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Overall I believe in recycling. However, sometimes I have to question.... cause that's just what I do people... So the most current thought came this past Wednesday before Christmas when I was in the kitchen ALL DAY BAKING. Literally from 1pm to 1am on Christmas Eve. This sweet tooth mama learns from her love of sugar and I'm one hell of a good baker! So anyways, as I pulled out the box of aluminum foil for like the zillionth time I had to wonder.... is it more cost effective and environmentally friendly to use aluminum foil to save foods or Tupperware? Aluminum foil you have to keep buying every time you run out and then it gets thrown in the trash. Tupperware you only have to buy occasionally when it gets worn down but your also spending the money on dish soap and water every time you wash it. Not to mention that when you do throw it away... does it take a more vigorous process to recycle it since it it a sturdier material?? It's like the dilemma I previously wrote of involving paper cups verses a perma coffee mug. What a pickle!

As I was out doing Christmas shopping this year I ran into many Salvation Army Bell Ringers. This is about the only time that I don't mind going to our local Wal-Mart as opposed to Meijer cause our local Wal-Mart Bell Ringer also plays the saxophone, and isn't that just Merry! I bet he gets upgraded from nickels to quarters for that! I know I enjoy the festive Christmas music being bellowed out into the cold snowiness by a Saxophone. It adds that feel to the atmosphere. Anyways, my thoughts started to rumble a few times when I had no cash to give them cause I mostly have my plastic and I wonder.... do the Bell Ringers struggle with collections more now that plastic has become the main source. Are they going to start putting a card swiper on the red bucket for donations? Maybe they should just put an option on the card swiper in the store when you check out. I'm also always inclined to buy these people a hot coffee cause they are doing a good service and the stores won't even allow them to stand in the double doors. Where is the compassion?

When I went to the book store this season I was struck by an oddity that I began to wonder if it occurred in all the other book stores of this particular name. I will not mention it, but to say it is a widely popular book store across the country so this could be a possible happening in so many places. I was searching for a book in the children's section and as I'm walking, head down, very grossly involved in the titles I suddenly walked one bookshelf to far and went from Dr. Seuss to Dr. Dirty Sex. (Not literally a name) Point is. I looked up, startled and realized that the Romance novels were located smack next to the children's books. With their pictures of swooning, full breasted women and their lovers plastered on the covers sitting right next to the cartoon covers of Strawberry Shortcake and the Grinch. I think a lot of stuff now a days is overly PC but some stuff is just too easy. Don't complain that kids know to much about sex and then give them an invite to crack a book and learn all about it! Idiots! Better yet...when you turned the corner to the next aisle. There was a fine display of Bibles and Spirituality books sitting right next to the Erotica section! EROTICA....with Bibles and lest not forget children's books no more than one bookcase over! Idiots, Idiots, Idiots!!! Erotica should be filed next to Romance and they should both have their own section... next to computer manuals or something that small children are not likely to be around! No fear in boys and girls having sex education class in separate rooms...who cares!!! They are gonna get their long before that cause Barbie is gonna be acting out an erotic seen with Winnie the Pooh! Get your heads out of the clouds people. Stop being PC and overlooking all the obvious!! Kids are not stupid talk to them and quit hiding but don't put it in their hands for them to figure out on their own! Little minds wander too easily and curiosity is their best friend!

Alright...moving on. I'm going to go eat some cookies now and try to figure out the perfect ratio of milk to finish off my Oreo Cookies.

Gone To Shit! My Brain That Is...

Really! I haven't posted on here lately, and as I question why I only have one answer. I have been so freaking busy lately that my only spare, thought involved, non-planning and random fun thoughts that I have had are things with the likes of this following question.

How do companies such as Charmin, Angel Soft, White Cloud etc... test their product? Toilet paper that is. I was wondering how the product testing of these companies is assembled.

Are their specifics to testing ass paper? I mean, we all know they have to test their products. So,..toilet paper. Is there a group of employees that take product home to test and report their findings after wiping? Do they really go through the trials and tribulation of possibly having a crappy product? (Pardon the pun) Are they at home cursing their work like most Americans but due in part to product testing leading to poo on their finger when the paper is too flimsy or scratchy on their arse or heaven forbid they get a urinary infection due to the perfumes or textures of various TP's. Is their workers comp for an overly scratched ass?

Maybe instead of putting their employees through testing they are a more caring employer and use dummy dolls. Is their a group of dummy dolls produced that actually poops and pees? They can make the waterbaby, baby doll so surely this is attainable. So they could just use dummy dolls and mechanical ass wiping devices and then what? A panel of people sit around in a semi-circle assessing the usage of toilet paper to a dummies ass? Noting things on their paper like minor irritations or paper remnants left stuck in the crack?

I imagine if I ever had a job in a company of this nature I would send my resume straight to the product testing of flush ability. That has to be much less invasive. Yet not as comical...hmmm.

Anyhow, as you can see. these are my most interesting random thoughts lately and it's a bit disturbing. Even to my own maniacal self. My head is officially in the shitter!

Fast Food Pays The Bills?

I recently noticed on my receipt from Taco Bell that they have a survey on the back and it states that one customer every week wins $1,000 bucks or something of that nature. I've noticed these before from other places too. You know, Target, the grocery store, etc... It didn't hit me until yesterday, but do people really ever win money from these things? Does anybody even participate in the surveys? Or does everybody slough it off like I do, thinking it's silly and impossible, and so the money just sits there? Is there really any money at all to be won? Maybe there isn't and it's just a way to get your opinions. I mean, have you ever actually heard of somebody who won money from a survey for a store or fast food place or from the yearly Monopoly game from McDonald's? Anybody? Is it legal for them to not award somebody? What about Wheel Of Fortune? Everybody got a Wheel Watcher number? Cause I know I do! Maybe if I sat at home and did surveys all day I would actually become rich. I want a full report from the professionals on this. Whoever they are. Who knows!

I Heart Pencils

Absolutely love them. I am a dedicated pencil fan and would stand up any day and take a pencil over a pen. Being somebody who over analyzes I have an inner urge to always have an eraser located in a nearby proximity. I assume that I developed this love of pencils partially because I like to draw / doodle constantly. That scratchy sandpaper sound of lead on paper, and the smell...that's right, smell. It happens right after you've sharpened it. Kind of like lighting a match, that split second lovely chemical smell.

Changing the subject now... Tim recently asked me "if a Dairy Queen catches on fire does it burn slower because everything inside is frozen and cold?" All I could do was shake my head and say "I'm sorry" it seems I've passed on this sickness of analyzing randomnesses.

The Mass Insanity

So, I'm answering phones at the front desk today and for no apparent reason I start wondering random things. This happens all the time. For instance, if there were no planes in the sky flying from place to place would the world be less windy? They create wind...along with cars driving ect.... Just imagine if all transportation and movement came to a halt for five minutes...do you think the wind would stop? Now, hang in there with me, if this notion were true then does that mean that on especially windy days there is simply more movement happening in the world? Is that why Chicago is "the windy city?" Simply because they have so much going on?

Then, again, my mind jumps to pringles...yes thats right! Chips! I'm suddenly wondering if you get more chips in a tube of pringles or a bag. The tube looks smaller but the whole tube is full. You buy a bag of chips and suddenly you seem to have decided to invest stock in air as well cause that damn bag is half air! Don't they know that their chips may have a longer shelf life if there was no air in the bag. Air causes food to go stale, I want vacuum packed chips damnit! Then again...maybe that's the point. If the chips go stale, we buy more. The insanity, at least it's not just inside my head!