I was asked recently if I’m ALWAYS honest. As a general rule, I’d have to say “yes but….” and the “but” is there because I will admit that sometimes I will tell a little white lie if it prevents someone’s feelings from being needlessly hurt. For example, if a co-worker recently got a hair cut and they ask me if I like it (and I don’t like it at all) I MIGHT say “yes” to keep them from running into the ladies room crying. If someone spends hours cooking a special meal just for me and it doesn’t come out quite perfect I MIGHT lie and say it’s “great!” because I want to encourage them to keep cooking for me.

However, if the truth is important, and truth usually IS important I will tell the truth. For example “did you do such and such” I will tell the truth. If it is a family member and we are home and haven’t left the house yet I WILL tell them if an outfit is not flattering. If we have alreadyleft the house, though, I’ll keep quiet. Timing is important, and so is tact.

I was reading on the Yahoo news that a settlement was reached in a legal case of the state of California vs four major snack food companies, H.J. Heinz Co., Frito-Lay, Kettle Foods Incand Lance Inc. The suit was brought forth in 2005, and it was regarding the fact that these companies had unacceptable levels of carcinogens in their potato chips, and had failed to indicate that fact on their product labels.

The state also sued McDonald’s Corp, Wendy’s International Inc., Burger King Corp, KFC, and Procter & Gamble Co for essentailly the same situation with their french fries.

These companies were fined a lot of money and they agreed to either lower the levels of carcinogens or change their labels, so the consumers are aware of the carcinogens. How do you change the labels on french fries?

Why are these carcinogens being allowed in our food in the first place?

Just spoke with my sister on the phone. Her son recently bought a new Play Station 3. He is very impressed with it thus far, after playing only a couple of games. He could only find the system with the 40 GB hard drive but plans on getting another Play Station 3 when the new Socom is released on the system so he and his friends can play games online together.

The controllers are wireless and light weight and don’t require batteries. He bought an extra controller so he could play games with friends. He has been having a blast playing Call of Duty 4 online but he is looking forward to playing some of the other games he bought – Drakes Fortune and Unreal Tournament 3.

When the death of HD was announced he decided to buy a Play Station 3 because in order to compete with the new Play Station 3 the XBOX system now has to either sell a blu-ray add-on to the XBOX system or release a new system with better graphics or more power than the Play Station.

My youngest son has shamed me into replacing the standard incandescent light bulbs throughout the house with CFL bulbs. The CFL bulbs use less electricity, so that makes them environmentally friendly, and it will save money on the electric bill. It took a while for me to find 3-Way CFL bulbs, finally found them at the local ACE Hardware store.

There are a few older light fixtures in the ceiling that are too small for the CFL bulbs that I bought to fit into. So, I will have to keep my eyes open for different sizes and shapes of CFL bulbs to fit into those.

Well, here it is, April Fools Day.  I don’t have a single April Fools Day joke to play on anyone!  I wonder if anyone will be trying to play any jokes on me today!  I hope they are all harmless ones!  Some can be quite embarrasing sometimes!  Or cause a major inconvenience.  Well, be that as it may, I can’t just hide in the house all day long.  Or can I?  Maybe I should!