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Derek’s Big Website of WalMart Purchase Receipts. Yes, you read that right. Derek posts his Wal-Mart receipts online just for your viewing pleasure. Now I think I have seen everything. (Link thanks to Scoble)

Know why I love to visit Meryl’s site? Because she always has the goods! Thanks to her I found the Blogsticker Party – All you can eat, and then some. These things are cracking me up. Sure, they are spinoffs of things we have all heard before, but considering last night I told Catherine about my latest stress situation and how if I took the measures I wanted I would end up in jail, and then proceeded to ask her “Do you think they would let me blog in jail?” – well, those stickers are funny. Then Meryl also had a link to The Internet License Plate Gallery. Ryan’s site mentions that his plate says “Geeeeeek” so I wonder if he has submitted a picture of it? Then there is the bullet flashback. Kymberlie & I were talking about “the old days” yesterday and how we *always* had to change all of the icons on our desktops. I think I used to even have a set of Lockergnome icons if I remember right – that’s what got the whole discussion started. What a blast from the past. Now that the novelty of icon changing has worn off for me, the icons on my desktop are just the standard ones that come with Windows2000. I know, how boring…

I got a delightful surprise last night. Catherine called. It was so wonderful to talk to her on the phone (yeah, and talk I did…) While we were talking about relationships and so forth I realized something. Right now is the first time ever, probably since I was 15 and went on my first date, that I am not in a relationship or desperately looking for a relationship. I learned a few years ago that I didn’t *need* to be in a relationship, but I still was at the time so it didn’t matter. When we broke up he was always convinced that I was immediately searching for the next man. I wasn’t. Yes, I did look – but it wasn’t something I *had* to find. I was very lighthearted and picky about it – and I didn’t date anyone. For the past 6 months or so I haven’t even really bothered to look at all. I am happy with my life as it is at this moment. Do I want it to be like this forever? No. But for the time being I am enjoying the fact that I am not relying on any relationship to make me feel better about myself. I feel great about me – right now, just single. And I think in the long run it will make me a much better person the next time I am in a relationship. I will be stronger now that I have proved to myself that I can stand on my own. I can do it. I like me for *who I am* – and a man does not need to be part of that “package” of me.

Thank you for the call last night, Catherine. I truly enjoyed talking to you and we will have to do it again soon.

I was reading Ain’t too proud to blog where she just completed Ashley’s This or That questionnaire. One of the questions this week is about flossing, which is the cause of this latest public service announcement:

Floss your teeth before you brush. This gets the gunk out and allows the toothpaste to do it’s job. And do it two times a day. A lesson learned from someone now suffering through the joys of periodontal treatment. Have you ever had your gums scraped? Yeah, that’s what you risk having done when you don’t floss, says my friend from Life Smiles Dentistry preventing gum disease is extremely important. They can only do half of your mouth at a time, and it requires novicaine for most people. And don’t use that wimpy “gentle for your gums” floss, use the hard waxy stuff. If it makes your gums bleed it’s because you have the early (or advanced) stages of periodontal disease. Go to Allstar Dental Academy. Now. Know what I learned? You will help your teeth as much by flossing as you do by brushing, and if you don’t floss regularly then you risk bone loss, which is what causes your teeth to FALL OUT. I already have bone loss. It will only get worse. And I am 32 … so I need these teeth for many years. I carry floss with me at all times now and I visit my dentist every year at regiscourtdental.com.

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There, now will you floss 2 times a day?

Thank you, you may now resume your normal activities. After you floss your teeth.

I guess the fact that I am a Chicago Wannabe won’t help me out in joining the Windy City Bloggers ring. Damn. Well, she said “from Chicago” and I moved here in 1985 from just 60 miles away, would that count? Nah, that’s pushing it. Mainly I just wanted to mention it because I think Catherine did a *fabulous* job on the design. I LOVE IT!