6 Nick Claussen blog posts are equal to 24 regular posts!
Reading over the news recently, I kept coming across articles about how beet juice is apparently a key ingredient for staying young.
As someone who is getting older, I thought that I better investigate these bewildering beets bulletins before I forgot what I was thinking about. Continue reading “Drinking beet juice may be the key to staying young! I think I would rather just grow old”
I talk to myself a lot.
Usually this is a positive because of all of the interesting things I have to say, but every once in a while it leads to some problems. Continue reading “Confessions of someone who talks to himself too much”
As the youngest child in my family while growing up, I often tried to prove myself to my siblings and parents.
Now that I am older and more mature, that trait has only grown stronger and I still find myself taking on various challenges to impress them.
So when I heard recently that a pine tree had blown down in my mom’s yard, I knew that I would need to be the one to remove it. My sister suggested getting someone to cut it up and take away the wood, but I was confident that I could just drag the tree back into the woods. Continue reading “Life lesson 17: Trying to impress people often leads to pain that is slow to wane”
It’s spring and I’m excited about getting outside and getting back into shape!
The weather is beautiful, it feels great to be outside and I have no reason not to jog and exercise more often.
Well, work is a pretty good excuse. It’s been busy lately and I have been tired after some long days. I’m too tired to exercise. Continue reading “It’s time to get outside and exercise! Or is it?”
While I love grocery stores and talk about them way too much, there are also several things about them that annoy me. Here are a few of these items:
What do we call them? – Is it a supermarket, market, grocery store or some other name? Supercenter? Hypermarket? I looked up a few definitions and found that I rarely shop at a grocery store, since those businesses officially only sell food items, while supermarkets sell food and other items. A hypermarket, by the way, combines supermarkets and department stores into one fabulous store that makes you feel hyper because there are too many people around, you can’t find anything (including the family members you came in with) and you don’t remember where you parked.
Paper towels that advertise you are buying “Like 8” rolls when you are only purchasing 6 thick rolls – It’s not “like 8” rolls. It’s 6 rolls! Recently, and I swear this is true, I bought a package of 6 paper towel rolls that are usually ”like 8,” but it had a large “BONUS ROLL” label on it because somehow it was “like 9”, when it was still only 6 rolls. I hate this new math. If I am going to pay for “Like 8” or “Like 9” paper towel rolls, I think I should be able to pay “Like full price.” Continue reading “How are 6 paper towels like 9? Things that annoy me in grocery stores”
It’s funny the impact that someone can make on your life, often without even knowing it.
The grocery store is a great example of this because it’s a place where you are constantly interacting with people you don’t know while you are simultaneously avoiding people you do know because you look terrible (at least that seems to happen to me a lot). Continue reading “Friendly grocery store clerks can make your whole day”
While I usually try to say out of politics, I feel I must announce that President Obama has obviously wiretapped my phone, too.
Believe me, I’m as shocked as you are, but the evidence is easily the greatest evidence in the history of the world and it all points directly at the former President.
Why would he do this? What evil plot is he involved with here? Continue reading “President Obama has been wiretapping my phone, too!”
When people think of important inventions of the last few decades, they usually think of things like computers, cell phones, the internet and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
While those items are certainly noteworthy, I feel several others had least as large, if not larger, of an effect on our daily lives. Sadly, though, they are often overlooked. Continue reading “Top Five Great Inventions that Changed The World Without Much Attention”
With spring almost here, many young people around the country will soon be applying for jobs.
Lots of people tell job seekers what to say in an interview and how to act, but I’ve found that most people just want to know what not to say or do. Continue reading “Wrong things to say in a job interview”
In order to celebrate Presidents’ Day, here are a few interesting (to me at least) items about our past leaders. Continue reading “A day to honor leaders who had 15 kids, got pulled over for speeding on horses and still gave speeches even after being shot”
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