Friday, April 26, 2013

Funny Joke


Thought you guys might need a laugh!

A man and a friend are playing golf one day at their local golf course. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap, closes his eyes, and bows down in prayer.

His friend says: “Wow, that is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen. You truly are a kind man.”

The man then replies: “Yeah, well we were married 35 years.” 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Hello again!

I just wanted to let all my readers know that I am alive and well! I know that it has been a while since my last post. So much has happened in my life these past couple of years that I haven't had a chance to update on here.
So here are some newbies:
1) I am now a mother! Never thought it would be, but it has happened.
2) I left my job to be a mother. Since the last post, I did switch jobs and I left it.
3) I am enjoying life more than ever now. It is a challenge to be a full time parent, but it's very rewarding too.
Those are a few of the new things going on in my life. I am hoping I can continue coming on a writing. I know I have made promises before, so I don't want to promise. But I will try to keep posting, even if its a joke of the day! Happy return!

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dedication

I want to dedicate this post to all those people who have lost their homes and loved ones in Joplin, MO. My prayers go out to all of those people that have lost everything they have worked for and I wish for them that they will recover from this disaster. Please join me in saying a prayer.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Save some $$$

Alrighty peeps...we are all always looking to find a bargain..at least I do.  So when I stumbled upon this website (http://content.kiplinger.com/tools/slideshows/slideshow_pop.html?nm=freebies_2010) I thought it had some pretty great ideas. So read up and check it out and find out how you can save some cash!!!!

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Fun & Interesting Facts





Just in case all of you have nothing to do today...I have found a website that listed some interesting facts ( I especially enjoyed the very last one)...please go ahead and enjoy yourselves!!!!

Interesting Facts

For Your Warehouse of Useless Knowledge

1. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
2. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
4. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
6. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
7. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
8. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
9. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
10. 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
11. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
12. 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
13. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
14. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
15. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
16. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
17. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
18. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
19. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
20. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
21. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
22. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
23. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
24. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
25. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
26. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
27. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
28. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
29. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
30. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
31. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
32. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
33. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
34. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
35. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
36. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
37. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
39. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
40. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
41. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
42. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
43. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
44. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
45. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
46. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
47. A whale's penis is called a dork.
48. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
49. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
50. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
51. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
52. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
53. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
54. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
55. All porcupines float in water.
56. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
57. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
58. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
59. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
60. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
61. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
62. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
63. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
64. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
65. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
66. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
67. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
68. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
69. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
70. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
71. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
72. Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
73. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
74. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
75. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
76. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
77. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
78. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
79. Bubble gum contains rubber.
80. Camel's milk does not curdle.
81. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
82. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
83. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
84. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
85. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
86. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
87. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
88. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
89. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
90. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
91. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
92. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
93. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
94. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
95. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
96. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
97. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
98. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
99. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
100. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
101. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
102. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
103. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
104. Every person has a unique tongue print.
105. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
106. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
107. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
108. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
109. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
110. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
111. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
112. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
113. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
114. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
115. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
116. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
117. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
118. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
119. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
120. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
121. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
122. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
123. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
124. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
125. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
126. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
127. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
128. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
129. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
130. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
131. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
132. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
133. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
134. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
135. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
136. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
137. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
138. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
139. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
140. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
141. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
142. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
143. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
144. In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
145. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
146. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
147. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
148. It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
149. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
150. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
151. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
152. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
153. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
154. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
155. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
156. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
157. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
158. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
159. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
160. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
161. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
162. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
163. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
164. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
165. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
166. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."
167. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
168. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
169. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
170. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
171. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
172. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
173. Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
174. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
175. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
176. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
177. Mosquitoes have teeth.
178. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
179. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
180. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
181. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
182. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
183. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
184. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
185. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
186. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
187. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
188. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
189. One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
190. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
191. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
192. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
193. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
194. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
195. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
196. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
197. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
198. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
199. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
200. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
201. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
202. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
203. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
204. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
205. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
206. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
207. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
208. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
209. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
210. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
211. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
212. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
213. Slugs have 4 noses.
214. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
215. Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
216. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
217. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
218. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
219. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
220. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
221. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
222. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
223. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
224. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
225. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
226. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
227. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
228. The average person laughs 15 times a day.
229. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
230. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
231. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
232. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
233. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
234. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
235. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
236. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
237. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
238. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
239. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
240. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
241. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
242. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
243. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
244. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
245. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
246. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
247. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
248. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
249. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
250. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
251. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
252. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
253. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
254. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
255. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
256. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
257. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
258. The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
259. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
260. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
261. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
262. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
263. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
264. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
265. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
266. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
267. The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
268. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
269. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
270. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
271. The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
272. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
273. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
274. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
275. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
276. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
277. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
278. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
279. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
280. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
281. The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
282. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
283. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
284. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
285. The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
286. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
287. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
288. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
289. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
290. The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
291. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
292. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
293. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
294. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
295. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
296. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
297. There are more chickens than people in the world.
298. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
299. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
300. There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
301. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
302. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
303. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
304. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
305. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
306. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
307. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
308. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
309. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
310. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
311. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
312. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
313. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
314. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
315. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
316. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
317. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
318. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
319. You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
320. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
321. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
322. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
323. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
324. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
325. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
326. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
327. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Found at: http://www.tealdragon.net/humor/facts/facts.htm

