Ok... so first: I know the blog is late... Ta hell with you holidays, I get off cause my family stuffs me too full to even type.  Next, I AM going to address the Twinkies issue; but I need time to do some DEEP research on this.  (How does HOSTESS effen go under? Idiots...)

So after plenty of thought here is our discussion for the week...  I know that Christmas starts earlier and earlier every year.  This is no surprise to me since there were Christmas decorations are up before Halloween, as soon as November started there were radio stations that play nothing but carols, I'm SO over this holiday. I'm used to it and I thought I was immune to all this cheery crap. Since I live in B.F.E. I get a whopping 3-6 channels on my television.  (I promise this is relevant.) Now on one of these they have dictated that weekends are Holiday season type movie nights weather I like it or not. (Can you believe they didn't even ask me?) Without realizing it I was about to brainwash myself I was cleaning my house with the Television on; I came out again and again catching bits of this and a minute of that... next thing I know I am seated on my love seat nibbling chips ACTUALLY WATCHING THIS CRAP! Not only did I watch it I was involved!  OK hallmark,  here I draw the line.  I was watching that bitchy red head from clueless (Elisa Donovan) almost 20 years/lbs later crying about how her Hollywood type life isn't perfect. (I thought for a moment it was Clueless 2; yes I'm still a mean brainless girl who cries about being popular and rich.)  After a few minor hiccups in her life she goes to what she thinks is a life coach that winds up being her guardian angel type gal who gives her 12 wishes.  Obviously she makes impulse driven decisions for new clothes and attention from her boyfriend ect. which results in negative consequences and then she has to pull herself up by her bootstraps and take responsibility. By the end I was giving FAR too much thought to the wishes I would make. Buy property? New car? New job? What WOULD the backlash be, WHO would that effect? Seriously? I spent a night on this! To save me from this deep sort of mushy thought I am watching only horror movies all night long now, but you! My special little readers! I write this to save you!  BEWARE you could be next! You could be weeping watching golden retrievers reunite couples or giggling laughing at an idiot being selfish and punished by karma only to have them rise above and learn a  lesson.  You have been warned.

Lastly, after being inundated by the Yuletide season I ask you ALL this because after I perversly finished up my list I'm curious!: If you had 12 wishes, (immediately granted by some weird Christmas faerie) what would they be? Would you help others? Be selfish?  Tell me, try and be honest!  (Remember: Even spontaneously granted wishes have consequences and fallout.)

Really Steak 'N Shake?

Ok... So after class I stop with my lovely mum to grab a bite to eat for the ride home; not an uncommon happening.  We order our tasty meals and I... like an idiot do not order a shake... but a soda pop.  We receive our food and head out the door to the car.  Now, I'm an amazon, not exactly delicate, but I don't exactly hold on to a drink with an iron fist... despite this my hand went straight through the STYROFOAM cup that held my large soda.  I am sticky, annoyed, thirsty... and on the whole furious.

Who the heck STILL USES STYROFOAM?!?  It's a flimsy, non biodegradable material that has no business housing my SODA POP!  The ice is at the top, offering NO support within the cup, just a gallon of soda sloshing about waiting to escape and soak you.  Now, the cup has been rendered in twain, and I sit holding two sides of and eviscerated cup; I shake off my hands, stalk back inside and thrust the two halves into the hands of the cashier letting him know that I find the fact such a large soda is in a flimsy source asinine.
Is it just me?  I mean, I can't think of a SINGLE fast food source that gives a trap waiting to spring on me.  I know that McDonalds still uses styrofoam cups for their sweet tea, but they serve plenty of cold drinks in plastic cups, including their shakes.  So WHY?!?!?  Why Steak 'n Shake do you do this to me? Is it too difficult to have 2 styles of cup?  Not to say that Steak 'n Shake does a bad job, they were super nice  about it and gave my mom another soda for me...  It isn't the fault of the workers at this eatery, fault falls with the idiot that decided they can only have ONE type of to go cup.  Seriously? Come on dude-that-makes-the-orders-for-our-drink-cups you gotta step up here, the kids working behind the counter can handle it.  I have faith, and I hate sticky hands; make this better!

Words with Friends... the board game?

OK... like many of the people out there I have been playing Zynga's Words with Friends.  It's a fun way to pass a few minutes, easy to find my friends from Facebook or Twitter, and it can keep for a few days if I just want to leave it alone for a day or two.  It doesn't make tons of noise or insist that I buy things to have a fair shot at playing.  Also, any game I can play with my mother and beat her at occasionally automatically makes it into my play rotation.  It's an app on my phone and I can play it while I'm on Facebook so it's versatile and easily accessible.  You can also search out random opponents if you are looking for someone to play with that's not on a friends list.  Then, a week ago I start to notice a new ad in my app.  For Words with Friends.... the board game? WTF?

Isn't this Scrabble? I swear, it's not as flashy and I don't have an app for it on Facebook... but I'm pretty sure. It was a 15x15 square board with bonuses scattered about, 100 letter tiles of varying point values, and Hasbro/Mattel makes it?  I'm not wrong am I? This is a game that has been around since like the 70's; if not longer? I'm pretty sure both my grandmother and mother have the game in their closets with monopoly and Yahtzee.  So, what is this?  A reboot of our classic game?  
To keep you good people in the know I had to check this noise out! I'm not against an old favorite getting a new face, we have Uno Attack! Yahtzee Party, Superman Monopoly; I can learn to adapt.

After scoping out the Hasbro website and it's product description for the game it seems that indeed it IS basically the same game. There is the same size board with the same style of score bonus squares, same little trays for tiles of the 2-4 players.  There appears to be 4 extra tiles, (104 vs. the 100 in Scrabble) a 'game guide' (rule book?) and a cute little tile bag that's slightly snazzier than the little velour one that comes in the Scrabble box. It main difference seems to be that it has a digital code to redeem online and it claims that it interfaces (somehow) with the app.  All this comes for about 20 bucks (5 bucks more than Scrabble).  

Um... I remember downloading the app, it was free.  I have some adds, I can pay for little cheaterpants tools if I want, but it's free to play.  Why in the name of the cosmos would you want to pay for a new look on a game that all ready exists, that you probably have laying around? Seriously, paint your board blue at the edges, put a letter on your tile bag, soak your wooden tiles in some food coloring to die them yellow and... KACHOW! there ya go. I just saved you people a quick twenty bucks!