Wednesday Randoms

1. Your Stimulus Dollars are finally resurfacing the road I use to get into town. I wasn't sure if you would get it done before winter, but you are. So thank you!

2. I am getting about 3 Christmas catalogs in the mail every day now. I love them! I go through each one and carefully fold down the page corner when I find something I really want/need. Okay - want. Sometimes I will find 10 or 12 things in each one! Then I throw the catalogs away.

3. They are trying to ruin Splenda! (I put 2 Splenda packets into my morning mug of coffee; it is an essential on my shopping list.) Yesterday as I was tossing the box of packets into my cart I noticed that it said "now with fiber" and had a whole little front-of-box spiel about how most people don't get enough fiber. So I flipped the box over & checked the ingredients. The "fiber" they are adding is corn cellulose, which I assume is the crap left over after they have squeezed everything else out of the corn kernal. Or maybe it is just the cobs - who knows? One thing I do know is that I do NOT want another source of corn by-product in my diet! Corn is evil! I did find that the smaller boxes were still corn-free so bought 2 smaller boxes. Phew!

4. Mr Swami has requested more outdoor Christmas lights this year. I almost fell off my chair! This is the man who hates putting up lights. However, he did replace a bunch of fence posts this summer and he wants to run a string of lights along the topline of the fence. All the better to admire his new posts I guess.

5. Oh! Bonus on the newly surfaced road! I can listen to my car's CD player again. I gave up on it a year ago because the endless potholes made every CD skip like crazy.