Cookies, books, and a puppy

Okay I know this is supposed to be my Harry Potter post but that is turning into something much bigger so it will take more time (there's like lists and whatnot involved) So in the meantime you get a mini rant about food.

Today I bought one of those Betty Crocker Warm Delight thingies and while it was warm I did not find it to be particularly delightful. Ususally that is one of those things that looks good but I don't ever waste my money on it (because I have much more important things to waste my money on...like books or dvd's or music or vegetarian bacon.) but today it was on sale and I was hungry so I bought it. Now when these were first introduced I was lead to believe that this was a thing that came pre prepared, all you had to do was toss it into the microwave for a few seconds and you would be good to go the other thing is that not only the commercial implied but the box showed a picture of this full bowl of cookie. Yeah neither of those things were true, first surprise is that you open up the box and there is the bowl with a little packet of cookie mix (cause I got the cookie one rather then the brownie one becuase in general I like squishy cookies better then brownies not that I don't like brownies I just like cookies better) and a packet of fudge and yes if I had read the box I would have been aware of the fact that you have to mix it yourself but it was an impulse purchase based on false advertising not something I actually thought about so while mildly annoyed that I had to put in extra effort in my efforts to get fatter I added the water to the mix and very quickly realized that not only had I been misled about the preparedness of the cookie but also about the size so here I am with this moderate size bowl and this thin layer of cookie mix on the bottom of it which got me a bit more annoyed with the Betty Crocker people I know they are trying to trick people into buying this thing and that all prepackaged food is less then it looks (the huge potato chip bags that are half empty when you open them. Anything frozen.) but seriously you just don't need to waste all that plastic cut the size (of the container not the product) and the price call it mini and I'll bet anything that the sales go up. So anyway I took my weird regular cookie size cookie like product and tasted it, (I need to mention that I love cookies especially when they are still all gooey and slightly undercooked and yes I know that's bad for me but that doesn't make it any less delicious) it tasted kind of like those weird cookie dough bites that you know are in no way related to cookie dough and taste like it and it's just not at all what you want, and severly undercooked cookie while still being solid. It was not good, the fudge they give you to put in top made it better but I think that was mainly because it was masking the weird taste, it wasn't really bad it's just not something that I would buy ever or would really want to eat. I think next time I'll just bake cookies and save my money. Overall Betty Crocker has lost a good bit of my respect which I think it sad, they should stick to cookbooks not making weird ass cookie things.

On a totally unrelated topic I've been working on organizing my bookshelves mainly because they were so disorganized that I could never find anything and all of my books were just sort or haphazardly stacked on the shelves. I have now learned that you can fit a lot more books on the self haphazardly then you can when they are organized.

The shelves originally all looked a bit more like the top shelf. Also ignore the plastic bags they're part of a project I'm working on. And I do have more Harry Potter books then just the three up there but they're on the shelf you can kind of see to the right there.

I now have no home for about 2/3 of my books, plus I displaced a whole shelf of dvds (yes I have a lot of dvds mainly because I can (or could) still afford those seening as how the five dollar dvd rack exists and there isn't really a five dollar book rack)

See you can fit way more there when they're not really in any sort of order.

but that just made me realize that I also have no home for my dvds as that rack is also more then full. I need to move out and stop trying to fit an apartments worth of stuff into my tiny bedroom, not that I have anything against small bedrooms, when I was in the aparetment I have a relatively big room and all the space freaked me out it's just that I want to have enough room to fit my stuff in in an organized way. So it doesn't look like I'm the biggest packrat ever. I realize no one really needed to see some of my shelves but I think it helps prove my point.

Also just so this isn't just a rant wrapped in annoying. My mom got a puppy a couple months ago so here are a couple pictures of Echo:

Echo, she's a Springer Spaniel
My mom, (She doesn't have a weird growth on her back there I'm pretty sure that's he phone), Dude (The Golden Retriever) Echo (The puppy obviously) and Crash (the Greyhound)

Oh and have a flower picture because while I was looking for the Echo pictures this jumped out and was yelling at my to put it on my blog.