Appetizer or Afterbirth?

Quote of the day: Are you looking up Placenta recipes again?

Something absolutely digusting transpired yesterday and bled over (no pun intended) into this morning. I was reading my Yahoo! news articles that are e-mailed to me everyday, when I came across an article that stated Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had their baby. Whatever, I thought. When my officemate came over and said that she saw an article where Tom Cruise said he was gonna eat the afterbirth, I absolutely did not believe this and was completely chilled to the bone at the notion of someone doing this.

Later in the afternoon, I mentioned this to another co-worker and she said that she has heard of people burying it, but not eating it. With peaked curiousity about Scientology practices and the thought of how odd Tom Cruise has acted for the media lately, we decided to go to a scientology website and find out if they really do this. They don't, but we made an error in judgment and typed 'placenta eat' into Google. All of our remaining innocence was lost. Not only do people in this modern society bury their placentas (which has some symbolic meaning at least-- and is only kind of gross), there are instructions on placenta art (framing the placenta itself or using it as a paintbrush--the instructions included steps for wiping off the blood and adding paint or just painting with the blood RETCH!!!), and finally there were MANY dining options. Oh yes, not only do people eat this; there are recipes for Placenta Lasagna, Placenta Stew, Placenta cocktail (I swear to God that step 1 was "Grind up Placenta"). There were pictures and an anecdote of a British television cooking program that televised a woman cooking her newly born child's placenta into 'Placenta Patee'--followed by her husband having seventeen helpings! I do NOT recommend anyone performing a search like this EVER... so many, many reasons why.

Anyway, the bottom line is that Scientologists as a group do not do this and I found no accurate source that Tom Cruise is planning on doing this, but there are plenty of people that ARE doing this. Apparently, it is okay to ask for a doggie bag in the maternity ward!

Who knew.

Is Hard Work Really Worth it?

Before I comment on my initial thought that prompted this meandering of my mind, I must comment on another instance of the ridiculousness of the general public. I decided, since this is my first post on my blog, that I would insert an image to familiarize myself with the different inner-workings of posting. With little thought of what I wanted or how I wanted it to look, I set out to find an image that would in some way relate to hard work. I opened a web browser (Yahoo! is my Homepage), saw that I could search only images, typed 'hard work' and then I hit enter. Horrified barely describes my state of mind- Thousands of GP's (see below) have taken random pictures of themselves and people they know doing nothing (sleeping, resting, NOT working) and labeled the images things like "Grandpa Hard at Work" or "Working Hard". Are we, as a civilization, really so simple-minded that this is the best attempt at humor that we can come up with? My God, I had to go to the fiftieth or sixtieth image to even find one that related to work at all! Seriously, anyone that finds that funny and is over the age of eight should definitely NOT be posting on this blog...EVER. I will recognize that it is ironic (by definition), but not funny, and certainly not funny enough to post on-line.

NOTE: I am now coining the expression GP to mean people that I associate with the General Public. These are the people that I euphamistically despise because their overwhelming numbers are the root cause of all problems ever. This may not be rational or even make sense, but I must direct my disdain towards someone, so this segment of the population that exists in my brain will feel the wrath of my angst. I mostly believe that GP's were sent to Earth to annoy me and anyone who understands what I am saying knows what a GP is. These are people that, because of their actions, cause me to have stress or make me witness or think about something that is a waste of my time and/or brain cells. (This pisses me off mostly because I highly value my brain cells)

Anyway, the picture I chose is an artists' expression of hard work. I enjoy the emotional response viewing the piece gives me. The title of the painting is 'Hard Work', by Florian Ludovick. Ergo, it fits my topic. I began typing this post to express my hatred towards my job right now, but I feel this is a better first post because it expresses my viewpoint better and also it relates to the theme of my blog . Don't despair though, I really hate my job and you will definitely find out why if you keep reading.

P.S.- I feel this deserves a quick explantion, only to save me the trouble of having to explain it later. If anyone stumbled into my blog because they were searching on the word bible for religious reasons- I don't apologize. Bible is my last name. I did not ask for it, I did not change it, and my beliefs are my business. In time maybe I will express them here, maybe I won't. All I know is that I have the right to use my name in my blog address so if anybody is offended by what I write, it probably means you are a GP and are not welcome here anyway. I am cynical as hell and too smart for my own good so please take what I say with a grain of salt and have fun, life's too short. Til next time!