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There are 1,385 Russian satellites currently in orbit. Only 96 of them are operational.
An eight month old kitten survived a seventy mile ride on the New Jersey Turnpike inside the wheel well of an SUV. Apparently, all she got was this crummy t-shirt:
A 41 year old woman recently married a dolphin in Israel. Thus, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Baby, you make me all wet."
On January 15, 1919, a 2,500,000 gallon tank filled with molasses burst in Boston. The 15 foot wall of molasses traveled through Boston at 35 mph, smothering 21 people and injuring 150.
Some of the companies that claimed they were harmed in the 9-11 attacks, AND actually received government money for it, were: a Virgin Islands perfume shop, a Utah dog boutique, and a South Dakota radio station. Over 100 Dunkin' Donuts and Subway Sandwich shops in various nationwide locations also applied for assistance. Thus, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "People are assholes".
The US Patent Office is so backlogged that Apple is still waiting for its patent on the iPod.
Scientists at MIT's Media Lab have invented an alarm clock that makes even the laziest of sleepers, those who repeatedly hit the snooze button, leap out of bed. After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with padding and a set of wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room. Each day, the clock finds a new place to hide.
Yoshiro Nakamatsu, a Japanese inventor, has been photographing and analyzing every meal he has eaten for more than 34 years. Hmmm...maybe I should start doing that...I can't even remember what I ate for breakfast and that was a whole hour ago.
John Mainstone of the University of Queensland continues to monitor an experiment that began in the year 1927, in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly dripping through a funnel at a rate of around one drop every nine years.
A pet insurer in Britain has estimated that the average dog costs about $48,000 to look after over the course of its lifetime.
Newcastle University scientists studied locusts; specifically electrically monitoring the activity of locusts' brain cells while they were watching selected highlights from the film "Star Wars". And the results were conclusive: Newcastle University scientists really need to get out once in a while.
Russia has 160 deaths for every 100 live births. The population of Russia has fallen by 5,000,000 in the last ten years.
Total annual spending on weddings has risen to $125 billion, according to a recent survey by the Fairchild Bridal Group. This is as much as Ireland's yearly gross domestic product.
Bats that have bigger testicles have smaller brains. Not too incredibly shocking, is it? After all, most Humans that have testicles have smaller brains, too. Or act like they do, anyway.
In Gevas, Turkey, over 1,500 sheep jumped off a cliff. Only 450 died, however, as the last thousand or so fell on a soft, billowy, white pile of the first 450 dead sheep...
The Hanna, Oklahoma, High School basketball team lost 112 - 2 to the Earlsboro, Oklahoma team. "It was embarrassing to watch," Earlsboro coach Jim Walling said. "But you can't just tell your kids not to score."
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that up to 32% of scientific studies may be inaccurate or misleading. However, 29% answered "Not sure/Don't care", so there is a 5% chance of inaccuracy and/or error for the study. Or was that 6%...
A Santiago, Chile restaurant named "Car Crash" had to close temporarily because a car crashed into it.
Employees of a television company had worked for weeks setting up more than 4,000,000 dominoes for an attempt at the Guinness World Record for falling dominoes. A sparrow flew through an open window and knocked down 23,000 of the dominoes before it was shot to death.
The Dutch Animal Protection Agency demanded prosecution for the shooting of a sparrow which knocked over 23,000 dominoes.
A police officer responding to an emergency call of a man struck by a car accidentally ran over the victim with his cruiser, authorities said. Investigators were uncertain whether the victim was already dead when he was struck a second time by the police car. DOH!
The manager of a Hungarian supermarket told his staff to drastically lower the price on beef tenderloin, then told his wife to come in and buy 47 pounds of it. Authorities are trying to determine if the events are connected. Well, DUH. Who the hell do they got working this case--- the PCPD?! Sat, Dec. 17th, 2005, 11:30 pm
More odd facts
Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, NJ, and his wife, Bonnie, was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 a.m., the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window was closed. DOH!
In England and the American colonies, the year 1752 only had 354 days. It was in that year that the type of calendar was changed, and 11 days were lost.
Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.
When is your sister just like your mother? When she IS your mother:
While preparing a story on the star of Chinatown, which was just being released, a Time reporter called actor Jack Nicholson in June of 1974 to confirm some family facts...Was it true that his sister June, was in fact his mother? And that his father lived in New Jersey?
Nicholson was stunned. The 37-year old actor had grown up thinking that June, 17 years his senior, was his sister. She was actually his mother, and Jack was the illegitimate child she had as a teenager. His grandparents raised him as their own, and neither his birth mother, nor his grandparents/parents, gave away her secret, even on their deathbeds. The truth was verified the same year, by his aunt Lorraine, June’s sister.
