...y'all don't drive around with the low fuel light on? I...feel like I live dangerously now. Then again, mine comes on when I still have an eighth of a tank.

I sure don't. My car tends to use gas pretty steadily from full down to 1/4 of a tank, but the needle is prone to stock market-esque drops past that point. I've gone from 65 miles of estimated fuel to the low fuel warning light on a 7-mile drive from work to home.

Timelies all!

I was driving with the low fuel light on all last night.(My fuel gauge has a tendency to go down quickly once it gets past 1/4 tank. I was also on a tight schedule, so I couldn't stop for gas at any point.) Luckily there was enough to get us home.

Research tidbit via Laura Hillenbrand:

Fun with World War II: On the coast of Britain in June, 1944, a little British ice cream truck took a wrong turn and got caught up in a stream of tanks and other war vehicles being loaded onto ships for the massive D-Day invasion. Unable to get it out of the way, the Americans loaded it onto a ship. On D-Day, amidst the carnage, the little ice cream truck rolled onto the beaches at Normandy.

...y'all don't drive around with the low fuel light on?

Sure, I walk around hungry all the time! Then I get home and top myself off with a Green Machine smoothie.

...y'all don't drive around with the low fuel light on?

My life is quite full enough with disasters that have no warning lights.

When the light comes on, I have about 15 miles left.

Just finished putting together the trivia game for tomorrow. Should be fun! For a good 3/4 of us anyway. The rest will indulge. There's food and drink; it's all good.

I will print in the morning. I am tired.

I ran out of gas twice in my first car, both times in the middle of nowhere on the highway (pre-cell phone). The first time I had my car packed full to go to college, so I didn't get the mileage I normally did. The other time my transmission was failing, which also screwed with the mileage. Anyway, I don't tend to let the gauge go too far under 1/4 tank very often.

Allyson, she's adorable as WW.

Today has been a DAY! We had to go box store shopping wherein I spent $200 on things like protein powder (for Grace) and a new dish drain and lotion and food. Then Noah's soccer game. Then lunch and a trip to Lands End so I can have semi-professional clothes. Then an aborted trip to laminate at Lakeshore. Then Grace's soccer game. Then a 5 mile walk (!!).

In between was putting up all the folded clothes and dealing with kids. ARGH. Tired.

I just received a present that might be more frightening than Belinda. OMG.

It's a purse. Supposedly. Or a backpack. But...it's a fake leather BDSM mummified person thing? With a ball gag and blindfold? It's FREAKY looking. And not in a good way.

It's a purse. Supposedly. Or a backpack. But...it's a fake leather BDSM mummified person thing? With a ball gag and blindfold? It's FREAKY looking. And not in a good way.

We're going to need pictures. Because that's some freakass shit.