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Human beings are not contented on what they have now. For one reason, change is the only constant thing and it supports the theory that human beings can’t be satisfied with what they have. They will always find something new to improve and simplify their lifestyle.

When you want to make things easier, you need to buy something, like a calculator to solve your math problems or an automobile, if you do not want to walk to wherever you are going. That is not always the case because sometimes, what you need has not been invented just yet. You might be the only one who thought of it and I say, you go ahead and invent a contraption to make human lives here on earth easier.

After you’ve done and created your master piece and finished your invention to its details, the next step would be to file a patent so it could not be stolen. It is like a copyright that, whoever does the same contraption and purpose it can do, the first one who will file a patent will always win.

Below are some Patented inventions that I am sure you will lay your eyes on for the first time in your life.

1.    A Cross USB Device – Nice gift for those religious relatives of yours. They can wear it as their necklace, put it in substitute for their rosaries or maybe, drive away evil? Who knows? What matters here is, you know that “Jesus Saves”.

2.    Anti-eating face mask- I hope you are not one of the few million Americans who suffer from obesity because of all the fast foods from every corner of America are constantly tempting us? Worry no more because this device will surely make your eating habits long-be-gone! The said device will not interfere with your speech nor interfere with your breathing. In fact, this will help you reduce the germ intake you get when breathing through your mouth. Does it remind you of your neighbors’ vicious biting dog?

3.    Bird catcher/ cat feeder – Are you one of them Garfield lovers? This will make your cat feast on live “poultry” from time to time! We, humans love to eat live cooked fish, fresh vegetables, and everything else new. Cats, might feel the same and this should make them feel special. “I thought I saw a puddy tat.”

4.    Coition chair- sounds familiar? Solves a familiar problem? It sure does! This will make sure that you do your deeds and concentrate well without ever thinking of falling around and resetting. One of the most nicest patents I’ve ever seen if you ask me.

5.    Human Car wash – all of us need bathing and those who do not agree with me, well, I am sure nobody is around you now. Have you ever imagined how to make life easier by making a automatic bathing machine? It would save lots of time! Just stand there and wait until you are clean. This invention also eliminates slipping and tumbling around the shower. The “user” first enters the wetting station, then the soapy/ shampoo section. After that, you will be brought to the rinsing station and at the end, you won’t need to wash bulky towels anymore because there would be a blow drying station! You can now concentrate singing the song in you wanted to finish while taking a shower!

Those people who filed the patents above helped the world one way or another. How are you helping the world satisfy their urges?

We all know now that California has officially approved of same-sex marriages. And the first person who have taken advantage of this unprecedented news was Ellen Degeneres. She announced the day after that she is about to marry her girlfriend, actress Portia de Rossi.

I am a fan of Ellen and I totally respect her sexual preferences. Her ability to entertain people is not fully determined by her gender. So, after her so-public announcement of her engagement, she featured Sen. John McCain, who is publicly know to have a different take on same-sex marriage and even jokingly asked if the Republican presidential nominee can walk her down the aisle.

And Ellen’s political stance didn’t end there. She next invited First lady Laura Bush and Jenna, who just got married to her show and again jokingly asked if she can get married on the Bush ranch.

The first lady was just nodding and I can’t seem to read Jenna’s reaction. But I got the vibe that she wasn’t comfortable with it.

I’m imagining right now in my head Ellen and Portia in the Bush ranch with John McCain standing in the rows. I know that shouldn’t be taken seriously, but then, it’s one of those fantasies that gives a smile on one’s face.

The office grind, the rat race, the proverbial ride at the elevator. The last thing you need is slip off the ladder. But unfortunately, stress isn’t just around the corner of your office corridors. Heck, it’s not looming around, it’s badgering us constantly.

In 2002, the U.S. Court of Appeals said that employers are NOT liable for causing stress, although they may be liable for ill health caused by stress. My reaction to this, maybe they are the boss themselves and have never experienced making cups of coffee for themselves.

