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Earlier this year, had the pleasure of meeting a beautiful cat belonging to a girlfriend.  Upon visiting her and petting her a few times, I found I wasn’t allergic!  That was a good feeling knowing that there was a breed (or perhaps type) of cat that I might possibly own in the future.

What a cute face!

Her name is Queen, and I’ve had her for just a short while now. 

She was living where there were 2 dogs (both hyper, yip-yap types) and she did not care to be around them, so she only came out at night, and rarely.  So she did not have a lot of human interaction.  My friend’s 5-year old daughter was very happy to have a cat, but not one that didn’t come out to play very much, or be around the house when all the dogs and people were out.  They were worried that it wasn’t the proper home for her, so when I was on the phone with my friend one night, who seemed concerned enough to want to find her a new home, I asked her if I could take care of Queen.  It seemed like a perfect match, since I had been wanting some animal companionship for a long time, and also since I wasn’t allergic to her.

It took my friend’s daughter some convincing.  It was her cat, after all.  One day, a couple weeks later, I came home from being gone all day, to hear a message on my answering machine from the little girl.  All it said was, “You can have the cat, you can have Queen. Do you want her? OK, bye!”

She ran off a couple weeks ago, and stayed gone a long time.  My friend was worried that she might run off again, so when they did find her, she was brought over right away, to my house, where she seems pretty content to have the place to herself for the most part.

If you are on Facebook, here are photos of her, for you to look at and comment on.

If not, here they are:

She decided one night, to be so bold as to jump up onto my hi-top kitchen table.

Sassy girl on my table

Look at that pouty puss!

Queen is a little rough around the edges, as she was really matted (being a Persian, they are prone to that sometimes). But she’s had a good clipping, and her coat will grow back nice and full in no time.

Leaning in for a little pettin’

She can be very sweet and affectionate

She is also very talkative, and when I come through the door after being gone (even if it’s just going to get the mail), she comes out from wherever she’s been, and meows at me for a few minutes.  She’ll usually be in whatever room I’m in (except she doesn’t come to my room or lie on my bed when I go to sleep at night, which is good, I don’t need cat hair all over my bed).  She also likes to come up to me when I’m working at my desk, and meow at me for a bit, usually to get some lovin’s and pettin’s

Sleepy time, on the top of the couch

Seems many things these days are gay.

Gay Company Approval. Gay Governors. Gay Corporate Responsibility, Gay This. Gay That.

Why is it, that–who you fuck or what kind of genitals/hormones/sex issues you have–makes any darn difference to anyone at ALL, except you, your partner, or any potential partners?

When will America have a Straight Rights Demonstration? A Pride Parade? When will straight Americans decide, because of their sexual peference/orientation, that they should let their preference or orientation dictate the way they work at their job, the way they govern people, the way they run their company?

Never. On all counts. That would be ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as the above are/have been.

Maybe with the exception of rights demonstrations, only because in my mind, I know that a) asking to be treated fairly and equally are valid and CRUCIAL as they are to ALL humans and etc. and that b) it was OK with me if you want to denote your partner as your beneficiary, next of kin, etc. But haven’t we passed that point yet? Is there more that you require from your country, for you to feel complete?

Why is it important that companies have “gay” friendly and/or “responsible” projects and/or policies? Can’t they just leave their employees alone? Isn’t treating a GLBT person differently, basically fencing them in and sort of seperating them from the rest of the world?

And why does Joe Schmoe Office Manager have to go to his company’s equivalent of a “GLBT sensitivity” meeting? So that he can be aware that because there are gay people in the office he has to treat them any differently or more special than anyone else? Why aren’t we just all treat each other equally to begin with, regardless? Isn’t that what the earlier Gay Rights advocates we became familiar with in the 60s-70s Stonewall era, were pushing for??

And why all the fuss with corporate and hiring practices? WHY does a company NEED to emphasize that they hire and/or support openly gay individuals. Can’t that just be assumed? A given? And just effing hire them? Why does this university say that they intend to hire openly gay professors and faculty? Can’t the faculty just be hired and keep their genitals & hormones out of it??

I realize ‘openly gay’ refers to being ‘out’, however don’t these people all have great ‘gaydar’, and if so, what’s the purpose of purporting that you are openly gay? Can’t your gay/lesbian colleagues/students/etc. tell??

