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Sat at 8:30PM - go electricity free for an hour. we may try doing this. I think I'll talk to mac about it tonight. If we time it right he could already be in bed. Then again, we may move to try going an hour free in the middle of the day.

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Happy Birthday to Allyson!

Happy birthday Allyson!

I wouldn't call my Forester compact, but it's Not Large, and it's AWD, and gets mid-20s mpg.

I bought my Forester while I still had my 1992 Honda Accord and guess what? The Forester has a smaller footprint! But the '92 Accords were pretty long and mos def not "compact".

'Cause if so, yeah, total ideal car for me. Except you know, for the price. In general hybrids wouldn't be that great for us because 95% of our driving is highway at 75. We never brake. Okay, obviously not never, but not often.

Maybe the Suzuki SX4 might be a better fit.

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Don't know much about it, but it combines cheap and efficient for an AWD car.

Afraid of What!? Strange Fears of Things that Don’t Even Exist

There is a picture of two women in pasties, so it's possibly borderline NSFW

12. Automatonophobia: Fear of wax statues, ventriloquist dummies

13. Gnomophobia: Fear of gnomes

Gnomophobia is the fear of garden gnomes. Of course no one is afraid of a garden gnome if they realize that it’s an inanimate object. However, some people are afraid that the gnome may come to life and attack them. Perhaps this is a childhood fear that some people never grew out of.

15. Bogyphobia: Fear of the boogieman

Seriously, this is a true phobia. Sure, you may have feared the boogieman when you were a child, but some people don’t outgrow it. Some individuals have been known to have full blown anxiety attacks from fearing that the boogieman will get them.

I have Sleestak fear. And of My Little Pony dolls being controlled by an evil cat.

Do Mythbusters filming antics count as spoilers? 'Cause they just blew a bunch of windows out a mile from their site trying to blow Buster's socks off.

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Hee.

Happy birthday Allyson!!

Torchwood ghostie!

Awesome!

My officemates got KFC today and offered me some. Fried chicken is my total kryptonite! (If kryptonite was something that superman loved loved loved to eat!) My whole (tiny) office smells like fried chicken now. But I ate the pasta that I brought instead (whole wheat with swiss chard, onions, olives, golden raisins, toasted almonds, and some shredded parm...sounds weird but is delicous!).

It helps that boyfriend and I had really good fancy fried chicken before i left Chicago on Monday evening. Sadly what also helps is having been to the doctor this morning seeing what i currently weigh. bah!

Hmm. That Suzuki looks good except for the ride. Our roads are so bumpy that we need a smooth ride typical of a more expensive car. I'm crusing Jason's about.com site and there's some good stuff there.

But then I remembered there was some kind of car that, like, kicked down from 6 cylinders to 4 once you hit cruising speeds. Do you know what I'm talking about? 'Cause that would really work for us, I think.

I was at the doctor this morning, but did not get weighed. Huh.