Thursday, October 26, 2006

This will wrap up my blogging flurry of late.
Actual yahoo headlines occupying same page.
I want to meet the author.

EATING UP THE EARTH

A study says that if we keep using up the planet at this rate,
resources will be gone by 2050.

STUDY: earths resources could run out soon

BREAKING NEWS: cruise and holmes set wedding date

FINANCIAL NEWS: avoid using credit cards to pay your expenses

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

I forgot to mention!

The headline under "buy more spinach"
was all scary about bread consumption.

Seems I have a greater chance of certain death
from eating wheat.

More than 100%??

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

In the realm of light topics, I press on.

It appears I have wandered into a memory
fog recently, forgetting basic details, such as setting the alarm for the
correct time and stopping for gas. It would be bad enough if the
regrettable consequences only impacted me, but it seems I am to be humbled by public acknowledgement of these temporary lapses in judgment.
Meaning the alarm was meant to wake my husband for an important meeting and the passenger in the car was a friend who is prone to epileptic seizures when stressed.

This is also bad news for someone who attempts to contribute to the household treasury by attending to the myriad of small business details involving a staff of
two dozen intelligencios. (Such as creme de la creme emory and ga tech whippersnappers.)

So it was with hungry interest, I was drawn to today's yahoo headline
about the amazing effects of vegetables on mental agility.
And just as I was about to be sucked into this conundrum, I suddenly remembered (hurray, I remembered something) that spinach had recently been recalled nationwide.

And what veggie do you think the punsters were touting to wise us up?
Uh-huh--that one.

Let me try to connect the dirty dots--there's a direct effect on the greenbacks in
spinach producers wallets due to the decrease of vegetable consumption
resulting in duller brains everywhere.
If that doesn't deserve our immediate attention, I don't know what does.

Enough of that depression.
So you know how irksome it is to try to locate a word
you cannot spell in the dictionary?
If you will pretend to write yourself an email, punching in that word,
phonetically, of course, as good readers are taught; then click the spell check,
voila! you will now know where to find the word in webster's.

Try to remember to delete the email, otherwise you will be a prime candidate
for ordering the veggie plate.

With apologies to my fairest daughter, who perennially tries to bring fun into this ol' stick in the mud's life, I will save the draft I meant to share for later, but not so much later as to actually coincide with Christmas since it deals with the birth of the Savior and being a reformed pharisee, some habits die hard.

Instead, I will muse about the perfect refrigerator storage boxes--a product called StainGuard because tomato sauce can't taint it.

As I was shovelling (british spelling) my lunch out of one of these marvelous inventions today, it occurred to me how much more evolved the market is now for smart storage solutions.
How could you beat the color coded, burping tupperware of yesteryear?
And some smarty thought, we'll make it out of clear hard plastic.
Can't melt in the dishwasher and lo! one can behold the contents from all angles!

Works for me.