Dec
16
2008
I finally joined the masses and tried out Netflix. If you know me at all, you know I procrastinate and I’m the forgetful sort. Whenever I would try to rent movies, I would always end up with a late fee.
Even those RedBoxes you find at McDonald’s and other places would end up costing me almost the price of the movie if I procrastinated long enough. And trust me, I can do that.
With Netflix, there are no late fees. I pay about nine dollars a month and I get one movie at a time. That is just about perfect for me. I can fill up my queue and as soon as they receive one, they ship another one out.
It usuallt takes a day to return and another day to get to me. If I send a movie back on a Monday, they receive it on Tuesday and i get a new one on Wednesday. It’s pretty cool.
They also, at the time I signed up, had a free trial period. I like free…free is good.
When I told my sweetie that I had signed up, he said he’d been wanting to try it. If I had known that, I would have let him pay for it. Oh well, I guess as long as I’m paying for it, he can’t grumble and groan when I rent my chick flicks. Well, he can, and I’m sure he will, but he can’t stop me. 
If you like watching movies and you haven’t joined Netflix yet, give it a try.
My Rating: 5 out of 5
Oct
03
2008
My sister got me started on The Laughing Cow Cheese wedges. These things are absolutely awesome for snacks.
They are little wedges of swiss cheese with a cream cheese texture. Each wedge is 35 calories. They look small, but when combined with crackers (I’m partial to Wheat Thins), it makes a very satisfying snack. I have a pretty healthy appetite and it satisfies me. If you put some on celery sticks, it would be a delicious, healthy, low calorie snack.
There are several flavors to choose from. I’m hooked on the garlic and herb flavor myself. The flavors are subtle, not overpowering. But there is enough flavor there to give it a delicious taste.
It’s only 9:30 in the morning and my mouth is already watering for some.
Honestly, I can’t say enough good things about The Laughing Cow cheese wedges. I even love their “Have You Laughed Today?” commercials.
I’m telling you, you have to try this cheese. Go on…try it.
My Rating: 5 out of 5
Sep
10
2008
In a recent hunt for hand-soap to place in our bathroom, I came across Dial’s ColorClean Blue Fusion hand-soap with timer beads.
Armed with the knowledge that Dial is already well known for hand-wash (and body-wash), the little blue timer beads intrigued me enough to buy it.I was initially hoping the fact that the blue beads would magically change the lather blue would awe my sons enough to make them want to wash their hands.To be honest…I don’t think it had that effect. Or if it did, the novelty wore off rather quickly. I still have to hound them to wash up.But my children aside, I myself still enjoy watching the lather turn blue. Yes, I’m easily amused. I like that about me.
Anyway, the idea behind the “magic” beads is to encourage people to wash their hands longer, which in turn makes the hand wash more effective.
Maybe I was the wrong person to try this out. I found the beads quickly turned the lather blue. I didn’t feel like I had washed my hands long enough.
But in Dial’s defense, I worked in the food industry for over five years. Sanitation was drilled into our heads constantly (you can be thankful for that since the product I worked with is distributed nationwide). Our General Manager told us a good method for washing our hands was to sing the ABC song. When the song was over, you could be fairly confident your hands were clean enough to handle food.
Maybe it was overkill on the GM’s part, or maybe Dial figures that the standard household isn’t as diligent about clean hands as the food industry, but I think I was lucky to get to E in the alphabet song with Dial’s product before the lather turned blue.
Still, I like the hand-wash. If you’re looking for little hand washers to get their hands cleaner than usual, this is a great product to try. And all in all, I am highly confident that their hands will be adequately clean when they leave the bathroom.
What happens after the bathroom, though…now that’s a different story.
My rating: 4 out of 5.
