Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Me And Tom...
Okay, the other day I began a post about me washing my van and then noticing flying ants landing on the van and circling around my head and landing on the hose, and seeing an infestation of them crawling all around our garage door. I blogged how I told my daughter to get inside, then I slowly reversed the van away from the house and drove around the back and did a shoulder roll out of the driver's side door because of the enlarging swarm that was enveloping the whole house and yard. Then I related how I fought them off with a small can of Black Flag bug spray and how I noticed them flying away and swarming around these young teenage girls down the street at the bus stop (poor kids, they never had a chance).
But then my computer crashed and I lost it all. So I don't think I'll blog about that.
Instead, let me tell you about when Beth took my boy (who turns 2 next week, by the way) to the grocery store. They were browsing the aisles when Kylan started to point and say "da-da." Beth told him that daddy wasn't there and that he was just having those 'Nam flashbacks again, but he continued to point and shout even more excitedly. Beth then realized that Ky was looking at the magazine rack. She started pointing to different magazines, asking him which one he was pointing to. He would shake his head "no" and continue pointing and shouting more and more urgently. She finally reached a magazine with Tom Cruise on the cover, and Kylan got a huge smile on his face and said, "da-da!"
Well, that Tom Cruise has become a bit of a weirdo lately, but I guess I'll take it as a compliment from my boy. Now, it's just too bad that he obviously needs glasses at such a young age....
But then my computer crashed and I lost it all. So I don't think I'll blog about that.
Instead, let me tell you about when Beth took my boy (who turns 2 next week, by the way) to the grocery store. They were browsing the aisles when Kylan started to point and say "da-da." Beth told him that daddy wasn't there and that he was just having those 'Nam flashbacks again, but he continued to point and shout even more excitedly. Beth then realized that Ky was looking at the magazine rack. She started pointing to different magazines, asking him which one he was pointing to. He would shake his head "no" and continue pointing and shouting more and more urgently. She finally reached a magazine with Tom Cruise on the cover, and Kylan got a huge smile on his face and said, "da-da!"
Well, that Tom Cruise has become a bit of a weirdo lately, but I guess I'll take it as a compliment from my boy. Now, it's just too bad that he obviously needs glasses at such a young age....
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Gum Gum With Flavour Flavour...
Hmmm, I was just thinking of what to call this post when I remembered that tag line from an old commercial, "It's the gum gum, with flavour flavour." But I can't remember what kind of gum it was advertising. Oh well, it'll probably come to me (if you know, pass it on, k?).
Anyways, I was looking at a package of Chiclets the other day, and saw that it was sugar free. How nice, I thought, because I chew sugar free gum. Then the sugar substitute caught my eye. The list read like the midfielders from an indiscernible country's all-star soccer team: Mannitol, Maltitol, Sorbitol, Aspartame, Acesulfame-Potassium, Sucralose, and Ronaldotol (ok, I made up that last one). Six different sugar substitutes to flavour the Chiclets. Six different ingredients that, when melded together and combined with saliva, bring about a chemical chewing explosion of flavour.
Some other key ingredients in Chiclets: Citric acid, Malic acid, and Tartaric acid powder. "Mmmm! Please sir, may I have some more, sir?"
It all makes me wonder what's really so bad about plain, ordinary sugar....
Anyways, I was looking at a package of Chiclets the other day, and saw that it was sugar free. How nice, I thought, because I chew sugar free gum. Then the sugar substitute caught my eye. The list read like the midfielders from an indiscernible country's all-star soccer team: Mannitol, Maltitol, Sorbitol, Aspartame, Acesulfame-Potassium, Sucralose, and Ronaldotol (ok, I made up that last one). Six different sugar substitutes to flavour the Chiclets. Six different ingredients that, when melded together and combined with saliva, bring about a chemical chewing explosion of flavour.
Some other key ingredients in Chiclets: Citric acid, Malic acid, and Tartaric acid powder. "Mmmm! Please sir, may I have some more, sir?"
It all makes me wonder what's really so bad about plain, ordinary sugar....
