tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post4689191532532586625..comments2024-01-01T20:33:52.554-08:00Comments on a moon, worn as if it had been a shell: Christmas, Hanukkah, Holiday Schmoliday and Dishwasher DetergentElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-31285975412775398172010-12-22T16:49:42.242-08:002010-12-22T16:49:42.242-08:00Can you expect folk to embrace no phosphates when ...Can you expect folk to embrace no phosphates when the average IQ in the US is 98? Lets all move to Equatorial Guinea where we would be geniuses. (IQ average: 59) And wow...you are right, Henry is a serious looker! You make such pretty kids!SECRET PEPPER PERSON:https://www.blogger.com/profile/06434583043459305729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-13255705200090390732010-12-19T13:02:35.872-08:002010-12-19T13:02:35.872-08:00This may be one of my favorite posts of the whole ...This may be one of my favorite posts of the whole year! I love the two holiday concerts, I LOVE that you actually TOOK PICTURES of people taking pictures with their over-the-top cameras, I love your comments on the detergents. This is making me smile from ear to ear, all of it.Super Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07917021108021457178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-84425543302379226122010-12-19T08:45:37.680-08:002010-12-19T08:45:37.680-08:00Yah, take back Christmas and go out and spend your...Yah, take back Christmas and go out and spend your money to save the country's economy, it's the patriotic thing to do. Plus, add all your packaging to the landfill for good measure and wash your holiday dishes with phosphates .... Just because it's a free country AND Jesus' birthday. Argh.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10818795902981871173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-107214019867704962010-12-19T02:10:22.160-08:002010-12-19T02:10:22.160-08:00I'm intolerant of intolerance on either side o...I'm intolerant of intolerance on either side of the holiday issue. Why can't people feel free to practice whatever customs want but without pressuring others to go along with them?<br /><br />I rarely use the dishwasher, you can't wash cookware, silverware or heirloom dishes in them. But even my dish soap hasn't had phosphates since sometime in the early 1990s.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508114700180229059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-37613172405234004952010-12-18T23:26:53.525-08:002010-12-18T23:26:53.525-08:00it's not your bias, Henry IS smashingly handso...it's not your bias, Henry IS smashingly handsome.erikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048369118376287016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-83593083771246270332010-12-18T20:20:18.853-08:002010-12-18T20:20:18.853-08:00Your children are gorgeous. You are right.
I hope ...Your children are gorgeous. You are right.<br />I hope you won't let the idiocy of the things people say get to you, or spoil your enjoyment. The spirit of this time of year is real, and it is precious. It belongs to each of us. Sending love to you.Gbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08895779471612397202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-53165304224754885392010-12-18T18:40:43.700-08:002010-12-18T18:40:43.700-08:00i love you elizabeth!i love you elizabeth!rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05265802752790310923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-25718418707659827402010-12-18T15:15:43.406-08:002010-12-18T15:15:43.406-08:00This post is just one of the reasons I love you, E...This post is just one of the reasons I love you, Elizabeth. <br /><br />And ditto Lilith's comment.cheatymoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328903955238115971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-30373624678234224512010-12-18T14:02:34.351-08:002010-12-18T14:02:34.351-08:00I heard the same thing on the radio. Too funny!
