Very Random Information (VRI)

Part One: 

Sometimes there is so much going on, it's hard to take a minute to appreciate all of it.  I've been in that mode for the past few days, up until Valentine's Day (nothing magical, just a coincidence).  Chase and I went out and spent the day together.  It was a totally random series of events - Ihop, Trees & Trends (I warned you about the random) and later dinner and a movie. 

We had the best time just putzing around town not really running errands, not really buying much, just kind of being together and taking it all in. 

Of course, the one thing I did find was a bunch of cheapo sunglasses at Trees & Trends ($2.50!), among which I found the Willy Wonkaest Sunglasses ever made!  See the image from my pocket-cam (my point and shoot) below.  Note the still-attached tag.  Well, no longer!  If you see someone driving down the road and think to yourself "Was that Willy Wonka?", it probably wasn't.  It was probably me.

The point is... the past weekend made me realize that sometime we need to slow down and just appreciate things.  Part two is a good example of enjoying the little things. 



Part Two: From the VRI (Very Random Information) department

I mentioned the other day that I found something interesting at the grocery... Well here goes!

I laughed out loud when I saw it.

I hope you've seen the movie Meet the Parents with Ben Stiller (otherwise, I'll seem not only crazy, but unstable.  I'm actually neither, promise.).

Here's the dialog from the scene I'm thinking of (A little setup... they are sitting at dinner as a family for the first time):

    Jack (Father): Greg, would you like some yams?
    Greg (Fiance): Thank you. Oh, yeah.
    Jack: You must've had vegetables fresher than that, growing up on a farm, Greg.
    Pam(Greg's Fiance): Dad, uh, Greg grew up in Detroit.
    Jack: He told me he grew up on a farm
    Dina (Mother): Do they have many farms in Detroit?
    Greg: No, Dina, no, not a lot. In fact, Jack, I should clarify this.
          I didn't actually grow up... on a farm per se. The house we grew up in was originally erected...
          in the early Dutch farm, colonial style. So that, plus we had a lot of pets-
    Jack: Which one did you milk then?
    Pam:  Dad!
    Jack: Honey, he said he pumped milk. What have you ever milked?
    Greg: A cat.
    Jack: A cat?
    Greg: I milked a cat once. You wanna hear a story? Sure.
          My sister had a cat, and the cat birthed a litter of kittens
          Must've been eight of them, and there was this one little runt...
          this little sweet little... little-engine-that-could runt...
          who wanted to get up there and couldn't really get access to the-- to the--
          to the-- to the-- to the teat.
    Jack: Teat?
    Pam:  Dad!
    Greg: I went in and just simply, you know, just--
          into a little saucer,
          then took the saucer and fed it to Geppetto-- that's what I named him.
    Dina: I had-- I had no idea you could milk a cat.
    Greg: Oh, yeah, you can milk anything with nipples.
    Jack: ...
          ...
          ... I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?

And of course, a little audio from the best part.

Well, all this to say...Greg Focker may actually have been telling the truth, because I actually found CAT MILK at Kroger.  As evidenced below. 

P.S.  This has not been photoshopped (other than cropping to eliminate my stove in the picture) this little jewel is straight from the shelf at my local Kroger.  Seriously, I bought it and fed it to my cat.


(FYI: For those concerned, this is not ACTUALLY milk from a cat...it's supposed to be more digestively friendly... but that's no fun.)

Ahhh.  Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did.  We'll be back to business here in a few days with some info on our newest sample albums!

Until Next Time
Kristin