Soda companies charge us for water. Think about that for just a moment and maybe it will sink in.

My Devil of the Day: Bottled Water

I saw this picture on imgur today. I know I had seen it in the past, but it still had an impact on me and reminded me of a video about the evils of bottled water. A friend had shared it with me a while back, and while we changed our water drinking habits at home, it still astounds me how widespread this stupidity really is, especially in Colorado, where the drinking water is amazing. Don't get me wrong, I understand that there are places where the drinking water is unhealthy - and I am not referring to those places with dangerous water, or even to times of disaster. However, all things being equal, your bottled water habit is simply throwing money in the trash - literally...along with that plastic bottle. 
As a side note, I also find it amusing that so many people who quit soda are still giving their money to the same soda pop companies. Soda companies charge us for water. Think about that for just a moment and maybe it will sink in. 
Like I said, I know this video is old, so some of my (zero) readers may have seen it. For those who haven't seen it, most of it is a cartoon, so hopefully it can hold your failing attention span for the duration. 

I admit to falling for the convenience of bottled water in the past, and I have shame. My boys used to take a bottle with them to bed most nights. It wasn't rampant abuse, but it was still unnecessary. Well, no more - Kyle and I stopped buying bottled water several years ago and we both have our own stainless refillable bottles. There are so many amazing bottles you can buy, too. Like this one is particularly awesome...or this one, which I should really get for Kyle, now that I look at it. 
And to people with small children - we used to drink from garden hoses...warm nasty-ass garden hoses, but now we are sending a message to kids with this useless crap that the water that comes out of their kitchen tap is substandard to the bottle of Dasani in the fridge that is just public tap water from somewhere that has been "remineralized" (whatever the f*ck that means - I know that they add small amounts of salt to their water.) Nobel Laureate Anatole France is quoted as saying, “If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”- this applies to thinking, believing, and doing, as well. So yeah, that's my rant for the day. Just think about it.

Cliques, communities, religions, organizations...and how, every day, in every way – I want nothing to do with any of you.

No matter how alone anyone feels at any given time, they are not. No matter how original and fantastic you imagine your feelings and thoughts to be – they are not. Someone has felt it, someone has thought it, and someone has gotten offended by it sometime in the past.

Many times I have come across a gathering of people, online or otherwise, and thought, “maybe this could be where I belong?”, but then I hang out for a bit. Then I look deeper and I see hierarchies, infighting, cliques, people who – even amongst a group who hold a demonstrably underrepresented way of thinking – feel that they are righter than all these other right people that they sought community with not too far in the distant past. “You can't just think what I think, you have to think what I think, EXACTLY the way that I think it, and present yourself exactly the way I would like you to be”, they seem to say with every condescending forum post. Is this what becomes of a group of people when they move from “I don't know” to “I don't know and you don't either”? Or maybe I just hate everyone in the world, as I have always suspected.  

things I think today.

- I need to stop getting recipes off Pinterest. I do not need 101 ways to work with Nutella or another potato recipe, and my ass agrees with me. (to be fair, there are a lot of healthy ones, too...but they just don't stand out next to anything oozing cheese and pesto, y'know?) The people on there seem to only post pictures of anorexic models, but judging from what they eat, they can't possibly fit in the clothes they are "loving" on their style boards. Just saying.

 - Bendy straws are nifty.

 - I do not like antlers in decorating, but skulls are fine. I also do not like the current hipster decorating trend of prints of animals wearing clothing.

- There are very few style aspects of the 70's that need reviving. So few that we should just forget they happened and move back to the 60's or the 50's. (I was going to say "no style aspects"...but I hate to close the book, here. I don't know everything about the 70's. Could happen, I suppose, but I'm not counting on it.)

- Frozen berries instead of ice cubes is pretty awesome in most of my favorite cold beverages (not iced coffee, natch)

- If I want to be a writer...I should really...write, and trust that the brilliant ideas will follow. (only small tinge of sarcasm when reading that, please.)

- I want a card catalog cabinet. I'll figure out what to do with it after I have it.

- Which do you think would make me richer: a toothpaste that doesn't ruin the taste of orange juice..or a cold steam vaporizer that actually made your room smell like rain? Mmmmm I would buy the latter.

- No, the picture has nothing to do with the post, it's just fucking awesome.