He’s not the only star to discover a re-arrangement of the family tree. Singer Bobby Darin, who at 32-years of age in 1968 was considering a career in politics, got a similar shock when his sister confessed that she was in fact, his mother. Knowing that politics called for complete disclosure, he went back to his musical career, which ended all too soon in 1973, when Darrin failed to take antibiotics before a dental treatment, and he succumbed to heart failure.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
In 1947, heavy snow blanketed the Northeast, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the severe weather was blamed for some 80 deaths.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Strange, but real, names of some American towns:
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Pickles Gap, Arkansas---This quaint little Ozark village gets it unique name from the legend of a German immigrant crossing the creek and overturning his wagon load of pickles.
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Oddville, Kentucky---The name was apparently an attempt to satisfy the postal authorities with a unique name for the post office, whoch opened in 1851.
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Coolville, Ohio---Named for the late Calvin Cooley. Whoever that was.
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Bowlegs, Oklahoma---Named for Seminole Chief, Billy Bowlegs.
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What Cheer, Iowa---Named for an Indian greeting to white settlers. The phrase, which appears in Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest", was adopted from the Puritans by Indians in New England.
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Smut Eye, Alabama---Couldn't find information on how it got its name, but I'm sure that our imaginations, in this case, are more exciting than the truth.
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Slapout, Oklahoma---The name is said to have come from a local storekeeper's expression that he was "slapout" of whatever item was asked for.
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Beaver Lick, Kentucky---I ain't even touching that one...
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Big Bone Lick, Kentucky---..this one either...what IS it with Kentucky??? LOL!
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Why, Arizona---The unusual name of this town comes from the fact that two major highways, Arizona 85 and Arizona 86, originally intersected in a Y-intersection.
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Whynot, Mississippi---Well, really, if you've already got a "Why" somewhere, you'll invariably find a "Whynot."
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Chicken, Alaska---Due to the large number of ptarmigan (native chicken-like birds) in the area, the name suggested for the new city in 1902 was actually "Ptarmigan" itself. However, no one could agree on the spelling, so "Chicken" was adopted instead, to avoid embarrassment.
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Devil's Elbow, Missouri---Situated on the Big Piney River, the town was named for a particularly bad place in the river known as a "devil of an elbow".
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Gnaw Bone, Indiana---Initially named after Narbonne, a town located in the south of France, the English settlers at the time translated what they thought they heard, literally, and just ended up spelling it how it sounded: Gnaw Bone.
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Peculiar, Missouri---So named by the town's Postmaster, when told by the town's founding fathers: "We don't care what you name it, as long as it's sort of peculiar."
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Monkey's Eyebrow, Arizona---There are several legends regarding the origin of this town's name, but most people think it originated from a local crescent-shaped hill. Apparently, when the grass grows tall, it looks very similar to a monkey's eyebrow.
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Toad Suck, Arkansas---Folklore suggest that this town's name originated from the fact that rivermen used to suck on their whiskey until they swelled up as big as toads.
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Zzyzx, California---Pronounced 'zai-ziks' (rhyming with "Isaac's"), this town was named in 1944 by Curtis Howe Springer, claiming it to be the last word in the English language. He established the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa at the spot...which, incidentally, was *federal* land of which he had no permission to use. He continued using Zzyzx until 1974, when he was arrested by the United States Marshals for misuse of the land, as well as alleged violations of food and drug laws. The land of Zzyzx was then confiscated by the Federal Government. LOL...only in California... Fri, Dec. 2nd, 2005, 08:34 am
Wed, Nov. 30th, 2005, 12:21 am
 You are BART! You are a very sly theif. You can pick any lock, find any trap, but you couldn't use a knife to butter a piece of bread. You are the exact opposite of your cousin who is a warrior. Not only is he a warrior but he's stupid. You enjoy picking on him especially when he doesn't understand what your just said. Aside from your thieving skills, you also are power hungry. All in all though, you are a very easy going guy. Object: Endless decanter of Tequila. Which DnD character are you? brought to you by Quizilla
There's ALWAYS something, isn't there?? ---- Clark Gable sent female hearts all a-twitter when he removed his shirt in It Happened One Night to reveal a bare chest. When he portrayed Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, women couldn't understand what in the world was wrong with Scarlett O'Hara when she dissed him. But in real life, Gable's fans might've been disheartened to know that his ill-fitting dentures gave him unbearably, rotten, fetid BAD BREATH.
