I used to mess with a bunch of those “make money taking surveys” websites. Now, I do only a couple, one of which gives me points just for walking into stores I already have to go into for work. Two seconds to open an app, (cash value of the points: 10-20 cents, works out to about $180/hr) and I’m good.

The general opinion is A. My personal opinion is A'.

There's always Realfact or Goodfact.

There is a woman I dislike. Something in me stands up and shrieks like a tribble in a room full of Klingons when she walks in the door. I have no reason for this. I've been analyzing the phenomenon for years. She is never anything but nice to me. But red-alert klaxons and a need to bolt fill my mind when she opens her…

Now save us money if we're already doing all that, buying in bulk, couponing only on things that are cheaper than the lowest price when the coupon is used and shopping at off-brand groceries and salvage stores.

Sorry, it's always the same advice. Nobody has the "Cut you're food bill when you're already at $200/month…

I did. Homophobic church. Child molesting uncle. Abusive stepfather. Stultifying small town. It's all in there I have friends who call the first 1/3rd "Angel's religious issues, let her show you them."

I find it interesting that much of the South is still orange. the places that have any green are cities, usually with universities in them: Fayetteville AR, Nashville and Oak Ridge TN, Huntsville AL. I live in one of the deep orange counties (Just up the road from Lee County, I used to deliver auto parts there) and…

I worried about getting a prius. My husband and I are both 6' tall, and have a pair of 6'3" sons, and a wide-hipped daughter. But it turned out to be very comfortable, with adequate room for everyone. Not much power, but 53-57 mpg, and no gas burnt while stuck in construction zones helps. It can do up to 80. (shh, he…

Gas prices in my city are varying by as much as 25cents a gallon. I have a general pricepoint in my head (what my local grocery is charging), and if I see cheaper gas when I am out and need some, I will fuel there instead. I don't go out of my way, it's more a "Hey, I'm at a quarter tank and they're 15 cents cheaper…

I think a year is a better gauge, especially with seasonal stuff. No, I haven't worn my my Halloween socks or tee-shirts in 6 months. But I will come fall. (of course that falls under "fits and looks great")

I use it for a variety of things: recipes, crafts, writing tools, tracking the books and movies I consume and the crafts I make each year. I use it as a photo album for novel-casting, and to find weird and unusual ideas for stories. I use it to find new and interesting things about my faith. I like Pinterest a lot.

Or Southern Missouri. (mizz er ruh!) Versailles, Vichy, Vienna, Cuba, Lebanon, all fairly close around there.

I do about one convention a month as a pro. I steer clear of the huge ones, like Dragon, because the hotel alone gives me vertigo. I love conventions that have their own Guidebook module. What I've learned over the years:

ADHD runs in my family. My mother (age 68) copes by endless routine. She structures her day the same way every day, so that she can get showered and dressed and eat breakfast and clean up without getting distracted. All her basic chores are like that. I cope by heavy amounts of caffeine (200-400 mg/day).

They all take typing, and sometimes that is challenge enough. Good books, the ones you're supposed to write at that time and place, come deceptively easily. The words flow out of you like water, sometimes so fast it's hard to keep up, and it's only after they've been typed that you realize how deeply you're bleeding…

Jesus is ethnic white, like a blond Swede or a red-headed Celt. If Italians are white, and Greeks are white, Turks and Lebanese are white. Diogo Mordalo is a pretty good choice, IMO. (After all, if Spaniard Francisco Bosch can look Persian...)

The first documented occurrence of the Joker laugh is in The Big Red One. Watch it to the end.

When I have $250 budgeted for a hotel room, based on the reservations, I don't want to be told it's now $300 because debit card, and you'd better have $600 in your checking account, because we're holding $300 more until next week. I don't operate with that kind of cushion.

With the Debit, I know where I spent my money because the receipts go in our check register. With cash, it flows through my fingers. Credit card is as easy as debit on that regard.

I've been required to pay anything from $50 to a doubled bill as a security hold, when using a debit card. They refund it about a week later. This is the case everywhere from Atlanta to Chicago.