it would be totally sad to have a month with only two posts. so here! three! three posts! a-ha-ha-ha!

er. yeah.

i went over to my parents' house the other day, and we watched the episode of the muppet show with dom deluise in it. i laughed a lot. i like the muppet show. i think my sense of humor is stuck permanently at being seven. sometimes i get all the way to twelve. but really, seven is more common. (ask me about chickens and doors sometime. i dare ya.)

um. hi. been a while. i'm still here.

been having a slight bit of a rough patch, but all is well or going to be well soon. except for the bit where it has snowed roughly a GAZILLION inches this weekend, and while some nice men came by and shovelled my front walk (for money; they were both nice *and* entepreneurial), i shovelled the back walk and my (three foot long) driveway myself. and now i am all whiny and sore. soon i will crawl under my very warm covers and hope that the muscles in question will be happier tomorrow morning. because otherwise, oy, the limpiness.

yes. big wimp about shovelling, me. you knew that.

the other thing that is going on in my life is that i am not adopting a third dog. not me! not even going to go see him! he's a little tiny cute dog, they get adopted fast! someone else will adopt him! yes indeed!

uh, help me with this part, would you? i mean, really. i need a third dog *way* less than i need another hole in my head.

US savings plunge to Great Depression levels

Americans once again spent everything they made and then some last year, pushing the personal savings rate to the lowest level since the Great Depression more than seven decades ago.

The commerce department reported today that the savings rate for all of 2006 was a negative 1%, meaning that not only did people spend all the money they earned but they also dipped into savings or increased borrowing to finance purchases.

The 2006 figure was lower than a negative 0.4% in 2005 and was the poorest showing since a negative 1.5% savings rate in 1933 during the Depression.

people who still think the economy is recovering, raise your hands?

on the other hand, if you're simultaneously rich and a heartless bastard, it's probably possible to get really rich off of real estate over the next ten years or so...