Be a part of the First Annual Me-One Foundation 80's Rock N Bowl on Saturday, February 25th, at AMF Rocklin Lanes, 2325 Sierra Meadows Drive, Rocklin. Every dollar raised goes to support Camp Challenge, a no-cost camp for families afflicted with cancer and in need of a place of joy and relaxation that refocuses them on living life, not fighting the disease.
Raising money has never been so fun for the entire family! Come bowl to your favorite 80's jams and dress in your fly 80's Rock N Roll attire! To join the fun and show off your gnarly bowling skills, we are requesting each bowler raise a minimum of $100, but anything above and beyond would be totally tubular! Prizes will be awarded for best costume, most money raised, and many prizes for the kids' bowling prowess. Sign up as a bowler and learn more about Camp Challenge at www.me-onefoundation.org
How much garbage do you generate in a day more or less than the average 4.5 pounds a human produces every day (that adds up to about 1,000 pounds a year for each of us)? Well, on the WAY less than average side is a family in Mill Valley, California, that creates about two handfuls of garbage a year - for the whole family!!!!!! The Johnsons all four of them - are taking the whole reducing their carbon footprint thing to new heights. They even consider recycling a bit of a last resort, because Bea Johnson says even recycling uses energy and creates some pollution.
The family buys in bulk - they bring their own cloth bags to transport things home -and they refill reusable containers. They make their own condiments, and use things like vinegar and baking soda to make their own cleaning supplies. As an added bonus, it turns out, being eco-friendly also saves a lot of money, something more and more families are figuring out.
Wanna see if you bleed 49er red and gold? Well, one way to find out is to get a 49er tattoo! For 49 bucks, no less! Apparently, The Fat Cat Tattoo Parlor in Carmichael has a special deal going, where you can get a San Francisco 49ers tattoo for $49, just in time for this weekend's big NFC Championship game! Yeah, that'll show up your buddies in their Niners jerseys in a big way! If you're not quite ready to commit your skin to being a lifelong San Francisco fan, go ahead and wait until after this weekend, or maybe even until after that big game on February 5th. Sounds like the deal will continue as long as the 49ers keep winning!
If you think spare change can't add up, think again. In a recent report, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) revealed that they collected over $409,000 in spare change at metal detectors! Yep the pennies, nickels and dimes that we left in those plastic bins in our rush to make our flights added up to over 400 grand in one year alone! So don't underestimate the power of that vacation fund jar you might have. Although, it would definitely suck to be the person charged will rolling all of that change - $409,000 of it - into those coin wrappers, right?
And you thought this time of years was only about basketball and foot ball wrong!!!!. Las Vegas was turned into a giant frat house this week, as the Annual World Series of Beer Pong sloshed its way into town. Yep - over 1000 players from 48 states and 14 countries tossing balls into cups of beer for big bucks. The winners? A couple of guys who call themselves "Seek and Destroy". Matt White and Ross Hampton came out on top after 22 games of beer pong to win the wait for it - $50,000 dollar prize. Hampton said the secret to winning in the tournament was "staying sober to play well consistently." Really? Because it's called BEER pong, right?
And yes, Matt and Ross both learned to play beer pong in college. So that diploma IS paying off, kinda. Their parents must be so proud…
Here are some folks who really want to temp Bad Christmas Karma apparently canned reindeer meat is all the rage in the United Kingdom!!! And don't tell me that it tastes like chicken, because that won't help matters. Yes, a British department store called Harvey Nichols can barely keep cans of reindeer pate on shelves. It sells for the equivalent of $23 for a 6.7 ounce container of pate made out of Dancer's and Prancer's pals. Really? Less than a week before Santa is counting on his crew to get him around the world in one night and folks are smearing Rudolph relatives on crackers? Enjoy those lumps of coal….
More proof that we live in wondrous times? Today is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day! Anything? Hmmm… From my own personal "Don't knock it until you've tried it" file: chocolate covered bacon OMG so good! Salty and mapley and yes, chocolatey wow! I LOVE chocolate it should be its own food group and I want to say that anything is better when it's covered in chocolate, but maybe not. Chocolate covered crickets? Chocolate covered pickles? Chocolate covered squid? Yep, you can find them all, just not in my kitchen or in my mouth….
A couple of weeks ago, I read about how folks can now buy Christmas trees online. National Lampoon's Clark Griswald would be so bummed what happened to families heading out to a tree lot or tree farm and squabbling over the tree's height, width, symmetry, etc. Ah, the good old days. Well now comes word that, earlier this week, Pope Benedict XVI lit the world's biggest Christmas tree via a tablet computer from the comfort of the Vatican. He then tweeted a message of prayers and blessings. Really?
Yes, nothing says "Tradition" and "Happy Holidays" like gathering the family around the computer screen and clicking "send" for your Christmas tree, having the leader of the Catholic Church light the world's largest tree remotely from his tablet, then getting a festive celebratory tweet from him.
So, did you deep fry your turkey and NOT burn your house down? Well congrats on both fronts! And now comes exciting news for you environmentally friendly deep frying foodies! This year a sanitary district down in the East Bay's Contra Costa County collected fryer grease from Thanksgiving cooking. It's a pilot program at Ironhouse Sanitary District where they're hoping to recycle all of that grease into bio-diesel for use in school buses! This is a win- win situation, because big quantities of grease, when dumped improperly, can clog pipes and cause sewers to overflow. Yes, now even this Thanksgiving leftover fryer grease can have another use!
Don't you wish you had invented "Post It's", or dental floss? Well, here's another new idea that should have come from my brain, but did not. They're called Echo Touch Gloves. Yes, just in time for the holidays come gloves that have touch screen sensitive finger tips, so you can use your I-Phone in cold weather without having to take your gloves off brilliant! Reasonably priced at around $30, the gloves have little conductive metallic patches on the index fingers and thumbs. For folks who live in super cold climates or for folks like me who snow ski and would love to answer my cell phone on a chair lift without having my hands freeze this is yet another, "Why didn't I think of this" moment!
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Be a part of the First Annual Me-One Foundation 80's Rock N Bowl on Saturday, February 25th, at AMF Rocklin Lanes, 2325 Sierra Meadows Drive, Rocklin. Every dollar raised goes to support Camp Challenge, a no-cost camp for families afflicted with cancer and in need of a place of joy and relaxation that refocuses them on living life, not fighting the disease.
A couple of weeks ago, I read about how folks can now buy Christmas trees online. National Lampoon's Clark Griswald would be so bummed what happened to families heading out to a tree lot or tree farm and squabbling over the tree's height, width, symmetry, etc. Ah, the good old days. Well now comes word that, earlier this week, Pope Benedict XVI lit the world's biggest Christmas tree via a tablet computer from the comfort of the Vatican. He then tweeted a message of prayers and blessings. Really? 