It’s not that I take offense to someone saying, “I’m gay” it’s jsut that a) it’s really none of my business, and b) what does you or I being gay have to do with whatever relationship you and I have, as a teacher/student, colleague, employer/employee, etc.

Do you see where I’m going with this? So you’re gay. Or lesbian. Or on the fence, or you are in between sex changes. Or whatever That’s great. But…so effing what?

I frankly do not give a shit. And I certainly don’t let it dictate what I think of you otherwise, as a person.

For those of you still confused…let me pose this to you. How do you feel about me telling you that I have a thing for ball-gags? Wouldn’t that constitute TMI? Wouldn’t you rather have a boil implanted onto your ass?

Thought so. Now let’s just be friends and cut out all this other bullshit.

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Editor’s note: Actually the ad might be for toothpaste, but we’ll never know, because they don’t say what it’s for!

Does anyone find this to be really awful, besides me?

Rembrandt recently launched a new ad campaign which I do not care for and find to be very distasteful.

The commercial I saw for this was disgusting to me, and quite sexual. The campaign is called “The Brilliant Mouth”, and features a man and woman, kissing each other in a way that made me hope that he at least bought her dinner first.

The campaign was launched recently and the first commercial aired during Sunday Night’s recent episode of Desperate Housewives according to AdRant.com

When I saw it, it was tonight (2/1/07) during the commercial break for The Office. It was practically softcore porn

Yeah, I know The Office isn’t exactly “ma, pa, sis and junior gathered ’round the television set after dinner”-style entertainment, either.

But still.

It was kinda racy.

Though I’m 33 DEFINITELY a member of their target audience, I felt as though I was peering in on someone’s bedroom activities, and kinda feel sick about it now. I am not one to pass judgement on anyone who wants to do the nasty, heck I even have those thoughts, feelings, etc. and DO things about them…*ahem*

But come ON. I have some dignity and a door I can close to the world, during such activities. I’m certain there were people out there who had the urge to light up a cig after seeing that ad.

Then I thought of the people who felt like me and just kinda got mad about it.

So I went to their website to air my thoughts about this (pretty much the same things you see written here) and they have MORE of TEH SEX all over the front page of their site. Very disappointing. I’m sure the company’s namesake is rolling in his almost 340-year old grave. On top of all this disgusting-ness, the company posts “12 Days ‘Til Valentine’s Day” on the home page…so? And your point is…?

News flash: You’re not Hallmark. Cut it out.

But I digress.

Perhaps their main target consumer is into that sort of thing but it wasn’t even 9 p.m. when I saw this! I realize also that Desperate Housewives is an entirely different audience than those watching NBC at 7 p.m., but I found the entire ad to be in poor taste. What happened to just a good clean ’smile’ shot between the two people and then a simple kiss without all of the implied foreplay?

I guess my main issue with it is this. I thought the whole ‘feel’ of the ad was unreasonably titilating. With a capital T.

Can’t they sell oral care products without being THAT overtly sexual? I realize smiles, lips, teeth, etc. can all be sexy and ’sexy’ does sell products, but how about a nice NON-PORN-ish kiss on your commercials?

I guess I am naive–and sort of hope–that perhaps American consumers and marketers might have a shred of modesty and decency in them.

Oh, wait…a few years go we just endured the fact that our Commander-in-Chief had some taxpayer-sponsored lip-service (pun intended) on his ‘lil Commander. And hey, how about trying to turn the TV on just about any ol’ time of day, and not see a Girls Gone Wild DVD for sale, or big jiggly boobies pimping GoDaddy services!

So I guess by many standards, America and its media, are pretty sexed-up. And have been, for some time now.

But has it gone too far? And do we have to sit here and take it?

I’m gonna have to say a big NO to that.

Eh. You can call me a prude if you want to. I don’t care. I’m sticking to my guns on this one.

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That’s right, I’m calling you out.

For those who have been living under a rock these past couple months, Judge Samuel Alito has been under tense hearings to confirm or disapprove him to be on the Supreme Court.

Mr. Senator Friggin John Kerry has the cajones to yodel from the friggin’ tops of the friggin’ Swiss Friggin’ Alps that he wants to filibuster the confirmation of this judge, who has been nominated by our president.

