DISQUS

I loathe Pepsi's recent design "choices."

I am a big Diet Mountain Dew drinker. (I have a job this school year, so I can support my habit. Thank God.) It's a Pepsico product, so of course the packaging looks like turdmuffins now. The background is green geometric shards. Like the background of a really tacky man video game. Yeah, not appealing. Oh! In an effort to draw in today's instant messaging and texting soda drinkers, Pepsi deleted most of the letters in the name! It's "DIET mtn DEW" now. Ew.

The design I'm pretty sure I remember was right before this one: http://www.stuffithinkiscool.com/files/images/0...

THIS one (regular, not diet): http://www.thedieline.com/blog/images/2008/11/2...

I wish I hated Diet Mountain Dew, but I can't stop drinking it....

I LOVE Owen! Little boys are the coolest. I would not be disappointed if God blessed me with a girl one day, but secretly I am hoping for boys. Happy birthday, Owster! If you find Nemo, let me know!

The "Break Out" section was undoubtedly my favorite part.

When I was a teenager, I was a classic-case melancholy. I think I've mellowed out a little since high school with a bit more of a phlegmatic shift toward apathy (it's the dry humor). But I'm still pretty melancholy. It's because I'm manic and artsy. But the phlegmatic part of me doesn't care anymore.

I think my mom is super-sanguine. My dad is super-melancholy. Way more than me. But he might also have a little phlegm, as well.

I think my sister might be sanguine-choleric. My brother's always a mystery.

How right you are, Pastor Ben. I don't think it made it onto any of Petra's "Greatest Hits" cd's.

I cringe bringing this up... but here's where our age difference becomes obvious. Whereas teenage Ben Cotten listened to Petra and felt (justifiably) hardcore, five-year-old Claire and toddler John listened to Computer Brains from Petra's 1984 Beat the System ENDLESSLY. As in, play it, press rewind on my Fisher Price tape player, and play it again. I'm fairly sure our parents still can't stand to listen to Computer Brains. They got fried on Computer Brains, although Hollow Eyes was on the same tape, and Dad really liked that song.

So... that was my first rock rebellion. It was fun.

So... the shallow life lessons are the deep life lessons?

Priscilla's right. This is an outstandingly written reflection! I can tell that your children are blessed to have a mom who's so concerned for their kidness.

And it also makes me want to have kids. But that's going to have to wait. I have to get my MFA, a wedding, and a cat first...

The trick to acing high fives is to watch the other person's elbow.

Brett Favre is AGELESS. With birthdays. I don't know how that works but it does.

Actually, I'm a Packers fan.

You know Brett Favre just had a birthday. We had a party.

PLEASE.

I AM a better quarterback than Rex Grossman.

Thanks! It was a really thought-provoking encounter, actually... and I've had a lot of those this semester already (I'd like to add that most of my thought-provoking encounters have been with sober people.)