#4: how i failed to cure the mo-mo blues

usually i wake up on monday mornings filled with all sorts of emotions. on monday mornings,  i wake up feeling like a swamp-water slushie - of emotion (americans: a swamp-water slushie combines all available flavours. even the ones you don't fancy, like lemon.. blech). a lot of people get the 'mo-mo blues', and so i decided that i was going to be the first to find a cure. eventually i stopped perplexing myself, with flavours and emotions, and decided to get on with my research.. wait-a-minute. you know what? blueberry isn't a good flavour either. it just isn't. i think blueberries are the weirdo cousin of the berry family. no one wants to include them, but you have to - because they're family. i  even bet blueberries  would try and convince cranberries to make out in the closet,...

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#3: how to love your own blog

blogging: it's been a massive revelation. i had no idea of the amount of information and ideas floating about the webernet (via blogs). there are millions of blogs. blogs about any and everything. not that i didn't know that, but now i'm realizing it. i feel so overwhelmed thinking about where my blog stands in all of it. but before you change the channel, because i've thoroughly depressed you already, i promise it will all end on the up and up. i don't think that my blog's content sucks, or that i'm a bad writer, but i don't think that my content has a real purpose. i don't want people to be amused for 1 minute and forget about my blog by the next. i want it to be a water-cooler conversation starter. i want it to be interesting enough to be forwarded or tweeted or digg'd or shared on...

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#2: the revolving identities of readrue.blogspot

i know, i know. there's been a lot of changes to the blog in recent days. but i really feel like i want to make this blog a success. i want it to be relate-able, read-able, and just plain humorous. the blog and its layout are going to keep changing. it's pubescent right now; till it finds its own-true identity. ergo, let me explain why it keeps changing. first: i don't think anyone really wants to read about a normal life, more than once. just like no one wants to sneeze more than once. it gets lame. second: my wife is beginning to lose her will to live because of having to hear repeatedly that i hate *example-of-complaint*. and i don't want her to die of anything else besides old-age. hence, a blog. third: and most important. i always wanted to be a superhero. if i can help someone cope...

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#1: how i can't just eat healthy

brown rice has been thwarting my attempts, all week long, to establish a healthy eating regiment. how hard has it been? ..ever try to balance yourself on your own face? that's how hard it has been. that is also, what she said. in retrospect, i don't actually feel that cooking b.rice is a big deal. i'm just surprised at the level-of-diffculty re: healthy eating. sometimes it's gross to just imagine eating healthily. case and point: eggplant.. it sounds disgusting and probably tastes just as much. but healthy? ..it probably is. i would rather eat myself than eat an eggplant. and in another attempt, i turned to my iPhone for help. 'lose-it' is an app that is supposed to help me record and track my 'goals', in order to encourage my healthy foray. but so far, it's just managed to depress me....

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