Wear glasses, stay awake

Vision Optic Co has created a product that will wake you up when you start to nod off.

Vibrating glasses. Yes, these glasses will vibrate when your head tilts to any angle you set the alarm sensor. For only $370 you can stay awake at work.

However, the Chicago Tribune recently published an article about how it is good for you to sleep at work. I wonder what Vision Optic Co has to say about that?!?

slime in the bath tub

In an attempt to make bath time more fun, Gelli Baff turns your bath water into slime. The powder int he package(sodium polyacrylate) can hold up to 400 times it's own weight in water, turning your normal bath water in to a slime consistency...with color choices, of course.

How does this go down the drain you ask? Just add the nifty dissolver packet or plain old table salt to turn your slime back into water.

Aren't you supposed to get clean in a bath? This kind of grosses me out. All I remember having as a kid were those "washable" crayons that you could write on the tub walls with.

Giant penis visible in Microsoft map

In Southampton, UK, some teenage boys played a prank on their teachers some years ago. They used weedkiller to burn a 20 foot long drawing of a penis into the school's lawn. Since, the grass has been reseeded and act nearly forgotten.

Interestingly, between the prank and the new grass growing in, an aerial picture was taken by a company and the company later sold these images to Microsoft's Virtual Earth.

Thanks to the Internet(and aerial surveying), the prank lives on.

Pretty hilarious, if you ask me.

Oprah, stop it

Most people know that I am not much of an Oprah supporter, which definitely puts me in the minority living in Chicago. She does good things for people, but my main issue with her is that she is constantly overstepping her bounds and trying to be an expert in areas that she has no experience or expertise.

I have severely mixed feelings about her book club, which she is continuing after a one year hiatus, post James Frey controversy. On one hand, if it gets more people in this country to read, I am pro her book club. But honestly, what credentials does Oprah have to recommend books to the public?

LED Ear Pick

It just looks painful. If you need one of these, I think you need to see a doctor.
My roommate would have a fit is she ever saw someone sticking of of these in thier ear.

Or you could just have my mom over to play darts

Recently spotted are 3 stainless steel dart coat hangers for $34. Instead of having steel tips, screws are placed on the ends so they can be secured to the wall.

It reminds me of the time that my brother had just moved into a new house, hung a dart board and my mom threw the first dart...straight into the wall.

I have returned from the frozen tundra

I didn't really tell many people I was leaving, but...I'm back.

I headed to the farm for 4 days, where there was about a foot of snow and it was freezing cold. I am happy to report that grandpa is doing surprisingly well, considering.

I'm too exhausted to blog now. More later...maybe.

My no good, very bad Wednesday until Jenne showed up

So, after losing my wallet this weekend, I have been busy trying to get replacements of everything. Such a pain.

This was also Jenne's last day in Chicago before heading back to San Diego and we were going to hang out for a while before her flight this evening. Trying to be Miss Productive, I got up early this morning and was going to run some errands and Jenne was going to go with me to the DMV to get a new drivers license.

Well, I went out to my car to run a few errands before Jenne arrived at 10am and my passenger door was a little frozen shut, so I gave it a good tug, put my stuff in the car and went to the drivers side. When I started my car the door ajar light came on. Well, I had managed to "break" the car door latch when I tugged on the door...who knew I was that strong? So after fiddling with the latch and trying to fix it for about 30 minutes, I get in my car and start to call my dad to see if he has any ideas. As I am calling, I hear a tapping on my window, Jenne has arrived.

Let's just say, Jenne saved the day. I think I would have had a full on break down without her. I have had a fairly awful last 2 weeks(and that is being optimistic) and this was going to be the final straw. Fortunately, Jenne came with her "everything is going to be ok" attitude and saddled up in my car and held the door shut while we drove to this auto place, where the nicest man in the world worked. I told him the issue and he came out with a Bic pen and reset the latch and we were on our way. It was really the best thing that has happened to me in a long time...and he didn't even charge me for the use of his pen.

I think Jenne summed it up best when she said, "Sometimes all you need is a man and his pen."

The day got much better after that. I decided to put the DMV off until tomorrow and frolic in Target with Jenne and we hung out all afternoon. It was just what I needed.