First installment of "what the HELL?!" Wednesday

So, I have two "what the HELL?!" things to bring to your attention.

The first is the story making headlines here in Hawai'i about an elderly woman who was left at an ER by the long-term care facility where she resided because the bill had not been paid. You can read about it here. "What the HELL" was this lady thinking? She just STOPPED paying the bill? No phone call to try and make arrangements or give someone a heads up? We are talking about her MOTHER for goodness sake! Maybe more information will be available in the coming week, but for now this is on the top of my list!

And number two.."What the HELL" is wrong with the BRITA filter that I bought and/or my faucet?! I CANNOT for the life of me get the stoopid things connected to each other. Really, it doesn't look that hard in the instruction book and I've tried EVERY combination of washers/adapters/threading that I can think of to no avail. Seriously I want to throw it at a wall and be done, but I won't. Hopefully so totally awesome, great, thoughtful friend will comeoverhereanddoitforme!!!!! Or else it's going back to the NEX and I'll try the PUR one instead!

Little tangent here, but I fell off the resolution wagon. I could totally not reveal this on my blog and none of you would be the wiser (well, most of you!) but I just can't. I didn't realize I had a staff meeting today after work. Which means that I didn't prepare accordingly for my children OR myself. The answer for them was McDonald's but what about me? I folded, I crumbled, I am ashamed. I had a salad from McDonald's and I am embarassed. But, ya know...that salad could have come from Chili's, Ruby Tuesday's or any other sit-down restaurant and been WORSE for me than the McDonald's version. So, I hope you can forgive me and I still vow to not eat fast food in 2009...I mean it wasn't a BIG MAC, right?! My McSalad with 1 ounce of Newmans Caesar dressing cost me 315 calories, 14 carbs and 15g of fat. BUT, it also gave me 31g of protein!!! YAY, I have been trying to pack more protein in and that was a great addition.

Goodbye, Farewell, Adieu, Au revoir!

Yes, you are reading it right. I am saying SO LONG to fast food in 2009! I am not, however, saying goodbye to it for my kids. I cannot even imagine the pain and agony of hearing two young children screaming from the backseat that they NEED the new happy meal toy from the golden arches. Ok, wait...I can imagine it because it happens EVERYTIME we drive by a McDonald's! I do solemnly promise to cut back on their fast food intake...they wouldn't have an addiction if I didn't stop there so I fully accept the blame. Do they do INTERVENTION for fast food addicts?

My mom did take them to McDonald's once while she was here but other than that they have been McFree for almost THREE WEEKS! YES!

So, I say farewell to you the McDonald's regular sized vanilla iced coffee. It was nice knowing you but your 190 calories will not be missed!

Goodbye dollar menu...oh how I love thee with your crispy salty french fries, 2 apple pies and small coke. You are useless to me now, I cannot afford your fat grams.

Adieu to the southern style chicken sandwich. You fought the good fight to fill the void of Chik-fil-A but I can no longer enjoy your fried goodness (with extra pickles and mayo please!)

Au revoir fast food industry!

Disclaimer...Steak n' Shake is not fast food, they have real plates that they serve food on, thus a stop at Steak n' Shake when I am home during July is COMPLETELY valid. Thank you. Single cheese with everything, shoestring fries and a vanilla coke :)

Late addition...I just realized that my fast food furlough also takes Hot Dog on a Stick off the menu :( On the bright side, it also saves me gas money since the only HDOS is on the other side of the island. Ugh, and also Panda Express...does Killer Tacos count as fast food? Someone say it isn't so!!!!