Easter Island. . . . every man (woman) is an island.

Well, it is my first Easter. I did not get to hunt for eggs this year. Not much hunting when you can't cover much ground. I am crawling now, but I can't get the stupid bl***er to upload videos. If you have not seen the e-mail with the video and would like to, leave a comment and I will send you a clip of it. Anyhoo, here are some pictures of me on easter morning and afternoon. And apparently the Easter Bunny had to recruit some help this year, cause the last picture is of what was in my back yard.

Easter morning in my PJ's with Mommy and Daddy just prior to getting ready to go to church.

Again, getting ready to go to church. If you look closely, you can see my tooth. More are on the way, apparently about 31 more. Wow. thats a lot of teeth for my little head.

At my Gwanny and Papa's after church. This is my pretty Easter Dress. Big fan of the cute pink dresses, and you can see my tooth here too. Ate some lunch and then went home to crash. I have a cold and it was fun and all, but a nap is a gooooooood thing.

And here is the woodchuck/marmot/groundhog (all the same animal) that was in my back yard yesterday. I guess it was helping out the Easter Bunny and got lost. Furry and cute, and about 10 pounds worth of rodent. My dog Guinness was not a big fan. Guinness really wanted to see what he/she tasted like, but Mommy wouldn't let him. Way to go Mommy!

Oh, and for those of you following the Lean Cuisine saga. An apology letter and a coupon for a free entree and two $1 off coupons. Daddy's next kind letter will be to the planters nut people about some rancid honey roasted cashews. I'll keep you posted.

Lean Cuisine. . . . . Cuisine indeed. . .. . pfffft!

Here is the initial response to my Daddy from the Nestle Food People.





April 4, 2006


Dear Arlyn XXXXXXXX,

Thank you for contacting Nestlé on the Internet. Questions and comments from our consumers are always welcome!

We have reviewed your email message, and understand your concern. We are investigating your experience and you can look forward to receiving a response within 7-10 business days.

We value you as a consumer and appreciate your feedback. Please visit our website often for the latest information on Nestlé products and promotions.

Sincerely,
Jane Deininger
Consumer Response Representative

Ref: N13866221



I wonder why it will take 7 -- 10 days for a real response? Maybe they are trying to see if any homeless people (oops, The Permanent Shelter Challenged) or starving people would turn down one of these meals. . . . maybe not the first time, but definately the second. Anyhoo, I am trying to figure out how to load a video on the old blog to showcase my new crawling skills. As soon as I do, I will post it for all the world to see.

Apparently you do not want to give my Daddy any reason to write a letter to your customer care department. I just wonder what the person that reads this letter is going to do? Laugh? Cry? Get angry? Meh, doesn't matter. Anyway, this is an e-mail letter that my Daddy sent to the Lean Cuisine people at Nestle foods (USA division). I thought I'd include it here for your enjoyment.

I tried the Lean Cuisine Panini (steak, cheddar & mushroom) and just thought you should know how it was. I have to give you a little back story, please bear with me . . . . it’s worth it.
I was in the service and traveled to many exotic and economically depressed places on the planet. That being said, I myself have eaten some pretty crazy things in the name of fun, excitement and "culturalization". I personally have been known to eat anything that lives, lived, or may live. Basically if it has moved, can be moved, was moved by the breeze, or moved by the moment, and some things that once moved long long ago but haven't moved in quite some time and/or including stuff that was alive but is not anymore and now has something new alive growing on IT that may or may not be safe for human or animal consumption. I have actually warmed up leftovers from the refrigerator but not been able to eat it all so I gave the rest to the dog and the dog got food poisoning and got sick (I was fine) and THEN decided that I could eat a little more so went to the refrigerator and got some more (of the stuff that made the dog sick). I can eat and do eat just about anything that is placed before me. Fear factor and a bunch of bugs, animal parts and crazy weird moldy and/or partially rotten organic material . . . . . Pfffft, weak and pathetic and not even a challenge in anyway (except in sheer volume of stuff, maybe).
Some of those exotic locales that I have been to were places where people live hand to mouth and often don't get to have a meal a day much less three a day and a snack or two. I have actually seen some people (both at home and abroad) who have to eat garbage, literally garbage . . . . refuse, trash, stuff other people threw out because it was too disgusting for them to eat (or feed to the dog) . . . .and these people would NOT eat this sandwich. And yet with all my determination and ability to eat things that would gag a goat, I could not force myself to eat this disgusting piece of unholy nastiness sandwiched between two pieces of perfectly toasted bread. It was as if you took all of the most foul and divergent flavors imaginable and mixed them in a vat and then simmered it with pure putrescence (at temperatures below that which kill bacteria) until all the life juices were evaporated off and you were left with the great granddaddy of all things nasty, a taste so hideous that the mere thought of it is enough to send people into a compound in Idaho not to be heard from until an FBI assault captures them all only to find that they had cut off their tongues in an effort to avoid that taste . . . .where was I. . . oh yeah. . . . a taste that's really nasty (words cannot describe how much) and slapped it between a couple of slices of perfectly toasted stank-absorbing camoflauge this unholy-pile-of-disgusting-filth bread and called it GOOD. Liars, it was all things not good! 1 bite and I spit it out. Then to make sure that I wasn’t being too hasty, I took a second bite (which I also spit out with a little gagging action). Then went and brushed my teeth to get rid of the nasty. In the history of my eating, I am not sure, but I believe this is the first time since I got out of elementary school that I actually spit something out instead of choking at least the one bite down. I actually had to eat something else before the taste would go away. I actually ate on of your lean cuisine pizzas (the roasted veggie – quite good by the way) to cover up the horrible and foul steak, cheddar and mushroom panini that almost made me cut off my tongue. And I don't know anyone from Idaho, so that would have really sucked. Please recall all of these sandwiches before a panini-demic strikes, or worse yet . . . someone else actually tries to eat one of these panini-of-putrescence. The other three flavors of panini are fine, quite tasty actually. Thanks.