Yes, yes I am ( Read more... )

...and I just got a piece of information that may make reaching that goal much easier ( Read more... )

For months now, I have been told to keep my trap shut by Chad, Shannon, Lucy, and everyone else who has an outside stake in the continual bullshit that's been happening in the Popp household. This was done not only for my sake -- because we clearly know how emotional I get -- but for Laurie's and Kai's sakes, because anything I would have had to ( Read more... )

We're back, and we had tons of fun. Details can be found at our trip journal on Yahoo, which is the best vacation-planning tool I know of ( Read more... )

The Dark Knight is ten kinds of awesome. So, I give you ten semi-intelligent observations, cut for potential spoilerage:

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All of a sudden, I'm against dog breeders. This is somewhat strange, as we got Chasse from a breeder, but yeah...I found myself just now arguing vehemently with Crazy Dave about how he should just get a German Shephard from a shelter for cheap instead of shelling out $750 for a purebred, pedigreed dog ( Read more... )

Meet the newest member of our family, Penny!


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Read this article about funny numbers being reported by the Fed for the last twenty years. Or at the very least, read this excerpt:

If you put in the year-to-year change in unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare, the average deficit over the last four years has been about $4 trillion. To put $4 trillion into perspective, if the ( Read more... )

Wow. I've been really on the go this week. Here's a brief recap ( Read more... )

There will be a Webkinz goldfish come August.

I want it.

I am such a sucker for these things >.It is little consolation that I think Chad will insist on getting the skunk ( Read more... )