Crunchy Thoughts

Hey . . . HEY!!!

A week from tomorrow . . . it’s, it’s, it’s GAMEDAY!!!

And this year we will live up to this.

I have no fear. Hear the tigers roar.

It’s time to tour the planets that make up our solar system – come on!

The closest to the sun is the planet Mercury

Next the shouded planet Venus
Is as covered as can be

The Earth is next, we call it home
Let’s hope it stays that way

And then there’s Mars, it’s really red
What more can I say?

The Gassy planet Jupiter’s
As big as planets come

Then there’s Saturn with its mighty rings,
Made up of tiny crumbs

We travel on to Neptune
That’s a gassy-freezy ball

And cold and tiny Pluto
It’s the furthest one of all

Well, there you go, that’s our solar system

-You forgot Uranus

Goodnight everybody!

I’m one of the first to tell you that I’m a clumsy person — always writing on my pants, door frames running into me, counter tops getting into my way, et cetera. I’m never without a bruise. Despite this I don’t really drop or break too many things. In the past year I’ve only dropped one coffee cup and dropped that sack of hot aquarium rocks.

So why do I have such a problem with eye shadow containers? Yes, I admit, I drop them sometimes, and usually that’s all she wrote for those flimsy-ass things. But why do they have to make them so crappy? Blush and powder containers aren’t like that; they’re sturdy and well-built. Why does a plastic container made by the same company but for a different substance need to be constructed so shoddy that it breaks if you look at it funny?

The brand or price doesn’t matter, either. Even the expensive department store counter stuff snaps away — but only the eye shadow containers. Dude, do you know how much I paid for that silly little ice cube of solid color? Why the hell would you make the hinges out of a cheap plastic with a holow metal pin? How much makeup did you sniff before you designed this jewel?

See, a little eye shadow can go a long way so you can imagine I’m going to be dipping into this container for a good six months to a year. I will be opening it up and closing it back again EVERY DAY. It’s made of slippery shiny plastic that tends to get covered with a fine dust of powder. You know what — that gets pretty slippery. I just might drop it.

DESIGN FOR THAT.

Ahh, welcome to the same blog, new digs. Poke around and let me know if anything’s messed up. I’m still working on categorizing all my posts and I think there’s a picture or two that’s still not linked — working on hanging up the wallpaper, as it were.

Figure since I’m paying for this domain I ought to use it on a more consistent basis, plus Steven gets to have fun fixing all the little back-end database stuff.

“My boogers are comin’ out black.” — so said Steven after two grueling days of shoveling topsoil and mulch.