Six years ago today at 11:39 AM, I gave birth to a 4lbs, 7oz little boy six and a half weeks before my due date. Yup, it was crazy I tell you. And I was woefully unprepared! But now he's almost up to my shoulders and smart as a whip!
Happy Birthday to my (not-so-little) spud!!
So to end a rather long, drawn out week here at two black cats, I'm offering up a little bit of trivia to get this weekend off on the right foot.
(These are all from my handy-dandy desk calendar, so I take no credit in coming up with any of these.)
There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice. Rice is grown on more than 10% of the earth's farmable surface and is the main food for half of the people of the world.
Wow and I thought it was all either basmati or jasmine! Oh wait, but then there's sticky rice, sushi rice, long grain, wild rice...
Halifax, Nova Scotia, has the largest number of bars per capita of anyplace in the world.
Now if this isn't a great excuse to go visit my cousin in Halifax, I don't know what is!
Pineapples do not continue to ripen after they have been picked.
So what I thought was an overripe pineapple on my counter at home is really just a rotting pineapple. Eww!
The average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English word.
I want to meet the individual who drew that 35 mile long line!
The main library at Indiana University sinks more than an inch every year, because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books.
And these people call themselves engineers?! Hey I wonder if they graduated from the same school as the engineers who decideded to build my former high school on a swamp.
To keep cool, ostriches urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat.
Oh that's just nasty!
Experienced waitresses say that married men tip better than unmarried men.
Well of course they do - their wives make sure of it!
The average woman uses six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
Holy moly, that's a lotta lipstick!
The oldest word in the English language is town.
For some reason I'm surprised by this, but ok.
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times per second.
Seriously, how do they measure this stuff??
There are more barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
Are they including Ken dolls in this number as well? And do they all have the barbie corvette too?
And the last one is for all you soda drinkers...
Pepsi is commonly used by wooden boat owners to clean mold from decks. They leave it on for about thirty seconds, then it must be rinsed off so as not to cause erosion.
Good news for people who hate mold, but bad news for the teeth of those who drink this stuff on a daily basis. I have to admit though, I have an issue with that second sentence.
Erosion is the mechanical process of wearing something down so unless they are pouring Pepsi on these decks all day, every day, I doubt it would cause 'erosion'.
What they described is more of a chemical process so I'm thinking they probably meant to say corrosion. Like how Coke can corrode the rust right off a nail.
Yeah - good stuff!
Fall has definitely fallen on us lately. As with most of the leaves on the trees thanks to the crazy wind we've been having lately. October is one of my favorite months (and Halloween is one of my favorite holidays!) We hope to spend some time this weekend getting more apples (it's apple pie season!), picking out a pumpkin so that I can carve another one of my jack-o-lantern masterpieces, and otherwise enjoying the crisp autumn air that I love so much.
I haven't posted much since September but I hope to get back into some sort of regular routine soon. Work has been keeping me busy (thank god!) and we have been spending most of our weekends doing fun stuff, so please don't think that I'm all in some sort of funk and that I'll never return to my lighthearted blog. I will return, slowly but surely. And although my heart isn't as light as it used to be, I'm working on that. I actually surprised myself by joining a bereavement support group that meets once a week until the beginning of December. They are a wonderful group of ladies and after listening to them (who are all in various stages of grief) and contributing my own experiences, I feel my spirits have been lifted by the end of our session. We'll see where my spirits are come the holidays, but for now, I am doing my best to carry on. I suppose that's progress, considering mom's been gone for almost a month already.
And my social calendar doesn't seem to have a break in it until closer to Christmas. Between halloween parties, B's birthday, our friend's son's first birthday party, wedding gown shopping with my best friend (who might not have the ring on her finger yet, but we're sure it won't be long now!) a surprise trip for dad in December... we've got some fun stuff planned. But for now I just keep taking it day by day.
