Brain Cheese

CLosing Shop

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:44:02 GMT

AOL has notified it's journal writers this (these) sites will be closing at the end of the month. For those of you who, out of HABIT, continue to click HERE to go THERE (www.brain-cheese.blogspot.com) will no longer be ABLE to click HERE to go THERE (BrainCheese on Blogger).

It's time to move into 2008...go to www.brain-cheese.blogspot.com and BOOKMARK the real address!

This journal HAS been imported over THERE (BLogger) and is now under my profile page link or can be found at www.braincheesems.blogspot.com , just in case there is an old post you are just DYING to reread over THERE from HERE!

Make perfect sense?!?!

Peeps...Puleeze!...

Wed, 02 May 2007 08:03:27 GMT

Have you noticed there just isn't much happening over here at AOL BRAINCHEESE? That's because all the fun stuff is happening over at

www.brain-cheese.blogspot.com

Same blog, different website. Continuous cornucopia of crap...podcast of poo...Bookmark it. Do it now! (Man I love to be bossy)...see you there!

"Downsize Me" Begins...

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:47:39 GMT

(If you haven't been following BRAINCHEESE at www.brain-cheese.blogspot.com , you've just been missing out! Come on...make the switch. This post is a follow up to one "over there"...so, if you haven't been "over there", you may be lost!)

     Wow! I've been missing from action for about 36 hours. I managed to finish the final inservice/teaching project at work on Thursday (**insert a big "WOOHOO" here please**), only to find myself completely debilitated AGAIN very early Friday morning by another headache...AKA, "migraine", as Dr. She Who Will Not Be Named has labeled it. It was that same pliers-squeezing-my-eyeball-pain in my left eye...THIS time, I also had numbness and a bit of a droop to the left side of my face! Talk about a happy Friday the 13th...

     Fortunately, I'm a fairly quick study (sometimes) and decided around 2:00AM to start loading up on the narcotics. I finally fell back to sleep around 8:00AM and was able to doze off and on all day on Friday...the pain began letting up Friday evening. Dr. SWWNBN has decided to do yet ANOTHER MRI of my noggin, but I'm not sure what (if anything) she is looking for...she may just be checking to make sure I still HAVE a brain! I suppose since this "brain pain" is brand new, she might be checking for any changes afoot.

     A few days ago, I wrote about possibly trying an experiment with myself being the sole participant...it was about cutting out the "Dew"/caffeine from my diet and seeing if there might be any significant and noticeable changes in my fatigue/sleep/blood pressure (and now headaches, I add).

     Well...as luck would have it, I was so miserable in pain and nauseated on Friday, I consumed NO caffeine whatsoever! So I decided now might be as good a time as any to get my project, "Downsize Me" under way...this should be interesting...LOL

     I'm going to be tracking my fatigue, hours of sleep, weight, and blood pressure for the next 28 days as I eliminate ALL caffeine from my diet...I'm already CRAVING chocolate of all things! Of course this is completely subjective (and I'm sorry to say, most PHARMACEUTICAL STUDIES are, too...they'd just like to think they're not!) and will never be published in the annals of Neurology Today. LOL Woe is me...

     As I weave (and maybe even heave) my way through the next 28 days, I'll be using BRAINCHEESE as a forum to document this "highly regarded study"...as always, I'll try to keep it entertaining if not down right riveting...(now I'M nearly wetting my pants laughing at that prospect!)

     So, here's a little video I've prepared for you as the launch pad for "DOWNSIZE ME"...and just so you know...no animals will be harmed in this study!

A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words...

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:36:02 GMT

Need I say more?

I'm So Tired...

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:15:30 GMT

And if you're curious why I'm so tired, head over to www.brain-cheese.blogspot.com to read why...truly rivoting things are happening over there! LOL But then again, I think I could make passing gas intriguing with enough "colorful" words! (But it's still just a fart, folks...)

Dawn Will Show Her Crack Again...Hussy!...

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:56:03 GMT

Yup...it's true. I'll be up at the crack of dawn AGAIN on Monday! Why God, why?!?

I know why and the answer is simple...I'm easy. Fortunately, I am NOT free! I will be training the final early morning class of Management of Aggressive Behavior in the wee hours of the morning at work tomorrow. And just to pour an ample amount of salt in my wound, it IS supposed to be my day off!

