How I deliver the news

Alright here it goes ... the CDN. The what? Yes, the Chach Daily News. About a year and a half ago my one friend came to me with a concern - he didn't have time to read the news ever and he knew I always read the news each morning while drinking my morning cup of coffee.  He simply asked me to send him, via text, some of the headlines of the day. So I did. And then he mentioned this to another one of our friends who then caught onto the news. Next thing I know, I have over 100 subscribers. So, this is my own little personal business - free of charge that is. My grandma keeps wanting me to start charging people but I would feel bad taking money from people.  Yes, my grandparents are subscribed to the CDN and love getting a text every day.  Okay so what's a subscriber? Simply someone who receives a text message from me every day of a 160characters of the top news stories of the day.  Props to my mom who gave the name of the Chach Daily News -- yes, even my mom is subscribed! Before someone subscribes I always be sure to tell them, "are you sure you want to subscribe? you cannot unsubscribe (well you could, it would probs just hurt my feelings) and this text comes every day."

Over summer 2010 my phone died while I was out of town, so I was forced to go get a new phone.  Oh let me also just note that me and cell phones do not get along very well, we tend to fight a lot and they usually hate me, break, freeze, malfunction allll the time.  Because of this,  I am very familiar with the verizon store and how the operate, so when the day arrived to get a new phone I walked into the store with one major requirement -- to be sure the phone can send group texts - for the news! After about an hour of debating which phone to chose (my friend I was with hated me this day), it was time to leave. As the verizon man was setting up the features on the new dumb phone I told him about my "non-profit business" and the subscribers and how important it was the phone could have group texting. He was thoroughly intrigued by the fact that my career was to send a personal text to people each morning with the news -- or maybe he was just intrigued by the fact my friend had decided to rip his one sleeve off his button-up collar shirt and just wearing 1 sleeve -- either way I almost had him subscribed.  Luckily the next day he creepily called me and asked how the subscribers were! What nice service (not at all). 





 So, that's my business - the Chach Daily News.  I hope all you subscribers are satisfied with your news everyday. 

Wine, for the classy folks

Wine, the new hot commodity. I was recently reading an article about how the younger generation is now embracing the wine culture, making wine into the more fabulous lifestyle.  And yes, I would like to say I contribute to the wine culture.  People join clubs to go wine tasting, and want to be come wine guru. Heck, I'm working towards that (still have a lonnnnggggg ways to go).  I was recently reading an article about is this prestigious wine program to be certified as basically a wine connoisseur and being so wine knowledgeable, though this includes lots of studying and exams.   Growing up in an (american) Italian family, having wine in the house was normal, and it's not normal if there is no wine in the house. This past summer I ventured to Italy - the great wine country - and let me say, wine flows more frequently than water over there, and not to mention in restaurants a glass of wine is cheaper than a bottle of water.  I visited 3 different vineyards for tastings, which by each one the wine got better and better. I learned soooo much about the art of wine tasting, and how to properly taste wine.  What I thought was extremely cool was seeing how wine is made, stored, and served. Huge oak barrels fill basements of wineries which wine will set in for about a year - all depending on the wine.  Prime grape season is September, so I was not able to eat any fresh grapes, or do any grape stomping like that one I Love Lucy episode. 

I simply just love the art of wine. This even including wine glasses.  I'm currently into the larger bowls or the no-stem glasses.

Side note: something I know absolutely nothing about, beer. I recently went beer tasting - which I found that I enjoy the darker more robust beers. Anyways, this is just another topic that I want to learn more about, I barely even know how beer is brewed. Guess I'll start doing some research.


There's nothing classier than a great glass of red wine.

What can a toothbrush offer

You know what's gross, bad breath. You know what's awesome, brushing your teeth. I recently just got a new toothbrush and for some odd reason I have this obsession with my toothbrush now.  (Honestly, I have brushed my teeth numerous times today, a bit too many) I guess it's because I haven't found a toothbrush that I really loved before, and now I have finally found my match. After going home for a few days and completely forgetting my toothbrush I realized I did not have a back-up here at school, sooooo I ventured off to the store for a great new brush. I had my choices between the sweet Spiderman light up toothbrush, or the HelloKitty or the really unproportionate Cinderella. I chose Colgate.  The brush has some sweet features like a tongue cleaner and has a see-through bottom to it, oh and I picked the green one.  I even liked it so much I bragged to my sister about it and she is now going to buy the same one.

Anyways, my Monday may not have been too thrilling (except celebrating Big Bird's birthday today - fun fact) - but that new toothbrush really made my day.  Gonna go brush my teeth right now!

I really gotta stop blogging about objects.

Straws

Who decided that people should start drinking drinks out of long plastic tubes of all sizes? Honestly.. who?  Okay, so I know ... it was Marvin Stone in 1888 (thank you about.com) But why did he just decide one day to put a piece of plastic in a cup to make drinking easier?   Don't get me wrong, I love straws. I've got my favorites.. like the straws in slurpies with the little spoon at the bottom, or the small stirring straws for coffee or cocktails, or just bendy straws.  Or when you're out to eat and half the straw wrapper is still attached and you spit it at the person across the table, and they for some odd reason freak out... but in reality it's only a piece of paper - nothing too deadly.  My next question is - why the bendy straw? Is it so you don't have to tilt your head forward to get to the straw? I was out to eat the other day and got extremely excited because I remembered the restaurant had bendy straws. It's all about the cup and straw proportion. 

Anyways, why do people invent these things and become so successful. It's quite impressive. Why did someone decided it should be the norm that we should wear triangle/pointy hats on birthdays? Just a thought. 

Yeah, I just blogged about straws.