Just Because...

"Just because."  A phrase that, depending on the speaker, the circumstance, and the tone in which it is spoken, can stir strong emotions in the heart of the hearer.

"Oh child, why did you pour lotion all over the bathroom floor?"
"Just because."  Emotion=despair.

Or...

"Flowers!  How beautiful!  Why am I getting such a nice surprise?"
"Just because."  Emotion=giddy happiness.

It was with giddy happiness that I received three fun gifts from my man a few months ago, "just because."  The first gift, left on my pillow, was a book.  The second, a "fancy" pen, I found tucked behind the flour canister in the kitchen cabinet.  Just a few days after that, I found the promised third prize.

I was getting ready to leave the house and was changing clothes.  I pulled on my jeans and found something in the back pocket that looked like this...

When unsnapped, it looks like this...

It helps me save time at the gym.  It saves me some mental energy and definitely some physical energy. It also cuts down on the children's income.  It's one of those things I could have easily lived without, but now that I have it, I feel like I really do need it in my life. 

This will probably clear things up a bit...

Still perplexed?  Here's how it works...

As for all of the claims I made about this unique product, called the "Pocquettes Ear Bud Holder", I stand behind each of them.  It helps save time at the gym because I don't have to stand near the tread mill untangling my earphone cords before I begin my long walk to nowhere. 

The Ear Bud Holder also saves mental and physical energy as I no longer have to look high and low to figure out where I've left my headphones.  You'd think that it would be difficult to lose something so brightly colored.  Not so.  I am forever laying these little things in curious places, or they are being carried off by little things and placed in curious places. So, before I even arrived at the gym, I'd have already done the equivalent of the StairMaster, going up and down the stairs in search of my ear buds.

Finally, my receipt of the Ear Bud Holder has cut down on the children's income because I no longer roam about the house yelling, "The first one to find Mommy's earphones gets a dollar!"

I've been enjoying the benefits of this little gadget for a few months now and have discovered that though it does a wonderful job helping me keep track of my earphones, it is not child proof. 

Look closely at the "dirty" looking earphone. It's not dirt that you see.  The discoloration of my Ear Buds is caused by teeth marks.  My bright surely-I'm-not-approaching-my-forties pink Ear Buds are the very latest in a long line of chew toys!  Ever put a slobber-coated earphone in your ear?

"Child, why are you chewing on Mommy's earphones?"

              
        " 'Cuz."