April is National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month.  Mmm… grilled cheese sammiches!  Gooey cheesiness on the inside, yet slighty crispy on the outside.  In addition to butter and cheese, you can put Miracle Whip inside it, too, which gives it a little extra tanginess.  Good stuff.

I realize this isn’t the healthiest of meals, and many people are trying to watch their weight by not eating stuff like this.  But it’s a national holiday, so you have to eat it.  At least eat one this month…  If you don’t, it’s just not patriotic… well, it’s at least doing a dishonor to grilled cheese sandwiches if you intentionally neglect the holiday.  You don’t want to be dishonorable, do you?

FYI, you can make these in a waffle iron, which does a pretty good job.  We did this a lot in the college years.  And Cheetos go well with it.  And sweet tea is the beverage of choice.  (For some reason I’m getting hungry…)

According to a new study by the National Academy of Sciences, chimpanzee genes have evolved more than human genes since they split about 6 million years ago.  First of all, this is stupid because we didn’t evolve from chimps nor from primordial ooze.  Second, this is stupid because even if evolution were true, how can someone think chimps have evolved more than humans?  We (humans) are obviously smarter.

Let the ranting begin…

Information has recently come to light revealing that slobs may actually be MORE productive than their more ‘organized’ counterparts.   A new book entitled “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder” makes this groundbreaking claim.

 In the book they argue that “neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and squashes creativity.  They make some really good points in the article… like neatness is expensive! 

“People who are really, really neat, between what it takes to be really neat at the office and at home, typically will spend anywhere from an hour to four hours a day just organizing and neatening” also “Hunting through messy piles has it’s value… You discover things that, if you had filed things or containerized them or purged them, you would never have seen them again.  It becomes a natural reminder system”

Someone showed me this excerpt from an e-mail health newsletter, which doesn’t really add up, in my opinion.  Look at here:

I began studying exercise physiology and the mechanics of how a fat cell really deals with burning.  I found that a fat cell is really just a storage center for potential energy in a solid form.  That’s right, you really don’t have fat, you have POTENTIAL ENERGY.  Now doesn’t that sound better?

My research* has shown that having an abundance of fat cells gives me less energy.  And when I do exercise and get to the point of burning fat, it makes me even more tired!  Where’s all that potential energy?  I think the health expert is full of POTENTIAL CRAP.

I wonder if the writer of that got his degree at one of those non-accredited universities…

* I eat a lot.