A WHALE OF A SHOW! Nah, it's just another post about whales.

Okay so today my grandpa showed me this book called Whale Communications. It's full of real life short stories about people communicating with whales. My grandpa had a story in there about him petting this ginormous orca whale while he was in his boat. He saw the pod and then POP SPLASH! It was right next to his boat!

YAH! I real life ginormous whale!!!

In the story he said that when he first saw it he was TEERRRIIIFFFIIEDD. But then he got this stange thought-feeling that said: don't be afriad. Watch my family.

I'm serial. It's pretty intense.

Then a ferry went by and people all over the boat started taking pictures of my grandpa. Smiling through his tears. Petting a huge whale.

Then, when the pod had passed, the whale left.

Okay, this is like SUPPPEERR EPIC if you ask me. Or probably anyone.

You might be thinking: LIES!!! at the moment, but whatevs cause I beleive it.

tata.

ps. this is just a random pic. but it is around orcas island.
I googled.

Babies are such a nice way to start people. -Don Herrold

Alright, I just gotta get this out before I start on the real scientific stuff (pffft uh-huh, sure)


HYSTERICAL PREGNANCY IS ONE OF THE WEIRDEST THINGS EVER!

OR ATLEAST I USED TO THINK SO. I STILL FIND THEM FASCINATING, BUT IV’E GROWN TO UNDERSTAND THEM MORE AND NOW THEY DON’T SEEM AS WEIRD.

BUT THEY ARE STILL WEIRD.

JUST NOT AS.



ahem.



Okay so let me give you the basics here: Hysterical pregnancy is when you are experiencing the symptoms of pregnancy but are not actually pregnant.

Sometimes doctors cannot even tell the difference.

18% of all women diagnosed with a hysterical pregnancy were told that they were pregnant by their doctors!

HA!

Well sorry lady but you’re actually not pregnant.

Geesh.

Anyways, one theory of the cause of hysterical pregnancy (which I personally believe to be true) is that hysterically pregnancies stem from a freakishly strong desire to become pregnant, or a freakishly strong fear that you will get pregnant. “This creates internal conflicts and changes in the endocrine system.”

(Endocrine system = the system of glands that produce endocrine secretions that help to control bodily metabolic activity)


(Secretions = the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance)

So pretty much your body actually gets so confused that it thinks that it is ACTUALLY PREGO!!

Whoa, right? Well, at least to me it’s whoa.

Oh yah and here’s something that I forgot: ANIMALS can get it too!! I’m too lazy to read the causes of it, but obviously it’s not the same as us Homo sapiens.

Oh and just so yah now what hysterical means: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion.

There are quite a few different terms for hysterical pregnancies:
Phantom pregnancy
Flase pregnancy
Pseudocyesis (scientific name)

So yah that pretty much covers another thing that STRUCK me EPIC.

It would make me feel much better if I knew they each owned a sweater

So it is 3:42 AM and I have decided to start a BLOG. My internet is not being a good internet so I’m typing this first on Microsoft WORD. As if that really matters.

Anyways, I am just going to jump right in.

I’m here this morning to talk about penguins.

Yes, you heard me: penguins; some of the most fascinating creatures out there.

You may be asking why at this point? Well, here’s why:

I was reading this book by Donald Miller called Blue like Jazz (I recommend it) and one chapter was titled PENGUIN SEX. Okay, now I don’t really remember why it was called that but it talked about something really fascinating so listen up cause here it comes.

You see, after momma penguin’s pop out their eggs, they shuffle them over to their mate to keep them warm. Then the mommas leave for a long time to go get food.

And this is where the magic happens.

Yah see, the momma penguins have got some kind of radar inside of them. They KNOW when their babies are gonna be hatching outta their eggs. They arrive back to their eggs and baby daddies sometimes the exact day that they hatch.

It’s crazzzzzy!!

Then they regurgitate the food they ate for their babies to eat.

Have you ever seen March of the Penguins? Well I did and it was freaking sad stuff. Geesh, penguins have to live through the harshest weather around AND they give up their food for their younglings.

Penguins are pretty much epic.

And when I say pretty much epic, I mean yah, they are definitely epic.

PSSSST. I gotta tell you this before I end this post. I got the title from a random poem I found about penguins.

I googled.