Ouch! My arm hurts. I've been sealing envelopes for some gigantic mailing. I have to pause here however, to comment on a wonderful little tool known as an envelope moistener pen. For those who don't know, it's a clear tube you can fill with water that has a little sponge on the end. It sure is one of the more logical inventions of the twentieth century. I know I would not be about to lick 200 plus envelopes.

Another modern wonder that I'm real excited about lately are the kitchen shears. I have recently become aware of all the various uses for kitchen shears such as cutting raw chicken. Can you imagine how much sillier it was back in the old days when a person would have to hold onto a piece of raw chicken and saw through it with a regular knife? How time consuming! How messy! This was actually the reason I avoided cooking with chicken for the last three years! Now, with a quick snip of the kitchen shears you can have instant chopped chicken and very minimal mess. Then you can drop your favorite utensil into the dishwasher.

I knew about kitchen shears in the past. I even had a pair. Except that I thought they were just, conveniently enough, a special pair of scissors for use in the kitchen. So I used my kitchen shears for such things as cutting open the frozen dinner packaging. To think I could have been eating neatly chopped chicken all along!  ¶ 5:19 PM