Important! Frozen Pizza Questions!

Okay, this has bothered me for years so please don't ignore this question just because it's Friday and LJ is slow on Fridays.

When you look at the directions for frozen pizza, they almost always tell you to place the pizza directly on the oven rack. In a small sidenote, it will say something about how you can put it on a cookie sheet for a softer crust. What I want to know is... does anyone put their pizza directly on the oven rack?

If you do, I would also like to know: does it not bother you that oven racks are not cleaned? Or do you acually clean your oven racks more than I clean mine? Or that pizza cheese and toppings are likely to slide off the edge and burn onto the bottom of the oven, if not during cooking then during transport? And okay, I can see how you could put a frozen pizza INTO the oven and onto a rack successfully, but how would one remove it? I guess that you could use a pizza peel but if you have one of those out where it's easily accessible are you really making that many frozen pizzas? Or maybe you remove the whole oven rack. But still, I am thinking of all the burnt-on places on my pizza pans. Doesn't it stick? And/or create a big mess? Why would you do this in the first place anyway?

Also, does anyone ever fix a frozen pizza without adding more cheese? I personally add more cheese, green peppers and onions (pre-chopped from the freezer, usually) and pepperoni. I recently bought some Freschetta pizzas (on sale, with coupons) and they could probably be used without adding more toppings. I refuse to pay premium frozen pizza prices, though, so maybe that's the difference in adding more toppings.

There are a lot of really important things going on in my head, as you can clearly see. Please given me more frozen pizza information because I seriously want to know.

Happy fake birthday to me!

I think it's really funny that I've gotten a pile of birthday emails from random internet sites today. May 1 is my fake internet birthday! I am turning 31 on my fake birthday! (As opposed to my actual birthday on Monday, when I will be turning 30. I pretend that I am older on the internet!) I started doing it as a tiny little anti-identity-theft thing, when it really didn't matter to the company when my birthday was. Even better--when I started telling M about my fake internet birthday, he said, "July 5, 1975!" He also has a fake internet birthday that is off by one year and three days. (He pretends to be younger on the internet, though. He is tricksy that way.) Isn't it odd that we both picked one year and three days? I think that is probably a clear sign that we are soul mates.

I have been trying to take care of some of those little things that build up around the house. You know, things that sit around waiting to be done so long that you don't see them anymore? One of these things is that someone small pulled out a bunch of STUFF from an old purse. It was a collection of papers and cards that have been moved into old purses through the years.. a half-finished job of switching purses and then I go back to it later and just dump everything into another old purse. That sort of thing. I am thinking it's time to let some of this stuff go.

Things I Will No Longer Feel the Inexplicable Need to Keep
discount card valid until May 15th, 1998, to be used at six hometown restaurants. Two of them are no longer in business.instruction manual for hair-clipping trimmers purchased in 2001, and that we replaced two years ago.
Back Seat Driver's License, awarded to myself from the State of NERVOUSNESS, Bureau of NUISANCES, to certify that the person herein named has passed all tests for nervousness and has been licensed to irritate, criticize, and otherwise disturb the operator of the car. Expiration: when regular driver's license is issued, or: 1996.
Blockbuster card, issued to my dad (name misspelled), in Memphis.
Hallmark calendar card, 1998.
SIX receipts for high school yearbooks from 1993-1996. (I can't figure out exactly why there are six. It only took me the customary four years to graduate...)
Two Lazarus receipts for the purchase of a purse in 2001. Lazarus no longer exists... bought out by Macy's.
inspirational business card sized thing: heart, with "Tu has sabido rodear mi corazon con los mas hermosos sentimientos" written on the back. Found it in a used book at least twenty years ago.
Inspirational business card sized thing: "I asked Jesus, "How much do you love me?" "This much," He answered; and He stretched out His arms and died"
Inspirational business card sized thing: religious poem (the problem with these two is that I feel kind of guilty throwing them away because of the message and all, but I don't want to carry around more stuff in my wallet, either)
Inspirational business card sized thing: Friends Credit Card (best friend from Memphis who I recently found on Facebook, yay!)
Inspirational business card sized thing: Best Friend Club (same friend)
tiny note written from same friend, calling another friend a bitch with a BAD case of PMS.
tiny note written from different friend of same period (not the bitch with a BAD case of PMS)
insurance card from M's first "real" job in the US (ironically not counting his job selling insurance, as it did not provide insurance benefits).
American Red Cross Adult CPR certification card, expired 9/97. Note: we did this in my AP Biology class. I thought it was really awesome.
receipt for a battery for my car, dated July 1996

Things That I Will Keep
tiny blue scrap of paper with two hearts drawn on it in a childish hand--a gift from my niece a decade ago--that says

Happy ♥ ♥ I ♥ U

... no, looks like that's about all I need to keep.