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I will only use Charmin. No butts about it! (hehehe)
What else can I say... It feels nice and soft on my bum and stuff.

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This weeks pick of the week: Bountiful Baskets! I mentioned this last week when talking about my strawberry jam and 9 Grain bread. Since I love my Bountiful Basket food co-op, I thought it should be highlighted on my bliggity-blog. Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op (BBFC) distributes produce baskets, organic produce baskets, artisan bread and sandwich bread every week. BBFC is a group of people who work together for mutual benefit. This is a grassroots, all volunteer, no contracts, no catch co-operative. Since there are no employees at Bountiful Baskets, we as a group pay rock bottom prices on your food. To quote a press release that a local City put out to encourage residents to consider participating, “Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op is a participatory experience. Participants all save a substantial amount of money on healthy food. In exchange there are no employees to guide participants through the experience.” On Monday morning, I get on the Internet at about 9:50 AM. I have to be on the ball, or I miss out. Right at 10:00 AM the site opens for me to participate in the weeks offerings. I sign up, pay and anxiously wait until Saturday afternoon to pick up my basket. I always get lots of fresh fruits and veggies. I never really know what they will be, but I have NEVER been disappointed. We have had mangoes, apples, oranges, bananas, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, onions, mushrooms, melons, squash and lots of other things. It is kind of hard to explain how it all works, so if you are interested, I suggest checking out their website. The best source of information is in the FAQ section.

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My pick of the week this week is my latest favorite treat... 9 grain toast with homemade strawberry freezer jam. Oh my yummy!! I am part of a food co-op group called Bountiful Baskets. Every Saturday I get a huge basket full of fresh fruits and veggies. Last Saturday I ordered lots of extra strawberries so I could make my sister-in-law Danette's Birthday cake. She loves strawberry shortcake. I ended up with WAY more strawberries than I needed. I hated to waste them, so I made freezer jam. The best way to eat yummy strawberry jam is on yummy 9 Grain toast! I get my delicious bread from my food co-op group also. It is the best bread in the whole wide world!!!! All three of us love it! I have never been able to get Quayd to eat wheat bread until now. It makes scrumptious BLT's, grilled cheese sandwiches and turkey sandwiches. It is also delicious when dipped in the yolk of a fried egg, over-medium. Yummy yum yum. :)

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I absolutely HATE doing laundry. It is BY FAR my least favorite chore. However, I LOVE the following products.

I ALWAYS use Tide. I have tried other detergents in the past, but I just don't like them as well. I prefer liquid original scent. I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS use Downy. It is just not even worth doing laundry if I can't use Downy. My washer is an old piece of crap-ola, so I have to use a downy ball. Then I use one or two bounce sheets in my dinosaur dryer.

This is what my laundry room looks like.
OK, not really, but I was too embarrassed to take a picture of my REAL laundry room and this one is shockingly close to what mine looks like. Wouldn't it be awesome though if it looked like this?


I felt like this was a TERRIBLE blog post since it talks about the worst chore on the whole planet, so I included some handy tips and alternate uses for Bounce dryer sheets.

Clean baked-on food from a cooking pan - Put a sheet in the pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean. The antistatic agents apparently weaken the bond between the food and the pan while the fabric softening agents soften the baked-on food.
Repel mosquitoes - Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.
Freshen the air in your home - Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang one in the closet.
Prevent thread from tangling - Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce to eliminate the static cling on the thread before sewing.
Freshen the air in your car - Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.
Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering - A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
Eliminate odors in dirty laundry - Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight so they smell great in the morning.
Having a bad hair day - or - alot of static. Rub a sheet on your hair. Works great and smells nice.
Eliminate static electricity from your television screen -Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.
Prevent musty suitcases - Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.
Keep the shock away - Place a sheet in your coat pocket to avoid the shock you get getting in and out of the car in the winter.
Eliminate odors in wastebaskets - Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket.
Dissolve soap scum from shower doors - Clean with a used sheet of Bounce.
Collect cat hair - Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
Eliminate static electricity from venetian blinds -Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.
Eliminate static cling from pantyhose - Rub a damp,used sheet of Bounce over the hose.
Keep flies out of your house by tacking a sheet above the most used doors (on the outside). Works like a charm.

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My second pick of the week has to be this...
The Dyson ball.
I posted about this a few weeks ago, but I really want to emphasise how much I LOVE it!!! I can't believe how well it cleans. It really does have the "proper about of suction." And isn't it cute!?! Purple is my favorite color! :)

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I realize that nobody probably cares about my favorite things besides me. It's not like I am Oprah and planning on giving one of each of these to my audience members. (Sorry friends!) It is just a way for me to express my love for silly things. My first pick of the week HAS to be my very most favorite beverage in the whole wide world. My heart skips a beat when I even think about it!! Yummy Yum Yum.

Sonic Unsweetened Raspberry Iced Tea.

ahhhhhhhhh...... so refreshing.

My addiction to this drink of wonderment is pretty ridiculous. I was going at least once a day there for awhile, but it was getting a little expensive. So I decided I needed to limit myself to 3 times a week and I can only go during happy hour. (That is 2-4pm and drinks are half price) I love to go to the car hop things, especially when Shae is working.

When I decided to blog about this, I knew I needed to make it worthwhile. I called Tara to see when my cute little Shae would be there. I wanted to get a picture of her as a car hop delivering my drink. Shae knows of my insanity when it comes to unsweetened raspberry tea so I knew she would be the perfect choice to get a picture of. Also, she is pretty much the cutest, coolest car hop EVER!! Anyway, we took the picture as planned. Here it is......

But then she did something that I will forever be grateful for. She actually took the camera inside and took pictures of the making of my unsweetened raspberry tea. AwEsOmE!!!!!! I feel like a 13 year old girl who just won backstage passes to Justin Bieber!! SO Amazing!!! SO here it is...... First add ice....
Then the raspberry flavoring.....
then the tea..... then serve to your creepy customer and see her face light up like an excited little girl. :) Yummy. I love it so much!!! So there it is. My fave drink ever and my very first pick of the week.