Today

I was watching some kids when I was at Lydia Place and we were coloring together. One of them asked me to draw a picture of her and her brother. In all of my artistic glory I proceeded to draw two stick figures with what I thought were pretty nicely drawn faces. Upon seeing the picutre she burst into tears saying that it was ugly and didn't really look like her and that I gave her ugly boy hair (despite the clearly drawn bangs and shouldler length hair). A couple mintues later I got up to get her brother who had left the table and when I came back she had crumpled up the paper and thrown it under the table so "no one could reach it".

I know I'm not the world's best artist, but I'm really hoping this was more of a "5-year-old-tantrum" kind of a thing rather than an "I-traumatize-children-with-my-unartistic-abilities" thing.

The Ultimate Beauty Tool

Did you know that Q-tips are (as they say) the "ultimate beauty tool"? Well, neither did I until Brian bought 1,000 of them at Costco last week and I happened to be reading the package sitting on our counter while getting ready this morning.

How are they the ultimate beauty tool you may ask? Unfortunately I cannot enlighten you as none of the listed "variety of uses" are related to beauty, and I for one, have never used a Q-tip as such for myself.

The variety of uses are oddly notable however, so therefore I will note them.

Use 1: FIRST AID - you can use Q-tips to gently apply ointments and creams.
***Screw using your God-given fingers...Q-tips will not only apply the ointment but leave you feeling warm and fuzzy by catching strands of cotton in your open wound.

Use 2: ELECTRONICS - Clean and dust hard to reach spaces (the picture is of someone dusting their keyboard with a Q-tip).
***First, that's simply rediculous. Second, I feel as though for almost any other electronic, a Q-tip would still be too big and too silly to clean in any hard to reach place.

Use 3: BABY CARE - Delicately care for sensitive areas (the picture is of a Q-tip on a baby's cheek).
***Ok, so maybe this one could be sell-able. But I do want to know what they are rubbing for fun on the baby's cheek.

Use 4: HOUSEHOLD USE: For all household cleaning.
***I would like to let you know that the picture for this one is someone holding a Q-tip in a bathroom shower against the tile as if they were to clean. I pray for the poor soul who has to clean their tile shower with a Q-tip. If I were to try and use a Q-tip to try and clean my the shower in my old college house, it would probably disintegrate and maybe even burn away at the Q-tip.

Thank you Q-tips for trying to convince us your product is worth more than it really is. It was valliant effort and you almost had me fooled.

For now however, I will continue to remain using Q-tips for the one and only purpose that I have ever found them to be good for...to clean my ears. Although this kid found some other good uses for them...