foolish pride is all that I have left, so let me hide.

2007-01-31 / 6:10 p.m.

I know you don't care what I ate but
I am going to tell you anyway, because this was so easy and so delicious:
Saute one little onion
Add a whole wack of cleaned, stemmed, and chopped kale, still glistening with water, and brrrrraise
Squeeze in some lemon juice, add soy/aminos, dash on some sesame oil and hot sauce
Dump a whole can of black-eyed peas in that bad boy
Cook it up, adding a little extra water if you need it
Meanwhile: cube and fry some tofu in a little oil and soy sauce
Add tofu to the kale and beans and enjoy to the mmmmmmax.

and now, a small rant
Here are two things that made me laugh in despair lately. The first is something I know almost nothing about: Suze Orman. She probably spews a lot of good financial advice in her books and perhaps my eye-rolling is slightly off-base. Well no: just uninformed, which is fine! I turned on PBS over the weekend to find that Orman's empowerful program was on, and I watched for a few minutes to find out what, JUST WHAT, those 8 essential qualities of a wealthy woman could possibly be.

Sadly, I do not remember them--they were words like "balance"--because one of them was "beauty." She made sure to say that she didn't mean beauty in the haircut/mani-pedi sense, but I thought "woman, when was the last time anyone told a DUDE seeking total financial independence that he needed more beauty in his life in order to get and keep wealth?"

So I snorted and turned off the television and probably missed a lot of valuable information, but whatever. I do like that she doesn't discredit the emotional connections people have with money. And I like this Orman motto: "People first, then money, then things."

The other thing that I keep meaning to laugh and or complain about in this public forum is the concept of "sport tampons." Surely you have seen or tuned out the commercial for the new SPORT TAMPON from playtex! From their press release:

With Sport Level Protection(TM), this tampon is designed to give women confidence when their bodies are in motion. The new Playtex tampon will be available in retail stores beginning later this month.

The new Playtex Sport tampon features a major breakthrough in design to help active women get the protection and comfort they need. The Precise Placement(TM)Applicator has a patented No-Slip(TM)Grip designed to be easily held and placed for maximum control during use. It also has a unique contoured shape that provides comfort and easy placement.

Unlike most tampons that expand primarily in one direction, either lengthwise or widthwise, Playtex Sport has 360-degree Coverage(TM) that gently expands all around. Its 2-layer design provides a back-up defense against leaks.

This exciting new combination of features allows today's active women to move with confidence.

Am I the only person who thinks this is hilarious? The very idea that there could be an uber-tampon that is much less likely to leak than any other tampon makes me wonder: why does playtex bother to continue to manufacture those other, inferior, NON-SPORT tampons?

But wait, it gets funnier (or not--maybe I'm just easily amused/rankled): turns out the playtex "Gentle Glide" (ew) also has 360-degree Coverage. I was unable to verify that the "Beyond" (ew) boasts the same coverage, though. (And "beyond" WHAT, anyway? Beyond plastic, I guess--this is the only one with a cardboard applicator. Apparently they don't care enough about their hippie customers to give them 360 DEGREE PROTECTION. Maybe like 180, at best.)

on the flip side
That commercial for Clearblue Easy that sounds and looks just like a men's razor commercial, with the tagline "the most sophisticated piece of technology you'll ever pee on"? That is a good commercial. Not only does it tickle me, but it has convinced me to buy the product, should I ever need a pregnancy test.

Seriously, you guys, I don't watch that much tv.

I am profoundly stressed out
I have a recital in two days, my voice is thrashed, I have to drive 5 hours tomorrow, I have to finish my editing course, I committed to turning in my thesis a week from today, and the way I would like to deal with this is to bake something right now.

Instead, I will watch a bit of a movie and go visit my parents and get some work done tonight. That's the best I can do. At least my dinner was delicious.

Spinning: Jayhawks.
Feeling: Stressed.
Plotting: See above.

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