Five years ago today...

Since my mother died... I miss you mommy!

since you've been gone (Dear Mother...)

five years have passed (doesn't seem possible)
i've moved (but just once!)
i rescued a cat (she's all white-- like Bruno)
i've fallen in love (yes... with a woman)
i came out to Dad (said he was neither disappointed nor surprised)
i've quit smoking (again)
my grey hairs have increased (as have my wrinkles)
Ted lost his job (several times over)
and he's living back with Gram and Dad (much to their dismay)
Grampa B. passed on (have you run into him in Heaven?)
rainbows and sunsets have special meaning to me now ('paint the sky pretty colors for me')
i notice alot of things I didn't notice before (and see a piece of you in everything)
things i thought were important aren't now (and things that weren't, are)
i still see you in my dreams (a couple times a month)
I realize now how much I loved you (and how much you loved me, too)

Channel 4 - The Worst Jobs in History - Career guide

Channel 4 - The Worst Jobs in History - Career guide: A career interest test, of sorts... with results being from the crappiest (sometimes literally) jobs in history. Here's what the test revealed about me--
"70 to 100 You’re bold as brass and brave as a lion, but not such a messy pup. You might be prepared to cope with being an Arming squire with its potential for you becoming a knight, but you’re actually ideally suited to some of the high-risk worst jobs such as Topman, Powder monkey, fish-fingered Viking sailor/warrior, outnumbered Riding officer, Petardier's assistant or even Guillemot-egg collector."

Vitamin Z

Trapped... in the insanity that is mine
Running for cover from my own thoughts
Dodging bullets of negativity
My only armor a little yellow pill
That I affectionately call...
"Vitamin Z".

First Lines

Some years ago, John Yarbrough was working patrol for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

This month, we showcase the work of Luis Torres.

Do you have a LightScribe drive and LightScribe media?

Anyone who has made an invention can apply for a patent.

Eating pussy can be one of the most wonderful things you can do for a woman (or so I read on the cover of Cosmo).

“Old school.” There’s something about that term that sums up what’s great about the classic ’70s and ’80s funk and soul jams.

This new database charts conservatives' dishonesty and compares it with the truth.

Is everything people do ulitimately driven by how it makes them feel about themselves? If so, doesn't that make everyone selfish on some level?

For over 10 years,
ADA Tactile Systems has been on the leading edge of the design, manufacturing and installation of detectable warning systems.

This is not a normal diet book, and I am not a normal diet book author.


Frameless Rendering (FR) is a rendering paradigm which performs stochastic temporal filtering by updating pixels in a random order, based on most recent available input data, and displaying them to the screen immediately [1].

Advertisers' exploitation of captive audiences is on the rise.

This guide teaches how to give and receive erotic massage.

Alter Ego

Alter Ego
I had a lot of fun with this game. You get to relive your life from birth to death. It can take a while to complete the game, but your place will be automatically saved for you to come back to and continue.
As things worked out for me, I graduated from college with a degree in Engineering, but wound up with a job in business, after holding several part-time jobs and long periods of unemployment. It took me awhile to find a stable relationship and did not get married until late-adulthood. Also did not have child until late adult-hood (adopted it, as I'd already begun menopause)... and didn't get to name the child until I had reached old age...lol. Overall, my health through most of my life was not so great, and infact, I was heathier in old-age than I was in youth. My husband died from a fall, and I eventually died in my sleep, our child still a baby.

Typo Generation

For those who don't know...

This is a cheese box.

Why 'The Cheese Box'?

Well, when I was a kid, my mom used to keep a cheese box under her bed in which she would have all of the poetry and such that she'd written. I always tried to get to the cheese box so I could read the contents, but my mother would catch me and tell me I wasn't allowed to read it until I was older. When I grew older, my mother changed her story and said I couldn't read it until she was dead. She died in May of 2000, and I now have her cheese box and have thoroughly enjoyed going through her writings. So I decided to name my blog in honor of my mother and her cheese box.