It was just a really nice work out. 

I’m so proud of all my kids that have been working hard to really apply their skills learned.  This goes without saying that I’m especially proud of Gabrielle for going the distance and placed at both tournaments!  The drive was pretty terrible but what a weekend!

(Oh yeah, all 3 of my kids that placed at the MI vs OH are now invited to the Nationals located in California!  How am I going to afford that one??!?!)

Almost a year ago, I started P90X.  I started feeling great about myself and exchanged a good portion of my fat for muscle.  I was looking good too, I must say.    I lost much of that feel good part, kept the muscle and continued to eat like a slob and put a happy layer of fat over the top of it.  I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again:  I need to get on the stick.   I’m tired and incredibly sore.  I’ve got better form and way more experience than the white and yellow belts in the class but none of it matters if I can’t make it through the full hour.

This is my wake up call.

Time to shut down, we are almost ready to land!

Hi Fred,

Thank you for providing this valuable feedback. We would like
to extend our apologies for the disappointing experience you had with
the Trader Joe’s Orange Juice With Pulp.  We have notified our Quality
Assurance Manager and the appropriate buyer regarding your experience,
and we will continue to monitor this product for future trends. We
believe that quality is essential to good value, and that’s what we are
all about!

We also wanted to make sure you are aware of our “Product Guarantee.”
If you are dissatisfied with any product purchased in our stores, you
can take it or the empty package back for an exchange or full refund.
Unfortunately we are unable to process refunds here form the office. So
we encourage you on your next visit to one o four locations to take the
packaging or receipt with you and the store can assist you with an
exchange or refund.

At Trader Joe’s, we are always striving to improve, and your comments
give us the opportunity to do just that. Thank you!

Sincerely,
Tiffany
Trader Joes
Customer Relations

THANK YOU TIFFANY AND EVERYONE ELSE AT TRADER JOES!

If you are asking that, then you should go back and read the title of this post because it’s like Clarissa:  It explains it all.  If that doesn’t work, maybe my quick note to them on their website will fill in the blanks:

I purchased a tall carton of your OJ w/ Extra Pulp on my last trip down to your Rochester Hills, MI location.  As always, the flavor is delicious and is one of the sole reasons I make the pilgrimage as often as possible.  I enjoy the quality and quantity of pulp in your product as both components are above and beyond all others I have had in the past.  My issue is this…  The current carton was opened this morning on my way out to work and when I sat at my desk, I found that my tumbler is devoid of anything pulp related. This would be OK if I didn’t drive 90 miles, 1 way, to buy your products. What can we do to fix this?

Right now, all I have in return is their automated emailer giving me their response to sit tight.  I’ll put up any responses as they come in.

At least it’s not this…

So I’m starting a new thing on my site to help keep me active with posting again.  I am categorising them as “A Fair Shake”.   What I’m going to be doing is watching the first episode of an Anime series regardless of how it sucks.  Once I’ve put myself through it, I put up my review up.  Sounds simple and fun/excruciating all at the same time.  This should be a fun experiment.  Without further adieu…

Air Gear

What can I say? Air Gear is not good.  Even if I were into this type of show, it’s still not that good.  The main character, Ikki, is the youngest of a group of siblings who all happen to be girls except him.  He feels very out of place and is seen as a complete wuss.  That is until he breaks into his sister’s room, steals a pair of Air Gear (Rollerblades on steroids, on steroids), goes about town to figure out why his sisters are into this mobile gang warfare and why they never told him.

This show is drawn quite well in the way that YuGiOh or Beyblade’s characters are portrayed but that’s really as far as it goes.  I just couldn’t get myself past the fact that this is an anime about in-line skating.  Yeah, they try to make it exciting by making things “fast” and using that spool up noise that mechs make when they buckle down to dash across the landscape.  Little gimmicks like that don’t seem to do it enough to make it worth the watch.  I like shows about racing.  I like shows with definite plot points with protagonists against antagonists.  All of the stuff with this show just doesn’t come together and make me want to watch past episode 1.  I can only imagine how much worse this show is with the US release.

After the fair shake: Skip it.

(All of the Joystix videos will be on a separate posting.)

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Download Episode 19

(Names will be changed to protect the innocent. ^_^)

We’ll give till we can’t give no more.  Google seems to be pretty generous with these invites so as we get more invites, we’ll give more out!