All the weight-control guru types tell us not to skip breakfast, but c’mon, how realistic is that? I can barely manage to get my act together enough to grab a cup of coffee on the way through my kitchen. Given a choice between a bowl of Kellogg cardboard and an extra fifteen minutes of sleep, I know which one has more appeal on the average morning!

But toast, now — how challenging is it to find time for a bit of toast?

Target’s pop art toaster, which “prints” your choice of 6 designs on the bread as it toasts it up, is just amusing enough that it might be the push a lazy girl needs to do that whole blood-sugar-level stabilizing breakfast thing, and face the day all energized.

Maybe.

But the lovely Italian Pink makes a good point on this — In the morning, still trapped in the haze of sleep, all tousled and goopy-eyed and foggy in the brain… who is going to want to fiddle around changing disks on the damn toaster as a way to start the day.

But the toaster is, you have to admit, very retro-cute. And maybe someone else would volunteer to make the toast, all thoughtful and romantic-like?

Certainly, if a couple slices of smiley-face toast were to appear before my eyes… maybe some of that homemade cinnamon-oatmeal bread, with just a touch of honey, and a cup of free-trade java on the side… I’d probably be prepared to re-think this whole breakfast-eating idea.