Throwing Little Thought Pebbles at Your Windshield Since 1996
Okay, a few weeks in and I am ready to give my twenty five cent view on Idol for the boys.
1. Hair matters, but only if it doesn’t. Chris Daughtry didn’t have any, and I loved him Chris Sligh has a lot, and I love him.
2. Change your name to Chris.
3. Don’t sing a Stevie Wonder or Freddie Mercury song unless you are a complete moron.
There you have it. Good luck, gentlemen!
I’m going to give shout-out link love to Mr. Crunchy today. If anyone here loves Disney, or hell, hates Disney, you’ll enjoy his DIY Diznee. Beth, this means you. And when I say Beth, I mean both people I know named Beth who are Disney addicts.
I am on my own site a lot, and I tend to use my links to find stuff at Amazon because it’s right there. You know, I’m all about ease of use. What I realized is that Amazon dinged me on my commissions for all the times I clicked my own link to buy something. That’s not cool. Granted, in the old days, my readers used my links for EVERYTHING and one time I got a check for almost a hundred dollars. That certainly helped out with my hosting fees back in the day.
So instead of using that link when I’m buying stuff (and trust me, I buy a lot of stuff) I am looking to use someone else’s link to buy stuff. If you are an Amazon Associate, drop a comment with your link and I’ll check out your site. If you are already making money from advertising, be honest and mention that. I’ll share the love around, but I’d rather hit the little guys first, as I’m a little guy. I make ZERO money doing this, so I know what it’s like. And conversely, feel free to use my links when you are shopping. What are friends for?
The cafeteria, ever health conscious (and I say that in a good way) started carrying those trendy “100 Calorie Packs” of snack foods. These are a MUST HAVE if you are trying to reduce your food intake without completely depriving yourself. 100 calories worth of Doritos may not be much, but it’s better than no Doritos, or even worse, the Big Grab of Doritos, which is what I used to eat.
Today I tried the Chips Ahoy thin crisps. I did not have much hope for these, I’ll admit. I thought they would be along the lines of communion wafers with magic marker dots to represent what should have been chocolate chips. Color me surprised! While much smaller and denser than a regular Chips Ahoy, those chips, while small, were real semi-sweet chocolate! They tasted like cookies, even if not exactly like a home made TollHouse cookie. But for a 100 calorie “get the snack monkey off my back” treat, these rate an A in my book.
See Also: Newton Minis Strawberry. If you like Newtons, these might do the trick. I’m one of those freaky people who actually likes Fig Newtons. But these were a nice alternative. I had a bag the other day, and enjoyed them. I have a bag in front of me that I’m going to save for the weekend, but it says 130 calories a bag. So it’s higher than 100, but it’s made with whole grain wheat flour (!) so it has that going for it. Neither one is recommended for a low carb diet, but I definitely recommend them for snacks. And the 100 calorie snack bags of Doritos. Those seriously and completely rock.
Not my pants. I have those. My ants. Well, Junior’s ants, really. We sent a check to the ant company so that we can let them loose in the Ant farm he got for Christmas. He’s dying to get the ants “up and running” but with the pesky lack of ants, it’s really much less fun and exciting than the box would lead you to believe.
I know other people have ant farm web cams, but I’m really tempted to do the same. Because I’ll just best most of you regulars aren’t out watching other people’s ant farms on webcams, are you?