HOW COLD WAS IT?? -- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There's no "Betty Rubble" included in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. What??? Nobody's sued them yet?? Shocking.
Superman had a pet monkey named Beppo.
Technically speaking, there are actually only 46 states in the U.S. --- Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are commonwealths.
Egyptians used urine tests to diagnose pregnancy as early as the 14th century. -- (OLTL Moment-of-Clarity: OOH!! I get it now!! It's some secret society, made up of decendants of those wacky, pre-gynecological Egyptians, who killed Cuh-Rayzee Margaret. After all, she was threatening their technology with her knowledge on how to diagnose pregnancy so soon after sex that it's still hot and running down the inside of your thighs.)
File this one in the "MAN...Rube would have TOTALLY kicked ass!" category: Farting contests were held in ancient Japan. Prizes were awarded for loudness and duration.
There are 10 inkblots on the standard Rorschach test ... and how does that make you feel?
POOR SHMUCK!! --- In Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1993, Sipho William Mdletshe was severely injured in a traffic accident and was declared dead...but he wasn't. Mdletshe, 24, spent two days interred in a metal box in a mortuary until his cries eventually convinced mortuary workers something was wrong. They opened the box and found him still alive, but ti was too late --- Mdletshe's life was ruined. His fiancee believed him to be a zombie who had come back from the dead to haunt her ... and she refused to see him ever again.
It takes 4000 grains of sugar to fill one teaspoon.
Here kitty, kitty, kitty... Democrats are more likely than Republicans to own a cat.
75% of stage and screen actors do not use their real names.
File this in the "No wonder my ass is big" category: There are enough calories in a Big Mac to run a vacuum cleaner for 98 minutes. Damn.
HUH?!?! The traditional gift for a 44th wedding anniversary is ... groceries. Whoda thunk?
Al Capone's business card proclaimed sweet Al to be a "used furniture dealer". Sure ... and Sonny Corinthos says he imports "imitation Tide"....*cough*
New meaning to the word "fast food": Sweden has a "ski-thru" McDonalds.
Yet another reason why I don't ever want to live there: The official state dance of Utah is the Square Dance. Yee-haw.
After a three-week vacation, your IQ can drop as much as 20%. Boy, I know of a LOT of people who've been on "vacation" for a while, lol.
Lions and tigers can't "purr". But cougars can. I <3 kitties.
The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover 10 football fields.
There are only four countries on Earth with one-syllable names: Chad, France, Spain, and Greece.
For those who planning any American cross-country trips in the near future, be sure and make a note of these odd laws. Wouldn't wanna have to bail any of ya out, lol  :
- In Minnesota, it's illegal to cross state lines while you've got a duck on your head.
- In Maine, it's illegal to walk down a street with your shoelaces untied.
- In Pennsylvania, it's illegal for a man to purchase alcohol without written consent from his wife. Hah! That's the coolest thing I ever read. GO P.A.!!!!
- In Idaho, a citizen is FORBIDDEN by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 lbs. BOO IDAHO!!!
- In Huntington, West Virginia, it's TOTALLY illegal to beat your wife --- unless, of course, it's done in public, on a Sunday, and takes place on the courthouse steps.
- In North Dakota, it's illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on. Breakin' the law, breakin' the law....
- By law, everybody in Vermont must take at LEAST one bath a week. Are people in Vermont so stinky that there really has to BE such a law?? Somehow, I stink not --- pun intended. Bwaa-haa-haa...I kill me.
- In the big city of Los Angeles, it's illegal to hunt for moths under a street light...and then?
- In Alaska, it's illegal to look at a moose from the window of an aircraft or another flying vehicle. It's also illegal to push a live moose out of a moving aircraft. Uh...a'ight.
- No Dum-Dums for you!! --- In Washington State, ALL lollipops are banned.
- In Milwaukee, residents must keep their pet elephants on a leash while walking them on public streets. Man...think of the pooper scooper you'd need for a walk around the block...
- A law in Kirkland, Illinois, forbids bees from flying over their town. So, who laid down the law with the bees, and how did they take it?
- In Michigan, a man LEGALLY owns his wife's hair. So, who gets custody of the hair in the divorce? Do you at least retain visitation rights?
- And finally, don't forget that you can be fined up to freakin' $500 smackeroos in Chico, California, for detonating a nuclear device within city limits. And for extra measure, they've enlisted the help of cockroaches, who are going to be all up in your bidness until you pay your fine...to all those micro-fried law-makers and -keepers. So, like, they've REALLY got you by the tight curlies there, dude. Just say no, and back away from the big red button.
