As usual, working late and have the late night TV on as I am finishing up some recent projects. For some reason the channel was on KRON where “Inside Edition” was on, (couldn’t locate the remote in order to efficiently change the channel, so it remained on…). The education that one can receive from this type of late night programming is remarkable and for some, I’m sure can be beneficial…. not my bag, but I did learn something:

What on earth is wrong with people…?

Is your viewing appetite ... junk?

The show features everything from one big real estate tycoon feuding with a well known obnoxious morning talk show host on politics (and ignorance), to rodents in New York restaurants (wow, is that a shock), elephants with “tusk” aches and the ever so alarming “American Idol” rebel/fan who is on a hunger strike to get a contestant removed from the show…. which was ironic because there was also a woman featured who tried to get her dog to eat, so she then dug into the pet food with a fork and consumed some of the tasty kibble herself… needless to say, both she and the dog became violently ill…

Oh. Ok… what?

I never watch this type of stuff… and now I know why. This was so ridiculous it was laughable. Out of frustration, I searched high and low for the remote, just in time for some infomercials… POWER OFF is such a useful button.

I think I will wrap it up now, for me this is early (1:10am), but I have a full day tomorrow.

Food for thought… The food channel. Always a safe bet, no hunger strikes, no pet food consumption and always a good down to earth chef competition/challenge or the like to make you crave something yummy.

Good night and sweet dreams.

Originally posted on: Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Candy – love it. I always have some around.

Holiday candy – you can always rely on these nicely bagged, foil covered tasty pieces of sweetness. I always get a few bags of this holiday stuff becasue you know these bags have not been sitting on the store shelf for a long period of time. Just made and shipped to a retailer for you.

Tightly wrapped foils in colors; pinks, red, greens, yellows, purples, blues…. depending on the holiday season, depends on the style, holiday shape and flavor of the candy.

Yellow Flavored Peeps

Peep-a-liscious

Today it was an adventure. Walgreens. Sale on candy… four bags of mix and match chocolates and other funky jelly-ized, sugar covered, squishy, sweet, sour, mixed and more. Four for ten dollars.

Not only did I discover the new Dove eggs, but there were Nestle crunchy foiled eggs filled with peanut butter center, needless to say I think it was lunch for me (bad, yeah I know). Then there was the entire row of “peeps” dedicated to an entire shelf . Nicely lined boxes of peeps, all at attention, ready to march or perhaps they were lined up there protesting for better, higher shelf space… couldn’t quite tell.
(In case you aren’t sure what peeps are… ….Peeps are marshmallow preserved, bunny and chick shaped what-every-a-call-its that seem to have an endless shelf life). Sorry kids, I love candy, but can’t seem to get into the “peep” whirlwind and cult addiction of it all.

Finally there were the Cadbury eggs with the weird egg colored gooey centers. (Apparently these are a gluten free food for all you intestinally challenged peeps out there). Too funny.

The downside of this is that this round of this sugar infused adventure, this is it for holiday candy for a while. At least until any sort of back to school special or Halloween. Stock up now I say…. at least get a carton of “peep’s if in the event you need a massive sugar rush or to experience a sugar coma and can’t wait until October!

Candy Rock On!