You are probably going to think that I don’t actually have a job by the a) frequenticity (a word?) of my blogging and b) amount of online shopping that I do.  I’ve made three purchases in the last week and its not even close to Christmas yet.  Today I received in the mail my environmentally friendly new water bottle.  Its actually a canteen.  Its awesome.  And green.  In more ways than one.  Its called a Klean Kanteen.  They sell them at Whole Foods, but in order to get a colored one (dark green… wink wink) I bought mine online.  I’ll go ahead and note that these are not cheap water bottles.  They go for 20+ buckaroos.  But, when you consider that by filling it up 20 times, you will have just saved the amount of money you could have easily spent buying Ozarka bottles.  And you helped the environment.  That, my friends, is what they call two birds, one stone.

My canteen arrived about an hour ago.  Its been sitting on my desk for me to admire, because I can’t use it yet.  I need to wash it first.  So, I’ve been glancing over at it periodically and I just noticed something.  The name “Klean Kanteen” goes against everything I stand for when it comes to company names.  I’ve always had a pet peeve when a company will misspell its name in order to be cute (for lack of another word).  For example, “Darque Tan” and “Kum and Go”.  What purpose does it serve to misspell the names like that?  None, other than to annoy me.  I’ve always chosen not to support these companies, based on their name choice, but I guess I will have to make an acception to the rule.  Cause I really like this canteen.  Excuse me, kanteen.

This leads me to my next pet peeve.  IM/Text message abbreviations.  You know… lol, rotfl, brb, g2g, ttyl etc etc.  Sometimes its just as easy to type out the whole word than spend 2 seconds thinking about how to abbreviate it.  Just spell it out.  I’ve come to grips with lol.  I don’t use it, I prefer “haha”.  But, since everyone in the world uses it, I’ve made peace with it.  However, when you are at work addressing people in emails and IM’s, don’t refer to a group of individuals as “ppl” and when you want to speak to me first thing in the morning, don’t say “gud” morning.  “Good” has one more letter in it, make the effort. 

There are actually two exceptions to the above pet peeves.  One is the title of this blog… I think that abbrieviation is funny.  The second is a light bulb/light store in Kansas City that I’ve never been to, I just always remember seeing the sign on the way to my grandmother’s house.  Its name is ”Watts Up?”.  Lol, thats kute.