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[same_sky]

I know this is a terribly American thing to get excited over, but M brought me home the coolest thing last week. Oral B Brush-Ups--new! Texturized teeth wipes! Displosable, mint burst--clean teeth, fresh breath anytime! One might worry that he was trying to tell me something, but it's a free sample that someone gave him at WalMart. I have a decided partiality to hand wipes, and now that I think about it, having the same thing for teeth is just brilliant. If you're wondering if I'm totally serious about this and I honestly think this is an excellent idea and not just another sign that we're suddenly living in a world that looks suspiciously like the inside of a handbasket--well, that's a good question. I haven't the faintest idea if I'm amused or aghast. I guess I'll have to use one before I can comment on the true usefulness, but the idea is clever.

I'm generally not having a very good week, but I'm pulling myself through with the promise of a long weekend in my immediate future. I wish that M didn't have to work on Saturday, but theoretically, he's off Sunday and Monday. The girl who was hired at the same time as him didn't show up to work today, though, so we're fearing that his days off might already be seeing some.. well, some nonexistence. Who knows? I've decided that I want to be a studio photographer too. M just ignored me when I said that. Then again, perhaps ignoring me is better than his response to my other career choice tonight. I've always wanted to have a job opening bills and soriting through checks and recording the payments to someone's account. (I'm sure the appeal would wear off after about a day, but just work with me here on this one.) I'm still far and away doing better for myself than my first career aspiration. I desperately wanted to be a garbageperson. I thought it would be hella cool to ride standing up on the back of the big truck. I was all of five or something, but my family has a long memory when it comes to embarassing stuff. I was actually a pretty cute kid. A touch bossy and obnoxious, perhaps. I'm not at all saying this to brag about how cool I am--rather, I think I'd just like for everyone to know that I used to be all sorts of cute before I got old and cranky. ;)

Speaking of cranky, I've been so, and I think it's definitely time to go to bed and hope that tomorrow will be a little better than today. Or at least shorter. I'm not picky at this point.

Comments

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

My brother wanted to be a ditch digger when he was little. We never let him forget that one. :)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel better I've been a bit narky too, but a detox will do that to you. Headache-city.

Now, call me American, but I am excited about those Oral B wipes and I haven't even seen them!! That may be because I work on Listerine and get all sorts of fun fandangled groovy new teeth toys to play with but haven't heard of those. So tell me more, how big are they, what do you do, what do they come in??!!

I'm sure you were very cute as a kid :)

[totte.livejournal.com]

They're the dumbest looking thing ever! There are tv commercials here for them that make me laugh out loud every time. It's like a funny-looking blue glove for just one finger, and then you brush yoru teeth with it. (And I'm not making that up) Can you come up with a concept for a commercial that would make that look anything but completely absurd? If you can, you should offer your services to whoever is doing the campaign here, cause they're failing miserably.

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

What's so wrong with laughing out loud at a commercial :) Unless it's with pity....

They sound fun - I'd love to make an ad for them, but it would still be funny. A one fingered glove sounds fantastic!

[totte.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all wrong with funny commercials! I'm very fond of several of them, actually. Have you seen the little hamster-monster ones that Quizno's used? Brilliant stuff! This, however, I do not believe is supposed to be funny. It just comes out looking really dumb.

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Oh, THAT type of funny - yeah that happens all too often. No, I haven't seen the hamster monster ones... and I have no idea what or who Quizno's is ... but then I am surprisingly foreign ;)

[totte.livejournal.com]

Quizno's is a sandwich chain. They had this commercial with... Well. Uh. Hamster beasts. I really can't explain this. But they were HILARIOUS. Sadly, some people found them profoundly disturbing, and so now they've quit using them. They used to have the commercials on their website, but they've removed those too, apparently. Bastards.

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Indeed.