January 11 2007

Cover Story  (Wine Diva the first interactive wine site of its kind)
Hangover wines (Whites under $20-For when you're not Feeling Flush)
Hangover wines (Reds under $20-For when you're in the Red)
Taste Bites (How Cheesy, Fuel for the Fire)
Wine Diva-isms (TV Therapy)

Wine Diva-isms

TV Therapy
                                        
The wonderful thing about staying home for holidays is you get to relax.
No worrying about getting snowed in or if you'll be bumped from your flight. No familiar familia questions about when you are finally going to have children or buy a bigger place with a guest room.

As has been our habit for the past several years, my better half and I relax, forage through our cellar, go for long walks and longer lunches and watch a lot of TV.
When you watch a lot of TV you begin to notice the repetitiveness of commercials and how the focus shifts over the holiday season.
From baking suggestions to  NutriSystem. From gift giving suggestions to  anti-depressant solutions.
Indulgence to resistance.

Its all bug races...

Discovery Health is having healthy eating month.
Vitamin ads are coming out double-time.
I’m getting depressed about the TV asking me if I’m depressed…of course I am, Christmas is over and now we all have to pay the piper!
But that’s okay, drug companies are quite eager to tell me what drugs will help make my depression better, as long as I don’t have liver disease, dry mouth or a pre-existing heart condition…

Food Network Canada has tried to wean me off cookie recipes with a cross between Nigella and Giada.
Ellie.
"Healthy Appetite" with Ellie Krieger takes your favorite recipes and diminishes the calorie load. Not sure I'm buying it.

The marketing genius behind Jello has a new ad targeted directly at my market.
"Every diet needs a little wiggle room".
 Three window shop mannequins dancing down the street to a catchy song, happy and hip because their Jello only has 10 calories. Too bad I've never been able to eat Jello without my gag reflexes kicking in. But I would like to know where to get the dresses the models are wearing...

Meanwhile (boy is their target ever not my market) Burger King’s new ad depicts an urban dude marching out of a hip restaurant (and out on his very thin gal), throwing the food over his shoulder and claiming he’s sick of “chick food” and heading across the street to gobble with his blue collar buddies.
To eat until his “Inny turns into an outty…”

It makes me tired thinking about it all.
But that's also okay because I'm pretty sure I deserve a "deep, restorative sleep" on my Sleep Number Bed.

 

WD-Pink & Cheeky

January 11 2007

Cover Story  (Wine Diva the first interactive wine site of its kind)
Hangover wines (Whites under $20-For when you're not Feeling Flush)
Hangover wines (Reds under $20-For when you're in the Red)
Taste Bites (How Cheesy, Fuel for the Fire)
Wine Diva-isms (TV Therapy)