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Hello my dearie's

Well...I am not officially back yet, but I will say that I had some pretty interesting posts in the past. I have definitely been slacking off...I need to get myself back to work. :)

It has been wayyyyyyy too long since my last post. I will work on my next post soon, since what I promised you so long ago is no longer valid.

I will definitely get it going again!!!

Thanks for your patience while I gather myself! I forgot how fun it was to write!

Friday, June 19, 2009

I know, I know...


Please don't be upset my readers. There have been many changes going on in my life that have required my full attention. I promise that soon when things have settled down I will start my writing again. 2 things that will be coming up are:

1: Review of Undead and Unwelcome by MaryJanice Davidson

2: So You Think You Can Dance Reviews...Don't forget to watch and vote for Janette!!!
Alright...soon I will show you what's been taking up my time and what I have been up to.
Stay tuned...

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Upcoming Movie: Twilight

Ok...I know I've been a total Twilight freak, but I just wanted to let all of you know the movie will be in theaters November 21st. I am totally going to be there. So if anyone wants to join, well then come along. Here is the movie trailer and all of you should be expecting a review. Enjoy!

Overview
Director:
Catherine Hardwicke
Writers (WGA):Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay)Stephenie Meyer (novel)
Release Date:21 November 2008 (USA)
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Genre:
Action Horror Romance Thriller more
Tagline:When you can live forever what do you live for?
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Plot:A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.
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Additional Details
MPAA:Rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality.
Parents Guide:
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Runtime:120 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
USA:PG-13
Filming Locations:
218 Rim Drive, Washougal, Columbia River Gorge, Washington, USA more
Company:Imprint Entertainment more
Fun Stuff
Movie Connections:Followed by New Moon (2010)



Book Review: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer


Oh man...talk about a book you can't put down. Breaking Dawn was in one word: INCREDIBLE. Maybe I'm being bias, but this book was the perfect end to a great saga. I'm glad Meyer left it pretty open, in case she ever wants to write about Edward and Bella again.
This book took some surprising and unexpected turns. It was like the ending of an X-Men movie. So intense was the writing of Meyer for this one. I also felt as if she wrote for an adult audience as much as a young adult.

As I've said before, pick up this series. It's a great add for anyone's book collection.
Synopsis from inside cover
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both a fantasy and a nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice, to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life, has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs.
Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life – first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse – seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed… forever?

Book Review: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

So once again we have the never ending love between Edward and Bella, but now there is a twist. Jacob has become someone very dear in Bella's life as well.
We all know what Jacob is now and the tension between his and Edward's family. We are also bringing back the terror that follows Bella, which shall remain unnamed.
Trust me when I say...Pick Up this Series...I promise you will not be disappointed. There is drama, love, action, pretty much a little bit of everything. Meyer did it again. A++++++.
Synopsis from inside cover
Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine–like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob–knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

I promise I haven't forgotten...

Hi guys...I promise that I have not forgotten about writing. I've just been a bit lazy, but now I will be writing to tell you about the last two books of the Twilight Series!!!!

