I would totally say, "ha ha ha, we're having Spring and you're not" except that we're possibly getting snow sometime this weekend. . . although I don't think we're expecting a snowpacalypse.

Really not worth saying twice.

Has anyone here seen Blood Ties the series? I saw an ad for it in a magazine and want to know if it's worth checking out.

I liked the first one. Took some serious liberties with the book, but basically good. I didn’t like the characterization of Henry, and one of the big characters has been swapped out for a pretty goth girl, but I’ll keep watching.

i I've been forced to consider my wedding because my mother thinks about it often. If I don't shut down an idea immediately, she takes it as gospel.

You're totally going to do the naked-in-the-surf-at-sunset hippie wedding just to see how high her blood pressure can go, aren't you?

Nah, I want a traditional wedding. Although that would be fun :)

My foolproof method of mattress-buying is to go to the store in comfy clothes and lie down on each mattress, starting on the super-duper most-expensive model and working my way down until I can tell the difference. Then I buy the next-to-last mattress I've tried.

The reason for the existence of firm/extra-firm is that they'll last longer before getting saggy BUT you'll sleep better on softer ones. So it's a tradeoff of $$$ for comfort. As I've gotten older, I'm much more in favor of comfort.

My paralegal just made me laugh so hard just now: he always accuses me of never doing any work, and today he came into my office as I was halfway under my desk, taking off my socks. I sheepishly said, "this is what I do all day." He couldn't see what I was doing so he replied, "is there a ball of string under there?!"

If and when I move to an apartment with a corner tower, I'm hoping Ikea will still feature their round beds so I can fit one into the round alcove. Though depending on the traffic noise I might have to sleep with my pillows away from the windows rather than back against them.

My mattress is 10+ years old; I did not buy it myself; and I sleep best on the hardest mattress in the galaxy. Which mine still is, to date. (I once slept on a featherbed + mattress, and woke up with the worst back trouble in the world. Firm + me = happy.)

(Hec will now arrive and make discipline jokes about my back pain.)

My problem is putting the mattress on a futon frame. Those puppies squeak when you move on them. A lot. So, I should be in the market for a bed frame.

Firm + me = happy.)

(Hec will now arrive and make discipline jokes about my back pain.)

My problem is putting the mattress on a futon frame. Those puppies squeak when you move on them. A lot. So, I should be in the market for a bed frame.

I'm sure Hec won't make any jokes, how could anyone make jokes or read extra meanings into statements like those?

The mattresses I have had the best experiences with are not from the big names. I find a local mattress company and go test theirs. much cheaper from my experience.

A cool story about a totally awesome high school science chick: Teen wins $100,000 science scholarship

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (AP) -- A 17-year-old girl won a scholarship worth $100,000 for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of different molecules.

Mary Masterman, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, was named the winner Tuesday of the annual Intel Science Talent Search.

More than 1,700 high school seniors across the nation entered the contest, which is in its 66th year.

Spectrographs, which measure wave lengths, are used in research such as astronomy and medicine and in industry. For example, they can be used as a sensing device to look for explosives or drugs or to help determine how old an art work is through its pigments.

They can cost as much as $100,000, but Masterman's invention -- made of lenses, a laser, aluminum tubing and a camera -- cost less than $1,000, Intel said.

Go her! May she have a brilliant career ahead of her....