But, bottom line, why let it get to you? Beat it while you’re still ahead and on tip-top shape- yes, right behind your office desk.

1. Do desk-side yoga. In between heartburn episodes which is a result of stress, try squeezing in a half-a-minute yoga poses.

Try the Monolith of Mastery stance by Diana Fairechild. Stand with hands clasped over your head, and then stretch side to side while tensing your abdomen.

Or go for the Kick-back,Log-on pose. Put your hands fingers laced, behind your head, and then stretch while taking deep breaths. Do this while smiling. You’ll see also see grins and sneers from your officemates in the process, but hey, to each his own.

2. Get an aromatherapy set. Get one that does not require lighting a flame to heat the oils or you’ll be sacked by triggering the sprinklers. You can drop some aromatic oils into a pot or cup pf steaming water. The fragrances will run up your nose and soothe your stress away.

3. Go for quickie massages. You can get one during an errand or even at lunch hour. More and more people have been getting into massaging classes ( of all sorts - but enroll in a class where you have your clothes still on). Or give yourself mini-massage. Rub your shoulders and neck. Knead your thighs. Get a stress ball to squeeze.

4. Visualize, visualize, visualize. When the day’s to-do list is driving you more nuts instead of keeping you together, close your eyes, breathe, and go on a mental trip to a deserted beach.

5. Keep your Ipod’s volume level at a moderate level. Sometimes, you’re the one who causes the stresses to yourself. Stress is caused by restlessness and a noisy environment. Much more when it it attached to your ears. So, keep it down, even if you’re the only one who can hear it.

Through these suggested steps, you need not to go on an expensive spa to relax.

Coffee is usually associated with breakfast. It is part of an everyday meal for some who are addicted to caffeine even without them noticing that they are already addicted to it.
The word itself makes you think of royal intrigue in exotic land because coffee has a romantically deep past which leans toward mystery and adventure.

In the Spice Islands, it is called Java. Portuguese traders called it café. Arab explorer named it Gahwah. In most countries today, even those mentioned above, it is known as coffee. I hope you do not call your coffee drink as Starbucks.  It was first utilized for spiritual reasons by the Muslim monks. Arabians on the other hand used the pulps of fermented coffee beans to make wine.

It also has the following “IMPORTANT” benefits:

Increases female libido and sperm mobility
A Brazilian study showed that coffee intake makes the sperm more mobile. Aside from being a baby making aid, it also shows that coffee drinkers enjoy sex until their late years. In women, they administered caffeine in female rats (sorry for the disgusting example, but rats are the living thing they use to test drugs for cause and effects.) and it took them less time to go back to their mates because they were somewhat excited, to that effect.

Maintains alertness and activeness
Since most of us work like slaves, working the hours off the night, we need coffee to stay awake. Caffeine will give you a “nitrous” boost effect in our blood sugar level by releasing adrenaline. It will now mix produce glucose that will make our muscles work on the double. A warning though: If you raised your adrenaline by drinking coffee but your work entails you to minimal movement, those glucose will now be converted to fat.

So, now you know why people should drink coffee not only in the morning, but also, at night. There is no hard evidence but if you tell your partner that it has that effect, it might affect them psychologically and you might enjoy after all.

Let’s face it, having kids is like living in a roller coaster of emotions. When one has a kid or a couple of them, one learns to be a Jack-of-all-trades and all the untapped potential are being tapped just to make things better for the children. Take for example my next-door neighbor, she was never a singer, well she actually hates it. But when she had a baby, I can hear her singing all kinds of sleep-inducing impromptu lyrics just to make her baby boy stop crying. And to add to her new found skills is to market the veggies to her now 3 year old baby boy. Sometimes, she would knock on my door to get help to make Simon eat his brocolli.

Thing is, I see myself in Simon. See the present tense there? Like him, I don’t like vegetables, no matter how aesthetically pleasing or nutritionally gifted they are. But with age comes regrettable wisdom, I regret that I wasn’t able to appreciate how my dad patiently asked me to eat even just two spoonfuls of brocolli.

