Does E = Mc2 ?

A European study is now testing the foundation of physics and that famous equation E=mc2 that we have all had drilled into our heads since the beginning of time or should I say Physics. Well now these scientists have found a particle that they believe is faster than the speed of light. Naturally, other scientific labs are stepping up to the plate to test their results to see if they get the same answers. 


I never imagined in my lifetime that anyone would question the greatness of Einstein. My children have been told that famous equation by my husband and I and by their teachers and now they plus the rest of the world may find out that what we were taught was wrong, wow wouldn't that be a shock. 


Well hold onto your seats and watch for updates. 

Falling Satellite & Tree Climbing Goats

Tonight and tomorrow you better grab your hard hats and be on your guard as there is the slight possibility that 26 pieces of steel and titanium could enter the Earth's atmosphere and strike the ground. These are pieces of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. But don't panic everything will be okay it always is with these things, on to happier news. 


Did you know that there are goats that can climb trees? Well there are and they climb them to eat these special berries call Argan berries. This isn't where the story ends. The droppings, yes droppings from these goats are used in cosmetics and for cooking. In cooking it is used to make an oil, you know like vegetable oil, so it can actually be consumed. So when you dine out you can ask them to hold the goat poop. 


I have another post with exciting news for today so read on. 

What Can You Eat These Days? Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack

Talk about bringing me down. Well today I learned that I better choose a new drink of choice. That is because a new study showed that drinkers of diet soda have a 60% higher risk of having a stroke. That's right all my fellow Diet Sierra Mist drinkers. It is time for water or lemonade.

It is not just my beverage that I have to change. Apparently I have to stop going out to eat that is at the Cheesecake Factory, Applebea's and at Chili's anyway, my favorite restaurants. Men's Health just put out suggestions of food you should avoid and for very good reasons. My favorite appetizer in the world the Sampler at Appleabea's. It has a pants ripping 166 grams of fat and 2,430 calories, enough for two days, and who goes there just for the appetizer, everyone eats a meal afterwards.

The Cheesecake Factory needs to do some better meal planning because they managed to make the list three times. It turns out thats no surprise as only 4% or 8 out of their 200 meals are healthy to eat, according to Men's Health. Twenty-six of their meals have 1,000 or more calories. Now we know restaurants like to stay ahead with better taste but the way they are going they are going to kill off all their patrons, come on now Cheesecake Factory, jump on the band wagon give us some tasty healthy meals.

When looking for a nice veggie sandwich don't go to Quiznos as doing so will turn you into Santa Claus. Here you will get a sandwich with a whopping 1,090 calories and 61 grams of fat in a veggie sandwich. Stop playing games no one eating a veggie sandwich is doing so to eat over 1,000 calories.

When starting out the day drive right by Burger King if you are planning on getting the Ultimate Breakfast Platter. This platter may sound like the perfect start to the day with its eggs, potatoes, sausage, biscuit, pancakes and diabetic dreamy syrup to wash it down. It comes with 1,310 calories and 72 grams of fat. Well at least you get your money's worth.

Now when you have had the ultimate in stressful days, get rid of the stress with a Fudge Brownie 31 Degrees from Baskin - Robbins. You just can't eat the rest of the day because it packs 1,900 calories and 80 grams of fat.

So what's a mom of nine to do on a really busy day when take out has to be the answer. Well I can only say one thing. Thank god Cains wasn't on the list.

Oh and speaking of fast food restaurants did you hear about those new ketchup packets that Heinz designed. They hold three times the ketchup. This means one thing, three times less ketchup packets laying around the backseat of my mini van.

Keep reading for the latest news that families would like to know about. Until tomorrow.

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Tim's Birthday

Yesterday was my husband's birthday. It was hectic, like every day is with 9 kids. We ran around getting his gifts and his cake. I decided to get him a watch the women at the jewelry counter in JC Penney's were rude I believe it was just because I was standing there with kids. I guess they thought cause I had kids I couldn't possibly have had enough money to purchase a watch from the counter, not that it was even that much. She takes it out and says " You know it is $89" I was like "Yeah, that's fine, I'll take it" she just said " Ok" This was after being ignored for about 15 minutes. I know you may be sitting there thinking why didn't you just go elsewhere. Well I didn't because I had my heart set on this particular watch.

My day had actually begun early in the morning. With this awful gastroparesis. I was sick all morning. Tim had one wish for his birthday, a real egg roll. I know it sounds funny, but it is actually a hard thing to find in Vegas unless you know where to get it. We have been to 3 chinese restaurants that actually had spring rolls not egg rolls. So I started calling places which was almost comical. They would start off with "Take out or Delivery" I was like "Actually I have a question about egg rolls........" I am sure when I finally found NY Chinese they though I was nuts. I described the dimensions of a real egg roll and confirmed that it was a pork egg roll. We ended up getting chinese for everyone so that came close to the national debt, lol.

By the time everything was said and done we ended up eating around 9 and had ice cream around 10. I was exhausted. I felt bad for Tim because he ended up doing the clean up himself, the kids were not to helpful. Of course they helped put away the left overs but that was about it.

