KTMusings

For a Friday laugh, one of my all-time favorite Dilberts:

Zac Brown Band has started a great campaign to get 1 million letters to our troops. To persuade people to do so, if you write your letter and bring it in to a Ram dealership, you get a free copy of their Breaking Southern Ground compilation CD. You can also write a letter online and they'll donate your copy to a soldier. I bookmarked this link: http://www.ramtrucks.com/en/letters_for_lyrics/# and have been trying to write a quick letter each day. In the middle of their very lively song "Chicken Fried", ZBB has some great lyrics thanking our troops: I thank God for my life / for the Stars and Stripes / may freedom forever fly, let it ring / Salute the ones who've died / the ones that give their lives / so we don't have to sacrifice all the things we love.

I've become a bit obsessed with Chobani yogurt. It's Greek style yogurt, so it's thicker and creamier than traditional yogurt. I like yogurt, but tended to sometimes eat it just because I knew it was good for me. Now I have to limit myself to one Chobani per day! Pomegranate is my current favorite. Also, I looked up the definition of Greek style yogurt ... turns out we really mean "strained yogurt", which isn't even what they typically eat in Greece, so who knows how that name stuck. But strained yogurt has twice the protein of regular yogurt, which is awesome, and Chobani uses only real fruit in theirs - no added sugar. Check it out!

I love a good song lyric - something about the way the writer strings the words together and puts it to music, sometimes they jump right out of the song at you, sometimes they grow on you when they get stuck in your head. "Turning Home" is a great song by an up-and-coming country artist, David Nail. It was actually written by Kenney Chesney, but he decided not to record it himself. I think David has a great voice and this line keeps sticking in my head ... I think I've played the song a dozen times tonight ... check it out for yourself - the whole album is worth a listen. He's opening for Lady Antebellum in Milwaukee in October and I'm looking forward to seeing him live. Here's the line: "Never twice the same way does it start" Something about the unique ordering of that phrase, I just love it. Lots of good lines in this song overall too. And the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPmjri35cBM&feature=avmsc2