Take No Prisoners: November 12th

There is a church sign between my house and office that currently says "Laborers needed for God's Great Harvest" and every time I see it, I read it as "Labradors" and envision a field of labradors, waiting to be harvested.

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Jezebel pointed out a NYT piece about marketing to women, where they focused on a big ol' jar of Hair, Skin & Nail formula vitamins in a purple and pink package.

I cringed.

Partially because I have already (hilariously) confessed to taking hair vitamins and partially because my current daily vitamin is a GNC product in almost identical packaging.  Behold:

Did I buy a lady vitamin because my lady brain was so stimulated by all the lady colors?  No.  I wanted something that contained 100% folic acid, a good dose of calcium, and 100% biotin (that's the hair vitamin).  I spent a good hour on the GNC website fiddling around with various combinations and only found one vitamin that met those requirements.  I ordered it, hoping it wouldn't make me puke, as all vitamins usually make me puke, and it didn't.  And I believe my mom now uses it too, for the very same non-pukey reason. 

I just wish it had a camo print label.

Although I was told last night by somebody who allegedly knows me quite well that my favorite color is pink.  Who knew?

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This morning, Jenny The Bloggess pointed out that when you type the word "why" into Google's search box, one of the helpful auto-suggestions is "Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?"  I thought she was lying.  I tested it.  It's true.  And then when I clicked it to see the results for that search, I was reminded that I'M THE ONLY HUMAN ON EARTH THAT ISN'T WATCHING LOST.

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Everybody please wish my friend Boom well, as she's recovering from a recent illness that has nothing to do with pork.  Also, note to the rest of you, I will giggle WAY inappropriately when I get a text message from you saying "I think I forgot to tell you that I'm in the hospital."

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My friend Melon is growing a mustache for the month of November as part of Movember, a charity raising money for prostate and testicular cancer research.  He says his motivation is ""To replace the hair off the top of my head with plenty of hair on my face. And raise cash for a good cause. And look like a pervert."  This is my kind of charity, yo.

Anyway, I'm not going to post his donation link without talking to him first (or he can post it in the comments if he'd like) but Melon was a member of the Midwestern Moxie and raised some cash for Komen with us, and I'd love to help him reach his goals with Movember.  If you'd like to help, leave a comment or email me and I'll send you the info.

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This week, years past:

2008:  I played with my food and Duke built some stairs.

2007:  I begged Santa for Hannah Montana tickets before the thread devolved into dirty deeds done to Jem and the Holograms.

2006:  Minica made her first appearance here and then The Canadian made a brief appearance which ended with a strip club plan.

2005:  Two different Jennifers were given the password to my online dating account to go man shopping and the result was "SatanFaceChildMolester" and advice to avoid dating men who are ex-military.