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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Just pour me a tall glass of poison.
This is going to be the most "VENTY" blog and not in the STARBUCKS VENTI kinda way. I don't see how you people work out on a regular basis. You piss me off and annoy the hell out of me. I do the whole weight watchers thing, for the most part, and try to eat right. It's the working out part that kills me. I don't like it and I wish it would die. I woke up all early this morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed. My boyfriend starts heading up to the gym. I can't let him get skinny without me again so I start throwing on the 'ole workout clothes. After all, I have a wedding to plan. I don't want to be hearing, "Here comes the BLOB" as I'm strolling down the aisle. Also, I think that my boyfriend is great. He deserves a skinny chick, even though he's very supportive no matter what I weigh. I remember growing up as a child being very skinny. I also remember being the heaviest of all my friends in high school and junior high. I remember everyone on my cheerleading squad voting on sports bras to wear to cheerleading camp at Auburn University and I had to wear it too. My belly has always been big and no matter how many crunches/running our squad did, I could never get skinny. I WILL get skinny this time and as my friends, I would hope that you would try to help me stay motivated. I am going to post HORRENDOUS before photos on this blog. You are going to see pale, drooping fat rolls. This is the price you must pay for being my friends. Suck it up and keep me in check!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Useless Knowledge
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with month, orange, purple, and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20."
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye."
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with month, orange, purple, and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20."
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye."
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
My First Ski trip
I love living in Las Vegas due to the fact that I have the strip with casinos, clubs, restaurants and bars. If you travel a little to the West, we have the Hoover Dam with Lake Mead, which makes for awesome water play, fishing, camping and sightseeing. If you drive about 30 minutes, you can go to Mt. Charleston. You can hike, camp, and Ski at the resort. JR is a great snowboarder and I wanted to go and ski. I had NEVER tried it before and just assumed that it was way easier than everyone claimed. I mean, it looks easy, right? WRONG. The scenery was amazing, but I will never try this again in my life. The skiing isn't hard. The STOPPING IS! Forget the bulldozers. If you guys need any trees or bushes cleared, give me some skiis and call me in the Winter!
New Baby
JR and I don't have babies yet, so apparently I have become a dog collector. I wanted someone for my Charmer to play with so we got a new little Chihuahua. Her name is Fiona. She's VERY bad, but oh so cute.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Interview Time!
My secret Southern Belle friend posted a blog a few days ago, and I ALSO couldn't resist begging shamelessly for her to interview me and make me feel all important.
First, we need to lay down some ground rules:
1. If you want to participate, leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.” (And your e-mail address, please.)
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Here are the questions that I received:
1) If you were an exotic dancer, what would your signature song be?
Oh, it would DEFINATELY be this song called "Nasty Dancer" by Kilo. It's not the original old nasty dancer song. It has a lot of beat and bass, which makes me wanna get ghetto and bounce my booty.
2) If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Just like everyone else, I'd buy me a house and a car, make sure my family is also taken care of, give a little to charity, tithe, and invest!
3) What was your biggest accomplishment in 2008? Your biggest disappointment?
My biggest accomplishment in 2008 was that I met the man of my dreams, and graduated from college FINALLY. I also started saving a little money. AWESOME.
My biggest disappointment would be that I haven't gone back to school yet, I haven't saved ENOUGH money, and that I am still a porker.
4) If you could relive one day in your life, which day would it be?
I can't just pick ONE day. If it were a recent day, it would be the day that my family and my boyfriend were all together in Alabama. I had everyone that I love the most, all in one place. All of the other days that I would relive would be the days before my friends and family have passed away - that way I could have said goodbye.
5) What's one thing people would be surprised to find out about you?
Since I have been through a LOT in my life, I am very strong and not easily affected in my day-to-day life. HOWEVER, when I watch something on TV, I cry like a little bitch. I cry watching American Idol, Grey's Anatomy, Biggest Loser, and ESPECIALLY Extreme Makeover Home Edition. By the way, have you seen the movie called, "PS, I love you"??? I did the ugly, snotty cry with that movie!
First, we need to lay down some ground rules:
1. If you want to participate, leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.” (And your e-mail address, please.)
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Here are the questions that I received:
1) If you were an exotic dancer, what would your signature song be?
Oh, it would DEFINATELY be this song called "Nasty Dancer" by Kilo. It's not the original old nasty dancer song. It has a lot of beat and bass, which makes me wanna get ghetto and bounce my booty.
2) If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Just like everyone else, I'd buy me a house and a car, make sure my family is also taken care of, give a little to charity, tithe, and invest!
3) What was your biggest accomplishment in 2008? Your biggest disappointment?
My biggest accomplishment in 2008 was that I met the man of my dreams, and graduated from college FINALLY. I also started saving a little money. AWESOME.
My biggest disappointment would be that I haven't gone back to school yet, I haven't saved ENOUGH money, and that I am still a porker.
4) If you could relive one day in your life, which day would it be?
I can't just pick ONE day. If it were a recent day, it would be the day that my family and my boyfriend were all together in Alabama. I had everyone that I love the most, all in one place. All of the other days that I would relive would be the days before my friends and family have passed away - that way I could have said goodbye.
5) What's one thing people would be surprised to find out about you?
Since I have been through a LOT in my life, I am very strong and not easily affected in my day-to-day life. HOWEVER, when I watch something on TV, I cry like a little bitch. I cry watching American Idol, Grey's Anatomy, Biggest Loser, and ESPECIALLY Extreme Makeover Home Edition. By the way, have you seen the movie called, "PS, I love you"??? I did the ugly, snotty cry with that movie!
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