The other day I was standing in line at the checkout at Walmart and I saw this little tin of Icebreakers mints that I'd never seen before. I'm a total sucker for new products and I can be convinced to buy anything that's new just cuz I wanna try it. Like Pepsi Throwback for instance. Good stuff.
Anyways this is what I bought
First of all, they fucked up the packaging and where it says 'not to share' is the huge opening, and 'to share' is a tiny little slot you can't get your fingers into...lol That should have tipped me off that these things were backwards to begin with.
Then I took a whiff of them. I dunno what I expected except maybe a nice lemony tea scent? Instead it smelled like catnip. Not good. I wasn't sure I wanted to try it, but my daughter will eat anything that's candy related so she tried it first.
She informed me (as she made her 'omg this is yucky' face) that the mint dissolved all her taste buds and she was now scarred for life..lol
Eventually I tried this concoction myself. Oh my. Now that's some nasty shit. It tasted like it smelled. Catnippy with a twist of artificial lemon-like flavoring. Only it didn't make me high like catnip and feel like chasing my tail around. That was unfortunate, cuz if it did get me high, I might have kept eating it.
So big thumbs down on the Icebreakers tea mints. Barf.
Something else on my mind today -- funny typos. Don't you just love it when you're chatting to someone and you realize that your response is almost unintelligible cuz you missed words and spelled shit wrong and didn't proofread cuz you're chatting and don't wanna make the person wait 10 minutes for you to edit it.
This resulted last night in me saying something about 'mothfuckers' Yes, that's supposed to say 'MOTHERfuckers' but I was so riled up (and a little drunk) that it came out 'stupid MOTHfuckers!'
The other person probably wasn't gonna point out my error until I pointed it out myself as I died of laughter. An angry tirade loses its punch when you accidentally call someone a mothfucker....lol
And speaking of moths, a couple of nights ago we had a killer moth from hell in our house. Our cat was carrying it around in her mouth and she let it go and it proceeded to fly at my wife and give her a heart attack. I came running into the room and she said something horrible was in the house and it looked like a hummingbird.
Now of course hummingbirds aren't horrible, but if it's in your house, that does present a problem. It had flown into the globe of our floor lamp and I had to climb on the couch and peek in there to see what it was. I really thought she was exaggerating the size of this thing, but omfg! It was enormous! The wingspan was like an eagle. Okay, okay, so now I'm exaggerating. But it was BIG.
Here's what I was dealing with:
So I scooped it out, and told it to go, and it just sat on my hand...lol So I shooed it off and eventually it flew, but it tried to fly right back inside the house! Stupid beast. No one ever said moths were smart...lol Obviously it was a friendly sort of fellow that wanted to sit on my hand...but yeah, no, he can live somewhere else.
And last, but not least, something else on my mind is -- people. Yep. Just people. Like how much it sucks sometimes when you know certain people have the wrong idea about you, and they just don't like you, even when the things they dislike you for, aren't true.
Or they hear something from someone, and immediately rush to judgment, when they don't even know the whole story. And then they form these opinions of you that you can't even defend cuz they won't bother to even ask you about it.
Yep. I hate that. Just like I hate it when someone says something to you that is disguised as being helpful, but really it's just a biting insult and they do it with a smile on their face. So then you're not even sure if you're allowed to be offended or not. I prefer people who have issues with me to just flat out confront me.
Don't pretend to be my friend. Don't give me any 'helpful' insulting advice. Just say what you really feel. Cuz then at least I can defend myself properly or choose to ignore someone without feeling like I'm being a jerk about it.
And this concludes my Saturday afternoon thoughts. Thanks to those of you who read this.
