keepin it simple in Colorado Springs

I learnt that UCCS makes it very clear how to flush toilets. The flush instructions include detailed instructions spelled out as how to flush these high tech water saver toilets. They take it down to the lowest common denominator.....way past just explaining the very technical flush functions "up liquid waste - down solid waste". They include the "#1 and #2" identifiers for users from south of the Mason Dixon line!

Eggstractor!

You guys are laughing at me for shopping at the ARC!....well after this find last week.. ,,,,,,.WHO IS LAUGHING NOW????????

this stuff is great!

if you are in a hurry and don't have time to mess around with real fresh garlic.....this is the ticket. It is easy to use and tastes great. P-lou's oldest daughter's husband's brother-in-law bought this for us!

Chiquita Curry

Pat contributed incredible withheld culinary knowledge tonight to our Curry Beef over Rice meal. She insisted that adding the robust, sweet taste of a banana to the concoction would infuse a "sweet-and-sour" twist to the traditional dish. (Let's just say that Vic likes it...but he's had more wine than the rest of us tonight...) I'll admit it, I added the banana, but only due to pier pressure from Vic after Pat's off the wall banana addition idea...but I'm warming up to the results :)

Not a Joke! These are real!

OK, so I've been coaching 8-12 year olds at Winter Park in freestyle skiing for the past 11 weeks. Gotta say, one of the best parts is learning crazy miscellaneous information from them such as the Narwhal! I honestly didn't think that my athlete was serious about a unicorn of the sea but it actually exists, and now it is a life goal to see one in the wild.

you gotta itch?

I learnt that if you rub this stuff on your ankle that has been itching for 2 weeks it will make the spot quit itching.

Auto correct...

http://damnyouautocorrect.com has got to be one of the funniest

websites out there...we peruse it weekly for fun.

"I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me"

side note: scroll to the bottom to see pages and pages of these.

WTF?

So I "learnt" how fast one's copay for an "eye exam" could go from $10 to $80+. If you request an "eye exam", and they find something (say a scratch, etc,) then it's $10 for the "eye exam". HOWEVER, if you call up and say you feel like you have a scratch or something else that then becomes a "Medical (Patient) Complaint" - which then turns the "eye exam" into a "specialist / doctor visit" which then falls under your medical health plan, under the "Specialist" upcharge category.

To review:
1. Go in for an eye exam and THEY find a scratch - $10.
2. Say you "think you may have a scratch" - go in, and and they confirm it - $80

Of course (as they later told me) the increase fee wasn't just "fluff" this also included a "Treatment plan" which was "continue wearing sunglasses" and "use eye drops"

Wing Cooker

I got an email from Chef's Catalog showing this item a week or two back. I eased down to their retail store and bought it. Made some chicken wings for superbowl. they were ok but nothing to write home about. I used it in the oven....can't wait for it to get warmer to try it out on the grill.