Ok, so maybe my plan to read a book (yes a single book) has stalled and I’m not further along than I was at the beginning of the month.

Maybe I’ll try again in February.

Here is a great of example of “Marketing Sells”.

The commercials are ridiculous and in my opinion so is the product and yet they’ve sold over 4 million of them in this economy.  What focus group thought that this would be  a good enough idea to mass produce them.

So let’s see 4,000,000 times $19.95 equals $79,800,000 (quick someone check my math).  Now I have no idea how much all of the ads cost to create and run nor do I have any idea what the production costs are (let’s be serious though can they be that expensive to make?), but one thing I do know and that is somebody is making a lot of money off of these things.

Though with all of that money being made, I still wouldn’t want to be apart of it, simply because the product is so ridiculous (have I mentioned what I feel about the product before?).

It’s been a couple of really busy weeks at work.  As a result, we bring lunch in so that we can keep working as much as possible.

We have a place that we like to get soups, sandwiches and salads from and I must admit that my standard order of a Turkey Bacon Avocado Panini with a cup of Wisconsin Cauliflower soup is really good, especially on a cold Winter’s day.

The other reason that I like to go there is that they include a Chocolate Dipped Strawberry with your meal.

They’re usually decent, meaning that they aren’t as good as Cummings, but then again not many are.  i was a bit surprised when I opened them up.

They were more like Chocolate Drizzled Strawberries.

After a night of working really late, this story is the perfect way to end the evening.

Seriously someone could have been really hurt in this incident, but I like how Carl’s Jr. is handling the publicity and turning it into a fun event that just might get more people through the door.  Of course, if you’re headed to the John, please leave your concealed weapons at your table.

Sure companies are going bankrupt left and right and the economy is in the toilet, but don’t mess with my Thin Mints!

This really puts me into a quandry, do I just buy more boxes or do I use this as a stepping stone to break my addiction, one or two cookies at a time?

Either way I demand a government bail out of Girl Scout Cookies and I want it now!