Wednesday 10/19/22
Celebrate:
Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day
Dress Like a Dork Day
Evaluate Your Life Day
Global Dignity Day
Hagfish Day
International Gin and Tonic Day
International Pronouns Day
LGBT Center Awareness Day
Love Your Body Day
Medical Assistants Recognition Day
National Seafood Bisque Day
National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day
New Friends Day
Rainforest Day
Unity Day
World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day
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Do you and your significant other love to celebrate Halloween together? Lifehacker.com has a list of 14 of the best horror movies for couples.
1. "The Conjuring" (2013): "Partly based on the lives of Ed and Lorraine Warren, whose marriage is a testament to building a relationship through a common interest."
2. "The Woman" (2011): "Turns the genre's misogynistic past on its head . . . cruelty and systemic oppression are the evil villains, not women who don’t conform."
3. "Cabin in the Woods" (2012): "The perfect movie for couples made up of one person who loves horror movies and another who hates them."
4. "Rosemary's Baby" (1968): "Geriatric satanists Minnie and Roman Castevet, are horror's most woke couple. They're equal partners in a long-term project, and Minnie clearly has as much (or more) agency as her husband in their stab at unleashing ruin unto to all mankind."
5. "Let the Right One In" (2008): "Maybe the relationship between a vampire and its familiar is exploitive and manipulative by nature, but on the other hand, love is strange, man."
6. "Vivarium" (2020): "If you and your significant other are considering settling down, moving to the suburbs, and having a kid, 'Vivarium' is the movie for you."
7. "The House" (2022): "Creepy, foreboding, and strange, but there are no scares, deaths, blood, or things jumping out at you. It's all atmosphere, sizzle without the steak, but it's done so well, it's still a full meal."
8. "The Babadook" (2014): "Examines the terror of being a parent like few movies ever have." (oh..but that kid!!!!!)
9. "The Love Witch" (2016): "There's no nudity here, but 'The Love Witch' is porn for couples who get off on visual ingenuity . . . it's so cool-looking, it's hard to believe it even exists."
10. "The Hunger" (1983): "The definitive sexy-vampire movie."
11. "A Dark Song" (2017): "[The characters] must share embarrassing intimacies, endure personal betrayals, and trust one another even after their horrible inner-selves are exposed . . . It's a metaphor for relationships."
12. "Cat People" (1942): "If you and your partner are a little too highbrow for standard horror movies . . . 'Cat People' eschews the explicit in favor of the implicit and prizes mood and mystery over anything graphic.
13. "Final Girls" (2015): "It's scary, legitimately funny and features an emotional core that might make you cry."
14. "Midsommar" (2019): "This is a good movie to watch together if you think it's time for your romance to end."
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You don't want to "sleep like a baby" . . . that's a bad cliché. Babies sleep terrible. You want to sleep like a toddler. They go hard.
Here are four things you can STEAL from a toddler's bedtime routine to help you sleep like a two-year-old.
1. Set a consistent bedtime. Consistent bedtimes help toddlers . . . and you.
2. Take a bath. Taking a warm bath or shower one or two hours before bed helps you fall asleep faster.
3. Put on lotion. Put on lotion and give yourself a slight massage as you do it. That will help you relax.
4. Do something quiet before bed. Toddlers get stories or reading time with their parents before bed. Doing something that's quiet and calming can help you too.
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It was a rite of passage for school children for decades to die of dysentery on "The Oregon Trail". And now the classic, super-depressing video game is being made into a movie. A MUSICAL, no less.
It's being made by the directors and songwriters of the upcoming "Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile" movie, who came up with the idea while they were working on that one.
Apparently, they were trying to think of another musical to do next, and somehow "Oregon Trail" came up . . . and everybody was up for it.
In case you're wondering, the movie WILL have comedic undertones . . . just as the game unintentionally did.
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There's some new research out that says that eating or smelling food you ate when you were a kid can "unlock" memories from when you were younger.
That got people talking about their EARLIEST memories.
In a new poll, people were asked how old they were in their earliest memory . . . and 20% of people said they were 3. 17% said 4 . . . 15% said 5 . . . and 11% said they think they can remember stuff from when they were 2.
Those were the normal responses.
3% of people claim they can remember stuff from when they were 1 . . . and another 2% said they think they can recall stuff from under the age of 1.
Overall, 8% of people say they remember taking their first steps . . . and 7% say they remember their first words.
(from pictures and videos...right?)
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Believe it or not sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children. This myth is solely based on a single 1978 study; no subsequent study has shown a relationship. (I'm sure parents don't agree with this for one second.)
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Texas limits baby names to "just" 100 characters, overall. New York has a similar rule . . . but they break it down as: 30 characters for your first and middle names, and last names max out at 40.
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