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a pondering...

so while on the phone with my dear friend i was gently questioned about my lack of recent entries. i was quite shocked to hear i was letting her down...i mean come on friend, what could you possibly read on here that i haven't already told you?!?

so i took the challenge she presented and turned it back on to her....what would you like me to blog about. she gave me 2 topics...so this morning i'll blog about topic 1

THE DOG vs. THE BUN

okay, so you are out grocery shopping for the big cookout you are having this weekend. (a little cold maybe but pretend it is summer!) you pick up some hot dogs for the kids. you know that you will need 10 hot dogs which is perfect b/c there are 10 in a package!! great....you pick up the chips, the ketchup, the other fixins and head to the bread aisle...all you need are some buns!!! wait a minute....it can't be? well surely this pack? no, this sure is absurd? i mean why on earth??? yes, folks, each pack of buns only contains 8!!!! even my basic math skills can easily see that this does not match up! hmm....if i buy 2 packs then i have 6 buns left over. if i buy one pack then i have 2 dogs left over. what on earth do i do?? like most good people i pick up the extra pack of buns and head home with 6 extras. who wants to be the host that makes 2 kids go bunless? or sometimes i do head home with 1 pack and 2 extra dogs.

it really is quite a dilema...but here is how i handle it at our house:

if i buy the extra buns i simply turn them in to mini-garlic bread loafs for sgetti night! this always proves to be a big hit for the kids!! they love their own little loaf of bread!! sometimes i wonder if they have figured out they are really hot dog buns.

if i buy the extra dogs...princess doesn't get a bun!! for the most part she really doesn't like buns so she doesn't mind. but that still leaves one extra hot dog. the logical thing would be to feed the extra to our real live hot dog, but we don't do that. we simply fix it and stick it in a piece of bread.

so....dear friend...there are my ponderings....although i really think that it is a great conspiracy in the economic world to make sure that we spend more than what we need to spend. commercials have made us believe you can't eat a hot dog without a bun and you can't use a bun for anything other than a hot dog. if you are really anal and have to have the exact number of each than you need to buy 4 packs of dogs (10x4=40) and 5 packs of buns (5x8=40) and anyone that feels the need to eat 40 hot dogs probably could care less about the great debate of what to do over this mismatched pair!!!

what do you do????? how do you deal with the trauma in the bread aisle?????

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