@RustyHeadedGirl: I'm so totally there. The only advice I can give on the being poor front is that if you like to make things, look around and see what you already have and try to be creative with it. It helps me feel less poor when I have something new even if it's something I made, whether it's a pair of earrings…

@Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: I actually do make most of the presents, but I have to buy the materials. This year, fabric, because all the babies in the family are getting blankets. And I think I'm going to make gemstone trees for my mother, grandmother, and all my friends. And in the past I have sat my friends…

So this is the time of year, because I am very poor and almost all of my friends have their birthdays within a month of Christmas, that I start planning my holiday shopping. And between thinking about that and plane tickets and being back to unsteady temping... I'm feeling really poor. And much less prepared to handle…

@deeemer: Maybe he can keep the good deeds up?

@bluebears: I had something like that, but we called it High School.

I'm not sure we can say that Rainbow Brite was still safe before this...

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: They didn't say she had no friends, they said she treated her friends as disposable. Considering there was/is a TV show to find her "bff," that it's a multi-season show and that it has versions filming all over the world all centered around Paris Hilton and finding her a bff, it seems accurate.

@Tippi Hedren: Is she mentally ill? 'Cause I have an uncle who would do that, but he's a paranoid schizophrenic. At least she does care?

@tashiking: I don't drink, so I know exactly what you mean except that I've only had those reactions since I've come "of age" and you've had them your whole life. But everyone always wants to know why, and you have to have an answer that'll shut them up or they'll just. Never. Stop.

Michael Lohan visited Jon Gosselin at his Pennslyvania home today and played with Jon's kids.

@Tippi Hedren: That's a good plan. And yeesh, a bible three years in a row? Sounds like it's time for a new game: "What did MIL get for Goodwill this year?"

@Tippi Hedren: Oh, EVIL! If I had money, I would offer to buy it from you just so you'd get something.

I tend to find that boyfriends' moms love me precisely because I'm not vegetarian, which means I can eat all of their family recipes.

@rodmanstreet: Have you seen Death to Smoochy? "It's a rocket ship!"

I'm switching car insurance companies, and the new company just called:

I wish I had a good camera and could travel the world looking for pictures like this, but I doubt that even with the equipment I could be this talented.

@tiredfairy: I usually wear a costume to work and pass out cookies. Which is weird, since I'm a temp and people don't know what to expect.

@sisipie: That happens periodically for me. If you switch to Expanded view, they might come back. Or Firefox might deny that there is such a thing as expanded view, in which case you have to wait it out.

@GirlFailer: Chocolate soy milk. Mmmmm....

I hate Dr. Who. In every incarnation. My father, unfortunately, loves it. It's not a scifi thing: I was raised on all things scifi and loved the rest of it. Ditto Monty Python, so it's not an old British thing. I hate the stupid villains, the bad special effects, and I ESPECIALLY hate the planet of the spiders.