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Book Review: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Alright, so I totally fell in love with Bella and Edward in Twilight, but this book dragged a bit for me. I don't know if Meyer wanted us to feel the frustrations of Bella in this book, but I totally felt that way. It wasn't until a few chapters rolled by that I really started enjoying the book. She did introduce Jacob into Bella's life, which was very interesting. They are developing a great friendship and trust ,which I find very cute. Being that Bella is such a klutz, she turned into quite the daredevil too. It was a good introduction to all the crazy things that will probably be coming up in the future books. So let's see how this turns out.

Synopsis
Bella has been going out with her vampire boyfriend Edward for six blissfully happy months. The only thing that worries her is his steadfast refusal to even consider making her into a vampire like him. As the day of her eighteenth birthday rolls around she feels less than happy because she is now older than Edward, who will never age past seventeen.
To celebrate her birthday Edward takes Bella to a birthday party at his family home but when a stupid accident that leaves Bella covered in blood and nearly triggers a feeding frenzy in Jasper, Edward’s brother, the party falls somewhat flat.
Edward suddenly becomes more distant towards to Bella and finally he tells her that he and his family are leaving Forks, to never return, and he no longer wants to see her.
Edward is Bella’s whole world and his abandonment is a harsh blow. Her whole world falls apart and as she becomes withdrawn from the world she soon loses most of her friends becoming even more isolated and lonely.
When she does something dangerous she starts hallucinating and thinks she can hear Edward telling her not to do anything stupid and to be more careful. This leads to a whole new range of interests for Bella including learning to ride a motorbike and cliff diving because she feels that he is still with her at those times. Her old friend Jacob Black becomes her partner in crime, fixing up her motorbike for her and teaching her to ride it. Although the pain of Edward’s departure never leaves Bella, Jacob soon becomes her best friend and he helps to fill some of the voids in her life.
Jacob himself is no ordinary boy and soon Bella discovers that part of his Quileute heritage is to be cursed to be a werewolf. Certain members of the tribe turn into werewolves in their teenage years in response to the presence of vampires. Werewolves and vampires are natural enemies and the enmity runs deep on both sides.
Alice returns to Forks and although she brings no news of Edward with her, her extraordinary gift of being able to see the future soon tells her that Edward is heading on a path of self destruction that only Bella can advert. But will Bella be in time to stop the tragedy?

Book Review: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

One day I was listening to Y100 and they were talking about this book and how good it was when they read it, so of course I picked it up. Trust me, I was not disappointed, especially when I found out it was a series book and I completely love a good series.
Stephenie Meyer really changed up the way vampires are viewed by giving them different characteristics than the ones that we are used to. There is so much passion and love in this book and I really enjoyed reading it. Never mind that this book was written for High School students, adults can definitely enjoy it too.


So if you're into Vampires by all means pick this book up. Even if you're not into them, you should still pick this book up. And guess what? They are making a movie for this book and it will be coming out this November. So if you like to read books before watching a movie about them (e.g. Harry Potter), I would suggest you get a move on.

Synopsis
When seventeen year-old Bella Swan leaves sunny Arizona to live with her father in the small and gloomy Pacific North-West town of Forks she doesn’t expect to like it. After all she has made excuses not to go there enough times over the past few years. If living in Forks, with its constant mist and rain, wasn’t bad enough she will have to make a whole new set of friends and settle into a new school.
Bella soon makes some new friends at school but when she sees a boy called Edward Cullen sitting with his brothers and sisters in the cafeteria she is instantly intrigued. Edward is stunningly attractive, almost inhumanly beautiful, and yet he is an outsider too. Although Edward and his family have lived in Forks for two years they have never really been accepted by the townsfolk.
At first Edward is aloof, sometimes it almost seems like he can’t stand to be in the same room as her, but eventually they strike up an unlikely friendship. Even as Bella falls hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Edward, she still can’t work out exactly what makes him so different to everyone else.
On a trip to the beach, Bella is told of the local legend about the “cold ones”, a group of blood drinkers who have sworn off hunting humans but are still not welcome on Indian land because vampires are not to be trusted. Realising Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he’s not human.
Edward and his whole family are vampires. Edward himself was made a vampire when he was seventeen years-old, although that was at the end of World War I. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight and a torment. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. A torment because although he has sworn off human blood and only hunts animals the craving for human blood never truly leaves him and the very scent of her also stirs his hunger for blood…. (http://www.lovevampires.com/smtwilight.html)

I have neglected you guys!!!!

