BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE (Craziness, that is)!

So you guys may THINK I'm weird right? WRONG! I'm much worse than weird. I've actually gone off the deep end. And here's the evidence to prove it.

Scottish Pen Pal

Hola all you senors and senoritas! Welcome to my blog! For those of you regular visitors-

A. Thank you for being regular visitors.
B. Sorry I've been doing a crummy job of keeping you updated on the Olympics. I've been slightly preoccupied. I'll tell you about my vacation some other day, if that day ever comes around.
Anyways... I was GOING to tell you about my Disney vacation, but there are more pressing matters to be blogged about. And since there's no school today (THANK YOU NEW ENGLAND GODS!) I will tell the tale of my sister's Scottish pen pal.
My sister has a pen pal from Scotland. Therefore making her Scottish. Scotland is the northernmost part of the U.K. Through a program the two schools are doing, (Julia's and her pen pal's) all BLANK grade classes have been assigned a different country to write letters to. And they have been sending letters and Christmas presents for months now, and the latest letter Julia got from her Scottish friend had some information about humans that I thought was really cool. That might just be the nerd in me, but I don't know. What do you think?

Strange Facts About the Human Body
1. When you sneeze, the sneeze comes out at 100 mph, and you ALWAYS close your eyes.
2. Men blink 15,000 times a day, women blink twice that amount (That's 30,000 times for you blondes out there.)
3. Your left lung is smaller than your right to make room for your heart.
4. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
5. Your fingernails grow twice as fast as your toenails. (VOTE ABOUT YOUR TOES ON THE LEFT SIDEBAR! IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT POLL!)
6. Our eyes are always the same size throughout our entire lives. So when you're 90, your eyes are the same size they were when you were 5.
7. Your mouth produces 1 liter of spit a day.
8. About 50,000 of the cells in your body will have died and been replaced with new cells by the time you finish reading this sentence.
9. You use an average 43 muscles for a frown and 17 muscles for a smile.
10. Every 2,000 frowns creates a wrinkle. (So keep smiling! :-D)
11. Of the 206 bones in your body, 25% of them are in your feet.
12. If you took out all of your blood vessels and stretched them out they would wrap around the equator twice.

Isn't that cool? I thought that the eyeball thing was kind of creepy, but awesome at the same time. I knew the last one, about the blood vessels, but I figure some people might want to be reminded of how much stuff they have inside them. Anyways, I really want a foreign pen pal, because Julia's pen pal uses cool words like "sweeties" instead of candy. I laughed every time Scottish Girl said "I got a bag of sweeties for Christmas! (New Year's, etc., etc.)" And they use "favourite" instead of "favorite". On one of their national holidays they ate "neaps and tatties"!!! ROFL! She says that's "swede and potato" whatever swede is. I think this girl is SO COOL! I wonder how I can contact someone from a different country and casually ask if they want to be pen pals or email buddies without seeming stalkerish.

Winter Olympics 2010

And so begin the Winter Olympics of 2010! Hosted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, today started off horribly for the late Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili, who would have participated in the luge competitions had he not been thrown from his sled into a steel pillar during a training run this morning. This must have definitely been a low blow for Georgia, as well as all of the other lugers (that's a word, right?). These winter games were dedicated in his memory.
With over 80 nations and more than 2,500 participants, although these games won't be as big as the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, it sure will make a splash! Hmm. That would have been in better context if this was about Summer Olympics. We, the U.S. of A., have 216 citizens participating, which is very impressive, if I do say so myself.

What will these Olympics hold for us? For everyone? Only time will tell...

I Take It Back!!!

You know how I said "If it is chocolate and edible, it will be eaten. By moi. Right away."? I take it back. This is chocolate covered bacon. I love chocolate. I also enjoy bacon, immensely, I might add. But the salty with the sweet? No thank you. Ugh. The picture is making me nauseous.

Chocoholic, Much?

My job, as a blogger, is to provide you with information you find amusing. Even if that information IS somewhat queer. Isn't queer such a nice word? It possesses one of the most uncommon letters in the alphabet, which is indeed a Q, plus, it's fun to say. Say it with me: "Queer. QUEER. QUEEEEEEEEEER." Work on that for me, will ya?
I do believe you will find this information QUITE amusing. (Wink wink. Nudge nudge. Notice the Q?) I am, as some know, a self-confessed chocoholic. And I don't love myself any less for it! Chocolate with peanut butter, chocolate with mint, chocolate-covered strawberries, chocolate covered bananas, chocolate frosting eaten in large QUANTITIES (I am overwhelmed with my Q cleverness right now.), you name it. If it is chocolate and edible, it will be eaten. By moi. Right away.

Hang on a second while I go get something to eat. I'm getting hungry.

Several minutes later-
Mmmmmmmmmm. Who doesn't love bananas? Another fun-to-say, scrumptious food...

I'm getting reallllllllly distracted. Realllllllly easily. Let's fix that.
So I was searching the Internet looking for something interesting to post about. And you know what? I found something very interesting. Something amusing. Something fantastic, incredible, indescribable.....
A 52,020 POUND SLAB OF CHOCOLATE FUDGE. Pure chocolate awesomeness!
Are you drooling yet? ;-)

Largest Slab of Chocolate Fudge Facts

Total Weight : 52020 Pounds
Measured : 36.3 Feet Long, by 8 Feet 3 Inches wide and was 6 Inches Deep
Chocolate : 2811 Pounds of Chocolate
Milk : 309 Gallons of Sweetened Condensed Milk
Butter : 705 Pounds


Whoa. That's a LOT of butter. Imagine how many heart attacks you could cause with that! If you know anyone who can make more fudge than that, give me a call. Because in my head, someone that can make THAT MUCH chocolate in 18 hours is the equivalent of Einstein. Or maybe da Vinci. Possibly Aunt Jemima.