Simple Randomness

Unnaturally Warm in November

Honestly, I’m loving the weather here lately.  And I’m lovin it!  Normally by this time of the year it is quite a bit cooler, but we’ve been in the 50s and it’s been really quite nice.

Ha, maybe it’s global warming or something .  Has anyone noticed that the news seems to have backed off that topic in the last couple of months.  Thank goodness!

Anyway, how is the weather where you live?  Has winter settled in yet?  It’s crazy, but I’ll bet that it’s just the calm before the storm.  Give it another week or so and I’m sure that the winter storms will come raging in and make their stay for a while.  i guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Quality Skin Care Products

Skin care products really seem to be popular right now.  I know that my wife uses them quite a bit, and sometimes she’ll go from one product to another trying to find a product that works well for her.

I found this site that has some really high quality stuff.  It’s called iDerma.com.  Based on what I’ve read on their About Us page they really do put a lot of time and energy into making sure that they are only offering the best products.

Kinda random I know, but that’s the point of this blog!  So if you are looking for some new, good skin care proudcts, check out iDerma!

Some Really Good Salsa!

I’m a big fan of chips and salsa, or really just about anything with salsa.  What do you expect, my favorite food is nachos after all!

But I also like trying different kinds of salsa.  In fact, there is this Mexican restaurant up in Salt Lake City that has a salsa bar with like 8-10 different types of salsa, all of them good!

Anyway, the other day at the grocery store we decided to buy some salsa, and I ended up getting a mango & peach salsa.  I was a little hesitant at first cause I don’t really like mangoes, and peach salsa sounded kinda weird.  In fact, I was swayed by my wife to get it because she loves both of those fruits and so I was hoping she would try some.

Well, what can I say, that is one good salsa!

I’ve also had raspberry salsa before, and that was really good, too.  There’s something about fruit in salsas that just makes them good!

So do you have a favorite kind of salsa?  Share below!

Tried a $1 Energy Drink Today…

As many of you probably know, at least if you’re read this blog at all, I’m a fan of the energy drinks Rockstar and Monster.  Now admittedly, I only drink 1-2 a week, but even then I feel like I need to cut back.  Anyway, this morning was a little different.

You see, usually i’ll buy these when they are like 2 for $3 or something like that because I don’t believe in spending the full $2 or $3 for one.  But this morning at my local grocery store none of my favorites were going for that price.

But there was one going on sale at 10 for $10.  I figured, “What the heck, I’ll try the $1 energy drink and see how it is!”  So I looked them over and picked up a Wired energy drink, some berry flavor.

All I can say is that I’m sticking with Monster and Rockstar!  This stuff really didn’t taste that good.  I think it has potential, but it tasted too much like a regular energy drink with just a hint of other flavor.  The reason that I like some of the Monster and Rockstar flavors so much is that they don’t taste like your regular energy drinks!

So I’m sticking with my Monster Khaos and my Rockstar NoCarb for now.  At least until I kick the habit entirely, which I honestly need to do….

The Best Jelly for a PBJ

Everyone loves a good Peanut Butter & Jelly (PBJ) sandwich! But what is the best jelly to use on your PBJ?

Talk about a random topic right? Well, for the last couple of years I’ve always been using something like strawberry. It was pretty good. But then we ran out of strawberry jam and my wife bought some grape jelly.

At first I thought, “Oh no! What have you done?! What about the strawberries?!” But I figured, “Oh well, I used to use grape as a kid, we’ll try it out again.”

Well, now I’m officially reconverted to grape jelly as the jelly of choice for my PBJ’s. Maybe my hint should have been that it’s a peanut butter and JELLY sandwich, not JAM. There’s something about the grape that it just seems to mix better with the peanut butter. Strawberry just wasn’t strong enough…and now I know!

So what is your favorite flavor of jam or jelly to put on a PBJ?

Winter is On It’s Cold Way In…

I’m still somewhat amazed, but we had snow on the ground on Sunday.  Snow!  And it’s barely October!

It’s crazy because it seems like I was jsut barely writing on the blog about snow.  In fact, I think I wrote about it a couple of times last winter.  So I guess pretty soon we’ll be getting back into my writing about snow season.

But really, snow isn’t all that bad.  Sure it’s cold and wet, but you can sure do a lot more in snow than you can in the rain!  I mean seriously, can you ski in the rain?  Can you mold rain into a ball and throw it at somebody?  Can you make a man out of rain?  NO!  So yeah, snow is pretty cool.

Ok, if you can’t tell I’m a little brain dead today.  Maybe it’s the cold weather getting to me.  Maybe its the fact that I’m not going to be wearing shorts anymore, and that has me a little depressed.

Does anyone else go through that?  It’s weird, because every fall there comes a point where I feel weird because I don’t wear shorts anymore.  Then there’s a point in the spring where I feel weird putting shorts on because I’ve been wearing pants for so long.  Strange…

Why Would You Supercharge?

So honestly, have you ever asked yourself if you should supercharge your car?  I mean honestly wouldn’t it be kinda fun to have a supercharged car?  When was the last time that you needed to get ahead of another car to get over into the other lane or something, but you just couldn’t do it because you car didn’t have the guts?  I only say this because that has honestly happened to me at least 2 times in the last 2 weeks.

Well, if you are interested getting a supercharger for your car, check out the guys at SuperChargerPros.com. They have an awesome selection of products and great customer service as well. They’ll get you started right!

Amazing Drummer!

I came across this video today and just felt that it was worth sharing. I was in a small time marching band once and I can tell you that none of our guys were this good! Watch this, you’ll be amazed!

I’m Liking Playlist.com!

So I’ve heard about Playlist.com before, but never really messed with it.  So as I’ve been exploring my musical tastes I’ve come back to the fact that I work best lately when listening to instrumental rock.

Since I don’t have a lot of instrumental rock (yet), I decided that the easiest way to listen to this kind of music was either Pandora or Playlist.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Pandora, but one thing I really like about Playlist.com is that you can choose the songs you want to listen to and just create a playlist (hence the name, clever huh?).

So now presenting to the world my Joe Satriani playlist from Playlist.com!  Enjoy!

Listening to More ‘Classical’ Music Today

Ok, not really.  I’ve really never been able to get into classical music.  Which is sad because my Dad is a HUGE classical music fan.  He has tons of CD’s, all classical.  Me, I could never get into it.

In fact, it was funny cause one year I thought I’d try to ‘bridge the gap’ between us and bought him an Apocalyptica album.  If you’ve never heard of them they’re a group of cello’s that play Metallica music.  Pretty cool stuff, but unfortunately he didn’t like it.  Oh well!  It was worth a shot at least!

So back to my own ‘classical’ music.  My type of classical music is movie soundtracks.  I’m finding that I tend to work better when I listen to music without words, so I’m exploring the music that I already have.  Right now I’m listening to a little “Two Towers” music from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.  Great stuff!

i also really like the Braveheart soundtrack.  Anybody know of some other really good ones?