So sorry to have neglected everyone, but I will try to be better. I have two new posts coming up so here we go!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Book Review: Playing with Boys: A Novel by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez


When I went on vacation to TN we stopped by a Dollar Tree and I found this book called Playing with Boys: A Novel by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. It was actually a pretty good book. I really enjoyed the fact that it wasn't raunchy and that it was a thought out book. It was pretty PG-13 and I believe it represents the Latin race pretty well. I will definitely be checking out any further books Valdes-Rodriguez will be writing.


Synopsis
From the author of The Dirty Girls Social Club comes another fast, funny, soulful, and sexy novel about friendship and love amid Latinas.It's a jungle out there—in Los Angeles, that is, where the tangle of freeways and ingrained insincerity can make a girl feel very alone, no matter how fabulous the weather or how cute the clothes at the South Coast Plaza mall. With very different styles and attitudes, Marcella, Olivia, and Alexis are trying to crack the code in L.A, trying to snare love and success. But first they have to come together—to make their marks and plan the fun they're going to have along the way. Marcella is a hot, sharp young television actress who's barely able to enjoy the life she's bought for herself and certainly isn't enjoying her body, which is never quite perfect enough. Olivia, whose life revolves around her toddler son, Jack, is tethered to her suburban mommy track so tightly she can almost forget the horrible thing that happened to her family when she was a child herself. Alexis is a musicians' manager with a smart mouth, an ample body, and loads of style but barely enough self-esteem to fill a Prada card case. And the boys in their lives? Marcella's had about enough of them throwing themselves at her; Olivia's boy is her son; and Alexis is still searching, not for a boy this time, but for a man. Playing with Boys is a savvy novel with charm, style, and heart to spare.


Publishers Weekly Review
Three very different Latina women vow to bring Los Angeles to its collective knees in this funny, guilty pleasure of a novel, which bears some resemblance to its author's previous hit, The Dirty Girls Social Club. Dallas-born talent agent Alexis Lopez is trying to break her fellow Meximericans, a band called Los Chimpances del Norte, into the big-time spotlight, but she's also looking for new blood. Enter Marcella Gauthier Bosch, a half-French bad-girl actress, once a star of Spanish-language soap operas and now aching for a mainstream movie career that doesn't involve being cast as a maid or a hooker. All she needs is a serious, Latina-focused script-and that's where Olivia Reyes comes in. The shy, dowdy stay-at-home mom is still traumatized by the memory of seeing her father gunned down by Salvadoran soldiers. But she also has a serious, autobiographical screenplay, and Alexis convinces her to let Alexis show it around-with the idea that Marcella will be perfect as Soledad, Olivia's mother. Complications abound, of course-there's Olivia's cheating husband, Marcella's disdain for men in general and a Cuban rap star who seems determined to break Alexis's heart-but so do the laughs. There's Alexis's middle-aged white ex-boyfriend who thinks he's a teenage gangsta, Marcella's latent-goth suitor and the good ol' hard-drinking, beer-gutted, coke-addled Mexican boys of Los Chimpances del Norte. While the action is slow and the novel repetitive in places-Alexis turns whining about her small breasts into an art form-this is a funny, heartfelt piece of escapism, Latina-style. Agent, Leslie Daniels.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Seven Types - Joke

