At a meeting of the American Association of Retired People they showed a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20 year old. The contest was titled 'u @ 50'. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so brilliant. Take a minute and watch it please.
Link to video
Wednesday, January 28
Tuesday, January 27
Smarter than the average bear
Over a year ago, Aaron did this thing where he would get up during the night and sneak about, getting into stuff. Thankfully we had the insight to put the dangerous stuff in locked cupboards so he wouldn't hurt himself. See, he was *really* quiet. I would get up at 3am and put him back to bed. Of course, by then I was wide awake so I would chat online or play games or what have you. But I'm getting off topic.
One night, I forgot to put away my nail polish after using it. BIG mistake. Aaron woke up in the wee hours and decided that painting would be fun. And since the paints had been put away, nail polish would have to do. So he painted (with my nail polish) the shelves above the toilet.
I woke up, put him back to bed and for some reason didn't clean off the polish until morning. Well wouldn't you know, the polish would NOT come off the shelves. No matter what cleaner I used, it stubbornly stayed put. It became a frustrating obsession of mine. "Out damn spot". Everytime I would go into the washroom, there it was - taunting me. Laughing at me.
Well, today while I was cleaning the washroom it hit me. The answer. So simple I couldn't believe it. What better to remove nail polish then - say it with me now - nail polish remover.
I started wiping this spot, this nail polish nightmare, with the remover and started laughing out loud to myself. And at myself.
I'm smarter today than I was yesterday. lol
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Someone asked what brand my steam cleaner was. It's the Ultra Steam Shark Cleaner
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Someone I know was having a big day today and I was waiting to hear how everything turned out. But I guess I didn't rate on the 'need to know' - so I don't know. At any rate, I hope it went well.
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks
One night, I forgot to put away my nail polish after using it. BIG mistake. Aaron woke up in the wee hours and decided that painting would be fun. And since the paints had been put away, nail polish would have to do. So he painted (with my nail polish) the shelves above the toilet.
I woke up, put him back to bed and for some reason didn't clean off the polish until morning. Well wouldn't you know, the polish would NOT come off the shelves. No matter what cleaner I used, it stubbornly stayed put. It became a frustrating obsession of mine. "Out damn spot". Everytime I would go into the washroom, there it was - taunting me. Laughing at me.
Well, today while I was cleaning the washroom it hit me. The answer. So simple I couldn't believe it. What better to remove nail polish then - say it with me now - nail polish remover.
I started wiping this spot, this nail polish nightmare, with the remover and started laughing out loud to myself. And at myself.
I'm smarter today than I was yesterday. lol
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Someone asked what brand my steam cleaner was. It's the Ultra Steam Shark Cleaner
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Someone I know was having a big day today and I was waiting to hear how everything turned out. But I guess I didn't rate on the 'need to know' - so I don't know. At any rate, I hope it went well.
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks
Saturday, January 24
Come on already
I know it's been a pretty good winter so far. It's not been TOO cold. There hasn't been THAT much snow. There was only one day where the schools were closed due to weather.
But on days like today, when we wake up to -31C weather and the house is cracking from the cold, that I say - HURRY UP SPRING!!!
But on days like today, when we wake up to -31C weather and the house is cracking from the cold, that I say - HURRY UP SPRING!!!
Friday, January 23
Rambling
My kitten, Amelie, is a very loving cat. She'll jump on anyone's lap and want to be cuddled. She'll chase you around wanting attention. And in return, she'll curl her paws around your hand and lick and purr. Amelie will sleep by your ear and gently purr until you fall asleep. She's very reciprocal.
Yet, she won't roll on her back and show her belly to anyone but me. She's loving, but she holds back. She's affectionate, but she's not completely comfortable 'showing all her cards'.
In that way, she and I are very much alike. I am loving, generous and giving. But I close off parts of myself. It takes a lot of trust for me to open up to a person. I feel vulnerable and raw when I do. And I don't like feeling vulnerable. I feel as though I'm giving the person I trust ammunition that can be used in the future against me. If I keep things close to my chest then I'm safe from the inevitable pain that will come later when the person I trusted so much uses my vulnerabilities, my insecurities against me.
But it doesn't stop me from trying. It doesn't stop me from trying to find the good in all people. And it doesn't stop me from trying to remember the good in me.
