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.

I'll go by the store and look again, and if it is, what better (read: cheaper) way to enter the world of Coach?

There's always the Coach outlet store in Cabazon. Though I'm not sure what kind of gift certificate you have so I don't know if that'll work there.

I put a small, tasteful American flag sticker on my car after 9/11. Right next to the Miskatonic Alumni Association bumper sticker. I refuse to get any more political than that, and a simple flag can mean a great deal of things, such as "This is my country too, dammit, and I'm not surrendering it to goofballs like you."

Hi again, I came back to read what I'd missed. Should still be working...

Just out of curiosity, if it's OK to ask - why do you choose to wait that long? If it's not an OK question to ask, then I apologize in advance.

Nope, ask away, I don't mind. A couple of reasons. We need to save money, since we'll be paying for the wedding ourselves most likely. I'd rather wait longer, save more money, and have a cooler wedding. Also, we both wanted it to be in the summer, and I don't want to try to throw together a wedding in time for THIS summer, that would be WAY too stressful. Besides, I'm kinda liking this engaged thing. No need to rush. Oh, and the wedding etiquette book I was reading yesterday said that the average engagement is 14 months. Mine will be more like 18 months, but still, that's not too much longer.

You are going to be the adorbalist bridezilla EVAH!

Thanks! You'll forgive me if I don't encourage my guests to eat candy necklaces of each others necks without using their hands... :)

This is what I do, and the only weird thing about it is that when people say "What a beautiful ring" I feel compelled to tell them "It's my engagement ring," because that's a big part of what makes it so beautiful to me, and then they go, "Oh! Congratulations!" and there's an awkward moment when I say, "Oh, um, no--we're already married. It's just. Um. That's my engagement ring." Then I feel crazy and they're sorry they asked. So when people compliment you just say THANK YOU full stop.

Check. :)

CV, WOW! That's amazing. Man, I remember when you guys were just flirting.

Believe it or not, that was three and a half years ago! This was our fourth Christmas together!

Thanks for all the congratulations and I will now take myself away so as not to drive everyone nuts with my ridiculous bouncy happiness! :

Though I'm not sure what kind of gift certificate you have so I don't know if that'll work there.

The sort that means I have to order off a work website.

Still, it is possible for addiction to ensue, so recommendation (yours and Plei's) noted.

anointing as much of the university as they could in order to claim it for God.

What, were they out of flags?

"I claim this university in the name of YHWH!"

"But....this is OUR university! You can't just claim it, not even for a deity!"

"Well, do you have a FLAG?"

"Damn!"