> > >> Results of a recent research study show that there
> >>>> are now 7 kinds of sex.
> > >>
> > >> The 1st kind of sex is called: Smurf Sex. * This kind of sex
> > >> happens when you first meet someone
>>>>> and you both have sex until you are blue in the face.
> > >>
> > >> The 2nd kind of sex is called: Kitchen Sex. This is
>>>>> when you have been with your partner for a short time and you are
>>>>> so needy you will have sex anywhere,
> > >> even in the kitchen.
> > >>
> > >> The 3rd kind of sex is called: Bedroom Sex. This is
>>>>> when you have been with your partner for a long time.
>>>>> Your sex has gotten routine and you usually have
> > >> sex only in your bedroom.
> > >>
> > > > The 4th kind of sex is called: Hallway Sex.
> > >> This is when you have been with your partner far too
>>>>> long. When you pass each other in the hallway you
> > >> both say 'screw you.'
> > >>
> > >> The 5th kind of sex is called: Religious Sex.
> > >> Which means you get nun in the morning, nun in the
>>>>> afternoon and nun at night. (Very Popular)
> > >>
> > >> The 6th kind is called Courtroom Sex. This is when you cannot
> > >> stand your wife any more. She takes you
>>>>> to court and screws you in front of everyone.
> > >>
> > >> And; Last, but not least,
> > >>
> > >> The 7th kind of sex is called: Social Security Sex.
>>>>> You get a little each month, But not enough to enjoy your self.
> > >>
> > >> PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO TELL ME WHAT STAGE YOU ARE
> >>> IN. I have enough problems of my own.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Sims 3 Buzz

So I know many of you are not big gaming fans, especially not PC gaming, but I have to tell you that The Sims 3 is going to look amazing. I am definitely a hardcore fan, even though I never bought the Life Stories series, but don't hold that against me. I have all the original The Sims games and I have all of The Sims 2 games. So anyway, I have already pre-ordered my copy and I can't wait till February 2009 to get it. The website has many interesting development videos and it's looking more realistic each time I go back to see what they have posted.

So, even though you may not be a big video game player, you can still appreciate the work they have put into this game. Check the evolution of The Sims have undergone.

The Sims



The Sims 2



The Sims 3



Hope you guys enjoyed the evolution of The Sims. I think the advancement is going to be phenomenal as the years go by. How exciting!!!!

Friday, September 05, 2008

Another Joke

INSTALLING A HUSBAND

Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as · Romance 9.5 and · Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as · NBA 5.0, · NFL 3.0 and · Golf Clubs 4.1.Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.· Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do? Signed, Desperate.

DEAR DESPERATE, First, keep in mind, · Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while · Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.HTML and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. · If that application works as designe d, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. **** Please note that Beer 6. 1 is a very bad program that will download the Gas and Snoring Loudly Beta. Whatever you do, DO NOT under any circumstances install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.) In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0-program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.


Best Wishes Babe! Tech Support

Joke: NEW DRUGS FOR WOMEN

A friend of mine sent this and I thought it was hilarious.


NEW DRUGS FOR WOMEN

DAMNITOL
Take 2 and the rest of the world can go to hell for up to 8 full hours.

EMPTYNESTROGEN
Suppository that eliminates melancholy and loneliness by reminding you of how awful they were as teenagers and how you couldn’t wait till they moved out!

ST. MOMMA'S WORT
Plant extract that treats mom’s depression by rendering preschoolers unconscious for up to two days.

PEPTOBIMBO
Liquid silicone drink for single women. Two full cups swallowed before an evening out increases breast size, decreases intelligence, and prevents conception.

DUMBEROL
When taken with Peptobimbo, can cause dangerously low IQ; resulting in enjoyment of country music and pickup trucks.

FLIPITOR
Increases life expectancy of commuters by controlling road rage and the urge to flip off other drivers.

MENICILLIN
Potent anti-boy-otic for older women. Increases resistance to such lethal lines as, “You make me want to be a better person.”

BUYAGRA
Injectable stimulant taken prior to shopping. Increases potency, duration, and credit limit of spending spree.

JACKASSPIRIN
Relieves headache caused by a man who can’t remember to take out the garbage, your birthday, anniversary, or to lift the toilet seat

ANTI-TALKSIDENT
A spray carried in a purse or wallet to be used on anyone too eager to share their life stories with total strangers in elevators.

NAGAMENT
When administered to a boyfriend or husband, provides the same irritation level as nagging him, without opening your mouth.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

It's been a while.

Hey guys...I know it's been a while and I'm so sorry about that. This month has been a little hectic for me and I really haven't had a chance to write. Hopefully all of you will forgive me for that! Alright, so I will hopefully have something for you soon. Thanks for the support. I hope this month will be a better month for overall. I'll write soon.