dust and wires

I was at work today, minding my own business and doing some work on the computer when I started to feel my eyes strain, so i took a moment, stretched out, looked out the windows and a man drives by and is yawning. Immediately, I yawned. Who said I wanted his yawn? Yawning has an infectious quality. Seeing a person yawning, talking to someone on the phone who is yawning, or just thinking of yawning can trigger yawning. My husband and I have "yawning fights" sometimes. I yawn then he has to yawn and it keeps going back and forth. Im yawning right now even talking about yawning. I even bet you yawn at some point reading this. So I was curious to see what the yawning was all about and Googled it. Some interesting things came out of this.

• A 2007 study found that young children with autism spectrum disorder do not increase their yawning frequency after seeing videos of other people yawning, in contrast to typically developing children. This supports the claim that contagious yawning is based on the capacity for empathy. 

• In 2007, researchers (a professor of psychology) from the University of Albany proposed that yawning may be a means to keep the brain cool.

• Yet another hypothesis is that yawns are caused by a lack of O2 in the bloodstream, and that yawn reflex incorporates a "rush of oxygen" to the brain.

• Another theory is that yawning stretches the lungs and lung tissue. Stretching and yawning may be a way to flex muscles and joints, increase heart rate, and feel more awake.

• Speed skater Apolo Ohno yawns before races because it relaxes him.

While yawns are still largely a mystery, here are some things we know for certain:

• The average yawn lasts about six seconds.
• In humans, the earliest occurrence of a yawn happens about 11 weeks after conception – while we’re still in the womb.
• Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
• 55% of people will yawn within five minutes of seeing someone else yawn.
• Blind people yawn more after hearing an audio tape of people yawning.
• Reading or even thinking about yawning can cause you to yawn.

What ever the reason for your yawn, don't force it upon me please. It is like a tube of Pringles. Once I start, I can't stop.






Also in the Foy House:

We get cable TV again this Friday. We shut our cable off last year due to the simple fact of trying to save money, and to get more things done and not be a couch potato. However, with this excitement comes the anxiety of all the dust (we are putting in new outlets for wall mounted TV's and sutch), and having a stranger in my house. I know that the cable guy is a professional, my husband goes into peoples houses every day, but my husband also comes back with horror stories of peoples houses. I don't want to be one of the people that the cable guy goes home and smirks about to his wife. But I have to come to the simple understanding that we do live in a townhome and have two dogs and two children and both parents work full time. My house is never as clean as I want it to be. I guess I could admit to my house not being as crazy out of control and disgustingly messy as some of the houses I have seen in my Realtor years. Oh well, I'll live. I have more important things to worry about I guess, like what to watch with my new cable tv. woooo hooooo.

On a side note:
THE WEATHER IS NICE! A high of 71 today and a high of 75 tomorrow. I know its not much to brag about but, I am SO DONE with the winter weather! GIVE ME SUN!






P.S. I hope I didn't make you yawn too much with this one. Teeehheeee