Again I feel like the days just slip away and I can hardly remember what day of the week it is. This morning we were sitting outside with the dogs and I heard Dave's dogs making noise. I just started wondering why either he or Steph had stayed home from work. Then I realized it was Saturday. Funny how the mind can't remember the days of the week from one moment to the next. Haha.

Yesterday was, well, pretty much what I expected. Nothing worth really wasting time and writing about. Everything went fairly smoothly, but I wouldn't call it "fun". haha.

Today's been a pretty quiet day. Earlier this week Ron kept saying that he was closing tonight. Then somewhere mid-week he said that he somehow got switched to open today. So this morning he got up and left the house around 6-ish. I fell back to sleep and didn't think anything of it. A little after 8 a.m. suddenly the dogs are going crazy. Cheyenne was barking up a storm and they both had run out of the bedroom and down the stairs. I yelled for them to stop, but the didn't. So I rolled out of bed and walked down the hallway. I leaned over the railing and all I could see was a man's body standing at our front door. I backed up real quick and tried to figure out why some man was standing there. I hadn't heard a knock and so it seemed from the brief bit I was able to observe that someone was trying to break in! My heart started beating fast and I couldn't think of what to do as I heard the door open. Next thing I heard was Ron calling up to me "Hi honey, I'm home!" I peeked back over the railing and sure enough, it was him. Turns out he was scheduled to close tonight and not open. He had looked at the wrong week's schedule or something. So we went back to bed for a couple more hours. 8 a.m. is just too early to be up after going to bed later than 5 a.m. haha.

ChaCha is very addicting. Not just transcribing but also calling and asking questions. hehe. (The number if anyone's interested is: 1-800-2ChaCha - you just need to call from a cell phone because your answer gets text messaged back to you. Or you can go to ChaCha.com and ask that way.) I've been asking tons of questions for the fun of it. Sometimes they send back really WRONG answers, but some have been interesting.



- The cheapest car on the market in America is the Chevrolet Aveo with a special value of $10,895.
- Google, Yahoo and Microsoft were the top three search engines in a February 2008 study.
- Super Bowl XLIII will be in Tampa, Florida on February 1st, 2009.
- In 2008, William Katt (the actor from "The Greatest American Hero") started his own line of comic books called "Catastrophic Comics".
- Azaleas should be planted in an area that receives a few hours of morning sun, but at least partial shade during the hot part of the day.
- Madonna's "Who's That Girl" tour took place in 1987.
- Woodbury Common Premium Outlet Center is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week!!! (although I had to ask that question twice because the first one came back that they had winter hours from 3-6?!?) Needless to say I called directly and found out the 10-9 answer was the right one.
- McDonald's is the largest and busiest fast food company with annual profits of over 21 million.
- I can go pumpkin picking at Phillips Farms on Church Road in Milford, NJ. (Have NO clue where that is because I asked about WEST Milford which is not the same thing. Some guides or transcribers are not paying attention!)
- The closest Halloween store to me is supposedly Wild Syde in Jackson, NJ. Um. No. That's SOUTH Jersey. I'm North Jersey! So they messed that one up big time too.
- There are less than 800 drive-in theaters left in the United States.
- For cheapest gas, Oklahoma is in the lead at $2.583, then Kansas at $2.616 and in third is Iowa at $2.652 per gallon. (averages)
- Barnes & Noble's 2nd quarter sales are at $1.2 billion. Total 2nd quarter sales at domestic Borders superstores were $614.5 million.
- From West Milford, NJ to Circle Pines, MN it is 1187 miles - about 19 hours 27 minutes.
- An all natural headache cure is: the juice of three or four slices of lemon squeezed in a cup of tea gives immediate relief.
- Tengo un maravilloso tiempo is how you say "I'm having a wonderful time" in Spanish.
- When I asked which team out of the Vikings, Raiders and Dolphins had a better record so far this year, I got the response: "Minnesota Vikings are ranked number 7 in the standings."
- When I asked how many zoos are in NJ, I got: "The Newark Museum, The Cape May County Park & Zoo, Cape May, NJ, Space Farms Zoo & Museum, Sussex, NJ. Overall there were four." Um... no. Since when is the "Newark Museum" a zoo? And I know of at least 2 others that weren't counted. Stupid guide. This goes with the one the other day when I asked what the closest zoo was to West Milford and was told that there weren't any IN West Milford. NOT the question I asked.
- "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever!" is the last line of Gone with the Wind.
- I can get a Samsung GX-10 .5X Deluxe Professional High Definition Super Wide Lens for $40 bucks online. (of course they don't tell me WHERE! LOL) (I had asked what was a good lens for my camera to get good close ups)
- Ralph Bunker and Woody Allen have both lived in West Milford, NJ.
- HSN was launched by Lowell 'Bud' Paxson and Roy Speer in 1982 while QVC was founded on June 13, 1986.
- An English Mastiff has the weight record for dogs at 282 pounds and the Irish Wolfhound is the tallest dog by breed.
- Philip M. Parker has written more than 200,000 books. (WHO? I had asked what author has written the most books. Wow.)
- Whether you eat before or after exercising won't affect the number of calories you burn.
- Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than 40 books. His first book was The Star Invaders in 1964.



I'm so tired of typing in the woodchuck and Tootsie Pop questions. OH and Peter Piper too. People really need to be more original when they call to ask dumb things. Ah well. It's keeping me amused and out of trouble. haha