After a brief interlude, we're back with....Breastfeeding!

It’s been a while. I’m someone who loves to have grand ideas and follow these grand ideas with the intensity of a freight train for several weeks until I, if you’ll excuse the analogy, run out of steam. See former projects such as Jews for Run, this blog, etc. 

I probably would have gone another week without posting on this blog, if it hadn’t been for something amazing happening reminding me how much the things I look up are needed. You might rightfully asked, what happened that was so inspiring? I received a request. So simple, someone needed me to look up something on her behalf. So now, I take requests. Actually, I take that back. I only take requests, if I happen to think that the question is valid and that I can write an appropriately somewhat-witty blog answering the question.

This week J. and J. (it was a request from two people! Both are named J.) emailed me to ask an interesting and funny question. They wrote:

Might be inappropriate, but I had to honor my employee’s request. She would like to know if you can breastfeed if you are pregnant.  It has clearly been a busy day.

Well, J. and J., I looked this up. Turns out you can breastfeed while pregnant. Although it sounds exhausting to me to have the life literally sucked out of you from two different places at once, I guess it’s a personal choice. I don’t judge.

See what the Baby Center (they have to be experts, right?) has to say on the matter here.

I was going to include a picture, but I couldn't find anything that was remotely appropriate or not creepy (again, in my humble opinion- I don't judge, but think of all the other people who have had their mouths on those things.)

Coffee Klatch

The other day I was accused of being part of a coffee klatch… to which I immediately took great offense. Well, I never. I am NOT part of a coffee klatch.  Who ever heard of such a preposterous thing? The nerve! I’m up in arms. How dare you! Exclamation point!

Wait, what is a coffee klatch exactly? The “k” makes its look faintly neo-nazi/white supremacists (as all words that start with the letter “k” before an “l” now do to me.) But coffee is good right? I was experiencing quite mixed feelings until I did the logical thing and looked it up. So, today, I looked up…. 

Coffee klatch.

coffee klatch or coffee klatsch also kaf·fee·klatsch

n.

A casual social gathering for coffee and conversation.

Aha… I might be part of that. Once or five times throughout the day. My favorite is the subscript though:

[Partial translation of German Kaffeeklatsch : Kaffee, coffee + Klatsch, gossip; see klatch.]

While the “kl” is representative of German etymology there is nothing harsh or austere about this word. In fact, the partial translation to “coffee” and “gossip” are the top clinically proven ways to be a healthyperson. 

And yes…in the course of writing this post, the search of “how to make friends” did come up. Don’t feel bad for me though, I’m already part of a coffee klatch!

Friggatriskaidekaphobia

I love any reason to celebrate. Surprisingly, for being a nice Jewish girl, my favorite holiday is Christmas. Second favorite is Halloween and all things closely resembling it- including Friday the 13th. This is also strange given that I was terrified of vampires growing up and walked out of 13 Ghosts in the theater. However, I am no longer 16 and the thought of something under my bed, while still terrifying, is less believable these days.

In fact, to celebrate tonight I will be doing a scary moviethon with some close girlfriends to get in the spirit of things. I've spent some serious time looking up recipes like "mozzarella eyeballs" and "baby fingers." I've also looked up the history of Friday the 13th and all possible related subjects. The best one I've looked up so far?

friggatriskaidekaphobia


No, it's not German. It is a type of phobia. It is the fear of Friday the 13th. According to Shine:

"Between 17 and 21 million Americans are affected by the fear, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in North Carolina. Many of them won't get out of bed on this fated date for fear something terrible will happen to them."

See what Wikipedia has to say for Friday the 13th.

Hardboiled Eggs at Room Temp

I am truly a creature of habit and I have the best breakfast guy in the world. Working Girl's Cafe on Mission and Spear is staffed by the friendliest and most welcoming guy in the world, P. I stopped by Working Girl's a couple months ago and ordered my now usual- oatmeal (no brown sugar) and a small non-fat latte. I walk in the door each morning and don't even have to order, P. gets my meal started and always try to throw in a little extra piece of fruit or treat and I never let him. Every now and then I switch it up to the wheat bagel with "the works" (cream cheese, sprouts, tomato and red onion) and I actually need to rush to tell P. my game changer before he gets started on the usual.


Well, this morning P. tricked me. He made my usual, we chatted about the weather, his family and the weekend and I left. Well, when I went to sit down at my desk this morning to devour my delish oatmeal, there was a hardboiled egg P. had snuck into my bag when I wasn't looking. What a mensch! Unfortunately, with a busy day at work and my oatmeal consumed, my egg was long forgotten at room temp.

Post lunchtime run I sat down to dig in when a thought hit me. I wondered to myself, {how long can you actually leave an egg at room temp before you probably shouldn't eat it anymore?} Which brings me to today's post. Today, I looked up... how long a hardboiled egg should sit at room temp before you shouldn't eat it anymore?

Drumroll please....

Two hours. It's been seven.

Nice try, P.

Instacrush

Thinking of a (several) recent encounters, I developed what I would term instacrush. As a close friend R. once told me, "You go from zero to pregnant in 5 seconds." R. doesn't lie.

I am one of those few people who can tell in the first split second of listening to someone speak whether or not I have a crush on them. This, my friends, is a gift. I eliminate countless dating hours in the blink of an eye. I'm not crazy either. I can fall out of crush just as instantaneously. Many a man has lost my affections due to bad hygiene or lack of personality among other disqualifiers.

Anyways, I'm not sure what made me look up the word instacrush today. Can you imagine my surprise when Google showed up with not only results for instacrush, but a hidden message?

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 666 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."

Google is not a fan of girls who instacrush.





