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http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/quake.asp

Crime legend: After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a car thief was found crushed to death under a collapsed freeway overpass in the vehicle he'd stolen.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/bofafdic.asp

Rumor claims Bank of America will be dropping all FDIC coverage on interest-bearing accounts at the end of 2009.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/photos/largetree.asp

Photograph purportedly shows "the world's largest Christmas tree display."

grades in.
A, A, A, A-, B. I surprise myself holy crap.

going a long way to check out a car today. I'm nervous as all fuckin hell. and tired, because I'm so anxious sleep didn't work well.

arararara I'm already almost ready to go.

Gonna work on pullin my stereo deck outta my metro once it gets a tiny bit lite. cos the car I'm going to check out has only cassette, I has no adaptor what so ever, and it's a long drive to be CD-less. I could handle it, but yknow. where's the fun if I can't rock the fuck out to my musics? There's a Car Toys nearby so it'd be easy to grab a wire harness and rock that shit before headin home.

tho I think I'm about out of blank CDs. and I need to do some BURNIN.

OH. HAI THAR, DILAUDID. WELCOME BACK I HAVE MISSED YOU.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/hadcock.asp

E-mailed plea requests Christmas cards for a four-year-old boy said to be dying from leukemia.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/wreaths.asp

Photograph shows Christmas wreaths laid at headstones in Arlington National Cemetery.

As requested ...

It is much yummy - and super easy to make.

1/3 stick butter
2/3 C sugar
1 egg
1 C flour
2 C yellow corn meal
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 pint buttermilk

Cream butter, sugar and egg .. add everything else and combine. Pour into greased 9x13 pan and bake at 350 for about 30-45 minutes (until golden brown on top)
To serve, cut into pieces, add butter & maple syrup - and a side of bacon.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/photos/decorations.asp

Holiday display depicts a homeowner trapped by a fallen ladder while installing Christmas decorations.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/indexing.asp

Warning claims that Facebook now allows all of your private information to be automatically indexed by search engines.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/prayerday.asp

Photograph purportedly shows President Obama taking part in an "Islamic Prayer Day" observance at the White House.

Johnny cake is in the oven ... in half an hour I can start frying up bacon to go with it. Breakfast for dinner FTW!

While I was at the store I also picked up fixings to make crock-pot pot roast. I'll get to that later this week when I'm feeling far less ambitious in the kitchen. I <3 my crock pot. Toss everything in, set on low, go to work - when I come home, the apartment smells of good things, and I don't have to worry about cooking for the next few nights.

This is a good thing .. I'm feeling all kinds of lazy right now. Worked my ass off last week with all the "weather" that happened ... much overtime was had, and I was a busy little bee through all of it. It was so nice to spend the weekend curled up on my couch .. no radio, no TV, very little computer time .. and just veg. Relaxed with a good book all weekend long, savoring the silence, and the warm purring keetahn curled up behind my knees on the couch.

I'm finding I'm enjoying my solitude a lot these days .. which is wierd for me. Just a couple short years ago I wasn't happy unless I was surrounded by people. Out doing things every night. Now ... I crave the down time. I used to not understand when someone would tell me they were staying in alone for an evening ... and I'm understanding it more and more as I get older. Am I losing my patience with people? Probably. I will never be one of those anti-social people that can only be dragged out of their house kicking and screaming ... but I'm finding I don't constantly need to be surrounded by people to be happy.

Personal growth? Maybe. I'm hoping that I can crawl out of this soon tho. It's not really like me to be like this, and more than one person has asked me if I've been feeling "depressed". I don't honestly know the answer to that question. I don't feel an overwhelming sense of sadness, or that the world is just too hard to deal with ... but I also know that depression can manifest itself in different ways with different people. Is this behavior "normal" for me? Not in the slightest .. but at the same time, I'm not feeling a sense of "wrong" about it either. I guess I've always thought that if one was depressed that they were in many ways "unhappy" and felt a sense of "wrong" about things - how else would one know there was a problem worth the trouble of seeking help about if there wasn't something "off" about how they felt?