I remember hearing once that if you ask anyone, who was alive and aware during the early '60's, if they remember where they were when they heard the news that President Kennedy had been shot and/or killed, almost every single one of them could tell you exactly what they were doing when they heard. And you know, it's the same way with 9-11.
I remember that morning to a "T". I remember getting up as normal, getting Joe ready for school and Kaelan dressed, driving Rube to work, and almost ALWAYS, we had the radio on. But that particular day, for some reason, we didn't turn it on. I dropped him off and started going back into town. I dropped Joe off at school, and started back home. It was then that I finally realized that the radio wasn't on. I turned it on, and they were talking about "the plane hit earlier this morning ..." and it was so weird because at that moment, I could see a plane circling overhead. headed towards our airport And I, not knowing yet what was really going on, thought that it was a local thing--that a plane HERE had crashed or something.
But then, as I pulled into the driveway, I understood that it was New York, it was the WTC buildings. I remember rushing to get Kaelan's carseat out of the car, rushing into the house and flipping the TV on to ABC. I remember watching, and just feeling horrified, with goosebumps on my arms, when they showed the footage of the planes hitting the buildings. I was watching hundreds of innocent lives destroyed in those seconds of impact. Then there were the jumpers. I still wonder if they were jumping because they were hoping that maybe they would survive the fall, or if they wanted to die on their own terms instead of waiting around to burn up. That all this was real, that this was actually happening, just seemed so unreal to me.
About 20 minutes into it, the first tower fell; the other one, shortly after that. Scenes of smoke-filled chaos filled my screen. And it still seemed unreal...this couldn't be happening...in America. Stuff like this--the utter devastation and major loss of life--just didn't happen here. Stuff like this, happened in those other countries, those violent third-world ones we always saw on the news, in stories about guerilla warfare and taking hostages. Stuff like that just didn't happen in America.
Innocence lost, indeed.
My TV stayed glued to ABC. and mostly Peter Jennings, for 3 days straight. It was the first thing I turned on in the morning, and the last thing to go off at night.
I still find the events of 9-11 so incredibly sad. I found a site once that listed ALL the victims' names, occupations, where they lived, and ages. It was heartbreaking to see the amount of innocent people, especially children, on that list. I copied them down in Word, then spaced the entire list in double columns, so I could fit twice the amount of names on each page...and do you know, when I printed it out, in size 8 type, it still took over 100 pages to print? It was so sad to see that, and to know that all those names, all those people, sometimes ENTIRE FAMILIES (mommies, daddies, and tots) were gone. To know that each and everyone of those people had left behind HUNDREDS of people who grieve for them---wives, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, co-workers, etc...
Too many times, on the net, I see the words "We remember 9-11."
As if we'd forget?
Until next time,
Sarah
Fri, Sep. 2nd, 2005, 08:53 am
 - You Are The Outlaw"Sure, I'll do it. My
way."Just because you do not conform to the same laws and rules as everyone else does not mean that you are a bad guy. You travel your own path, separate from those around you, with your own reasons for doing what you do. Because of this and your own nature, it goes without saying that you are generally misunderstood. That does not matter much, though, as people love you for being who you are. You are pretty well set in your ways and have no real intention of changing. This can come across as a flicker of arrogance if your not careful. You do what is right for you, and God help anyone who stands in your way. Which Classic Story Role Do You Play? brought to you by Quizilla
Joe Normal
47 % Nerd, 39% Geek, 34% Dork |
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored less than half in all three, earning you the title of: Joe Normal.
This is not to say that you don't have some Nerd, Geek or Dork inside of you--we all do, and you can see the percentages you have right above. This is just to say that none of those qualities stand out so much as to define you. Sure, you enjoy an episode of Star Trek now and again, and yeah, you kinda enjoyed a few classes back in the day. And, once in a while, you stumble while walking down the street even though there was nothing there to cause you to trip. But, for the most part, you look and act fairly typically, and aren't much of an outcast.
I'd say there's a fair chance someone asked you to take this test. In any event, fairly normal.
Congratulations!
If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback!
Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Professional Wrestling
Love & Sexuality
America/Politics
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST |
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Sun, Aug. 28th, 2005, 01:01 pm
Sun, Aug. 28th, 2005, 12:57 pm
Ahhh...it feels SO good to be home again. I have really missed this! And all of you guys!
Moving day was a bit of a, well, shocker and nuisance. I was all packed up and ready to go that morning. But, when we came that morning with our first load, we were a bit pissed off to see that not only were the previous owners not gone yet, they were hardly even packed up. Not joking. They whined and complained that they'd had no one to help them pack their stuff, blah blah blah... But come on. They've known since like March that we were going to buy the place. You'd think that two months notice is plenty of time to have at least started packing crap up.