Anyways, according to Urban Dictionary,

1.	Instacrush
	to instantly find yourself fawning over that one hottie with the sparkling eyes, and that beaming smile. you probably don't know their name, and they probably don't know yours, but who cares its infatuation at a first glance. its not necessary to know much about that person, besides the fact that they're oozing in appeal.

Couples Who Look Related

Did you ever notice how many couples look like they share a couple DNA strands:

Marilyn Manson-Dita von Teese

Sienna Miller-Jude Law

Brad Pitt- (sniffle) Jennifer Aniston

Even couples who don't look exactly alike have scary similar style:

Becks-Posh

Whitney-Bobby

Brad Pitt- Angelina Jolie

Even my close friends who are in relationships either look related or have an eerily similar couple style. Why is this? Well, I looked it up.

Turns out, there are a TON of reasons. Go figure.

May 7th- Giants Win!!

I shouldn't have had to look up whether we won Saturday night's game. I was there. I stayed for the entire game- I heard the victory cheers. Pretty sure I joined in on the victory cheering. I talked a boy into giving me his rally rag. I went home with multiple articles of Giant's apparel that I didn't arrive at the game with. I sent celebratory texts to more than one phone number in my phone. It was generally an awesome time.

However... When our CEO + 1 got in the elevator with me this morning, the conversation went a little like this:

CEO: How was your weekend?
+1: It was great, a little windy for me though
Me: You're telling me. I was at the Giant's game Saturday night. It was freezing...
CEO: I bet. Did they win though?
Me:..... I don't remember....
CEO & +1: .....

We won, 3-2. I cheered particularly loud when B. Weezy pitched and laughed waaaay too hard when my friend got hit in the face with a hotdog.

Dinosaurs- Mammal or Reptile

This post took an interesting turn.

I couldn't think of the word I was looking for so I did a thesaurus search of the word I could think of: premier. This post was originally simply going to contain all the definitions of the word premier (the word I was looking for was inaugural).

Main Entry:	premier
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	leading; original
Synonyms:	arch, beginning, champion, chief, earliest, first, foremost, head, highest, inaugural, initial, main, opening, primary, prime, principal
Antonyms:	inferior, minor

But originally, I had included a side note next to the word "thesaurus, so the post looked liked this: thesaurus (doesn't that word remind you of a type of dinosaur? search of the word... )

Then I decided I would describe to you all what type of dinosaur I thought the thesaurus was. However, I needed to look up another word for vegetarian (herbivorous) and whether dinosaurs were mammals or reptiles. I decided the search for the class of dinosaurs was much more interesting and informative. Double information for the price of one post. Unfortunately, there are a few differing answers on the subject.

I most likely subscribe to the answers of dinosaur expert Don Lessem and paleontologist Tim Rowe.

Q: How did the first dinosaur get on Earth?
A: Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles about 230 million years ago. Among the earliest-known dinosaurs was eoraptor from Argentina, a dog-sized meat-eater, 228 million years old. (Don Lessem)

Q: Are animals of today related to dinosaurs? If yes, which ones?
A: Birds are the direct descendants of meat-eating dinosaurs in most scientists' opinions. Living reptiles like crocodiles are relatives of dinosaurs, but they came from animals that developed before dinosaurs, so they are just cousins of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs aren't birds or reptiles. They're dinosaurs, a separate, special group. Some living animals, like reptiles, look a lot like what we imagine dinosaurs to be, but that's just a coincidence. Reptiles all have bent legs, and dinosaurs have straighter legs. Dinosaurs walked with their legs underneath them — that's one way to tell a dinosaur is a dinosaur. (Don Lessem)

Q: How were some dinosaurs able to evolve into warm-blooded animals?
A: Some dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded or at least partially so. The descendants of meat-eating dinosaurs are warm-blooded — they're birds. So dinosaurs were probably on the way to warm-bloodedness themselves. (Don Lessem)

Q: How are reptiles and amphibians different and related?
A: Reptiles evolved from amphibians long before dinosaurs, about 300 million years ago. Reptiles had a better breathing system than amphibians before them. Instead of a throat pump they moved their rib cage like we do, so the size of their lungs, not their mouth, determined how much air they could take in. Reptiles also had a horny layer on their scales and armor, unlike amphibians, so they could live all their lives on land. (Don Lessem)

I bet the thesaurus would be an herbivorous reptile...

Detachable Beards

Utter brilliance. This morning on the bus I was pondering some of the great beards of our time- Abe Lincoln, ZZ Top, Brian Wilson. Then I realized, if I was a well-known man, I would totally wear a detachable beard. One moment you're famous, the next you detach your beard and roam the streets with anonymity.

Anywhooo, it seems like someone already came up with one form of the detachable beard, although it is not exactly what I had in mind.

Google Recent Searches

I couldn't remember what I've looked up today. And I couldn't figure it out through looking up "Google recent searches." Turns out, I can use my recent internet history. Also turns out, I should clear my recent internet history more often.

Roman Numeral IX

it's nine (9). I'll learn them eventually.

Nena- 99 Luft Balloons Lyrics

"99 Luftballoons" is a German protest song.... It also makes a great uplifting dance song. I'm a fan.

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht g'rad an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und dass so was von so was kommt

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so wär
Dabei war'n da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons

99 Düsenjäger
Jeder war ein großer Krieger
Hielten sich für Captain Kirk
Das gab ein großes Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fühlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoss man am Horizont
Auf 99 Luftballons

99 Kriegsminister -
Streichholz und Benzinkanister -
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer hätte das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons

99 Jahre Krieg
Ließen keinen Platz für Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr
Und auch keine Düsenflieger
Heute zieh' ich meine Runden
Seh' die Welt in Trümmern liegen
Hab' 'nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen