We got collars with bells for the kitties today ( Read more... )

I have the urge to bake and bring in a pie to share with the guys at work, and I'm trying to pinpoint the true motive.  Is it a hormonal nesting urge?  Or is it because my appetite has returned and I'm starting to think about food almost all the time again?

Regardless, I'm hungry and need a nap.  The pie will have to wait.

...her abuse of the english language via dangling participle.

Since we're sitting in the midst of wedding reception "bliss" here in our house, tired, eating bacon (hooray for my appetite returning just in time!), I'm inclined to keep the chitter chatter about the day brief.

It was really fun!  Keeping it simple was the way to go, and miraculously the weather cooperated.

The inflatable obstacle course and ( Read more... )

Today the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the strip search of a 13 year old girl, conducted by school officials looking for Advil in her underwear, violated her constitutional rights.

Anyone else laugh like Beavis & Butthead at the fact that the lone dissenter was Justice Clarence Thomas?

I can't wait to hear Nina VanTotenburg's report on this one.

Shopping for wedding dresses can be downright depressing.  You have to sift through tons of crap.  That's all there is to it.

Sometimes, the choices are simply baffling:


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Dear Town of Pembroke,

Was the snowplow *really* necessary?

Thanks for rubbing it in, and making sure the end of the driveway is covered in a good solid inch of plow crud.

Phelps Road Citizens For Let's-Get-On-With-Spring-Already

From page 31 in IRS Publication 525 regarding Miscellaneous Income:

"Bribes.  If you receive a bribe, include it in your income."

Just in case any former governors of the state of Illinois are reading, you would report that on line 21 of your 1040.

If you have any questions about how to report income from kickbacks, check out page 34.

To quote Toad (from Frog and Toad Are Friends):

"Blah!"

I am up, but my body is definitely not happy about it.  Now to bring in the steaming hot cavalry.

Saturday is not for thinking.  Or writing reports.  Or analyzing data.

Especially Saturdays that are sunny.

This Exercise in Futility has been brought to you by Skittles.