Laundry

Okay, I didn't believe the info-mercials or the blogs, but now I'm a believer.  I got a coupon in my costco mailer last week for $4 off a 15lb box of Oxiclean.  Just did about five loads of  laundry with it and OH MY GOODNESS does it work!

My whites have never been whiter, my colors never brighter!  You know how socks get pretty grungy from all of the MN-non-shoe-ness?  Well, no more!!  They look like they're almost brand new!  Seriously.  If you're a costco member, you can get the coupon at the courtesy desk, it's good through the 31st I think.  With the $4 off it was $13.50 for 15 pounds of the stuff!  I don't know if it's a good deal, but I know it works and 15 pounds is going to last for a looooong time. 

Happy cleaning!

I have a great idea - I wonder if it already exists.

It would be awesome if there was technology that tagged every word you recorded when working in radio. After a few months, you'd have a great repository of words, that you could use to put together a new tag line or sub a word with another because of a swear or something. You'd just search for "crap" and then find & replace within the recording. Wouldn't that be awesome? I bet it'd save radio stations a lot of money - instead of having to edit and "splice" segments together, you could just find and replace.

The other idea I had today (it was a productive drive to freezer cooking!) had to do with stop lights. I think it would be great to link the stop lights to car engines. Basically, by using GPS and the signals the stop lights already follow - your car wouldn't be able to run a red light. When you're heading towards a red light, and you get within a certain distance, your car would begin slowing down. I guess there would be some debate around whether the car should speed up for a yellow light or slow down for a yellow light. Maybe you'd have to take an IQ test before they determine which your car would do. I'm sure there are some kinks in the idea - but all those tech people will figure it out.

The first snow the year makes me think of my best idea from a few years ago - indoor gas stations!!

Happy Saturday!

le smile

first, i need to mention my new addiction...via Jess: http://corporette.com/
love love love!

Worst new show: More to Love

And then, the thought that brought me to blogging today.
Sometimes, when I'm walking into work, or climbing the stairs, or walking through the hallway at work, it smells the same as it did during my internship. There have been a few occurances this week - and it's amazing how quickly it brings me back. Not just back to the moments in time when I smelled those same smells, but the excitement, curiousity, boundless opportunity I could see...it's fun to be back there and to be reminded of what I was thinking, feeling, smelling when I picked this job, this company, this career.

Ps, I have the best husband ever. :-D

no facebook!

I'm giving up facebook for two months....which didn't seem that hard when I agreed to the challenge, but now that i'm watching rachel ray with milee cyrus.....i SO want to post a status update!!!

Instead, you get a blog post:

1. Rachel Ray, while I love her cooking show, is not a good talk show host. at all. AWKWARD!
2. I want to see the Hannah Montana Movie!!
3. Can't wait for Billy Ray to be interviewed next!!

edit - Billy Ray, your hair is horrible.

phew.