Now of course, there’s nothing new at all about calling a filibuster on a candidate for office with whom you disagree. However Mr. Kerry’s part in this filibuster (which was actually suggested by Sen. Ted Kenney) must only be for the intent of increasing his publicity and not, say, because he has a real and clear reason to (*gasp* like would that ever happen?), nor because he hopes that the people at Nestle will ask him to be their new “Swiss Miss”.

I can’t figure out if all the Dumocrats were waiting for Skerry to do this for them (besides Teddy Kennedy), or if they were all chomping at the bit to do this. I think White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said it best when he said, “It takes some pretty serious yodeling to be able to call filibuster from the top of the Swiss Alps!”

Dang. And I had all but forgotten about this sad sucka! Turns out all he has done this past year is piece together this shaky Kids First Act of his which is so far only garnered some 50,000 signatures and seems wonky at the very least.

Leave it to Skerry though, to practically disappear from the face of the earth for several months…

…and then all of a sudden SHOOSH!

He skis back down to the Beltway, throws on a suit, then proceeds to get his eyebrows all in a bunch and starts chinning it up for the cameras. Which I’ve no doubt is nothing but one of the first of many to come (I’m sure) sorry public attempts all in the name of his 2008 presidential campaign.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he had voted against a filibuster before he had voted for it.

Hee.

PS – On a side note…I’d like to see (D) Robert Byrd (who is like a cartoon character to me) get up and filibuster the filibuster, in the name of some nonsense, 18-minute some such thing or other, and ramble on about Suspenders and Justice and the Flag. I just want a good nap sometime before this month is over, but being I’m so busy it looks like that would be the only good way for me to get one!

Just my $.02

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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Excellent post here by a guest blogger over at A Hollywood Republican…
When did we stop going around wishing people a “Merry Christmas!”?

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m spending it all alone because I have a nasty cold *ACHOO!* But I’m  not bitter… I am blessed to have a great new apartment, wonderful friends and family and (somewhat) good health, and a job I enjoy where I get to be my own boss.

With only a minute or two […]

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Yeah. It happened to me. Once. But before I launch into that crazy talel. some back story.

Our family always did something special with or for Mom every year on Mother’s day weekend. And of course, cards and special long distance chats were sent from us, up north, to Reach Out and Touch dear Grandma […]

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Yep. It’s been between 35-55 degrees this past week leading to Christmas and the ground has been dry and clear of any snow whatsoever. On Thursday, we got snow. It melted away by Saturday though. That was it, since Winter started, Dec. 21st. I’m totally MIFFED that my Christmas was not white.

It felt weird to […]

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Okay, everyone who’s familiar with my blog knows I love write about the funniest and/or oddest website searches that people do which take them to my blog. This month I’m posting some weird searches which happen to have a Christmas flavor to them. Enjoy! elfs gone wild

I can tell you RIGHT NOW that a) […]

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Greenfingers Guess Who Because I Said So Monty Python’s Life of Brian Confetti Saved! (saw this on cable earlier last winter – it’s really a cute one) But I’m a Cheerleader! The Importance of Being Earnest Goldfish Memory She Hate Me I Think I Love My Wife View from the Top Raising Helen How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Connie and Carla An Ideal Husband Much Ado About Nothing

A […]

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I know it’s been almost a week now since we inaugurated our 44th President, and I had some time to think about my take on it all, then chew it up and here’s what I spit out…
Pomp and Circum-wince?

I sort of missed the inauguration ceremony today, not on purpose, really. I forgot I had […]

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

I’m not a conservative, more of libertarian, who happens to have a few conservative viewpoints. And get this. I used to be much further to the left than most liberals! In recent years I began to see things differently and realize that having more liberal/democrat ideals, wasn’t for me.
Anyway, here is my […]

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Editor’s note: Actually the ad might be for toothpaste, but we’ll never know, because they don’t say what it’s for! Does anyone find this to be really awful, besides me? Rembrandt recently launched a new ad campaign which I do not care for and find to be very distasteful.

