few less than that ;)

AND THEN, because I'd spend over $25 before tax, I *also* got a free chocolate bar.

So basically I can die happy, in zorm heaven. Best zorms ever. I posted t on facebook and another friend apparently went and got some too :D

So I guess, something to think about if you are a chocolate lover with a little disposable income, and there is a Lindt store near you!

Zorm day comes but thrice a year - it is the Day After Candy Sale Holiday. It is celebrated after Valentine's Day, Easter, and Hallowe'en.

Zorm is the sound one makes when one wishes to be given candy. repetition of the word is often combined with the action known as "grabby hands". This action is not typically successful, but it is tradition within certain narrow cultural circles nonetheless.

Zorms are, of course, candy. Zorm day is all about candy.

Building up the mythology of Zorm Day has psychological merit, in that it provides justification for the acquisition of large candy and chocolate hordes. It also justifies the efforts one might go to acquire such a horde.

This year, Post-Valentine's Zorm Day fell on a Saturday. I took Jola on a Very Long Walk to get to the Walgreens on Texas Avenue, which is the great Zorm Mecca. They have the best deals on leftover candy - everything goes on 50% straight off (hisses at Target), and they have a pretty good selection (hisses at HEB). Kroger was also pretty good when I lived closer to it, but it is quite a way out of the way for me now. Although that said it is only a few blocks away from the Wallgreens, I suppose. But anyway! I walked about 2.5 miles just to get some candy, ayup. ZORM DAY!

Today, of course, is Post-Easter Zorm day. I worked, but had hopes there would still be some zormable zorms! I also had a bunch of errands I needed to run - pick up Jola's county tag and her frontline, get some groceries and my acid reflux meds which I have been out of for almost a week now, ugh.

Clearly, fitting in a trip to Zorm Mecca was going to be worth the extra effort, even though it is about 3-4 blocks out of my way, considering that the vet is a block away from the grocery store (and its inferior zorms). I considered and reconsidered my route, and eventually decided to do a short circuit - vet, Wallgreens, HEB. With bus at either end and about a block walk home at the very end. This worked out pretty well - knowing that I was planning a zormspedition, I brought a pair of shorts to wear for the walk rather than the skirt I'd worn to work (because thigh chafe ;_;). I got off a stop later than I really should have for the vet and had to back track a bit, but everything else was fine. I got so many zorms - I'm well stocked for a while. I can also report that both Wallgreens and HEB have a crapton of Cadbury's Cream Eggs. I only got two - one for me and one for tethys123 - but Walgreens had one box full, and HEB (which had basically nothing else) had like three. I think this was about 1.5 miles, all told, but some of that was carrying shit, so that counts for more right? :V Anyway, it was not even 6 when I got to HEB, which I think is pretty impressive considering the bis didn't leave campus until about 5:07. I got home closer to 7, maybe around 6:45? But that was time shopping but waiting for the bus.

Most of my zorm haul is Russel Stover eggs of various kinds (the beeeest), plus the big cream eggs, two packages of the little cream eggs, some chocolate bunnies, a big bag of filled eggs. My biggest disappointments, in order was that I didn't score any: mini eggs (which were hard to find before easter too!), raspberry RS eggs, coconut RS eggs. Weh! I also finally got myself a new pair of sunglasses. Hopefully I won't lose or break these ones, or accidentally leave them in a other country :V

The zorms should last me quite a while - fear not, they are not for immediate consumption. And if properly requested, they may even be shared!