Where have all the Tomatoes Gone?

I should have known something was going on when Jason and the girls returned from a trip to Wal-Mart and said there were NO tomatoes...but no, I insist we stop at another grocery store because what is a home grilled hamburger without tomatoes? The second store had them and the hamburgers were delicious. After dinner we are watching the news and wouldn't you know it..."Salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 states".

Nice.

But What Will Happen to Chad?

Having always only been an Alltel customer (we celebrated our 12th anniversary last month), I'm interested in what is going to happen now that Verizon owns them. But, the big question here is: what is going to happen to Chad? I think the Verizon/red shirt guy in the commercials should adopt him. Looking forward to having that huge group of people following me around!

100 MPG

I was just having a conversation about gas prices and vehicles and then came home and watched a little CNN and saw a piece on this car. I NEED one of these to run around in during the day when I am alone. I don't LOVE that I drive a gas guzzling giant SUV and I know that a lot of time I am alone (anyone remember the part on Over the Hedge?) in it, but I also know that a lot of time I need the passenger capacity. We have lots of friends in the car with us a lot of the time and it's not like it used to be..I remember driving around when I was little with about 5 or 6 of us in the back seat and getting the "hump" was gold! But now it's a seatbelt for everyone and everyone in a seatbelt so what do you do?

So, problem solved - I'll just get one of these for when I am all alone or when I only have one of the girls with me. Either that or I'll wait for the day they make SUVs with a pod that comes off for one person...

Gas

Lindsay had this on her blog and I had to add it because it's so true! It's a sad, sad day when you see gas for $3.67 and are EXCITED!

Welcome

I really am going to try to make this my very last personal blog. Why ANOTHER? My other "random thoughts" seemed to only be posts on television shows so I wanted to be able to organize my blogging thoughts into three categories...Family & Friends, Television, and Everything Else. Even if NO ONE reads it, I can always pretend and I like having a place to vent.

From Wikipedia:

"My two cents" and its longer version "put my two cents in" is an American idiomatic expression, taken from the original British idiom expression: to put in " my two pennies worth" or " my tuppence worth". It used to preface the stating of one's opinion. By deprecating the opinion to follow — suggesting its value is only two cents, a very small amount — the user of the phrase hopes to lessen the impact of a possibly contentious statement, showing politeness and humility. However, it is also sometimes used with irony when expressing a strongly felt opinion. The phrase is also used out of habit to preface uncontentious opinions.
For example: "If I may put my two cents in, that hat doesn't do you any favors." (More polite way of saying, for example: That hat is ugly.) An example of the shortened version: "My two cents is that you should sell that stock now."

"Two cents" and its variations may also be used in place of the noun "opinion" or the verb phrase "state [subject's] opinion", e.g. "You had to put your two cents in, didn't you?" or "But thats just my two cents."