What could be more relaxing than the scent of a cheesewheel?

Mmmmmmmmm. Hamburger scented candles!

Make EVERYDAY Halloween with a ZOMBIE scented candle!

Is someone burning an ANGEL BORIS candle? It smells like a B-Movie actress who has just taken off her top! It’s like I was there!!

Nothing says SIESTA like a SALSA scented candle! Burn one at your next NAFTA party!

 In the traditional media spirit of sucking up to the masses for some attention, I have decided to appeal to those that have visited my site by typing things like ’Kari Byron thong’ in Google.

And now, some imagined facts about Kari Byron:

 1)  She invented the patent for individually wrapped cheese slices, and lives off the royalties from a sweet deal with Kraft.

2) She is currently working on a new perfume called “Mythbusters.” It’s delicate scent is a mixture of ballistics gel, aluminum powder, axle grease, explosives, and plexiglas.

3) She owns a pair of Chuck Taylor shoes once worn by Chuck Taylor himself.

4)  She also doesn’t find Ray Romano funny, which busts the myth that “EVERYONE LOVES RAYMOND.”

5)  Hosted a party where she used that plastic mold of her butt to make a unique jello snack.

6)  Doesn’t completely understand why Paris Hilton is trying to have a singing career.

(please note: the Edie Brickell & The New Bohemian reference)

  Inspired by a few conversations I have had recently with co-workers, my already tired mind can’t seem to stop thinking of life choices that we each make. I really don’t want to be deep, but my mind won’t shut up. Maybe if I blog about it, I can do some double duty here. Get it out of my mind while, at the same time, bore the living (excrement) out of my blog visitors, too.

    Boiling down the first conversation, it comes down to a coworker who has worked where I am now for well over a decade. She was venting about how little she is paid there. Recently, it came to light that my employer posted a job opening for a similar position….but at a way higher wage. I know that she lives nearby, but told her that I have seen job positions in the paper which probably pay much higher but are a little farther from her house. Her reason for staying: living close to her current job is convenient. Hmmmmm. Live nearby to a job she obviously hates and let it drain the life from you OR work about 20 miles away, get paid more, and perhaps have it better.  It comes down to life choices.

The other conversation talked of comfort zones and that one must sometimes reach beyond what is “convenient” and risk something to perhaps improve things. You either choose your current standard or work toward a new one. A simple choice that not everyone is willing to make. 

I have struggled with having empathy for the first person, but then soon realized that I have little energy left to deal with the current pile of stresses I have now. My job has taken a sudden and unexpected change in directions recently, and my wife’s job has been even more intense. The details will have to wait as magick is currently afoot, and change is in the works. However, being somewhat cautious; I don’t want to reveal anything to the public just yet.

   I have discovered that managing your energy is just as important as being able to make decisions. I can have empathy, but ultimately make sure I take care of myself and my family……and a very large pile of dirty laundry, sitting in front of the washer. I pile that is bigger than you you can possibly imagine.

Here’s what I have learned:

1) Insomnia sucks. Being too tired to sleep sucks. Being too tired to daydream sucks.

2) Change can be scary and exciting at the same time. I figure that if I had avoided every opportunity where I felt these things; I would be an unemployed, broccoli-eating nervous house-bound wreck.

3) Having empathy is like having running water in the  house. It’s great to have for everyday living, but leave that faucets running and you’ll pay for it.

 4) I absolutely love cheese.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

My only question at this point is why is image appearance considered silly, while others are taken at face value and draw followers from around the globe to experience the miracle….with one person paying an insane amount of money on Ebay for such an item?

After being inspired by my own SPONTANEOUS CHEESE POETRY_TM, I decided to make myself a grilled cheese sandwich. To my surprise, I saw the image of Kari Byron appear on it.

Perhaps it won’t be as inspirational as other faces seen on grilled cheese sandwiches, but it might come close.

I can’t decide if this should end up in my digestive tract or E-bay.

I joined Blogmad to increase my blog traffic because it looked like a pretty straight-forward program. Basically, you surf blogs to build credit (1 point per visit for a 25 second visit to someone else’s page). You get a credit taken from you when someone visits your page. Overall, it seems to be pretty good. I have seen a fairly big jump in the number of visitors. While most, honestly, probably don’t spend more than 25 seconds at my site; I have noticed that some have decided to not only linger, they also post comments.

The only drawbacks I can see are:

1) For those of us working full-time, and raising active families; I pretty much have to spend time before work very early OR time before bed to surf for blogs. With my job at work being computer-related, I find myself wanting to not be tied to a computer while at home. Most of the time it isn’t bad, but those people who can do this stuff at work have it way easier.

2) Many blogs are either VERY pro-Bush/War or VERY anti-Bush/War. It seems the extremes are fighting it out for some form of supremacy here. Thinking maybe if they are louder or more nasty in my comments, perhaps they will win the attention of everyone. Someone needs to tell them that our future lies in moderate voices that are willing to work together. The Ann Coulters and Michael Moores of the world just need to zip it.

3) There are also many who saturate their blogs with Christian spiritual themes. I am all for freedom of expression, but I think these bloggers might almost have recruitment in mind. Think about it. You have some content on your blog that people HAVE to visit to participate. You get face time. Well, I guess that might even be part of the motivation with political stuff, too.

4) I have no fourth point, but wanted one so I will simply say that I really love cheese. I have yet to see a blogmad blog about it.

Was cheese all that difficult to understand before?

Do other cheeses make fun of this because it is easy?

Is the existence of Easy Cheese part of the ‘dumbing down’ phenomenon we keep hearing about?

Are teachers feeling the pressure of the No Child Left Behind legislation cutting corners when it comes to cheese education?

With this, are children less likely to work for a more complex cheese?

Are Cliff Notes available to understand more difficult cheeses?