Maybe I'm just over-analyzing things. Maybe this is just a phase I need to go through to re-charge the batteries so to speak. Or maybe this is the start of a new "normal"? Or maybe .. there is a deeper reason for this new solitary existance that I just haven't found yet.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/elfrink.asp

Christmas cards are requested for a 7-year-old boy with terminal cancer.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/carseat.asp

Warning cautions that gangs are using bloody car seats to lure female motorists out of their vehicles as part of a "National Gang Week" activity.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/hackermail.asp

New variant of a warning that opening an e-mail message from a particular sender will provide a hacker access to your e-mail account.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/sharpton.asp

Did the Rev. Al Sharpton chide Tiger Woods for a lack of racial diversity in the mistresses he chose?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/28thamendment.asp

Proposed constitutional amendment seeks to require that laws apply equally to U.S. citizens and members of Congress?

so tired.

term's over.

bought myself a color knitting book as a prize. yay you did it. it's pretty much color theory as applied to knitting, and some very nice patterns. Tho I still don't have the guts to sweater it up. I'll get there, but that's a bit large of an undertaking for me right now. :P

so tired.

I miss my car. I feel very ... entrapped. often. I mean today I'd like. have gotten lunch and maybe coffee and come home, I was going to nap but forgot to (I got distracted by the internets and my new book), so now it's too late. But either way, aside from today. I got three weeks of break and ... yeah. nothing to do.

so very tired.

I want sushi. with hot tea and hot miso soup.

I want ... new yarn. pretty yarn. nice yarn. I need to finish christmas knits tho. I'm over half done with those. the only one I really have lined up is about 1/3 finished or so. maybe a lil less. I'm not good at deciding what length to make scarves. I have a hat in the makings but need to see if it'll even fit my sis' head. it's bigger than it woulda been, but the double yarn strands make it stretch less. I haven't worked on it in a week because I'm not even sure I should. if it's too small for my sis' head... I don't know any childrens to give it to. I'll prolly just frog it and start from scratch, add several stitches, and make it back into what it was supposed to be -- a birthday gift for someone with a ginormous head.
I also have another birthday gift I've yet to start. after christmas stuff. Then I'll start that. I've got everything I need for it. I have two ideas for it but one seems.... really tricky. I'm not sure it'd work. I'd have to try it and see, but I'm reluctant. Hats and I don't seem to get along (this one I'm working on is the THIRD FAILED HAT. THIRD. OF THREE. I have not successfully knitted a hat yet).

So tired.

stretched my ears. they got infected. well, one in particular. I wonder if has anything to do with the recurrent infection nearby in my gums. yay wisdom teeth. 9_9 just another month and those suckers are out and I don't have to worry about it any more. There's TMI for you.

uhhhm. so going to the bar tomorrow. where will I sleep... I don't know... bleh. I could just puss out and stay home and be miserable. we'll see.

questions? did I miss anything? probably. well. school, knitting, failed social life, failed stretch, failed car. no, that seems like it.

I want sushi.

so tired...


while I'm here, I need a knitting list.

Finished:
Paige Xmas
Who Scarf
Ruffle arm warmers
Anarchist's Beer Cozy
Coffee Cozies (2)
Oversized FailHat
Alex Xmas

In Progress:
Undersized FailHat
Ssn 13 Who Scarf (for sam)
Matt Xmas
Spirogyra wristwarmers
Throw Pillow of Rassilon

To do:
Moebius scarf (clearance yarns)
Paige B-day (Paige Xmas yarn)
Alex B-day (Alex Xmas yarn)
Coffee Cozies (infinite!) (stash yarn)
Slither Gloves (leftover Alex Xmas yarn)
Everything That Was Ever Knitted EVER. (a world's worth of yarn)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/footpowder.asp

About a mayoral election won by a foot powder.