So let me clear – the reason you are NOT supposed to grocery shop when you are hungry is because when you have to go to the cookie aisle to get those little snack pack of oreos for school lunches that are on the grocery list, you have to walk past the big oreos, like the nice mint oreos. And you think, “won’t that be a treat for the week”, and maybe you’ll have just one when you get home since you truly never ever buy them because you know you like them a bit “toooo” much. Except you rip the damn bag open in the parking lot while you are loading the groceries. Three for me and one for my child so it “seems” equal, at least to her. And then when you get home, you sneak just a couple of more and then a couple after dinner, and then you stupidly poor yourself a half glass of milk (which you normally wouldn’t drink at this time of night save for the mint crackeos you purchased less than an hour ago) only to find that by the time the milk is deliciously gone so are 2 of 3 rows of mint oreos which proves my sugar induced theory that the devil LIVES in the cookie aisle of every store.

So endth the lesson. *burp*

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Many thanks to all of you who so kindly vote, opined and other wise sounded off on the correct choice for my new eye glasses in a blog post a while back.

I thought it a silly, fun idea for a blog post and was very thrilled to see such interest.

Clearly in the voting the gray frames were a HUGE fan favorite.

And yet I was a fan of the black frames. I just thought I could see better out of them.

So the winner of the eyeglass vote was….

Neither of them.

Turns out that the eyeglass place that I was going to buy these frames from would NOT accept my insurance so they expected me to shell out over $500 free and clear for these specs. Since I have eyeglass coverage with my insurance – that seemed kinda stupid. Plus I’d have to wait a week to get them because I wanted anti-glare on the lenses (and of course pay more for that too).

On the OTHER hand, it turns out Lenscrafters IS included in my insurance plan (saving me about 40%) and they could get me my glasses in 24 hours.

So I went simple, basic and practical – everything the other glasses weren’t. Silver metal frames (oh, excuse me, titanium). The selection wasn’t as nice as the other place but I decided that I am at a time in my life where its more enjoyable to spend money like that on my family than on me or better yet save that money for later. Must have been a passing case of vanity…shame on me.

So when you see me out with my specs, for better or for worse, this is what you’ll see.

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Here’s the thing – if you get Google Alerts or have an “ego search” in your blog reader, sometimes you can come across some very unique, odd, upsetting and just weird posts associated with your search.

I get lots of news from Ireland (as you might expect with my last name) including a bizarre murder story there (very sad) and tons of rugby information.

Another more recent example, the movie and TV actor Jerry O’Connell (no relation) is naked in a new movie called Piranha 3D (the title of which leads me to ask “were there so many unanswered questions in the first two movie installments, there needed to be a third? j/k)

I know this because for the past several days I have been getting pings that highlight “o’connell” (which is one of my search terms) followed closely in these announcements by the word “naked” (which again to be clear is NOT one of my search terms).

Evidently in this movie, Jerry O’Connell’s character’s man bits are shown getting eaten by a piranha. Which one of those images would you like erased from your brain first?

Except the man bits are not Jerry O’Connell’s but some CGI handy work. I know that won’t fully help with the erasure but oh well.

I have seen Jerry O’Connell in interviews and he seems like a very affable guy and I saw his lovely wife in an interview/parody on swimsuit models years ago in which she showed terrific comedic timing. So my thought is I’m fortunate to share some search with him as he doesn’t seem as wacked out as some of his peers may appear to be.

But my other thought is I wonder if he checks his searches and wonders who or what the heck audio’connell is? Probably not.

What about you…do get seaches back about famous people with your name?

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Two frame styles for Peter's new glasses - which one do you prefer?

I lost my glasses.

They’re gone and it’s sad but life goes on.

But I need a new pair.

These are two popular choices (no I don’t have the pictures of me wearing them even though they took pictures…dunno where they out them, probably deleted it.

Any way, you vote:

A) The BLACK pair

B) The SILVER pair

C) What ARE you thinking, you’d look awful in both

Voting is now open, comment below please.

UPDATE: Due to popular demand: here are the pictures of me wearing the glasses (the pictures are a bit odd and someday I’ll tell the story of why but for now – here we go.

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Male Voice Talent Peter K. O'Connell BEFORE and AFTER

Sunday morning I woke and did what I told my wife I would do someday. Mind you I told her that for around three years as she begged me to shave my whiskers.

But Sunday morning for no good reason nor special intention, I shaved it off.

Wife is thrilled, daughter not so much.

I can and will never win on this battle I suppose.

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Admit it, some days (say Monday) you click on to YouTube because a song pops into your head and you want to see if the video is online, or maybe there is a live performance of it you’ve never seen.

And then after you watch the video, you see the column on the right has links to other songs you like but haven’t seen so you click on that.

This cycle repeats itself until suddenly you realize it’s Wednesday.

Well, enjoy today’s musical time suck.

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