6 Nick Claussen blog posts are equal to 24 regular posts!
One great thing about getting older is that you can just refuse to do things.
It is an interesting power that you first wield as infant and small child, lose throughout much of your childhood and then slowly regain as you get older. Continue reading “Top Five Perfectly Normal Things That I Refuse To Do”
Ok, so I was was too busy at work last week and never had the opportunity to put together a good post.
“Now Nick, when do you ever put together a good post?” you may be saying to yourself.
I would agree, but would add that I didn’t even have time to write a post that I liked very much. I ended up working late every day and then traveling on the weekend, so here I am getting some posts ready tonight.
By not posting for a week, though, I realized a few things about blogging that I thought I would share here. Continue reading “A week away from blogging”
Often when I walk by people I know and say “Hello,” they say something like, “How are you?”, “How ya doing?” or “You have something in your teeth.”
I am never sure if “How are you?” means the same thing as “Hello” in this context or not, so I usually say “I’m good. How are you?” They, of course, usually don’t reply because they are too far away from me by then or because they didn’t want to have a whole conversation with me in the first place.
The fact is, though, that they are the ones who asked the question, so I feel it is my duty to reply. But while my answer is always “I’m good. How are you?” there are plenty of other responses I would prefer to give. Continue reading “Top Five Answers to ‘How are You?’”
So the other day, I was driving home after long day of work, and I was feeling pretty good about myself.
As I pulled into a busy drive-thru restaurant to get some quick food and frozen treats, I thought about how I would likely be treated as a hero when I arrived home. The restaurant had a long line, but I didn’t mind that I would have to wait. Continue reading “A drive-thru adventure: Hold the pickles and my stupidity”
Eating can be enjoyable, but there is an awful lot of thinking that goes into it.
I am constantly discovering new worries, questions and epiphanies while eating, so I thought I would write about a few of them here to see if anyone shared these deep and often stupid thoughts. Continue reading “‘How did I get two forks?’ and other thoughts that go through your head while eating”
It was a dark and scary Halloween night, and I was in my backyard when a cool wind blew and sent a shiver down my back.
“This just feels wrong,” I thought to myself. “Why didn’t I wear a shirt? It’s freezing out here.”
I went back inside and put on a shirt and then looked at the time. It was getting close to trick-or-treat time and I needed to prepare to hand out candy to the neighborhood children. Continue reading “Trick or Tweet: A Halloween story”
All of us have our own personal unwritten rules that we follow every day.
For example, when getting dressed, I must put a sock on my left foot, sock on my right foot, then shoe on my left foot and shoe on my right foot. It just feels correct.
I have heard there are some societies where people put a sock on one foot and then a shoe, and then repeat the process on the other foot. I’m not sure how they can live like this because it seems uncomfortable and also unfair to the second foot. Continue reading “What personal unwritten rules do you follow?”
While many people take the word “take” for granted, it is a surprisingly complex and confusing word that requires you to take great care.
For example, did you know that take is both a verb and a noun?
Did you also know that people constantly are using the word incorrectly?
And finally, can you believe that most people don’t thank me when I correct them?
All in all, these discussions require a lot of give-and-take, so I will give you my take on take. Continue reading “You can take your take anywhere, but you can’t take it here”
My wife and stepdaughter went shopping the other day, and it ended up causing more work and stress for me.
I know what you’re thinking, “But Nick, you already do so much every day and, frankly, you are a hero. How could you do any extra work?”
While I like the way you think and hope you can with talk to my family members and coworkers, I feel I should explain.
After they returned home, my stepdaughter was quite excited about some of her clothes and had plans to wear a new shirt the next day. When she got the shirt out to try it on, though, she found that the store that was an hour away had left one of those terrible anti-theft devices on it. Continue reading “Is it normal to feel guilty about shoplifting when you’re not actually stealing anything?”
Like many people, I eat food nearly every day. While eating, though, I am often annoyed by foods that taste delicious but cause too many problems.
In order to address this situation, our judges have compiled the Top 5 Annoying Foods. First a few annoying honorable mentions: Continue reading “Top 5 Annoying Foods”
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