I Love the Internet
There will be no long road trip for me today. Instead, a fabulous person is sending me four pairs of the pants I want at an incredible bargain rate. They don’t fit her. They fit me. She makes a little money. I get the pants I want. I don’t have to go to the outlet stores with a toddler. My day is made.
Also, blogging saved my life! And Mike’s life! And Erik’s life! We would all be laying in a morbid pile of deadness if not for the Bad Aunt. A couple of months ago she made a post mentioning that green potatoes are poisonous. I had no idea! Last night I was buying new potatoes for our fondue and almost all the little plastic boxes of new potatoes were solid green! I wasn’t too happy with that, but thought it wouldn’t kill me, until a little voice in my head said “yes! Yes it will kill you! The Bad Aunt said so!” So instead of killing my family with cheese covered poison pellets, I dug a little deeper and found non-green potatoes. Thank you, Bad Aunt, for saving our lives. You wanted to know where the bodies were from the green potato eaters? They were almost in the DC suburbs.
Today has been great so far. Erik is back to his chipper self and hasn’t had a melt down all day *knock on wood*. He even walked over and put his coat on willingly when we were leaving the gym. You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Now, to go wrestle with Shutterfly so I can get our Christmas presents ordered before their free shipping offer runs out. It works half-way ok in IE and half-way ok in Opera, but somehow I can’t make it work all the way in either browser. It’s a good thing I’m in a good mood or I’d have to go find the webbie shutterfly people and throw them off my balcony.
November 26th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Potatoes never used to go green so easily. When I was a kid they were always sold in sacks or paper bags. It’s the light. Putting them into a dark place after you get home doesn’t work, either. I know, because I tried. I bought a great big pottery jar thing at a flea market that I thought would be good for storing potatoes, and it didn’t work. The potatoes went green anyway. Apparently the light they get exposed to at the supermarket is enough to start the process.
This is annoying. When I first went to university my father gave me a huge sack of home-grown potatoes in a sack, and they lasted me the year. They had come straight out of the ground and into a sack.
Why do supermarkets expose the potatoes to light? They could still display a couple of samples, but the ones we buy should not be damaged by light before we even get them home. We SHOULD be able to store potatoes, for emergencies.
I think we should start a Save the Potato campaign!
November 27th, 2007 at 3:00 am
Ok the potato thing has got me completely stumped. I’ve thought it through some more since BadAunt’s post and the only green potato i’ve ever seen is one that i left in my pantry for waaaaaay too long and the green was mould, which i think is different from the kind you’re talking about. Does Australia just have freaky non-green potatoes or something? I’ve never seen them in the supermarket or the green grocers and have never owned potatoes that turned green. I’m not entirely convinced that they exist, except that people keep telling me they do….