When animals attack...

Today I updated the look and feel of a blog I rarely post on any more. That brought much satisfaction. To say I have the attention span of a common sparrow might even be an embellishment on some days, now an uncommon sparrow, that might be another story. Go to the main page if you want to see what I'm talking about. Leave a comment if you read this. :)

If only we'd listened...

It's not about the money

I rarely post about work, just think that overall it's a bad idea... However, this one has me cracking up.

A few weeks back my work announced there were getting rid of free soda. No big deal to me, I don't drink it. The funny thing was an email was sent mentioning it wasn't about the money, but it was because they wanted to promote a healthier workplace with healthier options in the soda machine.

So what did they replace it with? Amp Energy drink and Gatorade, and for only $2.30 a piece...

Amp, according to Pepsi's website, has 80mg of caffeine per 8 oz serving, each can is 16oz, 160mg total unless you only drink half a can... Conversely, a cup of coffee has around 100mg. Amp also has 29g of sugar in an 8oz serving, making it 58g of "sugar" for the entire can. A can of Coke is 40g of sugar. Of course "sugar" in this case is the highly processed high fructose corn syrup. Thanks for helping us make "healthier" choices!

Here is the ingredient list for Amp..

(8.4oz serving) Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, natural flavor, orange juice concentrate, guarana (paullinia cupana) seed extract, sodium benzoate , sodium hexametaphosphate, maltodextrin, caffeine, gum arabic, ascorbic acid, taurine, panax ginseng root extract, calcium disodium edta, potassium benzoate, brominated vegetable oil, yellow 5, b vitamins: niacinamide, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, vitamin b12, pyridoxine hydrochloride; blue 1.

Yummmmm! Sound "healthy" to me! Hopefully no one goes to the ER after consuming these "healthy" drinks.

And don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Gatorade when using it during activity, but as a "healthy drink" while people sit at their desk? It's loaded with "sugar" as well, really high fructose corn syrup.

Either someone making the decisions is grossly misinformed or they just need to start calling a duck a duck and let us know that it is about the money.

An open letter to Driscoll's Fine Berries

An open letter to Driscoll's Fine berries.

Dear Driscoll's,

Your berries are like crack to an addict. except they are good for you.  I've never tasted something that makes my tastebuds leap off of my tongue and do a little happy dance.  I know that you have secret breeding facilities where you grow all of your varieties from scratch to be better than the others, and I also know that most of your berries are in the store the same day they are picked.

Have you seen SuperSize Me?  Your berries are so damn good that, if you provide the berries, I'll eat nothing but your berries (and the occasional avocado and Cheesehead Mozzarella cheese for fat and protein) for a month.  I don't care if I turn in to a big strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, or blackberry like the kid in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, they are that good.

Please Driscoll, consider my offer and set me up with a month of your berries for this experiment. :)

Made another fun little video

I made another fun little biking video... If you are getting this update in an email or in your feed reader and the video doesn't show up, simply come over to the blog's main page and watch it there, it's cute!

Ayshia in Search for the Holy Trail from Scott DeLeeuw on Vimeo.