TV's at the Dentists office, pure genius.

So on a recent trip the dentist, we found that they had implemented a system to working with children in their office...TV's.  Pure genius!!  Kids will lay down on the table, sit still (this used to be when they would start the squirming that eventually lead to the kicking and gnashing of teeth) and just watch a cartoon while the "used to be hated" dentist will do his usual poking and prodding in their mouth.  Why have we not done this sooner??  Kids watch a TV screen on the ceiling, have headphones to hear the movie and not even notice that they are even in a dentist office.  Thank heavens to child dentists that have helped keep parents sane for these past few years.  The is a great accomplishment and is keeping any kind of remotely good relationship for kids towards these offices for years to come.

$25 gift card for $5, theres always a catch.



If it's to good to be true, it's to good to be true.  We saw this offer to spend $4 and get a coupon for $25 at a restaurant.  Well our first thought should of been, "Why would they do something so nice like this?"  Actually we thought it was just a good way to bring new people into this restaurant...wrong.  This certificate had so many requirements, like you had to spend over $50 just to get the $25 bucks off.  Basically these types of coupons are interesting and can make you feel like they are trying to be sneaky.  READ the SMALL print.  It just is so amazing the multiple ways places will try to bring in new people.  Bring you in with a small price, and make you pay a lot just to get the full worth out of the coupon. 

Are fox tails really in?

Recently while visiting Nevada City, CA with some family we went to a night market and saw the strangest thing, girls that would be wearing a fox's tail.  Their were even some booths just selling these.  Why the heck would you wear a fox tail?  Some trends and fashion statements I will never understand. 

Is Throwing away pictures of a two year old a crime?

I can't help but wonder if there is some type of "Fair God Mother" out there that could be watching me toss this pic in the trash.  I mean it isn't a sin to throw away your two year olds coloring paper from church right?.  I mean, she will just plaster it with waxy crayola and drool next week right? And where do you keep all of these pictures anyhow?  So we all know, when its your own child how cute they are and of course we want them to feel good, but at the same time not try to give them the wrong impression about good quality art.  But what is all comes down to knowing, is throwing away pictures that your two year old drew a crime?

Is the Post Office a Business?

Sometimes, actually all the time, I wonder if the post office is an actually business.  They always keep raising postage stamps, they can't seem to ever keep all of their postal offices open (so many have been closed and maybe many of those shouldn't of even been open), and finally this one amazing me that they give all of their priority postal supplies out for free.  I guess they have calculated them in their costs of the shipping.  But mostly whenever I hear about the post office in the news I wonder if there is a businessman that is actually running it.  I mean do they really have any competition?  So honestly why do you need to raise prices all the time?  I mean really, is the United States Post Office a business?  (as a side note, I'm glad its not like many of the postal systems we hear about in south a

A Full Service Gas station, Why?

You have got to be kidding me, a gas station in Oregon wouldn't let me pump my own gas?  They said it was the law.  Wow, is that what its coming too, we have to MAKE people not do something they want to do, just to create a job.  And that's what they told me when I asked them why.  "Its to help our state economy, we now have jobs because of this law.  

But I ask, what about the people that actually want to pump their own gas, like me?  They told me sorry and I hoped back in the car.  I mean I can understand those that have a hard time getting out of the car, this is probably a blessing, but come on, I want to do it myself. 

It's laws like this that make me laugh about who we are.  

Lets make a law taking away someones free agency just to create a crappy low paying job for someone else..does this make sense?  So really do we HAVE to REQUIRE a full service gas station?

Hand washing station by the Gas Pumps

Why eat Haggis?

Haggis, the word alone almost makes me gag.  So some of my ancestors are of Scottish descent, so thinks me, I should try some Haggis.  Well it came to me as one of those foods where you would of liked to think it was grandma's chili, instead of intestines, just to get it down.

So I'll be honest, it wasn't bad, it just the mental thought of knowing (or not knowing) what the bloody heck I'm eating.  My question is, are we that crazy to eat this stuff and enjoy it?  I will just assume that my ancestors were really poor and hungry and had nothing to eat, so the feasted on what they could find to survive.

But why are we still eating it today?  Well I guess I've done my ancestors proud, at least as much as I can get for a spoonful.

Salsa that tells you how to use it

People Drink Wheatgrass??

So to be honest I do, I was raised on it. But I sometimes stop to contemplate just that act alone, drinking grass, and just how it sounds to others.

First of all for the non experienced, it doesn't taste good (hard to believe I know).  But getting past the taste there are good health benefits to be had, or do my parents told me.  Not to get in to all of this and just bore the couch potato that accident landed on the blog, I just wanted to notice how interesting it is that some people drink grass.