A...I heard the same thing on the radio. Too funny!<br /><br />And as for Christmas, I consider myself a "recovering Catholic" and I feel more spiritual and Christmasy now as an adult with no formal religion than I ever did as a child who was genuflecting and taking communion and supposedly taking part in all of the traditional Christian things about the holiday.<br /><br />Love your unapologetically progressive school!kariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10150537989886423212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-85680511485474164112010-12-18T13:48:35.549-08:002010-12-18T13:48:35.549-08:00Phosphates are are horrible for all natural ecosys...Phosphates are are horrible for all natural ecosystems. I am being dead serious and I am knowledgeable regarding the subject. <br /><br />Phosphates do absolutely nothing to help or better the cleaning process nor does it quicken the process at all. It does absolutely nothing to help or aide in stain removal nor does it help in any way to cover up or make it less visible.<br /><br />THE ONLY reason phosphates are added to detergent is that it produces bubbles. NO matter what you do, explain, show, say, repeatedly and scientifically disprove that the bubbles DO NOTHING and that they ARE BAD FOR AND HURTING OUR PLANET, THAT SOAP WITHOUT IT CLEANS EXACTLY THE SAME, people are reassured the soap has been added to the solution. If they see no bubbles they think their dishes are not cleant. <br /><br />If you suspect your maid to be using just plain water to clean dishes and refuses to add soap and you think she is lying and you refuse to add soap yourself to the solution, I guess phosphates might be used as an indicator that soap has been added. <br /><br />otherwise it is nothing but a pollutant.whohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17685473418191606910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-17182960018340603032010-12-18T13:31:53.210-08:002010-12-18T13:31:53.210-08:00Henry sure does look handsome, that's for sure...Henry sure does look handsome, that's for sure! I love the progressive views in Oliver's school. That's great. <br /><br />Merry Christmas to you too!ANewKindOfPerfecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978293330074662766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-80760045508275408082010-12-18T12:32:48.079-08:002010-12-18T12:32:48.079-08:00I love your irony. And I feel like I'm living...I love your irony. And I feel like I'm living under a rock:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-51816789639495721432010-12-18T12:17:52.350-08:002010-12-18T12:17:52.350-08:00The demise of traditions is often a very good thin...The demise of traditions is often a very good thing. <br /><br />Tolerance . Amen to that. The hardest thing for me to accept would be those paparazzi parents too I think. But never say never. <br /><br />Never say never.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924061349390319473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-53679402937053090732010-12-18T08:59:43.965-08:002010-12-18T08:59:43.965-08:00Wow...I can just feel all my socialist Canadian va...Wow...I can just feel all my socialist Canadian values fading as your children play triangles and accept homosexuality as just, whatevs... The funny part of all of this is that biblical scholars accept, for the most part, that Jesus was likely born in the spring. The same scholarship knows that the early Church shoved "Christmas" over a very ancient pagan "longest night" festival of light, to kill it. Crazy world.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13070297384173508509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-1538644279124416212010-12-18T08:41:46.206-08:002010-12-18T08:41:46.206-08:00Damn. I love you. And your family. And that progre...Damn. I love you. And your family. And that progressive school. And I heard a thing on NPR about the phosphate panic too. Women in Oregon or one of those states above you are sending designated criminal housewives to go to neighboring states where phosphate is still allowed in the dishwashing detergent to bring it back in bulk. So that yes, they can have clean glasses.<br />I don't even have a dishwasher! And we survive. <br />Don't get me started on the health care. <br />Merry Christmas, honey. You can have all of mine you want.Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-89364243720665996222010-12-18T08:27:02.286-08:002010-12-18T08:27:02.286-08:00I'm not a christian anymore, don't believe...I'm not a christian anymore, don't believe that baby Jesus was born to save the world from itself but I still wish everyone a Merry Christmas. If tolerance and compassion are wrong, then I don't wanna be right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-19020763336904076352010-12-18T08:00:13.049-08:002010-12-18T08:00:13.049-08:00yes, and while people are bemoaning the removal of...yes, and while people are bemoaning the removal of phosphates they never connect the birdshit history of the product.<br />'Tis rare you see the word bristling used for cameras. But apt I think. Are these people Paparazzi.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-77939069841739557692010-12-18T07:19:54.893-08:002010-12-18T07:19:54.893-08:00I just noticed my blog is number one on your blog ...I just noticed my blog is number one on your blog roll! My ego is super happy about that, thank you! <br /><br />BTW, I always appreciate your perspective on things.Carrie Wilson Linkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01586157395539583862noreply@blogger.com