Lean Cuisine

So, I sent Lean Cuisine an email telling them how much I love their brick-oven-style barbeque chicken pizza. I don't have a copy of it (it was in a web form), but the gist of it was that they had revolutionized my lunch by creating such a wonderful microwavable food. But basically, I was just fishing for them to send me some coupons.

And here is their response:

June 19, 2007


Dear Kara,

Thank you for taking the time to contact us about STOUFFER'S® LEAN CUISINE® BBQ-Recipe Chicken Pizza. We appreciate your kind and thoughtful comments.

At Nestlé, we are dedicated to you and your family throughout every phase of your lives. Your feedback is valuable to us, as it helps us to improve our products and services.

With more than a century of experience making the food your family loves, we are committed to providing you with products that live up to your high standards for taste, quality, nutrition and enjoyment - in short, "the very best."

Sincerely,
Katy Homes
Consumer Response Representative

Isn't that adorable?

No diptheria here, folks

I would just like to thank my parents (and I guess mainly my mom, based on the handwriting) for keeping such good records of my immunizations and then being wise enough to give the records to me after high school.

I got a bunch of paperwork from William Mitchell yesterday for law school and I had to fill in my immunizations since I didn't graduate from high school in Minnesota. And it was so easy thanks to the perfect records that my parents kept.

I love efficiency.

Dowels and Saws

I woke up this morning and decided to have a Day of Productivity. That basically means that I ran errands. BUT, I also sawed some dowels to serve as backup locks for my windows.

When I woke up, I really got it in my head that I needed to go to Menards (holla Eau Claire) and buy some dowels and a saw. Unfortunately, I can't find my tape measure, so I had to use my arm to measure how long of a dowel I would need. But then I got to Menards and realized that I know nothing about dowels and saws. (This is a real failure on my dad's part - he's all about woodworking. If you've been to my parent's house, you know that a quarter of my parent's garage is my dad's woodworking woodshop.) To make my problem even worse, I was holding up all of the dowels to my arm to see how I felt about the length. I decided to buy oak dowels because I feel like I like oak trees.

But then I had to buy a saw. I know even less about saws; however, I did manage to find them in the store. I bought the second-least-expensive saw. No need to be frugal when it comes to my safety and these sweet locks!

So, after a stop at SuperTarget to get my weekly groceries (and I spent about ten minutes looking at those reflective shades you can put in the front window of your car - I couldn't decide which size to get so I decided to measure my front window and then think about it. There's no need to rush into a reflective shade decision), I went home to make my dowel locks. Luckily, I had a piece of cardboard that came with my new curtains (!!), so I sawed on that.

I was never actually able to saw through the dowels. I basically sawed around the edges and then gave up, and broke it off with my incredible strength.

So, now I can feel safe - thanks to these properly measured dowels in my windows.

Pandas!

Well, it's becoming real. I've started to make my preparations for law school. I'll buy my new computer in about a month and I need to buy a backpack (and NOT a messenger bag.) I thought I had my financial aid figured out, but I need to re-do that.

I'm also putting together a living will. Just in case.

And most importantly, I used my frequent flyer miles to book a flight to DC - yay! I'll be in DC from August 9 - 13 (that's a late Thursday night through Monday at lunchtime.) So...do you think we can tell the National Zoo that we're having a party and need to rent out the panda area for a private party?

I've Been Trying to Replace That Lightbulb for Months

I am the world's laziest person-who-blogs. But let's change that, kids! Here we go!

Hmmm, okay, well, let's outline various consumer-related activities:

• I went camping with Rachel, Erin, Annette, Andy and Casey. It turns out that I really enjoy canoeing. But anyways, the consumer-related part of this is that the bathrooms at the campground had helpful tips and tricks in each of the bathroom stalls about remedies used by Native Americans, how seeds get planted and amphibians. I believe that wildflowers were also discussed on these flyers. Overall, camping was lots o' fun. But by the time we were leaving, I was getting a bit surly and a discussion about whether me and Andy's chicken fingers would have breading on them or not almost came to blows, so I think it was good that we went home. I love electricity. Other highlights of camping included The Pearl (which is what we called the bathroom, thanks to Andy), the world's best panty raid, the food, the rainy hike and ticks' attraction to Casey.
• I got my hair cut and cellophaned. Anyone who knows me knows that flattery is the way to my heart. And my hair stylist knows this. She's so smart. Anyways, apparently, I've been taking very good care of my hair and she said she was very proud of me. She also said that I'm the only true natural strawberry blonde that she'd ever cut. I gave her a very large tip.
• I've been buying groceries for about the last month now. Since I eat the same thing for every meal, it makes it very easy for me. And I finally decided on a supermarket: SuperTarget. SuperTarget is the best solution to my grocery problems - the bag the groceries for you, but they don't insist on pushing it out to your cart for you (I'm looking a you, Lunds), they have great off-brand products and most importantly - I can also buy lightbulbs at an affordable price while I'm there.
• Andy's birthday was yesterday! And one of the notable events was that we played LazerTag (tm) at Grand Slam Entertainment in Eagan. First of all, Andy has a calling and it is laser tag. He was really good. I'm sure this will come as a shock to everyone that I was really bad. I spent a lot of my time recharging my laser tag ensemble after Andy shot me ten times. Fun times!
  

So, that is my update. I'm enjoying this warmer weather, but I think everyone should be prepared to hear more complaining from me soon re: this heat.