
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year

Monday, December 28, 2009
Why I'm Going to Get to Watch Whatever I Want Tomorrow

Sunday, December 27, 2009
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Tuesday, December 22, 2009
The Present Situation on Presents

Happy Holidays from Lauren, Mark & King!


Thursday, December 17, 2009
Elfing Around

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Totally Random But Interesting
- The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called "aglets."
- "Dysania" is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning. (I totally suffer from this daily!)
- African Elephants are pregnant for 22 months - that's almost 2 years!
- Las Vegas has more churches per capita than any other US city.
- Honey is used as the center of some golf balls.
- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
- On the day The Wizard of Oz's Judy Garland died, a tornado touched down in Kansas.
- Margaret Higgins Sanger, a pioneer of birth control, was one of 11 children
- Albert Einstein's last words will never be known He spoke them in German, and the attending nurse did not speak German
- The average man will spent about 145 days of this life shaving.
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
- The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
- The "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google $110 million every year.
- In a public bathroom, the stall which is closest to the door is usually the cleanest, because it's the least used.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
- A group of Kangaroos is called a mob
- A group of Owls is called a parliament
- Polar bears can swim 60 miles without pausing for a rest.
- It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time
- Scientists estimate that sleep lost due to daylight saving time reduces the average lifespan by nearly two full months.
- Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly
- 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
- Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake
- Children conceived on airplanes never suffer from motion sickness. (Apparently I was NOT conceived on an airplane.)
- In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her husband if he cheats on her
- The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
- President George W. Bush and Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner are cousins. (9th cousins after I did a bit of research!)
- Hitler was voted Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1938.
- Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike
- Crocodiles never outgrow the place they live. If you put a baby-croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of it's life.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right
- If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.
- "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line in The Terminator 'I'll be back' was originally scripted as 'I'll come back'
- Only about one third of the World's population can snap their fingers. Can you?
- Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.
- Actor Bill Murray doesn't have a publicist or an agent.
- One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.
- French author Michel Thaler published a 233 page novel which has no verbs.
- 71% of office workers stopped on the street for a survey agreed to say their computer passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar. (I totally would, too)
- If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.
- Americans take an average of ten days off per year for vacation. In France, the law guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation.
- The inventor of Vasaline ate a spoonful of it every morning. (Ewww)
- The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35 (Whoa, that student is owed a little something, I'd say.)
- 72% of Americans sign their pets' names on greeting cards they send out. (Guilty)
- Amusement park attendance goes up after a fatal accident. People want to ride upon the same ride that killed someone
- The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade. (Hello, marketing)
- The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

Sunday, December 13, 2009
Oh, Christmas Tree

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Book Love: The Thirteenth Tale

Thursday, December 3, 2009
Particularly Annoying

Monday, November 30, 2009
Quote It

Thursday, November 26, 2009
My Little Turkey
(Sense of Smell) The house will smell heavenly all day because of the turkey that is being slow-roasted. (Sense of Sight) You’ll see mom and I in the kitchen and I’ll probably be the one stuck with peeling a million freaking potatoes as usual. David may make an appearance to mash the potatoes, but it sort of depends on if he is in the middle of some sort of video game or not. (Sense of Taste) Eventually someone will roam into the kitchen, stick his dirty little finger and taste-test something. I understand, Mom and I make the house smell amazing and you can’t resist, but I warn you (Sense of Touch) if I catch you I will smack you. Only those cooking can taste-test. (Sense of Sound) You’ll likely hear the sounds of the Thanksgiving Day Parade, a football game, and sibling rivalry and bickering at its finest (we have to get a few months of it into just a couple of days after all.)
This has been the norm for 19 years. Because 19 years ago, a fat little turkey named David came into our lives and completed our family on Thanksgiving Day.

David’s actual birthday is the 22nd, but I’ll always think of him as the Turkey baby because he was the one who actually managed to be born on a holiday (I was one day off of Valentine’s Day and Ian was one day off St. Patty’s.)
I remember being dropped off at a family friend’s in the neighborhood with Ian and knowing that when my parents came back I would have a little brother or little sister. Naturally I had a request in for a little sister, but either I didn’t ask it loud enough or often enough because my parents came home with another little boy. Our Turkey baby.
Looking back it’s much better that David was a boy. Dressing a girl up as a girl, doing her hair and make-up and making her pose like a model for pictures is not nearly as fun as dressing a boy up as a girl, doing HIS hair and make-up and making him pose like a model for pictures (strangely, none of these photos can be found.) I then proceeded to order him up the stairs to show Dad, only to hear, “Get that Sh!t off of him right now!”
Cleary I was blessed to have another little brother. And even though David is now 19, and much taller than me, he will always be my little brother and Turkey baby.
Happy Birthday David, I love you!
And Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
A Peek at our Thanksgiving Table




Monday, November 23, 2009
Hello, Thanksgiving!


Wednesday, November 18, 2009
See what happens when I go out of town?




Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Thoughts for Tuesday

Monday, November 16, 2009
Quote It

Daily Find: Jetsetter


