mountainmelody

43 percent of American families spend more than they earn.

Yikes!

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yeah!

Gen Y

The apostasy from Christianity will not come about openly by everybody renouncing Christianity; no, but slyly, cunningly, knavishly, by everybody assuming the name of being Christian.

-Søren Kierkegaard

76% of people living in Alabama were born in Alabama.

Two mice just chased each other around and around the room--multiple times--while I was sitting here.

Hm.

The average American will spend nearly $800 on gifts this Christmas.

• read your mail
• call a friend
• eat a snack
• clip your fingernails
• make a shopping list
• change clothes
• take a shower
• clean the house
• take a nap
• read a book
• watch a movie

High-speed internet is not available here. But on the plus side, I get a lot of other stuff done while waiting for pages to load...

70 degrees set on the thermostat
55 degrees inside (after the heat has been running non-stop for hours)
17 degrees outside
6 degrees wind chill
4 blankets on the bed
3 pairs of socks
2 shirts
1 winter coat (inside)

If I wanted to live in Alaska/Minnesota/Siberia, I would have moved there! :P

Forecast:
55 degrees
0% chance of precipitation

Actual:
sleeting

All she ever does is extrovert!

Disclaimer: This post is not intended to represent any of the fine readers of this blog, or to imply that extroverts are in any way inferior to introverts. (I didn't want to put that part in writing.) ;)

Each commuter in the Birmingham area can expect to spend 27 hours a year stuck in traffic.

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

--quoted by Anne Lamott