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Courtesy of Cookie, this video covers misconceptions that many Americans have about our country, government, and so forth. As the film’s creator says, “Prepare to be educated.”

Jim and I met with the realtor and builder’s rep yesterday. We signed a contract on the new house (which is of course contingent on us selling ours first) and put down the “good faith” earnest payment. So now we’ve got to go double-time on getting our current house ready to sell. We’ve basically got […]

Courtesy of my Cotillion sister, Beth C: Posted to Craig’s List Personals: To the Guy Who Mugged Me Downtown (Downtown, Birmingham ) Date: 2009-01-06, 3:43AM EST I was the white guy with the brown Burberry leather jacket that you demanded I hand over shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend. You […]

The meeting yesterday with the loan officer (with our current mortgage holder) went pretty well. We still won’t know for a week, maybe two, if we get the line of credit or not. Jim and I are meeting tomorrow with our realtor and the builder’s preferred mortgage company. The advertisement we were given claims they […]

Jim and I had been looking on and off at houses over the past year, but nothing really serious — until recently. The last couple of weeks we’ve been looking into several subdivisions in our neighborhood and though some of them have been really nice, we hadn’t found anything that we both looked at and […]

I was talking with a very good friend earlier today and our conversation turned to something that has been a “weighty” subject with me lately. We were looking at some pictures Jim had taken at Christmas. I asked, “Is that really how I look?” She sweetly assured me that she would LOVE to be my […]