May 11, 2010
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Observations
Have you noticed that it is virtually impossible to find a plain old “regular” tube of toothpaste these days? Everything is all “super whitening, ” or “enamel strengthening,” or “advanced whitening with sparkles and a ‘ding’ sound when you smile.” What’s up with that? It isn’t just the food that’s over processed in this country, eh?
As I rushed through the grocery store today I saw a few things that made me want to gag. Pre-cooked bacon? Pre-made frozen biscuits with cheese and ham? Frozen omelettes….already cooked? Gross. Is it just me or does this stuff just sound so unappealing?
As long as this particular blog entry has taken on a Seinfeld-esque observation of life quality (though clearly not as FUNNY), I’ll continue sharing observations from my day. Unfortunately for you, my day really hasn’t been that interesting….but you know you want to read on anyway. Right?
There is a man that works out at the gym at the same time as me, several days a week. I would guess that he is in his late 40s or early 50s and there is no doubt in my mind that he was a jock in high school. Mr. Meat Head (that’s what we’re calling him) is still sporting a bulky body builder physique and he clearly wants everyone to notice. He struts around the gym in such a way that you can’t help but notice AND HEAR him, even if you are wearing headphones while running on a treadmill and getting steadily more angry as you read the closed captioning on the Fox News that is annoyingly right in front of your face. (Hypothetically.) He huffs and puffs and practically beats on his chest as he walks around, flipping his hair around. When Mr. Meat Head runs into one of his “buds” and talks sports (of course) he SHOUTS every word he says. Grrrr. Today, he was doing some sort of cardio circuit training while I rode a stationary bike. First he grunted and huffed through an elliptical workout to my left and then he popped up on the treadmill to my right making just as much noise. Clearly his workout is much more serious and intense than anyone else’s and we all really need to know that. So now you know.
One of my Facebook friends (no, it’s not you….don’t worry) is an extreme over-sharer. She has always been this way, but having Facebook at her fingertips has only made it more obvious. For awhile, I “hid” her posts so that I didn’t need to know about every time she went to the bathroom or picked up dog poop in her backyard. But then her life took an interesting turn (outside of bathroom behavior) and I decided to un-hide her so I could read about things as they unfolded. Today she posted something about having moderated a meeting at a “Co-dependents Anonymous” meeting last night. Anonymous. Anonymous!!!!! Stop sharing!!!! (And really, I didn’t know such a thing existed. Sheesh.)
OK, I’m done with my rant. For today.
Comments (7)
Anonymous + Facebook = Ha!
So you don’t feed your kids Uncrustables? The frozen pbj sandwiches? That cracks me up…. in a totally gross and unappealing way.
Faded Glory. That’s what we call those types who want to live in their past. I never would buy the “lunchables” so my 21 yr old son comes in with a bag of them – begause he was deprived as a child… arrgghh!
@DrTiff - Even if there was no peanut allergy in this house we would never buy that nastiness! EW!
@murisopsis - I had lunch with my kindergartener today and watched another kid “make pizza” out of a lunchable box. He was so excited to tell me about this “special kind of pizza that doesn’t need to be cooked.” I reserved judgement while he was looking and listening….but GROSS.
Colonial Williamsburg looks beautiful! Lovely, indeed.
I like frozen biscuits but not with prepackaged eggs & sausage. And
how hard is it to cook eggs? Very strange. I am also always disturbed
by the Smuckers Uncrustables creation – it’s like white bread with pb
& jelly, but frozen some how and I’m sure an extra 10 tablespoons of
sugar have been added. But what do you do with them? Why can’t you
just make a PB&J sandwhich? It’s so hard to understand.
Oh, ha ha, just saw Tiff’s comment! Too late now, too much effort has been made, you’ll just have to read about uncrustables again! (-:
Uncrustables!!!!!! OMG that just made me laugh my ass off. I suppose those of us who are gluten exiles have the advantage in frozen pre-cooked food avoidance. ANONYMOUS!! OMG, that made me keep laughing. I decided a while back that FB is evil. I’m sticking to it. I’ve only left my site up because I fear the possibility of inadvertently losing contact with people and not being able to find them again if/when I need them. And by “need” I mean “miss” of course.
@ordinarybutloud - I am NOT KIDDING….today, this very same FB over-sharing friend posted not only a status update about getting an Upper GI done today, but a photo of herself in a hospital gown, sliding down enough to show leads from an EKG machine and looking all sorts of doped up on meds. WTF???
@turningreen - People are WEIRD, man. I don’t know why I never knew this until recently. Now I wish I could unlearn it. It kinda freaks me out sometimes.