plan b

Like so many brides, I have fallen victim to the awful cliche of trying to lose a few lbs before the wedding (which is 99 days away). But as many of you may know, losing weight is hard! Don't worry though, because I figured out the fool-proof solution. Gum. I recently learned that chewing gum burns 11 calories per hour. If I chew gum every waking hour until the wedding, I will lose 4.7 pounds by October 7th! Good thing I have a membership to Sam's Club.

I heart Christopher Walken

I just wanted share some pictures of CW on the set of the film he is currently filming, Balls of Fury. As you can tell from the photos, he plays a crime lord who is obsessed with pingpong.

Favorite quote of the day

"I think everybody should be pro-love."
-- Britney Spears

More on (or moron) the Spelling Bee...

How addicted to gambling do you have to be to put money down on the National Spelling Bee Championship?!

From the Associated Press:
"Even gamblers got into the act, putting money down on questions including whether the final word would have an "e" in it and whether the winner would wear glasses. Simon Noble, CEO of PinnacleSports.com, said his offshore Internet sports betting company had received about $70,000 in wagers on seven propositions about the bee as of noon Thursday."

Click here for the whole story.

everyone knows how to spell "ursprache"

The National Spelling Bee Championship was last night. The winning word was "ursprache," spelled correctly by a 13 year-old girl. Through a 7-steps-of-separation google search to learn what the heck that word means, I stumbled across something called the ding-dong hypothesis. Other favorites include the pooh-pooh hypothesis, ta-ta hypothesis, Yo-he-ho hypothesis and the uh-oh hypothesis. (I don't know much about the uh-oh hypothesis, but I am guessing that one was discovered by a 4 year-old covered in chocolate.)

All these hypotheses make me want to be a scientist. They just make stuff up, all day long. It reminds me of those people who create nail polish names. "Let's call this one Sugar-n-Spice" is not very dissimilar to, "let's call this one the ding-dong hypothesis."

Ironic sidenote: Katharine Close, Spelling Bee Champ, may know how to spell "ursprache," but not Microsoft Word spell check!! It didn't even give a suggested spelling. In in the suggection box, it actually said "are you freaking kidding me with this?" Okay, it didn't actually say that.