I know my vision is bad. Since I was less than ten years old I’ve had to wear glasses or contacts because my vision is much worse than 20/20. I always wondered what 20/20 meant, so this week I looked it up. Normal vision, or acuity, is tested by reading an eye chart at a […]
I got an email from a friend about this product called Anti Monkey Butt Powder. At first I thought it was a joke or something but it looks like a real product. The site says that this powder is supposed to absorb sweat and prevent friction. The site also says that it’s made for people […]
Recently I’ve seen the term payday loan mentioned. I wasn’t exactly sure what that meant, so of course I had to check it out. I thought a payday loan was just another phrase for a personal loan, but according to Payday Loans Mania a payday loan is a short term loan that requires no credit […]
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A master list of storm names is put together years in advance. The list can be seen on the National Hurricane Center website. The list used to contain only womens names but mens names were added in 1979. Now the names alternate - one female, one male, one female, one male and so on. A […]
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One of the ladies I work with asked me this recently. I thought the answer was 55, because I was thinking of those big drums (my Dad used to get kerosene in those), but I wanted to be sure. So when I got home I went online and did a little reading. Oil doesn’t come […]
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March is coming to an end, and here in New Jersey that means that ARC Awareness Month is also coming to an end. If you don’t know what the ARC is, it is a nonprofit organization that used to be called the Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States. In the 90s they changed […]
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One of my coworkers, a friend, was writing a letter earlier this week and was having a bit of trouble with spelling the plural form of crisis. I told her I thought it was crises but she said the spellchecker didn’t like that so it must not be correct. Of course I had to come […]
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I ate my first piece of pound cake at my Grandma’s. She always had a pound cake in the house. If I remember correctly they were Chock Full O Nuts. I don’t know if they make them any more, but they were really good. I have always wondered where pound cake got it’s name, as […]
I’ve seen the words thread count used pertaining to bed linens, but today I heard it used in another way and I was left wondering exactly what thread count means. So I came home and did a little research and a lot of surfing and this is what I found. Thread count is the number […]
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I got a notice on my front door last week from a tree company informing me that they were in the area to trim trees that were near power lines and that my property had one of those trees. The notice stated they would be performing “directional pruning” on the trees. I wondered exactly what […]
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I was listening to the news on the radio this morning and heard the two disc jockeys discussing “momnesia”. At first I thought I heard it wrong, so I kept listening. Turns out, I heard it right. Momnesia is apparently a fairly new phrase used to define lifestyle changes a woman goes through after having […]
Polar bear plunge. It turns out that this is a term that a number of people aren’t familiar with for one reason or another. It isn’t a zoo or animal term. In its least specific meaning it is a person going into the ocean in the middle of the winter.
Polar bear plunges are often popular […]
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This is a question frequently asked of the Customer Service department where I work. Some of the girls there aren’t sure of the exact answer, and I wanted to know for myself so I did a little reading.
By definition EMT stands for emergency medical technician. EMTs provide basic life support. This includes techniques and care […]
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My twelve year old son and I were discussing the real meaning of Christmas recently, about how it’s Christ’s birthday. He asked me if Jesus was given any gifts and I reminded him of the story of the three wise men giving gold, frankincense and myrrh. He then asked me what myrrh was, […]
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