What I Learned This Week - 5/10/13

1.  I cannot convince my family that a ruler is not a straight edge and should not be used for drawing “straight” lines. It’s used for measuring.
2. My family does not believe I actually took a class in college that etched the above into my brain. Another large portion of that class was proper handwriting followed by a daily quiz solely based on the presence of a wristwatch on your person. I never passed that quiz.
3. My kids are amazed by the strange orange plastic triangle shapes I break out to show them how to properly draw a straight line….yet they still don’t use them.
4. Not everyone likes a cowbell cheer when riding at 6:00 am. Some may even have some creative gestures for you.
5. Cowbell is an excellent way to wake sleepy teens. Dancing while using the cowbell is optional.
6. Every time I try to go incommunicado, my phone rings or I get an e-mail from someone I haven’t spoken to in a long time just as I’m getting ready to shut the device down.
7. No matter how many times I’ve seen a movie, there are always scenes I don’t remember seeing – ever.
8. It's easy to set a personal best time running a 5k if you take your hyperactive dog and strap the leashed animal  to your person. The dog will then drag you through the hard sections. By "hard sections", I mean all of it.
9. I still struggle with the use of the words "lie" and "lay". Do I lie down to sleep at night or lay down to sleep?
10. I have not figured out if Stars Wars Saga would be more or less epic if all lightsabers were replaced with pool noodles.
11. This time of year always makes me want to take an extended vacation just to be a storm chaser.  I love weather….and geeking out about weather.
12. Scientists have discovered the "ultimate" workout can be done in 7 minutes and the only tools required are you, a chair and a wall. Almost sounds like a power nap.
13. Every single one of my hobbies-passions-addictions can basically be outlined by the Chronicles of Narnia. It all starts out with me trying to escape daily pressures and entering into something seemingly harmless.  The deeper I go the weirder things get, I understand more and then – boom!  I’m a Prince being threatened by an angry queen because I ate her pastry.
14.  I have no idea what language Dennis Rodman speaks.
15. Some things you don't need to experience more than once to know they are bad, one of those items is a root canal.
16. For the workout fanatics the link to the ultimate workout is here (http://ow.ly/kTH1B)
17. I have no idea why Facebook decides to randomly delete spaces in the Notes I cut and paste from Word.