Cereals. Or for that matter, just about any product you care to use, but I’m staying with cereals.
“What the hell do cereals have to do with blogging?” you ask.
Well, first off, let me take this opportunity to place a helpful reminder that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It kick-starts your body and gives it a little fuel to get all systems up to proper speed. And no, I’m not employed by any cereal manufacturer. The mere thought is entirely laughable if you knew of my actual employer. I can’t even begin to conjure any parallels.
Enough of that nonsense. See, you look up and down the cereal aisle at your local grocer and you’ll see a staggering array of dry goods. The most expensive, typically, will be at eye level, while most of the less costly are either above or below a certain height. In many cases, the generic or store brand is every bit as good as the brand name. So what’s the difference?
Packaging.
Some people are like the Wheaties box, go-getters, active, champions of all they survey!
Others, assuredly, are Fruit Loops, or Freakies.
The more optimistic among us would be Cheerios.
Let’s not forget the Frosted Flakes, Apple Jacks, or Special K’s out there.
I truly haven’t given the least consideration to which cereal I am. If you care to take a nip at it, tell me, I’m game.
My point is, we’re all different. Having said that, I can’t possibly enumerate how many blogs ‘About’ pages I’ve read and many of them begin to bleed together, laundry lists of qualities (or ingredients) that make up their particular bowl of morning goodness.
Sometimes I’m oatmeal. Others I’m Cap’n Crunch. I’ll occassionally run the gamut from Cocoa Puffs to Frosted Mini-Wheats. Throw in a dash of old school Count Chocula or new Honey Nut Chex and you may think you start to have an idea of the kind of person I am. But I will very often buy the generics. Pour that in your bowl and eat it!
Now I’ve burned somewhere in the neighborhood of roughly sixty seconds of your life, which you’ll never get back, and you still know very little about me. Sorry about that.
For a much better About snapshot, read through some (or all) of my posts—as time permits, of course. Then, if you’re still curious, visit my tidy little website. My book, The Light, The Dark, and Ember Between, is yet another perspective. All short stories, and hopefully, all entertaining.
So, you can go back to your coffee and donut . . . or, take in a satisfying bowl of your favorite cereal ;^)
Photo by Bill Darby – “The Photographer”
Thanks for the comments!
Ha, I don’t even HAVE an about page. But I like the kind of cereals that have a variety of flakes, fruits, and nuts.
I don’t eat breakfast. I think it’s more of a Brunch that I prefer. Perhaps if I had nowhere to be at an early specific time I would sit down and have breakfast, but even then I don’t think I can even muster up the energy. The task of brewing coffee is enough for me.
But then when no one is looking at work at somewhere between 10:00 and 10:30am, you’ll hear a wrapper rustling from my area and it’ll be me eating a Rice Krispie treat or oatmeal creme cake. Then I get mad at myself at lunch time because then I am not hungry for lunch.
Perhaps I should start eating breakfast so I could avoid that routine, but I am just not a cereal person, and actually not a milk person either.
I think it was the forced glasses of milk at dinnertime. So I did that for the first 12 years of my life and rarely touched the stuff again unless it was chocolate.
So there’s my About me and breakfast, that was fun, wasn’t it? And I definitely agree about the Packaging, that’s what almost everything is about these days if you think about it.
oh — Wheaties made me throw up when I was kid. No joke. Before school I would be seriously be vomiting, because again, breakfast was forced on me. Forgot about that. No wonder I don’t force anything on my kids anymore.
Love it! And as a former Kellogg, I wish I would have thought of this first!
love it!
I’m thinking Post Toasties!
My favorite cereal is Honey Post or something like that. You know, I just can’t stop thinking about it and choosing it and eating it but it is so sweet but it always has so little in it so I have to buy more and more. Ah, sorry, cool blog, I’ve been reading about it and I like it.
Thanks for stopping by, Eric!