What I Learned This Week - 11/14/14

1.  398 days until Star Wars The Force Awakens (aka: Episode VII) is in theaters.
2. The interwebz craze of "dirds" (half dog - half bird image) is slighlty disturbing and very funny.
3. No good decisions are ever made after 2am.
4. There is a special joy when one of your kids does the exact same thing as you at the exact same moment.
5. After seeing "Big Hero 6", my dogs will forever be called my "furry babies".
6. Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment, because you have to deal with everyone that doesn't have it.
7. "Special friend pause" is the action one takes when getting a text or e-mail from that one person that makes you immediately question if you dare open it in present company....or public....or ever.
8. A coworker refers to the large bowl of leftover Halloween candy on his desk as "salad".
9. Two teenage kids on a mission to make a "Japanese dinner" for family, will startle you with how good they can cook.
10. The same two teenagers will startle you with what the definition of a "clean pan" is afterwards.
11. There is definitely a limit of the amount of noodle dishes that should be served in a Japanese dinner - in teenager logic its six.
12. My Leah is master of the baked-won-ton-stuffed-with-dark-chocolate-and-garnished-with-powdered-sugar-and-a-mint-leaf.
13. I still have no idea what mochi ice cream is.
14. No matter how cool or expensive the bottle is, I'm still not a fan of Sake.
15. Because of Japan's increasing senior citizen population, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
16. "Bacon Busters Magazine" isn't about what you'd expect.
17. Spider-Man grew up at 20 Ingram Street in Queens. The address actually exists and the family that lives there is the Parkers....since 1974.
18. If you microwave a glow stick, it will explode.
19. Mountain Dew is testing out a Doritos-flavored soda, called  “Dewitos.” I'm pretty sure the "D" is silent.
20. There is a real genre of music called "slutwave."...and no, it's not by Kim Kardashian.
21. You can guarantee that if you are looking up "BreakTheInternet" because you though it was something very different, your wife will walk in at the moment the absolute worst image scrolls across your screen.