The commercial I saw for this was disgusting to […]

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Was Paula Abdul under some sort of influence during a series of interviews broadcast last week? Or not? FoxLife says maybe…
But Ms. Abdul’s publicist, Jeff Ballard says otherwise, denying that she slurred her speech, and chalked it up to technical issues on the part of the TV network…saying that she was simply reacting […]

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Here’s what she says,
“Happy Saturday! It looks like this will be the one day that the threat of any storms or even a cloud will be not an issue. Expect temperatures to heat from the upper 60s this morning to the upper 80s by this afternoon with dewpoint remaining in the 50s and low 60s […]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

So. Today I had a doctor appointment.   To follow up with my diabetes, etc., etc.  All very official.  It was supposed to be on Monday, but what with the snow storm we had here in Minnesota and all, it didn’t happen.  After getting a dumping of about 4 inches or so, I was practically snowed-in.

So at […]

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

That’s right. You heard it here first, folks! I have been using SimonDelivers.com since March of this year, ever since I moved 3 blocks out of St. Paul and into the suburban utopia that is Maplewood. I ordered about once per month up until June, when finances got pretty tight…

Using the service to have my groceries […]

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

OK–now I love Chipotle as much as the next average Joe.
I have eaten at various Chipotle locations in the Twin City metro: West St. Paul was the first one I ever saw, back in 2002 (or 2003?), and I ate there twice, then there was one in South Minneapolis that I found nearby a […]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I had been to the Keys Cafe in Woodury before and enjoyed meat loaf with mashed potatoes & gravy with family, and thought it was OK. I had been to the one on Larpenteur/Lex area and it was alright. At least the food was decent, a bit more than I’d like to pay […]

…so anyway, as I was saying…yeah, there’s a lot of old stuff around here.

Which brings me to wonder.  Do people read old posts on blogs? I suppose only if they are good, right? Well, my writing has always been horrible, so no chance of that happening anytime soon, I guess.

The other thing I hate about having an old, old, old, blog is that many of the posts in it are not categorized.  I take some time once every blue moon and go through them to categorize the many old unsorted posts, but then I find also that there are hundreds without titles!

See, back in the day (before things like Blogger.com, etc.), there was no such thing as comments, categories, even “posts” and “titles”.  You just did it all yourself.  About the time Blogger.com came out, there was a way for me to import posts from my journal (no one had called it a ‘blog’ – short for ‘weblog’, yet, until Blogger.com came along).

And even early Blogging sites/’tools did not have categories, comments, and sometimes post titles.  Everyone got super-excited when Blogger.com came out with Draft saving and then it was like a huge milestone when they came out with the ability to change the date of a post.

Anyway, I guess my point of this whole post was, yes I have a great, old, dusty blog, full of wonder and fun.  But it’s hard to enjoy because its antique-nes is making it hard to integrate into today’s systems.

Blast from the past

Here are a couple posts you might enjoy…

Happy 3rd birthday to my blog!

Dickweed Revisited

…on Mother’s Day. (hiccup!)

My Weekend as a Domestic Goddess

Who is this chick?

I’m a fairly happy go lucky female, born in 1973, and I live in St. Paul, MN. I am self employed as a web designer, and it took me seven years to get my business off the ground and running to where I am now doing it full time from home.

I went to Newport Elementary school and then Woodbury High school (what a jump eh?) but that was because the junior high was being worked on for a long long time and they put all the junior and senior high kids together in one average sized school building (about 1800 kids all told when I was there). I graduated in 1991 and then took 2 years of training at a tradeschool in St. Paul where I got a certificate as an advanced Word Processing Tech and one for Secretary/Typist II. I moved to St. Paul shortly thereafter and begain a very long and not so fruitful career as an office clerk slash unhappy cog in various and sundry corporate machines.

This “About” page has stuff in it that is older than dirt. So one day I’ll clean it up all new and sparkly again. But in the meantime… if you care to learn more, read on.

About me and this blog (circa 1999-2000)

Before I move on to the fluff…

I must first and foremost present the all-too-necessary disclaimer:

This is an online journal, its intent marked solely to publicize the author’s unkeen, boring, utterly pathetic and otherwise bland existence on this planet, and is not meant to glamorize the aforementioned.

On the flip side, one might ask whether it’s purpose is to put forth a view of the author as one of self pity. No. It is a sometimes logical, sometimes screwed-up means of therapy for her. It’s nothing. It’s everything. Although it has its days, it’s also not meant to be a happy site. You’ve been warned. You WON’T see the author doing kartwheels or farting sparks. Above all, this site does not wish to inspire others. In other words, please do not try any of this shit at home. If you’re really interested, here’s the only interview ever conducted about my blog.

