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Tonight I learned that there are 5 oceans.

I could have sworn that when I was in elementary school there were only 4 Oceans. To me, this was about as well known to me as there are 7 continents, 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, and 3 feet in a yard.

It turns out, when I was right. I learned correctly that there were 4 Oceans. The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic. BUT... in 2000 they added a new ocean. The Southern ocean is the ocean that surrounds Antarctica.
This new ocean ranks as the number 4th largest ocean in the world. The Pacific, Atlantic and Indian are 64, 33 and 28 million square miles respectively. The Southern is almost 8 million square miles and the arctic is 5. I feel like the 3 above were cheated out of area. Not that they need it, but they were all cheated out of at least 2 million quare miles. Imagine what a fit the world would have if there was a group one day that decided to remove 2 million milles from your continent and added it to a new one? They would protest. I protest on behalf of the Pacific (my favorite ocean).

Its finally up, and still being made... under construction and not everything works yet. I made it though :)

I am really excited. Josh and I leave next Tuesday, so I have enough time to pack and get ready... without having to run around like a crazy person yet. That is, assuming I decide to start packing... adn we all know how much I hate procrastination ;)
I got my camera. I finally ended up deciding on the Canon SD1000. It was hard to decide between the small cute canon with great picture quality and no image stabilization that had been out for just a month vs the Panasonic 10x optical zoom with image stabilization that had been out for over a year that was big for a pocket camera but small for that much zoom. I ended up with the small cute great photos becuase i decided that if I wanted a small camera, i may as well get the smallest. If I really wanted the zoom, I could go for the really nice cameras that have 12x zoom that were larger anyways. So instead of getting the in between zoom and size, i got the best of the small... and Josh at some point in the next 3 ears plans on getting the best of the big guys :) So I get the best fo both orlds eventually :)
Josh and I decided to also splurge on ourselves and get Nintendo DS Lites. It is such a fun cool console. We got 5 games... Tetris DS which is great alone and against people. Kirby Squeak Squad which only Josh has played to this point. New Super Mario Brothers which is just all around the most excellent because it has a bit of mario brothers and a bit of mario party :). Big Brain Academy which is an ok game, but has great multiplayer games and you can have up to 8 DSs playing together. And the best... Brain Age. This is basically why we bought the console :)
YAY ITALY!!

I dont like August. It is the worst month of all. I am not quite sure why i dislike it so much. Maybe it has to do with growing up and having vacations June-September. You may look at that set of dates and be like... um... Dana, you make no sense. but if you really think about it, I am right. (like always).
Let me explain:
June is exciting becuase youre in school and youre all ready to be finished. Sometimes you took vacations right when school gets out so there was something exciting to do. Or maybe you even just slept in all morning and did nothing int he afternoons.
July is the month where you are not thinking about school at all anymore yet enjoying all yoru time in the sun, which is very beautiful. Maybe go out on the lake a bit. When I went to camp (6th-10th grades) then it was really fun. Camp was always a great time for me even if you did have to wake up and be ready for the day at 830am which you werent used to due to the month of June.
and then we get to the horrible month: August. By this time you are tired of the sun. Is not just hot, but now its stuffy too. You cant do anythign fun becuase you already have exhausted all the fun things to do in June and July. You start to think about school becuase you have to buy school supplies, and the weeks go by fast... but you dont want them to.
Most people would hate Sepptember but by this time you are ready to see all your friends everyday and go to your new classes... which were sometimes fun.
And there you have my dislike of the month August. bleh.

Recently my mom told me about this photo book though the costco photo center. I have heard of many online photobooks but usually they are very expensive. iPhoto was the first one I started playing around with once, but I got bored after knowing that I wasnt going to pay lots of money yet alone the more than $100 they wanted for it. So when my mom told me that she made 2 books for under 30 each, I was intrigued. I downloaded the program and started to play around. I decided to do my trip to Europe.
I started with my Italy excursions and those ended up being 60 pages. I hadnt even started on the other 7 countries I visited so I decided that I was going to make 2 seperate books beucase I and I didnt want 100 pages in a book.
Anyways... I finally got my Italy book in the mail and it turned out very good.

Im going to Italy. Josh and I finally decided to go, and we bought tickets :)

Do you ever get sick of certain people? Its weird how some people I can live with someone everyday and not get frustrated, yet see someone for a few hours a week and be like, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!