It's nearly 9:45PM on Sunday right now...I'm still up posting on a blog...I'll probably STILL be up until my "usual" bedtime, which falls somewhere between midnight and 3:00AM. The good news (if one can call it "good") is, with such little sleep in the morning, I will remain blissfully unaware and unconcerned about the training attendees...at least not until around 10:00AM when I actually DO wake up. LOL

We also have the first round of good-bye parties for DP, my retiring boss. But, of course, this will not start at the office until 2:00PM (when I would normally be reporting for work if I was SUPPOSED to be at work...and not home ON MY DAY OFF!)...this means I will "linger" (or malinger...just depends) at the office following our training, which ends at noon. There's always lunch to eat, but two hours is a long time to kill when sleep deprived...sort of makes me WANT to kill instead.

I cannot seem to get that totally stupid sleep aid commercial out of my head right now as I type...you know the one. Lunesta. By tomorrow evening I'll most likely be wishing I had some of that, except MY drug would be spelled "Loonesta"...fitting, eh?

Off now to prepare to go to bed so I can stare at the ceiling and chastise myself for my "simple" ways...

**Note to self: Never ever agree to do something at work unless there is a substantial amount of cash involved for your time and effort. Thank You's do NOT equal cash, nor can Thank You's pay the mortgage.**

Yes, I HAD A Childhood!...

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:03:41 GMT

But if YOU want to read about it and my Easter heathen ways, you'll have to jump over to Blogspot (do I STILL need to put the link in here?!? Fine... http://brain-cheese.blogspot.com/ ).

See you there...

I Know Change Is Hard, But It's Time...

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:13:44 GMT

Why are you still here? Do you fear change soooo much you'd rather miss more PEEP postings over at www.brain-cheese.blogspot.com ? Are you continuing to linger here as a subtle message to BrainCheese?

Take a deep breath...now blow it out...carefully move your mouse over the above link and left click. That's right...nice and easy...you can do it! You're almost to BrainCheese on Blogspot!

I have faith in you...LOL

Switch To Blogger/Blogspot Already!!!...

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:36:30 GMT

I'm tired...if you want today's post, you're just gonna have to bite the bullet (or me!) and hit the link to take you to www.brain-cheese.blogspot.com/ . Just do it...LOL

Something Just Not Right About It...

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:19:35 GMT

They've been on the shelves now, probably even before the sun went down on Valentine's Day...I'm talking about those sugar-laden, little marshmallow things we've come to associate with Eastertime. Peeps.

When I was still young enough to believe in the Easter Bunny (and I promise NOT to digress here about my concerns of just how prolific rabbits and the resurrection of Jesus became a combined holiday tradition and belief! LOL), there were Peeps. These little candy treats have been around for nearly 70 years (and NO, I am not old enough to remember the "birth" of Peeps...who, by the way, are made by a company called "Just Born"). They are a part of Springtime and now even a part of Christmas and Halloween.

The weirdos I work with (no, I'm NOT talking about patients here) have held long-standing traditions and beliefs about Peeps...how to eat them, when to eat them, etc. Some in my office prefer to buy their Peeps a year in advance, save them to "age" them, and then bring the Peeps out for fine dining the following year. Still others believe the "newer" tradition of Peeps shaped as bunnies is just plain WRONG...Peeps are chickens/chicks after all!

One year, a few of the "brighter bulbs" in my office decided to try something new with Peeps and use them to make smores. Graham crackers and chocolate bars were collected, as well as an assortment of Peeps. But since no one had access to a campfire in our downtown office, "someone" got the bright idea to try heating the Peep smores up in the microwave. An important lesson was learned that day...marshmallow Peeps WILL explode in a microwave!! (File THAT little tidbit of information in your important trivia files.)

There is even a tradition this time of year held here in Seattle...it's called the Peep Art Show/Competition. If you look closely at the photo above, you WILL be appalled to see Peeps have been substituted as disciples in Leonardo da'Vinci's "The Last Supper"...or maybe you WON'T be offended?

Maybe you, like me, will find humor in the political "incorrectness" and sarcasm of the photo and get back to the grass roots of what is REALLY important to remember and to celebrate during this Easter/Passover season. You DO recall what this is, don't you? Good...now let's all take a moment of silence together and pause to remember the Easter Bunny...LOL

Peep out, my peeps...