Today, I have been sick all day. My back has also been killing me. I have been in bed all day till I decided to get up to write this note. Brendan and Logan are home sick today, of course Logan I think became sick because he heard how sick Brendan was, you know one of those sicknesses. Well hope all my readers are safe and well, till tomorrow. Take care.

Back to School Shopping - OMG

Well back to school time gives me mixed feelings - on one hand I get the joy of sending them off and enjoying a peaceful house, one that is conducive to work. On the other hand back to school brings me closer to the poor house. See in my house we have what I like to call "ticket shoppers" now before you think wow that's great her kids care about prices, think again, some of them are simply the opposite, they want what costs the most. The other day we took Brendan and Logan school shopping, they came because they had to try on pants and their sneakers. We went to Old Navy where they were having a great sale on jeans. So we were able to buy outfits - shirt and pants for $15. And we went to the sporting goods store for their sneakers, Logan knew exactly what ones he wanted, which he was going to have no matter what the cost, luckily they were only $35. They were the easy ones. Today we took the girls shopping and I am getting my migraine headache back just reliving it. Amanda would look at the price tag first just to decide if she liked say a pair of jeans, if they were not at least $30 she did not like them. At the sporting goods store, they had many, many sneakers, she only liked the ones that cost $69 and up, all the others no matter how great they were she did not like them. Even if they were an $89 pair on sale for $50, she would not do it, we would actually have to shell out the money. So an hour and a half later we finally had sneakers for all three girls.

Oh funny story, Dylan has a job as a dishwasher, he got it because the house he was working at doing landscaping was talking to their friends who own a restaurant and they needed a hard worker. So the owner of the restaurant who we did not know showed up in our driveway asking if Dylan would like a job. They only problem was that Dylan never had any intention of getting a job, so he was a little unsure at first. I am sure once he gets his first check he will like it.

So Dylan also went back to the doctors who cleared him for drilling in wrestling practice and weight lifting so our lives have been back down at the club, which by the way has been like a sauna the past few days. So at least 3 nights a week we are at the club from 530 till 830 and we eat dinner very late.

Logans First Movie Theatre Visit

Well Regal has free movies over the summer so now that Logan is five I figured it was his chance to take the movie test. You may wonder what the movie test is. Well ever since, well I have no idea for how long, I have decided that I was never going to bring a child that is to young to the movies. The last thing I am going to do is waste money, and two hours of my time with a whiny or worse yet screaming kid. So we decided to go to the free movie. Now granted the movies are free so they are not current but since they are in the Regal Cinemas you get the movie theater experience - $20 popcorn and soda, and nice rocking and reclining chairs which made me happy. And did you know they have booster seats at the movie theater? I didn't, see I never bring my kids. So we saw the Rugrats Movie. When we started walking into the theater it was very dark and just had the floor track lighting as we made the sharp turn and Logan was scared he said "what is going to happen next" I said nothing there is just going to be chairs to sit in. Logan was better behaved than 99.9% of the kids in the theater. The other .1% of the kids that were better than Logan were my other two kids Brendan and Emily that came with us and that was only because we told them that if they talked during the movie there were never coming again. Apparently they believed me.

Well the kids job is complete, so Dylan, Amanda, Meghan, and David are back to their usual driving me crazy and the begging to sleep over various peoples houses and for things. The kids also think everyone else in the world has it better than them. Right now Dylan wants to buy a hot tub. After some research on line and discovering that your electric goes up quite a bit from a hot tub I told Dylan that he cannot get one unless he gets someone to pay the difference. Now it is not that I am being a bitch but we live in a large home where our bills run around $1,000 in the winter and $250 in the summer so I would notice it when it went up. He is trying to convince me that we are the only family in Burnt Hills that does not have a hot tub and if he does not get one he will not fit in. Then Amanda starts harrassing me about her hair, she just had her haircut about three weeks ago so for my back to school budget I figured she could wait to get hers done, she started complaining about why do the boys get to have theirs done but the girls have to wait saying it was no fair. She is mad because she did not have enought cut off, even though we told her what to say, well she did not listen.

Right now I am sitting on my bed in my 12 x 14 and there are eight people in my room. TJ is sleeping on my floor. Talk about no room at the Inn, and no air to breathe, lol.

Quiet Time and Watering the Trees

Well my house has been really quiet this week. The older kids got a job. Well TJ and Bradley have been working, that's right Bradley got a job at Best Buy. But things have been even better - Dylan, Amanda, Meghan, and David have been working at a house down the street doing some major landscaping and cleaning. They are having a wedding at their house, so they have been working everyday this week. So times have been nice, it has been like having 3 children, imagine that.

It was nice because I have had lots of work to do between grants and Tim has been writing lots of articles. Amanda has been up to her usual stunts, we stepped out yesterday just to get a message from her saying she went out dinner, apparently we were not home to ask permission from. So she got home at 11pm, some dinner. So she is now punished.

We went to the park again today, Logan was our coach again, he got us into a huddle and told us that we were not allowed to scratch, bite, punch or kick, or that's right bite. We played HORSE, Brendan won.

When we got home, Logan must of thought we had a drought because for some strange reason he forgot we had a bathroom and peed on our tree outside. David and Logan raced to our bedroom, David to tell and Logan to deny it.

Welcome to my world.