Petty Irritation

Here is an entry to test the limits of your tolerance for rather bland stories. I have had two disappointing peanut butter experiences in a row. A few months ago, I bought a "natural" peanut butter - you know, the kind where the oil separates and sits on top and the bottom is a dry concrete mixture. But I thought perhaps I have a more adult palate now, and I will enjoy this style of peanut butter. I guess the formula has changed, because this fucker was oily all the way through. Soupy peanut butter is no fun. I finished it, though, b/c I didn't want to be wasteful. And when I did finally finish it, I went back to a name brand but foolishly decided "Oh, let's see if they've improved the reduced fat version!" Yeah, they haven't. The label claims it's a peanut spread, which is truly a misnomer because it doesn't spread at all. It's the opposit of the oily natural, and it's concrete-y all the way through.

The lesson? Just buy regular mass-produced peanut butter, kids.

I'm on Earth EVERY Day!

How do you feel about bandwagons? Have you ever seen a bandwagon? If they're full of colorful streamers and tubas and a platform so the cellists don't have to march, I guess they'd be pretty cool.

Here's a bandwagon I'm jumping on today - Blog Action Day. Bloggers all over are writing about the environment, in order to raise awareness. I guess. Did you know we have an environment? Apparently, we do. And apparently, we should take some responsibility for taking care of it. Or at the very least, not destroying it.

To that end, I've been wondering what to do with old vitamins and other over-the-counter drugs, because it seems like tossing them in landfills or flushing them would be bad for water tables, or something like that. (See? This actually ties in to yesterday's bathroom products because all of this crap is taking up space in my medicine cabinet. Which I need to clear to make room for... well, you know.) So after some exhaustive internet research (all right, 5 sites) I found they all agreed flushing is about the worst thing you can do and there are programs to accept your old drugs in CANADA. Curious, I did a more focused search in my own area and found San Francisco has a Safe Medicine Collection Event - IN MAY 2006. I believe I have learned I can best help the environment buy holding onto way too much crap out of guilt and hope for some auspicious time to get rid of it. If only we found a way to power things with environmental guilt...

News of the unrelated - Heroes. Turns out, I'm over it. Mom said the same thing. How about you?