Here you will not find any ugly animated graphics. No poems pouring out devotion to NSYNC. No teen-angsty crap, bitching about ‘wardrobe-and-boyfriend-issues-and-parents-just-don’t-understand’ stuff. No ad banners plastered everywhere. Just the author and her daily stuff, mostly ranting and raving, and a few news articles scattered hither and yon.

Welcome to the winter of my discontent. Enjoy your stay here…sucka.

I like many things and wrinkle my nose at most. Yes I said fairly happy-go-lucky, but that refers to my own personal life. When it comes to how I view the world and others in it, cynical seems to be the type of mindset I’ve been in since about 1999, which is when I started this ca-razy blog thing. Yes, boys and girls, you are looking at a dinosaur in the blogosphere. The day I started it was practically just before blogging had even started to become a big trend on the internet. In fact, October 1999 is right about the same time as Blogger had started, but I didn’t know about it. Back then I had called this thing an online journal, Lord knows I kept it up much better than I do now.I enjoy reading and music, I guess I would put those two things as my upper-most favorite pasttimes. I used to be more active and atheletic than I am nowadays, but when I was I enjoyed hiking, swimming, volleyball, camping and floor hockey (I can’t skate on ice to save my life). I used to collect movies but my collection got to be so large I had to find something else to do. It started out with me setting my VCR to tape all the new cable tv releases while I was out all week at work, and coming home to view them was a harmless way to pass the weekend. It got to where I had too many movies on tape that I really didn’t care that much about, and had to start giving them away! Now I only buy DVDs that I know I will watch over and over again.

My favorites are too many to list, but they include:

• The Breakfast Club
• The Triplets of Belleville
• Moonstruck
• Goodfellas
• Dr. Zhivago
• South Pacific
• Gone With The Wind
• Shaun of The Dead
• Bridget Jones’ Diary
• Casablanca
• Swingers
• Honeymoon In Vegas
• Steel Magnolias
• An Affair to Remember
• Office Space
• Trust
• Best In Show
• All About Eve
• Once Were Warriors
• Being John Malkovich
• The Notebook
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• True Romance
• Wayne’s World! Party On!
• Sense & Sensibility
• Elizabeth
• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
• Beaches

As far as music goes, my tastes vary but I love everything from Mozart to Gorillaz, and most everything in between (except for new country music and most hip-hop). Lately I’ve enjoyed listening to Imogen Heap, Modest Mouse, Gavin DeGraw, Franz Ferdinand, Natasha Bettingfield, and Ciara.

What kind of blogger am I?Will blog eat itself? ‘Blogging’ or weblogging, has gone and consumed many people’s lives. It is the latest freakin’ craze, and there’s no end in sight! Or IS THERE?

Will blog eat itself? ‘Blogging’ or weblogging, has gone and consumed many people’s lives. It is the latest freakin’ craze, and there’s no end in sight! Or IS THERE?I started mine back in the fall of 1999, as an online journal of sorts, where I posted more frequently, pointed out something interesting about my day, or a cool site I found. Now it’s just me crapping on about this and that and the whacky misadventures of my life.

If it makes me feel better to post an entry even if there is nothing new to talk about, I will. I try not to do too much of this because it is just yawny.

Just as people blog for different reasons, others read your blogs for different reasons:

• Some are reading what the pundits or amateur journalists and the like have to offer in terms of alternate source of news, whether it be editorials, commentary, actual news reports, etc.
• Others are reading because they get a kick out of the author or they admire something about them or perhaps because they can relate to the author in some way or another.
• Some read because a common background is shared, an example of this is folks who are progammers/developers for a living or for fun, who keep logs and people read their logs because they want to keep others in the know about their projects, for networking purposes, professional development reasons, etc.
• Others are literal folk, an entirely different breed. They are writers or aspiring writers. I presume to guess that these people probably do not read me or others like me (I’m guessing) because we are in essence NOT WRITING.
• The list goes on.

In my case, I’m just ‘posting’ stuff about my experiences, mostly ranting and raving or blabbering about something pretty stupid, which I happen to find interesting.

I don’t go over my entries to fix style, repetiveness, grammar, paragraph and story structure, symbolism, spelling (okay, sometimes spelling) or any literal stuff like that.

