Some Fun Facts for Monday

I started to write out a post about mental health, but I am too exhausted right now after cross country practice to really write out what I want to say. I'll need to save that for when I have more time. But I haven't posted any fun facts in a while, and I thought these ones were interesting!

I'm so curious if this is true! Anyone live in Alaska that can confirm? I've always wanted to visit Alaska--actually, it's the only place in the world that I have a very strong desire to see--and this seems kind of funny that they pay you to live there, haha.  

I'm curious if the bear would have run off if another song was playing--or if it really just didn't like Justin Bieber ;)

I'm a very emotional person (I cry over everything--happy or sad!) so I can't even imagine what my face would look like, haha. 

Well, this was a bummer for him! I guess someone had to be the first, but yikes. What a way to try to prove a point! It reminds me of this episode of Stuff You Should Know (a super interesting podcast!). The episode was about inventions that go wrong (well, inventions that kill), and a man spent years trying to perfect a parachute. He tested it by jumping off the Eiffel Tower, and "dropped like a sack of potatoes" (the host's words--the way he said it was really funny!). 

This one felt very fitting, considering Queen Elizabeth II just passed away. I absolutely love this about her--that act alone shows the compassion she had. I think compassion is a trait that is often overlooked, but it says everything about a person.

I have therapy tomorrow morning, so maybe that will be a good day to write my mental health post, haha. I've only had three sessions and it's been so nice having someone neutral to talk to about all of the things that are overwhelming me right now! I actually really look forward to going each week.

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Red Lights

I hate to do this sort of non-post post (where I don't really write, but post pictures or memes or whatever instead), but sometimes I have days where I really need to take a break from writing. Today is one of those days; I just feel extremely stressed out.

There are times in my life that seem so easy--it feels like hitting all the green traffic lights on a long drive through a city while your favorite song is playing on the radio. Lately, I feel like I've been hitting all the red lights and the radio is playing nothing but ads. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about--where nothing seems to go right for a while. (Yes, I know I'm probably being dramatic and I'm trying to focus on the positive side of things, but I'm having a very hard time doing that right now.)

Anyway, I don't want to make this a downer post (I hate writing those!). Instead, I caught up on my random facts calendar--I was super far behind--and I found a lot of very interesting ones, so I thought I'd post those today. Hopefully you'll find them as interesting as I did!

Well, tomorrow is my last day before cross country starts on Monday and I haven't even put together a plan--so I need to get to work on that!

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Memorial Day

When I stop and think about Memorial Day, I get kind of emotional. Nobody very close to me has died in combat (for which I am so thankful--I worried about my brother every single day that he was in Iraq). But as a mom, Memorial Day makes me feel sad for all the moms out there who have lost a child in the military.

This is a picture of Eli when he was on a school field trip at the River Raisin National Battlefield Park. Each of the 379 flags behind him represents a fallen soldier from The River Raisin Massacre during the War of 1812. I love this picture--the rain only seemed to compliment it somehow.

Since Jerry and the boys have the day off of work today, I'm going to take a break today, too :)  

Here is a week's worth of random facts; I wasn't planning to post all of them, but I found all of them interesting! I'm not going to comment on them and I didn't google anything about them, but here goes:

Enjoy the day! Hopefully your weather is as great as southeast Michigan's right now.

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Did You Know? Facts

I have a busy day today and I know I'm not going to want to write when I get home from Eli's baseball game tonight, so I'm just going to quickly post some of the "random facts" from my calendar that I found interesting this week...

Thirty gallons of water! That's insane. Since a gallon of water weighs roughly 8 pounds, that would mean a camel could drink 240 pounds of water in 15 minutes. Since camels weigh about 1,000 pounds, they are drinking nearly 25% of their body weight in water--in 15 minutes. That would be like me drinking 37 pounds of water! (These are rough numbers from a quick Google search.)

I've always thought of cats being incredibly smart, but as soon as they see a laser pointer, it's like they completely forget they are supposed to "act cool" ;)  My cats get bored with the laser pointer pretty quickly, though, so it made me wonder if fish do, too--or if fish are attracted to it like mosquitos are attracted to lights. Joey loves the laser and will never, ever get bored with it!

When I started reading this, I knew it was listing types of something, but I never guessed it would be mushrooms! They sound so unappealing--Weeping Toothcrust? Elbowpatch Crust? Hairy Nuts Disco? If I had time right now, I'd google pictures of all of them, but if they look like the names make them sound, well... gross!

Cat videos! Basically the best part of the entire internet. There are so many times that I wish I had a video of something my cats did--I don't know how people manage to get spontaneous funny and/or cute videos of cats. But they are definitely entertaining! I think cat videos are one of those things that you can't be satisfied with just one; you keep saying, "just one more".

Okay, I've got to head out, so I hope you find these random facts to be an interesting start to the week! :)

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