I drafted an unpublished post titled, “Joshua, three months old.” This implies the following: I am a very busy mama, and I either need to type faster or write shorter. Here’s hoping that I finish this post before another month passes!
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“Help! I’m being attacked!”
“…By the fifteen pound baby.”
I heard a great interview on NPR yesterday with Ben Popken, editor for The Consumerist, about the recent phenomina of grocery store shrinkage — and no, this isn’t about teenage box boys and their aversion to cold water. This is a much more serious problem, sorry guys.
The scoop: There’s a good chance that you’re paying the same amount of money for a product that is slightly smaller than before. As inventory is turned over, there are reports of the different sized products sitting on the same shelf, for the same price.
The reason: To decrease production costs, rather than raise prices. Sounds kinda nice, right? Manufacturers of CPG’s (Consumer Packaged Goods) continue to make the same profits as before in the face of sky-rocketing transportation and production costs, and consumers won’t know the difference.
It’s an inoculation of the worst kind.
The problem: Manufacturers are helping the general populace to ignore the greatest problem facing the human race today — energy. By pulling the wool over our eyes and tricking us into believing that everything is fine, we become complacent and unknowingly ignorant to the realities of the age. Gas prices have gone through the roof and now the entire country is paying closer attention to their driving habits. It hurts, gas stations are closing, but we’re reaching the end of an era and change is supposed to hurt a little — we’ll appreciate the end result more.
Kinda sounds like some war that’s going on right now…
Thursday we began the long trek up to Cedar City Utah to stay with Cody & Michaela. The eight hours we spent in the car went smoothly for the most part, save for some expected behavioral quirks from our four year old and a little detour. Our trip to Sedona in May provided us with a view of what beauty the desert can hold, however I wrote this off as anomaly and was totally unprepared for the gorgeous and unique landscape we saw in the middle of nowhere, Arizona and Utah. I’m sharing the photographs that I took, but they do the actual thing no justice. Read more »
Wow, what a weekend! Special out of town appearances from Erinn, Auntie Chris, Grandma Eilts and Grama & Grampa C!
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