Cadbury Creme Eggs

If you are not a fan of Cadbury Creme Eggs, feel free to utterly ignore this post.
Miss Edith has long been a fan of this creamy, chocolatey, sticky treat, and splurges on them when they become available every spring. (Notarius prefers those candy-coated Cadbury eggs, which I think are horrid, but buy for him anyway because I am slavishly devoted to him... so -- to each his or her own. As long as I can have my Cadbury Creme Eggs.)

This year I note with some sadness that the eggs seem to be smaller than they used to be. Am I just getting old? Are my eyes playing tricks on me? I don't think so. I think that the economy is tanking, and the cost of chocolate has gone up, and that Cadbury is tweaking their product so as to cut costs. And I understand it, but it still makes me very, very sad.

Note: I just went and Googled "Cadbury Creme Eggs Smaller" and discovered that the change was made some time ago... and they really ARE smaller, it's not a trick my eyes are playing on me... so clearly I skipped the eggs last year, and thus didn't really notice the reduction of egg size until this year. In other words, I'm running a couple years late on this one.

I am sad nonetheless.

Shovel Ready

Miss Edith doesn't know for sure where this term came from -- "shovel ready" -- but she's already sick of it.
I looked online and apparently someone's found a citation for it going back to 1995. So we're looking at ten years of shovel-readiness. Fine. But I don't like it, I don't want to hear it anymore, and as far as I'm concerned, when you hear the phrase "shovel ready" you should get ready to be shoveling some shit.

Pardon Miss Edith's French.