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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 longer need, packing, unpacking and all those kind of fun things.

I’ve been learning something new every day in the month of July! Have you learned anything fun/random lately?

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 like inside my pregnant friend’s belly — that was fun
• I finished reading The 4 Hour Work Week - great book. For me it wasn’t about working less it’s about getting more work done, and being more efficient with your time.
• I’m moving in a few days so I’ve been really learning how great it feels to get rid of unnecessary "things"
• and last but certainly not least I learned about the gift of giving. I went with some friends to a battered women’s shelter and played with the children there for a few hours and left feeling great knowing that we made a difference in their lives. A few days later I went back and donated a bunch of make-up and other things to the mothers there.

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 to do so you can do what you want to do

I am learning something new every day in the month of July! Do you have any fun things for us to learn?

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 reminders and important alerts over the phone, for FREE and in a safe way. Thought you might find it useful too.

I have a conference call scheduled tonight with a leadership program that I belong to and I decided to use this to send a reminder to everyone. It was really simple - I created a login, added my people to the address book online, recorded my message from my cell phone and hit send. Viola!

I am learning something new every day in the month of July! Do you have any fun things for us to learn?

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 my friend Oxiclean saved the day!

Saturday, July 5th: Friday night while watching the second fireworks show of the weekend for some reason I started wondering how much these shows cost to put on. Lucky for me SavvySugar read my mind. I still haven’t found out an exact amount of how much the fireworks show in Dallas cost but hey I’ve got more information than I did.

Sunday, July 6th: And today I learned Google Talk has just been launched for iPhone!