And so, my neighbor, being the Jack that she is, is finding more creative and child-friendly ways to make her son appreciate and love eating those food he doesn’t want to chew.

So, have come up with a few tips on how to make those picky eaters not be so picky anymore.

1. Keep the food servings small. A child’s stomach is approximately the size of his fists. So, avoid making them eat more than what they can store.

2. Dip it. Children find dunking foods - and their fingers- in a tasty dip pure fun. Try cottage cheese dips, cream cheese, fruit preserves, guacamole, peanut butter, yogurt or pureed fruits or vegetables.

3. Serve the food on a nibble tray. Offering them a variety of goodies every meal time will make them feel that they have choices and are not confined to one single food. Hey, everyone wants to have options as much as possible, even the toddlers.

4. Feed them in a child-size table and chair. Their choosy behavior may not be because of the food but because of where they eat. Well, it’s because their feet dangle when they are seated in their high chair in front of the family table.

5. Sprinkle their food with colorful toppings. A new or less-desirable food with one of their favorites will help disguise the former and is a way to broaden the finicky eater’s diet.

I’m sure you have a lot of ways to make the tots eat the food we ourselves avoided when we have kids. You always mumble, ” Where did I go wrong?”, and it’s really not about you, but it’s because they are always on the go, unable to sit still for anything. Snacking their way through the day may seem unthinkable at first, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Welcome to my new domain!  Life has been pretty stressful but there are still good things that did happen and this is one of them.

The same rants and sensible thoughts and information will be continued in this new home.  New things always have positive effects.

While work is already an essential part of our daily lives to struggle for the betterment of everyone we are supporting, we should also understand that too much work would not just harm us but, it would also decline everything else. Workaholics tend to be depressed because they lack social life, they seem to be to preoccupied with work that they are neglecting their priorities in life like their family because they are so busy climbing up the corporate ladder and, they tend to eat unhealthy foods because they need “fast” foods to save more time to do more work.

It is understandable that without our daily work, we would live like those beggars asking for food in sidewalks or worst, like those lurking behind dark alleys waiting to pounce over any weak unsuspecting victims. But, we should not make work our reason on why we are neglecting our health. Remember, living a healthy lifestyle can be achieved even when we are at our busiest time of the week. Here are some tips where you can squeeze in exercise to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It is like going to the gym and office at the same time.

1. Take the stairs – Who said going up the Empire State would be a sweat trip? Do that once in a while. Use the stairs. It would be good for your health. If you are in a hurry because you have a meeting, run! That would be a much better exercise. You have to run a little bit faster though because you need to retouch when you reach your floor.

2. Do leg extensions. Extend your right leg until it is level with your hip. Hold as long as you are comfortable and then relax it.

Walk as fast as you ca without actually running. Another way to do it is Lunging. While walking, take the widest gap of steps you can step and lunge forward. Just remember not to look crazy when lunging.

3. Drop your chin and roll your neck while you’re in a meeting. Bend your neck from side to side. A warning though. Try not to attract attention from your colleagues and your boss.

4. Roll your shoulders back and forth while rolling your ankle one by one several times when in the bathroom. Who said going to bathrooms can’t be productive?

5. Every time you chew, chew widely. Chew slowly and move your jaws in stretches. This way, you get to enjoy your food while having jaw exercises.

6. Stretch in bed. Not the one you are thinking,you naughty thinker. Sex is also an exercise but it should not be done in the office or any other parts of the office. It is recommended to do it at a secure place like home. Note, in your own home. If you do it in other’s home, then you might get more exercise than you need like, running naked around your neighborhood.

You do not need exercise equipments to exercise. Determination and a trained mindset is all you need. It is a must to work for us to survive but what good is our money if we do not have health to use our hard earned big bucks when we retire? It is just like working so you have enough money to pay your own hospitalization. Why bother working then?