Ode to the Magic Bullet

For my birthday my parents got me the Magic Bullet, a seemingly hokey kitchen gadget which I LOVE (thank you, Ivy, for telling them I wanted one!).

If you've ever seen the informercial, you should be familiar with this lady:

The deliberately placed, cigarette smoking, obnoxious cynic of the Magic Bullet franchise who makes the entire infomercial that much more memorable. And I mean, come on, she's got an inch of ash dangling off of that cigarette during the entire thing. Infomercials are so great.

But all marketing aside, I seriously love my Magic Bullet. Z and I have been having fresh fruit smoothies every day since we got it, and, as the infomercial says, it only takes up about as much room on your counter as a coffee cup.

Other things I've been loving lately:

Cocoa Roasted Dark Chocolate Almonds

Clinque 3-Step Eyes

Neutrogena Grapefruit Facial Cleanser

I'm seriously not getting paid anything to endorse all these brands, but maybe I should be...