Sonograms

So, now two people I know have a sonogram image as their Facebook pic. Both are women, thanks to the fact that Bush43 wouldn't fund futuristic stem cell/man pregnancy research. I feel old and single.
Peace!

Cleanliness on TV

Exercise TV On Demand is one of my favorite ways to augment the under-used gym membership, dust collecting DVDs and Wii Fit. Jillian Michaels and the woman from Buns of Steel bring free workouts into your home, with a few commercials and some bottom-of-the-screen ads for energy drinks (but seriously? Energy drinks are a scam).

For those unfamiliar: you go to On Demand, then choose exercise TV, then scroll through the list of workouts that supposedly change each month (hint: half of them "expire" at the end of the month and then magically reappear the next month). There are far too many "Girls Next Door" workouts, and some that seem to involve Carmen Electra and a stripper pole. So...those are for the men, presumably.

Anyway, this is all delightful.

Here's what's not delightful: the woman who leads the pilates workouts always has incredibly dirty feet. Like, seriously? It's all taped. None of the camera folks or directors thought to say "hey, maybe your feet should be clean". It's not even HD! It's gross! I know, I know, you're busily teaching pilates in a gym all day. So your feet get a little dirty. But you're about to be taped so that millions of women can attempt to do pilates along with you. C'mon! Wash your damn feet!

0% Greek Yogurt

Here's the thing. Greek yogurt is strong, and delicious. I love it. My brand of choice is (like most of you, I'm sure) Fage. The regular version and the 2% version are both delicious. Completely yummy, with honey or without. The regular version is of course insanely delicious

But the nonfat kind? The 0% in the smaller container? Not delicious. Harsh tasting. Kind of...gross.

Delicious nonfat yogurt exists, for sure. Greek yogurt is generally too strong when robbed of the creaminess of the original variety. Horizon organic fat free has the same active cultures and is way more palatable, because it comes in fruit flavors which mask the harshness of plain old yogurt.

Incidentally, would you be sad to know that one cup of the regular Fage has 80% of your daily saturated fat allowance? Do you understand now why it is SO DELICIOUS?

Lip Liner that is darker than lipstick

Really? What decade are we in? Was this ever even fashionable?

Not that I am one to judge fashion, I have a hard time dressing like an adult more than two days in a row and I wear makeup maybe 20 times a year. HOWEVER, even I know that the visible lip liner outline is a look that....doesn't work.

In fairness, maybe this isn't as noticeable in person, but in HD on a giant television this poor woman on MSNBC looks ridiculous.

Duplicate posts in Feed

I love the following:
a) Google Reader
b) the Boston Red Sox
(not in that order)

Why, WHY are there 5 copies of the article with the headline "Homers spark Reds to 9-8 win over Red Sox" in my Reader?

C'mon Boston Globe. You're part of a major media conglomerate. Get it together. Don't crowd my feed. When I see that many new articles in my "Red Sox" folder on Google Reader I assume the worst. Being a Red Sox fan is hard enough without your games.

John McCain's Twitter

This guy! He lost the presidency, and now he has taken his intense bitterness to the interwebs, where he Twitters. I would normally find this adorable, but his Tweets, as they are know, are so inane, so full of the vitriolic nonsense that characterized his and Sarah Palin's campaign (In what respect, Charlie?) that it makes me want to tear out my hair. His current project is to Tweet the top ten pork barrel projects proposed in the Federal budget. First of all, I'm willing to bet that many of them are proposed by Republicans. Second of all, the lack of nuance that is the hallmark of these short, bitchy comments is absolutely why he was not asked to run this country.
Dude, get a life. Or try to see the world for the complicated place it is. This is a country where fish management is a real thing, where people work hard to keep our rivers and waters clean and safe for fish so that we can have them to eat and to function in a biodivere ecosystem. Seriously, John McCain, grow up.

Heidi was Right

I didn't get mad about it until this morning when I realized that only the title of the message in my inbox is bold, not the sender as well.
Creepy, weird, unattractive.