Mood:  on fire

Billy Talent is ah--mah-zing.

Anyways. On to the mater at hand.

I died my hair a blond-ish color. <3

Actually.... On the box it was blond, but since I had dark brown hair it turned out a lovely shade of strawberry blond.

Oh well. It's lighter. I'm happy.

XD The fourth of July is tomorrow! The United States of America will be ... -does math-...233 years old.

Random "Facts"

• Eleven places have "independence" in their name. The most populous of these is Independence, Missouri, with 113,288 residents.


• Five places adopted the name "freedom." Freedom, California, with 6,000 residents, has the largest population among these.


• There is one place named "patriot" — Patriot, Indiana, with a population of 202.


• And what could be more fitting than spending the day in a place called "America"? There are five such places in the country, with the most populous being American Fork, Utah, with 21,941 residents.

 I "copied/pasted" these from....

http://www.chiff.com/a/fun-facts-fourth.htm 

Facts from http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/011920.html 

The Fourth of July 2008**

On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. As always, this most American of holidays will be marked by parades, fireworks and backyard barbecues across the country.

2.5 million
In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the newly independent nation.
Source: Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 <http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html>

304 million
The nation’s population on this July Fourth.
Source: Population clock <http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html>

The facts kinda suck, but I wanted to include something on the subject.

Foot Notes:

** As it says, those facts are for July 4, 2008