July 11, 2010 is 7-Eleven Day. And to celebrate, 7-Eleven is offering FREE 7.11 oz slurpees at every store across the nation between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Hopefully the sun will be shining, giving us even more reason to celebrate 7-Eleven day with the cool and refreshing beverage.
Thanks, 7-Eleven and happy birthday to you!
Filed under Drinks, General, Holidays, Resources, Restaurants
We love our dogs and take them with us whenever we can, but I think it is safe to say that scuba diving is where we draw the line.
Check out this video and article from the LA Times blog.
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Dog owner Sergei Gorbunov of Vladivostok, Russia, doesn’t seem to share our qualms, however. The professional diver has equipped his dachshund, Boniface, with a wetsuit and helmet designed to allow him to breathe underwater, and he’s trying to convince the little guy that diving is really a great idea.
Filed under Animals, Entertainment, Sports
While the study covers all of social media, it’s clear that women in the 18-34 range are focused on their Facebook accounts. More than half of young women (57%) say they talk to people online more than face-to-face. A full 39% of them proclaim themselves Facebook addicts, while 34% of young women make Facebook the first thing they do when they wake up, even before brushing their teeth or going to the bathroom.
Full story: The First Thing Young Women Do in the Morning: Check Facebook [STUDY].
Source: Mashable
I’m not gonna lie, my disaster preparedness plan is flacid to say the least. But the earth has been moving more than usual as of late, so it is high time to get a plan in place.
This article from the North County Times, offers an excellent refresher on proper earthquake safety protocol.
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Drop, cover and hold on. Do not run outside. And forget about standing in a doorway.
The region’s been jiggling a lot recently —- including a 4.0 magnitude temblor on the Imperial County line Thursday morning, just one of hundreds of aftershocks from the large Easter quake centered near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Confused and potentially risky reactions to the recent quakes, especially the bigger ones, reveal that plenty of people still need to brush up on earthquake safety, said emergency services personnel and quake experts recently.
Full story here.
On our way home from the vet I took my eldest son Gary to the new Petco Unleashed store by our house. It was their grand opening and they were offering free professional photos of dogs from The Picture People.
Naturally I said “yes” to having the pictures taken, not even thinking that while they take them for free, I’d still have to pay for them if I wanted copies of the images.
Guess what? I paid for them! How could I not? They turned out so cute.
Paul, the oracle octopus, was right again as Germany was defeated by Spain today in the semi-final match of the World Cup.
But being clairvoyant doesn’t always come with all the glory that one would think; Paul is now receiving death threats.
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Having accurately predicted that Germany would beat Argentina in the quarter-finals, Paul faced the wrath of angry Argentinian supporters who have blamed the octopus for their World Cup exit and expressed a desire to eat him in an act of vengeance.
But Paul’s keeper Oliver Walenciak remains confident that the octopus will continue performing his remarkable act for years to come from the safety of his tank in Oberhausen as opposed to the dinner table.
He said: “There are always people who want to eat our octopus but he is not shy and we are here to protect him as well. He will survive.”
Paul is able to make his predictions courtesy of Walenciak and his staff who place two containers filled with mussels and a flag to represent each football nation into his tank.
The container selected by the hungry octopus is assumed to be the predicted winner and so far Paul has a 100 per cent success rate for all five of Germany’s fixtures during World Cup 2010, including their 1-0 defeat to Serbia.
“It started two years ago at the European Championships when Paul became the oracle for all of Germany’s games and we thought he could do it for the World finals as well,” said Walenciak.
Full story here.
Source: Telegraph
Filed under Animals, Entertainment, Sports
If you are a man or if you have a man in your life you know there is an unspoken code of public restroom conduct for men. For example, guys don’t talk to the other guys while in the bathroom; guys don’t look down while using the facilities; and if there are multiple urinals open, guys need to leave one open in between himself and the other guy. 
Why don’t women have a similar code?
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a public restroom where women are trying to have a conversation with me over the bathroom stall wall while we are both using the facilities. Or, how about the woman who uses the public restroom as her own personal powder room and hogs the entire sink area so she can brush her teeth, curl her hair and get her make-up perfect for some imaginary photo shoot?
Ladies, it must stop! Public bathrooms are not a place any of us should want to spend lengthy periods of time. They are stinky, germ-laden places designed as a public convenience to privately dispose of waste.
While I know it has been done before (see the International Center for Bathroom Etiquette site), I am taking the liberty to create a working code of female conduct for public restrooms. Please feel free to add to it in the comments section as you see fit.
1. If you are in a conversation with another women while entering the bathroom, it must end within 15 seconds of either woman entering a stall.
2. When you exit the stall, wash your hands, dry them and get out.
3. If your cell phone rings while you are in the bathroom, do not answer it. The person on the other end of the phone does not want to talk to you while you are in the restroom and the other women in the restroom don’t want to hear your conversation.
4. Do not gossip in the bathroom. You never know whose feet are under the other stalls, plus conversations carry outside the main bathroom door.
5. If you must reapply your lipstick or brush your hair, step aside and do so after the other ladies have had the chance to wash their hands. Don’t monopolize the communal sink area.
6. If you enter the restroom with your friend, don’t feel that you have to clog up the limited space in the bathroom waiting for her. She may want privacy and even if she doesn’t, she is a big enough girl to come find you outside when she is finished.
7. If you see, hear or smell something askew in one of the stalls. Don’t feel the need to comment. Have some class and only discuss it with the other ladies in the bathroom if it will pose a hazard to them (i.e. an over-flowing toilet).
8. If you must change your clothes in a public restroom, have the courtesy to let other women waiting go ahead of you. If there is no one waiting before you go in to change, be sure to change your clothes swiftly in case some one gets in line after you’ve entered the stall.
9. Get ready at home. Do not use public restrooms as your private bathroom.
10. Keep idle chatter to a minimum. It is fine to compliment the woman at the sink next to you on her dress, but leave it at that. Strike up the lengthier conversation after you have both left the bathroom.
I’ll never claim to be Miss Manners, but, like men, women need to have some public restroom guidelines.
