Alarm Clock Nightmares. Once again, I am in bed this morning (that is usually where I am) and the radio has gone off to tell me to wake up. I am half asleep and half awake, and I have this very vivid dream that stars Palestinian snipers trying to kill me. Now, I'm not jewish and I have never been to Israel and I don't even want to take sides in that whole mess - just so you know: I am not implying that Palestinians are bad. It's just that's what they were talking about on NPR this morning, and in my dream, that is who was trying to shoot me.
I was in this house that was all glass and he was having a pretty easy time trying to shoot me. The funny thing was in my dream I am trying to get to the shower.
Oh, and the other dream has our pal MikeW falling in love with an Australian woman who was a fighter pilot.
For dinner I had a turkey sandwich and a chocolate cupcake - but we ate real early, like at 6pm.
Roger Ebert says "All women who like you because you make them laugh sooner or later stop laughing, and then why do they like you?" (mattyJ found this)
Rockel!! Rockel is back from Europe and Finland or Iceland or where ever. I "spoke" to her on the IM machine this morning. Yay! The city relieved that the curly haired girl is back can now resume what they were doing.
Olive Garden in NYC They are opening an Olive Garden on 22nd and 6th avenue in Manhattan. Please - why?! Especially that area - not a real tourist hangout. My plan is to run in there one night with a baseball bat and go up to each table, and pound the table with my bat - smashing plates and glasses - while yelling, "Why!!?! Why!!?!". Startled idiots ask waitress to clean up broken glass and to bring them more breadsticks.
TGIFridays + Vegetable wash Maybe this was a NY Market thing, but last year there was this annoying commercial for this vegatable and fruit cleaner. It was a liquid that you would wash your produce in to make it super clean. TGIFridays was supposed to of been using it, and Proctor&Gamble I assume did this commercial for the product featuring an employee of TGIF talking about it
Did you see it? It has this chipper girl who says that she is working at TGIF while going to school to become a dietician - and TGIF uses this great vegtable wash that really cleans your produce. And she should know, cuz, well she is a dietician in training you know. The commercial ends with her eating a salad at TGIF and saying something like, "I may not work at TGIF forever, but I will always eat there" or someshit. Note: if she is your dietician, run.
OK. For some reason I was thinking about that last night and what a joke that would be to use on a consumer level. You would buy a huge jug of it or something and then wash off your produce with it, I assume? What a pain that would be. Could I still use my salad spinner?
I also thought about the fact that we are washing our produce with chemicals, which is just something that on the surface seems like a bad idea (reminds of Ned Flanders in the future - blind from that laser eye surgury: "I never should have had that trendy laser surgery. It was great at first but, you know, at the ten-year mark your eyes fall out "). Granted, our produce has been rolling around in trucks and floors for days before we get it, but dousing it in chemicals before eating it... no matter what a TGIF employee seems really really spooky.
Well, no matter. It looks like the fine folks at Proctor&Gamble have pulled the product anyway because of regulations from the EPA: "The EPA states that any product making any claim about affecting microorganisms is basically making a pesticidal claim and must be registered with the EPA before it can be sold to consumers. " hmmm.
