The Things You Learn

Interesting things I learned from this month's Aussie Cosmo:

• tampons are luxury taxed in Aussie.
• apparently the whole tshirt under your strappy dress is back. I wish it would have ended with the cancellation of Blossom.
• Hilary Duff is pretty cool despite the fact that she keeps saying she grew up and lost her baby fat instead of like dieting and exercising. Last I checked, puberty made me grow boobs and hips. Apparently I was experiencing reverse puberty.
• Greg Behrendt has a new book out (his last was He's Just Not that Into You) and so I want it.
• Long distance relationship will apparently work if you've got these two things in mind: if you think it'll work, that helps a lot and you need to constantly reassure each other. Ew. I vote no.
• According to this guide on how to read palms, I will be lucky, rich by the time I'm 50, do manual labour as a job, have two husbands, no children and will never travel overseas. Hm.
• drinking energy drinks while drinking alcohol makes you think you're more sober than you are.
• Jason Swartzman (Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees, Shopgirl, etc) was the drummer for Phantom Planet and composed the OC theme song.
• Vince Vaughn is an "embarrassing crush". (Here's my diatribe on that: I think he's great. He seems like a normal person who's just good at existence. Most Hollywood types are like a different breed with their designer duds, stylist, PR consultant, fake hair colour, body parts, etc. He's just a normal guy who happens to rule. You could hang out with him and you'd love it. So am I going to think he's an embarrassment because he's a little tall and a little chubby? No. Because I think he's gorgeous.)
• A woman went skydiving and her chute messed up. She hit the ground, full force, stomach first and lived. While in the hospital she found out she was newly pregnant. The baby lived too.

Don't you wish you kept up to date on your Australian Cosmo?!