Only in America...

• do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

• do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

• do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

• do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

•  do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

•  do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

 ~Caroline

So you think you know everything?

Here are some things that you probably didn't know.

Stewardesses  is the longest word 
typed with only the left hand. 

(That is, of course, if you don't type with your hands going all over the keyboard, like I do. I never quite learned to type the right way. :/ )

Our eyes  are always the same size from birth, 

BUT 

our nose and ears 

never stop growing. 

There are TWO words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious.

(I have no idea what those words mean, by the way.)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

(Ok, we all knew that.) 

A JIFFY is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

AND
A snail  can sleep for three years.  

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

If the population of China walked past you, eight abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

(Hallelujah for that!!)

Winston Churchill
was born in a ladies' room during a dance. 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know everything!!!! :)

~Caroline

  

Typos......

I'm not sure what exactly it is, but I make soooo many typos. Soooooooo many. Maybe you've noticed. Some are quite humorous, while others can turn out a little inappropriate. Other times it just confuses everyone, including me especially me. My dad pointed out that I spelled it "payed" instead of "paid." Maybe I was just tired. I just wrote "...your hand in mouth?..." and completely left out the "my." That would qualify as one of the confusing ones, because I did about four double-takes on that one. Technically, that would be a quadruple-take. Or maybe a octuple-take. I don't know, I took me awhile to figure out. And then there's always the inappropriate ones. The worst is when I leave the "r" out of my last name. I won't even type it. I usually do that when I'm actually writing with a pen. That doesn't make much sense, because you can't really make a typo with a pen. Well, you can't, but I most certainly can. And of course, when you're using a pen, there's no backspace. Anyway, sorry for being so sloppy. It is my blog, after all.

~Caroline

Sincerely, Me

Ok, I totally stole this from my cousin. Sorry, Late......I'll start preparing to be attacked by your flying monkeys. :)

Dear Dentist,

Ok, do you not understand that your hand is in my mouth? I don't know if you've ever tried talking with someone's hand in your mouth, but it's not easy. My cheeks also aren't designed to be stretched into the next room, thank you very much. I may have a big mouth, but come on, dude, it's not that big. I didn't come to your office to talk to you, k?

Sincerely,
~Me

Dear Hotmail,
I despise you. I'm also quite sure that the feeling is mutual. You should complain to whoever made you. I mean, seriously, the pictures are for facebook, not my email account. (Ok, I don't have a facebook, but that's beside the point) You really should destroy yourself. Sure, I can send emails through you (that sounds a little strange...send emails through you???? Hmmm.....) but apart from that, you're really not good for anything.

Sincerely,
~Me

Dear Post-it notes,
Do you realize how you've changed my life?!?!?!?!? I LOVE YOU!!!! You're just so awesome! I mean, you're sticky, but you don't rip the paper. And you come in all kinds of colors, too!!! (Including purple!) I've even seen post-its with little flowers on them. How cool!!!! Again, I must say: I LOVE YOU!!!!

Sincerely,
~Me

Ok, that's enough for now. I'm off to enter a drawing for a laptop... :)

~Caroline

Impwethion

I'm finally home. Yesterday was a long day. We had to get to the airport at 10:30 to catch our flight. Well, there was only one seat, so I didn't get on. I got on the next flight at 12:45, but didn't land until about nine, even though the flight was only four hours. Do the math. Anyway, I'm back.

My cousin Tyler and I are a month apart. (He's older) He just had his birthday last week. On Sunday, he had a party at a bowling alley. Sarah and Aubrey (my eleven year old cousin) and I went back to Grampy's (my grandfather's) house. We hung out there for a while and then watched TV. At six or so, my Aunt Diane brought us In 'n' Out burgers. It's quite sad that we don't have those in GA. We went there 5 times while we were in CA. Tyler had gone back to his house and Aunt Diane brought the food to Grampy's. (Quick note: Grampy's house is within walking distance of my cousins') Anyway, I come into the kitchen, and everyone is talking about Tyler's new tongue ring that he got for his birthday. I totally didn't believe it for a while. We had finished dinner, and he was still at his house. He finally comes walking into the house.
All of the little kids: Oo, oo, lemme see it!! Open your mouth! What does it look like? Did you really get a tongue ring? Come on, let's see!
He opened his mouth to reveal a gold ball sitting on his tongue. He wouldn't stick his tongue all the way out because "It hurt to do that." I wasn't thoroughly convinced yet. We went back in the family room, and he showed us the stuff he got for his birthday. It included $210. He also told us all about the tongue ring. He couldn't say his 'S's with it in. He also wasn't allowed to wear it during the week. If he took it out for a week, that baby wasn't going back in. Hmmmm...... While we were in the family room, he was texting, and I aked him what kind of phone he has. It came out something like the title of my post. It took me a good while to figure out what exactly he was trying to say. Anyway, to make a long story short, the next morning we found out that it was a Mardi-Gras bead. I must admit, he did have me fooled for a while!

~Caroline

P.S. If you're like me, you haven't figured out what "Impwethion" translates to. He has an Impression.

Summer Vacation, Part 1, Day 5

We woke up at 8 or 9 and went downstairs to have breakfast with Katy. It was a good hotel breakfast with muffins and coffee and eggs and coffee and oatmeal and coffee and cereal and I think you get the picture. Oh, hold on, did I say coffee yet? :) We went back to the room and got Ivy to go to sleep in G and G's room. (We had a suite) The mirror in the bathroom had a TV in the middle of it. Grandpa babysat while Katy, Grandma, and I went back to the little store across the street. After finishing there, we walked down to Dean and Deluca and spent a little time there. I found Cheerwine in a glass bottle!!!!!!! Woooo!!! I drank the whole thing in less than ten minutes. We probably left Charlotte at about 10. Around three, we got back to G and G's. After unloading the car, I laid myself down on the couch downstairs and watched TV for about an hour. We left at either 5 or 6, I don't remember which, and went up to Hayesville to hear Grandpa sing with the barbershop singing group that he's in. After they finished singing, we went to Subway! (Yay for Subway!!!!!!!) By the time we finished at Subway, it was late, so we headed back home for a good night's rest.

<3
~Caroline

Summer Vacation, Part 1, Day 4

Thursday morning, we woke up to donuts delivered by Aunt Stacie. Krispy Kreme, might I add. About nine o'clock, we said our goodbyes. Then Grandma, Grandpa, and I headed to Charlotte. We got there in between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, I think. Grandma and I went across the street from the super fancy hotel and looked around for a while in a cute little shop with all kinds of stuff. After that, we walked back to the hotel to leave for Katy and Fred's house. We got there at about six and hung out with Katy and Ivy for a little bit. Katy had just gone through her jewelry and I ended up with 15 pairs of earrings from her. Just what I needed!! :) We ate dinner (pizza) after it arrived with Fred at 6:30. We stayed at their house for a while, and then drove back to the hotel. Oh, wait, first we went to Barnes and Noble. G and G got a few books, and they bought me the third Percy Jackson book. After Barnes and Noble, we stopped at Dean and Deluca, a big gourmet grocery store with an amazing bakery. I'm talking, like, anchovy garlic cream kind of gourmet. (I think that's what it was, I know it had anchovies and something else.) Well, needless to say, we decided on stuff from the bakery over the anchovy garlic cream. We took our goods back to the hotel, ate them, and went to bed. (They were quite delicious)

~Caroline