Bon Bon, you might try saline solution - not the medicated nose drops, but the simple saline solutions you can buy in the same section.

Two and a Half men is the biggest problem for How I Met Your Mother, I think -- who that would watch HIMYM would be into TaaHM?

My parents, but then they're CBS' previous desired demographic: computer illiterate sixtysomethings.

The praying Calvin sticker is oft-seen around here, too. Maybe you NewYorkers don't see enough private autos/trucks? What with not spending a lot of time driving?

bon, hydrate excessively and get yourself a humidifier for home. I battle that all winter, including the dry eyes.

Pandas always bring out the lori.

Well, there's the big-belly habit, followed by the "I ate too much" habit, followed by the "loud argument" habit, followed by the "slamming doors" habit, followed by the "oh, God, we have to be here four more days?" habit.

Well, we've got one of those. Where's the family confessor gets really stressed out trying to manage everyone and make it shiney happy just to get fucking through it ?

Hah! I just got a holiday card from someone I've been helping (work stuff) over the past couple of years. That's really sweet of them!

Want Panda NOW.

I don't believe in bumperstickers.

Perkins, you know that creature was just bopping along somewhere in the backseat going wheeeeeeee!

Sarameg=mean.

Can the next thread be called "Why Do I Highlight Perkins' Whitefont?"

Sorry Jess. I should have warned you as well as Jilli.

I don't mean to mock your terror, but the synchronicity is too amusing not to laugh.

I KNOW! I laughed too.

Thanks guys. To be felled by excessively dry air after growing up in Phoenix-- it is a little bit humiliating.

Umm... so a group of college students on Ohio State University went around with supersoakers filled with oil, anointing as much of the university as they could in order to claim it for God.

Religion freaky.

Clearly I'm doing it wrong. I claim to be religious and all, yet here I am, living in a large bustling city, working for one of its biggest employers, and having been to all but one F2F, and yet I've never once Supersoaked a single soul with olive oil. Clearly I'm some kind of miserable heretic, or possibly just an abject failure. Or too clumsy to be trusted with a Supersoaker.

Praying!Calvin is all over the Bay Area, too, though I think he's outnumbered by Pissing!Calvin. And over the last four years both Calvins have been severely outnumbered by troop-supporting ribbon magnets and cranky I Still Love Kerry And You Can't Make Me Stop and Al Gore Is Still My Man stickers. But, though his numbers have dwindled severely recently, Calvin is indeed still praying and pissing, though never (that I can remember seeing) on the same car.

eta: The medicated nasal sprays are evil. I used some in desperation last night, and have been rattling the windowpanes with ferocious sneezes all morning. Saline spray, on the other hand, is a gift from the gods. Poor bon's nose!

JZ, you should take care of your nose as well. bon, maybe Saline will work for you too?

Maybe you NewYorkers don't see enough private autos/trucks?

This is likely true. At Thanksgiving last year, I was totally freaked out by the fact that it seemed like every single car on the highway had one of those magnetic ribbon things, and I had never seen one before! But then when I came back here, I looked at cars, and they did have one. I walk by cars all the time, obviously, but you just don't look at the back walking by like you do when you're in a car, too.