What it does do though, and this is the really sad part, is close the door to the person who took my trust and pissed on it. And that's depressing because obviously I really trusted that person, really cared about that friendship.
“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy”
~Walter Anderson
Yet, she won't roll on her back and show her belly to anyone but me. She's loving, but she holds back. She's affectionate, but she's not completely comfortable 'showing all her cards'.
In that way, she and I are very much alike. I am loving, generous and giving. But I close off parts of myself. It takes a lot of trust for me to open up to a person. I feel vulnerable and raw when I do. And I don't like feeling vulnerable. I feel as though I'm giving the person I trust ammunition that can be used in the future against me. If I keep things close to my chest then I'm safe from the inevitable pain that will come later when the person I trusted so much uses my vulnerabilities, my insecurities against me.
But it doesn't stop me from trying. It doesn't stop me from trying to find the good in all people. And it doesn't stop me from trying to remember the good in me.
What it does do though, and this is the really sad part, is close the door to the person who took my trust and pissed on it. And that's depressing because obviously I really trusted that person, really cared about that friendship.
“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy”
~Walter Anderson
Monday, January 12
Assorted Bizarre Facts
* Q is the only letter in the alphabet that is not in the name of any of the U.S. states.
* It took more than 10 million bricks to erect the Empire State Building.
* A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.
* 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
* Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
* A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.
* 92% of pay-per-view tv programs contain violence.
* A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
* Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
* Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.
* Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
* 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.
* 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.
* In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.
* Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.
* People in Sweden, Japan, and Canada are more likely to know the population of the United States than are Americans.
* In the summer of 1959, the United States Postal Service experimented with the delivery of letters by guided missile.
* Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
* Happy Birthday To You is the most often sung song in America
* Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
* 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
* The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
* Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabet Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
* If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the number 666.
* Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
* The most expensive advertisement slots in American TV history were during the last episode of "Seinfeld". Each 30-second spot sold for an estimated $1.5 million. NBC made more than $30 million in advertising revenues on that one show.
* The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
* For $33.80, you can buy a corpse scent kit. These are technically used for training search and rescue dogs, but it is a product with interesting possibilities.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
* The audio CD first arrived in the US in 1984.
* Silly Putty was originally designed as an alternative to rubber.
* Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
* The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Have you ever wondered how to say "Kiss my ass" in Braille? I know I have.
* It took more than 10 million bricks to erect the Empire State Building.
* A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.
* 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
* Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
* A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.
* 92% of pay-per-view tv programs contain violence.
* A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
* Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
* Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.
* Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
* 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.
* 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.
* In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.
* Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.
* People in Sweden, Japan, and Canada are more likely to know the population of the United States than are Americans.
* In the summer of 1959, the United States Postal Service experimented with the delivery of letters by guided missile.
* Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
* Happy Birthday To You is the most often sung song in America
* Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.
* 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
* The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
* Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabet Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
* If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the number 666.
* Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
* The most expensive advertisement slots in American TV history were during the last episode of "Seinfeld". Each 30-second spot sold for an estimated $1.5 million. NBC made more than $30 million in advertising revenues on that one show.
* The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
* For $33.80, you can buy a corpse scent kit. These are technically used for training search and rescue dogs, but it is a product with interesting possibilities.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
* The audio CD first arrived in the US in 1984.
* Silly Putty was originally designed as an alternative to rubber.
* Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
* The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Have you ever wondered how to say "Kiss my ass" in Braille? I know I have.
Sunday, January 11
Tuesday, January 6
Lottery misprint - who should pay?
A Scratch and Win ticket misprint may turn into a legal battle between a Brampton lottery player and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
Thomas Noftall, 27, believed he had won $135,000 on four separate Fruit Smash scratch cards. But when he tried to claim his prize, officials from the OLG said there was a ticket misprint and there would not be a payout.
He says he plans to pursue whatever legal avenues are available to him in order to get the agency to pay up.
"I want what's mine," Noftall says. "It's not like I went out and printed these tickets myself and illegally made (them). Don't they have insurance for this stuff?"
The OLG confirmed to CP24 that at least 1,000 Fruit Scratch tickets have been recalled because of a printing problem.
The corporation says they noticed a problem on Friday after receiving a number of complaints about the tickets. The OLG recalled the tickets, but says it doesn't know how many are still in stores or have already been sold.
taken from: CP24
I think that the OLGC should pay the 'winnings'. If they knew about the misprint, they should have pulled all the tickets. What do you think?
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