I'll take the bebe for a minute. oh wait. (must plan next LA trip)

PERFECTLY NORMAL SIZED PERSON. I meant to type that yesterday.

Jesse, how does Brady end? they together?

I love you too, oh adorable Burrell!

I had dinner with ym mom's Best Friend of 40 years and her son, my BF from 6th grade, whom I haven't seen since high school. Pretty freaky, that. He has grown up to be a lovely man who has been married to his college sweetheart for 25 years.

Oh, I also brought the entire series of The Office and made my mom watch most of the episodes and the Special. She loved it, as I knew she would. Tim+Dawn 4EVAH!!!

bon, I support you in referring to yourself as Mama. FYI.

Ha! We can be disturb-o-rama 2gether.

Okay, so car:

We NEED a new one, but don't have much money, and I don't want to make monthly payments. Out of the blue, DH's Aunt and Uncle offer to sell us their Toyota Odyssey. It's a few years old, not sure how old, so we need to find that out. They seem to be offering a good deal, and since it's in the family, DH's other uncle would be willing to pitch in enough $ that we could buy it easily.

So, it's probably what will happen. But... but... I can't get myself excited about it. I know a minivan is going to be convienent, but it's also kinda drab. I fear the drabbification of my life. And I am kind tired of always taking someone else's cast offs.

I'd like to buy a new car, a car that's cute AND practical, but we don't have the money. And hey, it's my fault the money's not there. We could have chosen for our inheritance to be money, instead we chose the house, & with it a mortgage. And it seems silly to question that choice just because I'd prefer a new car. But that's where I am right now on the car.

Jesse, how does Brady end? they together?

Yeah, she bitched and moaned and gave him an ultimatum, and he cried, and they read poety, and it looked like he wasn't going to do it, and at the last minute, he came through with the ring. LIKE THAT WOULD HAPPEN.

I watched a ridiculous amount of that series.

Other recent cases of piracy: [link]

eta: more: [link]

Military applications of Silly String: [link]

No, really. They use it to detect booby traps (the kind with hard-to-see trip wires).

Pastafarians, rejoice! We're getting a Bible!

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Villard is paying an $80,000 advance to the creator of a religion designed to make fun of intelligent design. This summer, Bobby Henderson, 25, an unemployed slot-machine engineer, posted a much-forwarded open letter to the Kansas State Board of Education declaring that “there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design” on his Website. He contends that a huge, invisible beast made of spaghetti and meatballs created the world about 4,000 years ago (pasta of that vintage has been found in China, he points out). The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which will codify Pastafarianism, is set to come out on Valentine’s Day. “My hope is that readers won’t know if I’m trying to make a point about pseudoscience or if I’m a complete nut,” says Henderson. “I’ll be really disappointed if it doesn’t spawn a cult.”

and another take on cranberry sauce

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I don't know that I'd want another degree, but I'd love to have the time and money to take some sculpting classes. I'd also like a garage and/or studio space to work in.

Another thing I'd like is for the creepy-crawly things to stay out of my apartment. Twice in the last few days I've leaned back in my chair to discover spiders dangling directly over me and I just killed a very large, nasty, freaky centipede. Gah.