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Now you know!

‘Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.


‘Lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.

No word in the English language rhymes with month , orange, silver, or purple.

' Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

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.' (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds .

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.

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.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid .

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.






Now you know more than you did before!!

These are a few of my....

...favorite things! Around La Casa de Cook, fall is in full force! I love fall--it's by far my favorite season. I love the pumpkins, the chill in the air, the new foliage (or lack thereof!), seeing my cute nephews and niece in their Halloween costumes and even dressing up myself. --Yes, that's me in scrubs with a pet goat in a surgical mask (no animals were harmed for this picture). My newest fall addiction is the Bath and Body Works scent Leaves. It smells just like all of the things I love about fall! Try some out next time you're at the mall.

Today, look around you and appreciate the subtle changes that are taking place. In south Georgia, it certainly isn't chilly, but I can feel that it's on its way.

Halloween Crafts

I was feeling especially crafty last night so I decided to put the paper lanterns we used at our wedding to good use. Here they are during a dance I shared with my hubbs and with my cousin Kiki helping put them up:

I used the large ones to spell out "B-O-O" and to make two jack o'lanterns. I used the small white ones to look like ghosts and to spell out "S-P-O-O-K-Y." I'm sorry for the awful pictures--I snapped these on my phone!

I also grabbed up some orange Dixie cups and wrote "Boo Ya'll!" for my Halloween punch. More to come!

State Fair Fun

This past weekend, my mom, my sisters and I went to the 20th Annual Georgia National Fair in Perry. It was a blast! If you're in Georgia, I suggest you check it out! It will be well worth your time. It will run through October 18th. Check out the details here.

Free Luke Bryan!

I came across a site where you can download Luke Bryan's newest album, Doin' My Thing, LEGALLY!

Check it out here. The code is LONGHORN.

Have a great day!

P.S. Just a little eye candy!

Picture from LukeBryan.com

Thank you, Janice Chen!!!

Justin and I just got back from the Great Smoky Mountains after celebrating our first anniversary on Sunday. After I uploaded my pictures to my computer today on my lunch break, I deleted them off my camera memory card. Just as soon as I opened the folder where I sent them, I felt woozy and ready to pass out. My pulse began to race and I started to feel dizzy. My pictures WEREN'T THERE!!! In a blind panic, I ran to see if our IT team would help me recover their pictures (even though it was their lunch break). I couldn't find anyone and frantically Googled my problem. Luckily I came across my LIFESAVER, Janice Chen! I was able to successfully download the recommended program and was successful in recovering MOST of my pictures. I only lost about 20 out of nearly 150. I was so thankful to get that many back that I was unconcerned...after all--I usually take two or three of very similar pictures so I can choose my best one. The only problem was that the pictures tended to have a grey block at the bottom like this:

No fear, I simply cropped that out. Now, my pictures would never make it into the pages of a glossy magazine, but they wouldn't have even before I recovered them. They will serve their purpose to remind Justin and me of our first anniversary even when we've been married 50 years. I highly recommend you try this program if you ever loose pictures or accidentally delete them from your memory card!

You can check out our album here.

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my anniversary present from my sweetie! Our first of many to come.
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