The Cell Phone Generation

I watched my son pick up a stereo remote control the other day and put it to his ear and say "hello!" While creative and on the right track(it does have numbers on it) it makes me think about the lack of confusion growing up as to what a phone was. Now we even have people walking around with blinking blue ears like something out of Star Trek.

Remember when....

• you actually dialed a phone - now you can just speak a name and the phone dials for you
• the ringer was two bells being clanged together - now you can hear "Apple bottom jeans" in every public setting
• the phone was something that stayed at home, or was in a booth on the street - now...well you know.
• a dial tone - huh?

While progress is good, maybe it's also moving our toddlers to become more creative in what could possibly be a phone. Of course there is the good old banana, who didn't try that one! I actually caught my son doing this the other day. But what else will he pick up and say hello into that we never would have thought of in the past. I bet my son would love a Hot Wheels phone!

A Product Endorsement!

I have to pass this one along. In an effort to control that nasty kitty litter mixed with poop and pee smell in my poor downstairs bath, I have been on a hunt for the perfect kitty litter box.

Mission Impossible eh? Just about! I've gone through 2 of the automatic cleaners, which often involved late night confrontations as one of my cats laid down a poop that would bring the Jolly Green Giant to shame, and put the machine into a spastic cleaning circuit that mirrored a loop in the space time continuum. (That was for my Trek Fans out there) I've used the covered pans, hoping they would...um...hold in the oder? I think my cats have nearly passed out from the fumes....the things I've seen them do in there are indescribable! I've tried open pans, hoping I would get motivated to clean the darn thing every time I saw a sandy lump....nope, turns out. I'm pretty lazy.

I found this kitty litter box on Amazon.com. I wondered WHY is this kitty litter box getting a 5 star rating from fellow cat owners. Is this possible? Has someone found the secret? No killer rabbits to worry about? I had to try it. I did what I don't normally do...I ordered it without consulting my husband first. I wanted to discover this on my own. I snuck(which is not a word in spell check) it into the house and secretly tried the gadget out on my own.......

It's about as goofy and awkward as JC trying to feed himself with a spoon to clean out, but people of the world...this WORKS! If you look at the above picture...you tilt the silly thing to the left(it loosens the litter), roll it to the right all the way over until it's upside down on the green part(there is a kitty litter strainer in there, I didn't think it would work..), then you roll it back to the left, sifting the kitty litter back into place. You pull out that little drawer with the handle...and POOF! All the little presents left behind are right there! A quick dump in the trash and the thing is clean. It's so much fun to do, the box gets cleaned like twice a day now between everyone in the family. It's like a secret magic trick that we are all trying to figure out.

Gone are the days of trying to ignore that cat box into cleanliness....in are the days of tumbling out the magic poop. If you have cats and are at your wits end...TRY THIS!!!

Search on Amazon : "Automatic Kitty Litter"