So I'm looking at the registrations for the LOST party, and it's like, 10-1 women. I'm thinking that I could use this to my advantage, and charge boys $700 to register, because, yo, chances are good.

Nah, Alibelle, I've given that rant myself.

Bigger question, allyson, is are the goods chancey (or odd)?

Cash, I like how they are all huddled around the heating vent

They can be found on a vent or in my bed. Usually together. They overcome their differences in the winter.

My mom always shopped at a regional chain grocery store called Marsh Foodliner. Isn't that a great name?

With Ali on that rant.

Thanks, Kat. (And brenda.)

Now I really should go try and figure out how to fix our copy machine. Even though this really, really, should not be my problem. And yet, the machines always end up being my problem, for some reason. Bleh. Although the last equipment failure, to replace my broken keyboard, didn't work as well as I would have liked it to, since all it ended up getting me was a crappy, much older keyboard, whose keys must be pounded, and which feels slightly slimy to the touch. Yet, this keyboard is usable, and my old (newer) one was not. So I guess there's that.

My mom always shopped at a regional chain grocery store called Marsh Foodliner. Isn't that a great name?

When I was a kid, my mom shopped at Red Owl.

There's a big grocery store in Wisconsin called Woodman's.

I used to shop at Woodmans in Madison. Or Woodmans East, as maybe there was more than one (I don't remember).

Is it too late to weigh in on the Pizza toppings? My favorite under-rated topping is anchovies. (If by underrated you mean "hated and despised by most of my meatspace friends".)

That's weird, Allyson. Do we think of Lost as a girly show? Or is the hobbit factor skewing the data? Boys go to fandom parties, right?

About dog behavior, we're new dog owners, so Seabiscuit has pretty much learned sit and stay and that's it. In fact, if he ever gets the impression that you want something out of him, he immediately sits, because he figures that's what you always want, which has its disadvantages.

He's really good-mannered though, on the whole. He doesn't ever get up on our furniture because he's not allowed, but I did get up one morning at the SO's folks house this Christmas to find him sitting on the loveseat, pretty as you please, absolutely puzzled when I scolded him. We do let him on the bed, though, because we're huge freaking softies, which is a shame, because he's not a small dog.