Friday, April 23, 2004

• The BLT Chicken Salad from Wendy's comes with something called "homestyle garlic croutons". Now, what exactly defines a crouton as "homestyle"? Are they supposedly just like the croutons Mom used to make? Dunno about you, but my mom is the queen of homemade, and I don't recall her ever having made croutons. Also, what's with the automatic assumption that people want lowfat dressings with their salads? What if the highlight of my day was to be two tablespoons of fat-filled salad dressing, and that small happiness was denied to me because of perceived calorie paranoia? For god's sake, if I'm ordering a Frosty with my salad, assume that I'm a calorie whore who might want the fattest dressing available, thankyewverymuch.
  
• Two different people have mentioned cicada recipes to me in the past couple weeks. Folks, cicadas are NOT the new other white meat, nor will they ever be on the menu at Cheezleton Manor. That's all.
  
• We're getting a rather significant tax refund this year. (Babies are awesome for tax credits. Get one. Really.) I'd like to have it spent before we even have the check in hand, so I'm currently deliberating over various home improvement projects. Most likely we will replace the basement carpet, which, yes, was already replaced just 13 months ago, before we discovered that our cat had a urinary tract problem. I'm told that there is a new pet-resistant carpet on the market. Nice, but wouldn't it be ever so much lovelier if there was a type of carpet that not only resisted pet stains, but also reached up and throttled the beast if she even got so much as an urge to pee outside her box?
  
• It's hotpants season again. Johnny Hotpants, that is. When I returned from lunch, there he was perched high atop a ladder in all his handyman glory. The week is ending on a high note, afterall!

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