Tuesday, September 18, 2007

the wee hours

Today, a haircut; tomorrow, SuperZoo; Thursday, the world!

Okay, I lied, Thursday is just a doctor’s appointment.  Once a month, whether we like spending the $95 each or not, we have to go in or we can’t get our meds.  Anyway, SuperZoo starts tomorrow morning and we’re very excited that it’s finally here again.  Now that our beloved CoffeeFest is gone, SuperZoo is the only convention we look forward to all year.  It has hundreds of exhibitors and most of them have something fun, tasty or important for your pet.  It’s where we learn about new products, get samples, test ‘em out on our pets (do they love them or hate them?) and let you know what goodies we’ve discovered.  Okay, truthfully, Leigh-Ann will let you know all that stuff.  I will go looking for the best angles to get hedgehog pictures or the most fabulous snack for the dogs or cats.  It’s all kinds of awesome.  I wish you were all here, it’s that much fun.  Oh yeah, and it’s FREE!  We get tons of samples...and it costs us nothing.

Friday, September 14, 2007

mid-afternoon

Mmmm, Tonsillitis

But the good news is…I already had a course of antibiotics at home, so I didn’t have to go to the doctor this time.  My flashlight diagnosed me.  So, maybe the rhymes with Mole Dudes cookie didn’t make me sick, it was just the beginning of actually being sick.  So, it’ll be a crappy pay period for work, but I have gotten a lot of sleep.  Also, I just finished Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore, which I looooved.  I just started The Monsters of Templeton, but realized that I’m going to have to brush up on (read: know anything about) James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans guy.  It’s kind of like Lamb, where I’m thinking, “Did this (supposedly) happen, or is the author making this part up?”  Oh yeah, and I finally finished Harry Potter last week.

Until I feel functional, here are some nice cat/kitten pictures.  Note, it’s daytime and I’m awake.  Shocking, I know.

 

 

She lost that ear tip when she was a kitten.  We have no idea how it happened, or who the culprit was, but I’m sure Frank, Tie, or Scampi might “know”.

Monday, September 10, 2007

evening

Idiot of the Day - Hey, Did You Know That Kanye West is Black?  Shock to me too.

Oh man, am I tired of Kanye West’s whinybabyass.  First, he was mad about Britney Spears opening the MTV VMAs (hey, just because she’s been daily headline gossip now for over a year), saying, “Maybe my money’s not right. Maybe my skin’s not right.”  Or dude, maybe you kept your underwear on in public, didn’t get child services called on you, didn’t shave your head, didn’t go to rehab, so no one wants to see what sort of trainwreck you might be when you opened the awards. 

Now, the poor baby is throwing a tantrum (yes, another one) because he didn’t win…and he has to bring up race, again.  “That’s two years in a row, man ... give a black man a chance,” said West, stomping around his entourage and directing his comments at a reporter. “I’m trying hard man, I have the ... No. 1 record, man.”  Sure, it was good that he spoke out after Hurricane Katrina, saying that President Bush doesn’t care about black people, which is probably true, but only in that the black people he doesn’t care about are poor black people.  He doesn’t care about poor white people either.

Kanye, feel free to stay home next time.  It’s A-okay with me.

Friday, September 07, 2007

evening

Ugh, I Think I Had Chocolate Chip Cookie Food Poisoning

That is SO wrong.  The was a purchased cookie, from a fancy schmancy story.  Its name rhymes with Mole Dudes.  I can’t think that it could be anything else but the cookie, since I tossed said cookie two nights in a row, and then was pretty much down for the count because I felt horrid.  It takes very little to knock me down for the count.  How will I ever trust delicious chocolate chip cookies again???

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

evening

Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Eat Yogos

Since I often read mommy blogs, I’ve read about Yogos occasionally.  I often like what kids like, so I finally caved and bought some Yogos last week.  Ugh, these never should’ve been made.  First of all, they taste nothing like yogurt and nothing like fruit.  They’re nasty.  Not only are they nasty, the ingredients show exactly why they taste nothing like fruit OR yogurt, despite their description of “Yogurty covered fruity dots.”

Check out these ingredients:  SUGAR, COATING (SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL†, CALCIUM CARBONATE, NONFAT YOGURT POWDER [CULTURED WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CULTURED SKIM MILK, YOGURT CULTURES; HEAT-TREATED AFTER CULTURING], NONFAT MILK, REDUCED MINERAL WHEY, COLOR ADDED, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT), CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, APPLE PUREE CONCENTRATE, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF WATER, PECTIN, CORNSTARCH, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, MALIC ACID, CARNAUBA WAX, COLOR ADDED, YELLOW #5 LAKE, CARMINE COLOR, YELLOW #6 LAKE, YELLOW #6, BLUE #2 LAKE, BLUE #1 LAKE.  The only “fruit” they contain is apple puree concentrate.  And that, that is why they taste like, well, nothing found in nature.  The concept is good though, little fruit balls covered with yogurt, so why couldn’t they actually put the fruit in them and make them healthy for kids to eat?  The first ingredient should be fruit, but it only makes an appearance a little bit before WAX, which is why, like I said, they taste awful.

If your kid likes them, replace them with yogurt covered raisins or fruit roll-ups or something that doesn’t make me gag.  At least the first ingredient in my Fruit Roll-Ups Stackerz is grape from concentrate…and the second ingredient is sugar.  Heh.  Or splurge and get the Stretch Island Fruit Leather - it tastes good AND it’s all fruit.  No wax!  No artificial colors!  No sodium!  Now I’m sad, all I have are my fruit roll-ups and I want fruit leather.  Damn.  At least we bought a big ol’ watermelon.  We went grocery shopping at 2am and we were the only customers in the store.  It was so nice and peaceful.  They turn the lights down, and except for it being hard to see inside what’s on the shelves in the frozen food section, it’s great.  Try shopping in the middle of the night sometime.