Saturday 1/21/23
Celebrate:
Saturday
International Playdate Day
National Granola Bar Day
National Hugging Day
National Hyaluronic Acid Day
National New England Clam Chowder Day
National Use Your Gift Card Day
One Liners Day
Own Your Own Home Day
Squirrel Appreciation Day
Sunday
Answer Your Cat's Questions Day
Celebration of Life Day
Child Labor Day
Chinese New Year
Come in From the Cold Day
Dance of the Seven Veils Day
National Blonde Brownie Day
National Hot Sauce Day
National Polka Dot Day
National Sanctity of Human Life Day
Roe vs Wade Day - the court ruled back in 1973..50 Years Ago
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Alec Baldwin will be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter over his fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, a film he was starring in and producing, in 2021.
Sante Fe, N.M., prosecutors also charged the film's armorer — the crew member in charge of weapons on the set — with the same two counts, which carry a combined sentence of up to 6.5 years in jail, according to NBC News.
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Cleaning is a chore and many of the products we use to scrub and sweep are about to get more expensive as Procter & Gamble, the company that owns Tide, Cascade and Swiffer, plans to raise prices and shrink the sizes of its products. P&G's CFO told analysts that he isn't worried the moves will hurt sales, because people "don't stop washing their hands or doing their laundry."
So how about making your own?? Good Housekeeping has 8 you can make yourself with items you might have around the house like Baking Soda, Vinegar, Lemon, and Salt.
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Amazon is ending AmazonSmiles, its program that let customers donate 0.5% of their purchase's cost to an approved charity. The company said the program wasn't making a big enough impact, but AmazonSmiles had funneled $500 million since its 2013 launch.
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Peter Parker, Wakanda and the rest of the MCU are welcome in China for the first time in nearly four years. The country had banned them in July 2019, a time of worse-than-normal tensions with the U.S. Disney announced the lifted embargo with screening dates for the upcoming Ant-Man and The Wasp film and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The first Black Panther grossed more than $105 million in China, or nearly 8% of its global box office total.
New at the box office this weekend is the animated Smallfoot.
Suspense movie Missing with Storm Reid and Nia Long.
and don't forget that the possible Oscar-nominated movie with Brendan Fraser The Whale is still playing.
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Netflix is offering a dream flight attendant job with a staggering salary. If you have the chops to be the best in-air attendant on their Private Jet, you could make about $350,000. The average flight attendant makes a little more than $60,000 annually. The streaming giant said the figure is based on total compensation, not just the base salary, and it's all dependent on experience. Still, it seems like too great of a gig to not consider if you've got what it takes to fly the streaming skies.
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The Supreme Court said that after a months-long investigation, they have failed to identify who is responsible for the leak of the draft opinion in an abortion case last year. The court's announcement came more than eight months after a draft opinion in Mississippi's challenge to Roe v. Wade leaked on May 2. The unprecedented breach of Supreme Court protocol, which showed how the conservative justices might overturn Roe, prompted a flurry of reaction from both anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups, and raised questions about the court's deliberative process.
I’m not sure why this fills me with glee…it’s really a Nelson from Simpsons HA-HA moment.
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Yesterday was National Cheese Lover's Day. And there are around 1,800 varieties of cheese around the world . . . meaning that it would take FIVE YEARS to go through them all if you tried a new one every day.
If you ARE up for eating cheese every day, the people at SleepJunkie.com are looking for people to help them with a study.
They want to test out the theory that eating cheese before bed gives you nightmares . . . and if some cheeses have more of an effect than others.
They're hiring FIVE so-called "dairy dreamers" who will eat various cheeses before bed every night for THREE MONTHS. You'll be told which cheeses to eat when. They will pay for the cheese AND give you $1,000 when you're done.
You'll have to track your sleep and keep a journal of your experiences . . . particularly any dreams or nightmares you may have.
You can apply through their website. The biggest qualifications are: Being at least 21 . . . owning a smartwatch or fitness tracker that tracks sleep . . . and being able to sleep alone for three months, starting in March.
The deadline to apply is February 10th.
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Beyoncé is set to make $24 MILLION. For ONE SHOW. And it's only an HOUR long.
It's at a resort in Dubai this weekend, and it's invite-only, so she's not even selling tickets.
People can actually hear her rehearsing from outside the resort, and some fans have posted videos.
Songs she's been rehearsing include "Crazy In Love", "Halo", "Drunk In Love", and "Spirit" from the 2019 version of "The Lion King".
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