why are cereal bags so damn difficult to open without tearing it at an odd, uneven angle, ripping the bag vertically and causing cereal to spill everywhere as you attempt to pour it into your bowl? when you finish the bag, you find a pile of squished stale cereal crumbs at the bottom of the box - the flakes that were sucked into the vast crevices of the deep, dark cereal box instead of ending up where they belong - in your bowl.

every other type of plastic-bag-type packaging seems to now have a ziploc closure. there is an entire aslile of cereal - always with 'new! impoved! more sugar! every vitamin that you can imagine so you don't have to eat real food just cereal!' cereal for women, for kids, for the elderly...who next? point being, if they have the time and money (at $4 a box, they better have the money) to come up with all these other 'great' things, WHY can't they make bags that you can open neatly and close completely?

in honor of dave's birthday, cereal was eaten out of the 'eat drink and be merry' bowl. :) (yeah, i know christmas was a few weeks ago. the bowl is great though - plenty deep, so the milk (soy) doesn't slosh out. it's handy for ice cream, too. when it makes it out of the carton into a bowl, that is. usually ends up going straight from pint to spoon to mouth.

i love this song. even if it never fails to make me cry. it's beautiful.
strange how hard it rains now
rows and rows of big dark clouds
when I’m holding on underneath this shroud
rain

its hard to know when to give up the fight
two things you want will just never be right
its never rained like it has to night before
now I don’t wanna beg you baby
for something maybe you could never give
i’m not looking for the rest of your life
i just want another chance to live - patty griffin