Anyhoo, since we only had the moving van for a day, and we HAD to get our stuff moved over, we shoved all their living room stuff into a corner and started filling that space with all our boxes and stuff.
They got a little huffy that we were being so pushy to get them out of OUR house, and you know, I *might* have had a little more compassion for them and their situation...IF they had not TRASHED MY HOUSE. Seriously. Apparently, once they knew we were buying the house, they decided that they no longer had any vested interest in the house, and they didn't lift a finger to do ANYTHING around it. When they finally left, the next morning, the house was trashed.
They hadn't bothered to clean up anything before they left, and looking around more, I don't think they had bothered to clean much when they lived there, either. The walls were just so gross with dirt, smoke stains, and boogers, which took forever to clean up with it being such a big house. THANK GOD for Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. Seriously. I cannot sing their praises loud enough. They do such an awesome job of getting rid of the grime without having to use harsh cleansers or scrubbing for hours. If you've never tried them, do yourself a big favor and check them out. You'll be running around literally LOOKING for something to clean because they're just so awesome.
They had let their dog go all over the upstairs carpets to the point that we HAD to literally rip out the carpet in a couple of the rooms because the smell was just so strong and fetid. Thankfully, there was some nice hardwood floors underneath. A little cleaning, smoothing, and refinishing, and it's all good there. The rest of the house we shampooed and ICK...I don't think they ever vacuumed, lol. It was just grody. But after the deep-cleanings, and lots of vacuums, I think they're okay until we can replace them. Although there is hard wood floors under them, but they're not in as good condition as the other floors were. I think we're going to look into how much it would cost to get them refurnished, but if it's too much, might just go for new carpet until we can afford it.
Anyhoo, yeah, the place was just so dirty, the more I got to looking. And I had to get everything cleaned good so we could start unpacking and move things in. So, I cleaned, cleaned, cleaned. Then unpacked and moved things in and around. Cleaned some more.
Along with the cleaning, we had issues with Ozzy. Boy, did we have issues. He was NOT happy about the move at all. The first two days, he holed up on a shelf in the laundry room. With his back towards me. He wouldn't move at all, save to eat, drink, and use the potty. When I tried to pet him, he moved higher on the shelf. He was pissed. Finally around the third day, he let down his guard a little. He was still a little spooked, though, so he mainly hung out in the laundry room or downstairs. It was about a week before he finally set foot upstairs on his own. It was nice to see him a little more relaxed and at ease.
But, of course, around that time, came his check-up. Whereupon it was discovered his mouth was pretty well full of rotten teeth. He had to have ALL his teeth pulled save 7. He's got the 4 canines and 3 smaller teeth left. Poor guy. When we got him home, all he did was hole up on the laundry room shelf again for a few days. Then he pissed on the bathroom throw rug twice. The vet thing really set him back.
But it's all good now. Having virtually no teeth hasn't seemed to bother him, now that his mouth is healed. He's back to eating dry cat food, with an occasional pouch of soft food now and then. He's also doing great outside! I let him out about 3 weeks after we moved, and the furthest he's gone, so far, has been the back alley. Normally he hangs out under the truck, or on the front porch.
Chessie is ecstatic. She has a huge yard now, and she is LOVING it! All that room to run around in, and with the kids playing more with her now that it's summer, she's in hog heaven. With her, the only problem we've had is her barking at the new neighbors, but dogs are *supposed* to bark at strangers when they come past their owners' house, so it's all good. Neighbors are probably less than thrilled, but so far, none of them have said anything so... ?
So, anyway, yes. I'm all moved in, unpacked, and happily ensconsced in my new home! No pics yet, mainly because I honestly have not had the time to take any. But when I do, I will post them here.
I'm really looking forward to updating this more often again, now that home life is back into some sort of routine, and I finally have computer time again. Woot! Now I just need to pencil in TV time so I can catch up with the ABC soaps! I haven't watched since the end of MAY. I check out headlines on the ABC soap mags when I'm in line at the Wal-mart checkout, and I know just from that, that I've missed alot. Something about Ryan, and Greenlee taking his sperm without his permission on AMC...Hayes being the OLTL Killing Club Murderer (I KNEW IT!!!)...and TIIC at GH retracting Mikey's confession and pinning it on Rachel instead...I think the futuristic dramatic appeal of Mikey having off his daddy was MUCH better than a two-bit blonde having done the deed, but whatever.
Until next time,
Sarah
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