a little trick

[fflo]

I don't know if any of the rest of you are also secret or slightly embarrassed lovers of the appealingly-( and amusingly-)packaged vitaminwater^® line------but they're ridiculously expensive. Well, maybe not as ridiculously expensive as the tasty and also appealingly-packaged Steaz^® green tea sodas---. But still.

Anyway, I just discovered that you can stretch a vitaminwater^® with regular water quite a bit without losing the pleasant taste. I had about a quarter of the bottle left & filled it nearly full with water---voila. Extra vitaminwater^®, and more vitaminwater^® experience, at no additional cost.

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[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Bev is going to be ridiculously excited to discover that.

(I'm ridiculously excited as well, because this means I'll get sent on fewer missions to Trader Joe's to pick that stuff up for her! Hooray!)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

It pleases me to know of another sucker who's into it. You know, I liked the shape & feel of the bottles, and then I read the copy on one & that was about it. A fan was born.

I could blame TGP, who got me into it to begin with, but truth is I'm not unhappy about it at all. Just embarrassed, since so much of the appeal is how it's presented to me. Well, almost all of the appeal, though I do like the tastes.

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

HA! The packaging was what pulled Bev in too! :) Personally, flavored water of any sort just reminds me of getting the fluoride treatment at the dentist, but... well, maybe I'm a stick-in-the-mud.

No, metaphorically.

Not that kind of metaphor!

Ooooh- umm, yeah. That one's okay.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ha right back atcha.

The H-bomb used to call the slightly flavored carbonated waters "fuzzy water"---and I guess it was her drinking of those that broke me of the crinkled up nose reaction to the genre. If beverages can have genres.

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Sure they can! Absinthe is the equivalent of prog rock: fancy and intellectual and completely frickin' unbearable.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Is prog rock like Yes? I hated Yes. Don't think I'd care much for absinthe, either.

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Yup- Yes, King Crimson, ELP, those things. I can deal with Yes, but they're about as proggy as I'll get.

[(Anonymous)]

What about Rush? I seem to remember this term "art rock" being bandied about about some of those bands.

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Yup, Rush too. Jethro Tull, etc. All that bloated, boring, wanky stuff.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

My appreciation for Jethro Tull was increased by the flute solo in Anchorman. (I don't claim cinematic sophistication in my appreciation of that film.)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

That was me above, btw. Forgot to log in.