Tired + Weird Suggestive Advertising

I couldn't sleep last night at all. Yeah, I played Baseball Superstars on my iPhone until 2:15, but I still couldn't fall asleep for another hour and a half. While trying to fall asleep, I kept feeling my leg tingle, and couldn't help thinking about those stupid commercials for "Restless Leg Syndrome". Did I have Restless Leg Syndrome? What the crap is that supposed to mean? My leg was "restless" because I had eaten a sugar-packed frozen yogurt before bedtime, not because I had some disease to be cured with some magical medication that no doctor has ever heard of before. It pisses me off when companies advertise products on TV that clearly no person needs, but dumb people keep buying the stuff. Some of the stuff is useful, like Aqua Globes, Green Bags, etc., but some of it is literally useless. Who needs a Ped Egg? Hasn't anyone ever heard of pumice? Do they ever wonder why if they go get a pedicure the Vietnamese lady isn't using a Ped Egg? How about the AWESOME AUGER! Drilling holes in the ground so you don't have to bend down, except when you have to...actually put the plants in the holes. You're going to be on the ground anyway! And how hard is it to dig up dirt? If your dirt is so hard you need this metal spork to do it, you probably don't have the soil for a garden to do very well. My favorite useless item, though, is the handle that you can put wherever you want. They say you can put it in the bathtub to help you pull yourself out! Now, it's not the concept of a handle wherever you want that's the problem; it's the reality of these As Seen On TV products. I bought my dad one of those spatulas with the top piece so you can hold onto sausages and hot dogs instead of them rolling off the spatula; the only problem is that it's made with the cheapest plastic ever. This stuff is NOT high-quality merchandise. If I put a handle in my bathtub to help me get out, I'm going to be pulling on this thing with all my weight behind it. If the handle *gasp* breaks? OUCH. And I assume they probably have some darn good lawyers ready to combat the possible lawsuits. "Yes, well, did you read the fine print? It does say the handle isn't guaranteed, and that you should only use in situations where it would still be safe without the handle". Lame. Anyway, that's enough about useless gadgets; for some reason I was thinking about this crap last night while trying to sleep, and trying to decide whether I should get up and start my blog last night or not. I went with sleep.

On much more exciting news, we are bringing home our new dog this evening! He still doesn't have a name, and now our name list is even longer! We are between around ten names, and that's if something better doesn't come to mind before he has a name.



We are between the following right now:

Kirby
Remy
Jamie
Elvis
Mojo
Blackjack
Gunner
Token
Ozzy
Izzy

...or something else if we think of it (or if YOU come up with it!). That's all for now, so until next time, that's my Stream of Consciousness. Literally. It's whatever the crap I was thinking about that's interesting enough to share but not dumb enough to make me sound like a moron. Late.

Brad