Mostly it’s because I don’t care but lately it’s because I’ve had my fiance kinda shacked up here with me and he’s a slob. It takes a helluva lot of time out of my day to keep this place halfway decent. (Why do men insist on leaving rolled-up socks in plain sight, right in the livingroom? UGH).

I would LOVE to find out that I’m wrong, and people who write or aspire to great writing ARE reading me. I don’t care that I don’t have many readers (or I do but they are just shy?) but it would ROCK MY WORLD to hear from someone who likes reading me, or you can pretend to.

Ack. Now I sound like I’m begging for social acceptance. Fuck that. It’s hard to say what it is I want. I want it all goddammit, and put it on a silver platter while you’re at it. Damn.

Now I sound like a snooty character in a Parker Posey movie. Now I’ve bored you to death with my reasons for this. Good enough?

I gotta go, now. I have to pick up rolled-up socks off the livingroom floor.

I’ll add more to this page as I feel like it…in the meantime, enjoy my blog and if you ever want to say hi, just drop me an e-mail at woods dot bj at gmail dot com.

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Hey, folks.

Been up to a lot, lately!  I have recently finished up a couple of websites and started a few new ones this month, plus I’ve got a couple already lined up for February.  So needless to say, things are busy and in a good way, where work is concerned.

A good friend and I took a trip to go grocery shopping earlier this month, and we went to ALDI and Trader Joe’s.  I like buying produce, coffee, cheese, meat and frozen stuff at ALDI, because it’s cheap and tasty.  This was my first  time shopping at TJ’s, and I have to say that I love that place!  I’ll definitely be going back.  Their organic stuff is reasonably priced, and the dry goods and condiments/sauces are great, for the price.  I bought some of their Rice Mac & Cheese (the macaroni is made from rice flour, instead of wheat), several flavors of the Greek Style yogurt, and some frozen asparagus as well as their plain mini bagels.  All good-tasting stuff!  I also got some dry penne pasta, and a package of wild mushrom risotto, which was not as good.

This past week I needed to stock up on household stuff and food again, so I went to Super Target in Midway.  Being someone who doesn’t drive, it’s nice being able to get trash bags, toilet paper, etc., plus all my groceries, at one place.

I had been pining for a salad spinner (don’t laugh, those things are invaluable!) for some time now, at least a couple of years, but until last week was unable to afford one.  The last few times I was at Super Target, the only ones I could find were the big, red KitchenAid ones, and they were spendy, at least $34.  That’s a lot if you are planning to shop with just sixty bucks in your wallet, and hope to go away with at least a week’s worth of food, to boot.  This past week though, I dug around a little more since I had time to spare, and when I saw one for $19.95, I snatched it up quick-like.

What a smart purchase that was!  I’m diabetic and I really need to watch what I eat, probably more than normal folks.  I love salads, but I can’t tell you what a pain in the ass it is preparing them easily and quickly, yet still be able to store and preserve the veggies for later, without them rotting on me.  I used to always buy a head of lettuce (romaine or leaf style–not iceberg–that’s practically just water), and maybe some fresh spinach, but I hated having to take off the leaves I would use, wash them, trim them, dry them out on paper towels, then tear/chop them up for salads.  That was the only way really, since if you cut lettuce up and then store it, it turns brown and wilty in no time, flat.  So I tried buying the bagged and precut/prewashed variety, but the minute you open the bag, the stuff  is sure to spoil in 2 days, so that’s a waste of money.

Here’s the one I got:

Large Salad Spinner by Chef’n – Vibe collection

Mine has a white top, though.  Isn’t it purty?  With my new salad spinner, I can tear off the leaves of greens I want to eat, rip them up and toss them into the spinner with water in it, then spin it like crazy for a minute, dump the water out, and spin some more til dry.  Done in less time!

The job is so much easier and more pleasant, now, and I’m happy to report that all my lunches this past week featured salads as the main course or on the side.

I also bought ALDI’s (Fit & Active brand) Light Ranch salad dressing  (which tastes EXACTLY like the Hidden Valley Ranch Light version, but for $1.49), and tossed it with some shredded carrot, diced tomato, onion and shredded cheese.  One time I also added some leftover cooked chicken, and used the light Italian dressing instead.

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