I'm Lovin' It!

I reached for the 6-pack of 10 calorie (or 10 kilocalorie, to be precise for Rico) sugar-free Jell-O cups in Peach and Watermelon, and quickly placed them in my cart.
Later,
We impatiently grabbed our chicken sandwich, large fry, and large soda cups from the helpful McDonalds employee.

Why? Because like my sister, Elizabeth, I am a slave to marketing.

Two weeks ago there was a task on The Biggest Loser that was sponsered by Jell-O. Each contestant carried a tray full of sugar-free 10 calorie Jell-O bearing their name to an open refrigerator, after successfully opening a locked one. (it was a bit more complicated than that, but for all my purposes, that'll suffice)
My thoughts while watching this were: Sugar-Free? gag. 10 calorie? nothing worth eating is only 10 calories. I laughed heartily at all the product placement.
But the very next day while perusing the produce I got the hankering for sugar-free 10 calorie Jell-O cups.

Elizabeth and I have become obsessed with McDonald's Monopoly game. We are playing both on our game board as well as online. We have won 2 small drinks as well as a medium fry. We won a ringtone as well as a game for Liz's cell phone. We also have 2 Best Buy Bucks. If we can find the Short Line Railroad game piece we are a potential winner of a Dodge Viper. We still need Boardwalk to win the million dollars. We are also close to winning the ten thousand dollars. Elizabeth says if we win both then I can have the ten thousand all to myself.

This afternoon we ripped at our gamepieces with anxious fingers, before ever taking a bite of our food. We order what will give us a gamepiece. (With the exception of my burger...they only come on the chicken sandwiches.)

Elizabeth has given me the order of buying at least one combo meal a day, like she is doing. Bwahaha.

It is probably a really good thing Elizabeth has DVR and therefore we watch about 90% fewer commercials, because being this susceptible to marketing is not good on my checkbook.