Giant Announces It’s Academic’s 50th Anniversary Reusable Bag Design Contest
Hey DCers, Marylanders and Virginians!!
Here is a great design contest for High School Students-
Your have until October 31st to submit entries !!!!!
Giant Food has announced a reusable bag design contest for high school students to celebrate ‘It’s Academic’s’ 50th anniversary. Entries will be accepted October 1 – 31. The winning design will be printed on reusable bags and sold in Giant stores across the region. First, second, and third place winners will also receive cash scholarships in the amount of $1,500, $750, and $500 respectively.
This is open to high school students in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Entries will be accepted October 1 through 31. Proceeds from the bags will benefit the A+ School Rewards program which schools use to enhance and supplement their budgets.
Go to Giant’s Bag Contest Website for all the Details !!
Don’t Be A Name Dropper… it’s Just Not Cool
“One must not be a name-dropper,
as Her Majesty remarked to me
at luncheon yesterday…”
-British arts minister Norman St. John-Stevas
Quotable Friday
“You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.”
-Henry David Thoreau
My First Painting!
Here it is. My First Painting!
I’ve always thought it’d be fun to paint,
so I’m doing it-
‘Live Every Day to the Fullest’ kind-a-thing!
So, I’ve got my easel, my paints, my paint brushes and palettes,
and now I’m a painter!
Pretty Cool!
Start doing something today that you’ve always wanted to do…
And DCers: Where Was I standing when I took the picture that this painting is based on?
How Can I Be 40 and Not Know This?!… Again!
Berlin Marathon, from Wikipedia
Do you know that a Marathon is 26.2 miles long?
Yes, I know that too.
BUT– Do you know
WHY a Marathon is
26.2 miles long??
Anyone? Anyone?
… We’re driving to dinner the other night and I see one of those oval stickers on the back of an SUV that says- ‘26.2’. And it got me thinking about marathons, so I ask my husband,
“Why are marathons 26.2 miles long? Why aren’t they 25 miles long, or just 26 miles long?” He thought about it for a minute and said,
“I think 26.2 miles is the distance from Marathon to Athens. I think a runner ran from the battle of Marathon all the way to Athens to tell people they won.”
I looked at my husband, he looked at me, our 6-year-old looked at us, we all looked at each other… with approval… and I replied,
“Well, if that’s NOT why marathons are 26.2 miles, that sounds like a REALLY GOOD ANSWER… I’d totally believe that.”
By this time, we’re all laughing and are set to Google it when we get home-
AND SURE ENOUGH- My Guy is right!
SO– marathons are 26.2 miles because that is the distance a soldier ran from the battle of Marathon to Athens, to tell of their victory…
Just another day here educating myself… and the world,
Talk amongst yourselves…
Quotable Friday
“Be Brave.
Have Faith.”
I Can’t Make This Stuff Up
“I predict the internet will soon go
Spectacularly Supernova and in 1996
Catastrophically Collapse.”
Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, on the future of the web.
-Really??
He also predicted that wireless networking would die out in the mid 1990s…
But, I am happy to report that as he is currently a general partner of Polaris Venture Partners,
according to Wikipedia,
I guess everyone has their bad days…
We Did It! The Redskins Beat Dallas! It’s a New Era… (at least for a week)
We Did It!
We have a new head coach, a new quarterback and
WE BEAT THE COWBOYS IN OUR SEASON OPENER!!
It wasn’t pretty- but we did it-
I’ll take the ‘W’ any way we can get it!
I’ve drunk the Kool-Aid and I’m in… at least until next weekend.
Could this be the start of a new era? Could watching Redskins games be fun again and a cause for celebration? Gasp… the possibilities!
At least for this week- it’s wonderful to be a Redskins fan in Washington!!!!!
GO SKINS!
Quotable Friday
“The Ark was built by Amateurs,
The Titanic was built by Professionals.”
That’s Me and My Little Guy on the TBD TV Commercial
Hello Everybody and Man, O Man- is it a perfect day in the DC Area or what ?!
Skies are blue, it’s breezy and 70 degrees…
If you close your eyes, we could be in San Diego!
Anyway, check out this TV Commercial that starts airing TODAY on TBD TV (formerly NewsChannel 8)! Yes, that’s us- we start out the TV Promo!
(Note to Self: Even though your son has ‘Paul Newman’ hair, it does get unruly sometimes, so next time- put a comb through it)
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I Was In The 2012 Show !
Check Out …
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Nicole’s Book
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