Learning-Something-New

New Yorkers are becoming calorie conscious

Today I learned … the Big Apple became the first city in the country to implement a law forcing chain restaurants to post the calorie count of each food in the same size and font as the price. In the past week I’ve moved so I’ve been learning about getting rid of items I no […]

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Daily Learning: The gift of giving

In case you were wondering no I haven’t stopped my quest to learn something new every day in the month of July, I’ve just been so busy I haven’t taken the time to blog. Let’s see what fun things have I learned in the past few days … I learned what a hiccupping baby feels […]

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Do what you have to do …

I am a huge fan of quotes, in fact I have random quotes written on my bathroom mirror with dry erase marker. I also post some of my favorite quotes on my tumblr. So, yesterday I wouldn’t say I “learned” this but I was reminded by the movie The Great Debaters. Do what you have […]

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Phonevite

Today I used Phonevite for the first time. I’ve seen a few reviews about this site but I’ve never used it. It’s quite fun in fact. This is tell-a-friend blurb on their website: Hi, just wanted to let you know about this new web service, called Phonevite http://www.phonevite.com, that allows me to send time-critical event […]

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What I learned: Holiday Weekend Edition

Still on a mission to take note of at least 1 thing that I’ve learned throughout the month of July here’s what I learned this weekend: Friday, July 4th: I learned that Oxiclean really does get red wine stains out. Thursday night I spilled red wine down the side of my yellow dress and alas […]

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Groceries cost 5.8% more than the same time last year

Yesterday I learned through YumSugar that several big label grocery items are shrinking in quantity yet keeping the same price. This information came from a Time magazine article stating that rising commodity and fuel prices are causing manufacters to either raise the price of food or lower the quantities. Harvard Business School Professor John Gourville […]

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We should be brushing our teeth longer

So in my "normal" day to day life I tend to always be learning something new, but deciding to blog about what I learned has made me more aware of the type of information I learn on any given day. Today I went to the dentist and the hygienist provided this little tidbit "most people […]

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July is Blueberry Month

Learning something new every day: I discovered that July is National Blueberry Month. This was established in 1999. Fun blueberry links: 100 Recipes for July National Blueberry Month Blueberry Mojito The Blueberry Council I love blueberries so this news/learning makes me happy! I’d love to hear some of your favorite blueberry links!  

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Learn Something New Every Day

I had so much fun a few month ago with the ABCs series and I had a lot of positive feedback that the consistency of knowing something would be up everyday was nice. So I’ve decided for the month of July I’m going to do a daily post of “learning something new every day.” So […]

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