LoopyKnits

Just found this blog-errific tool. Click here to find out your financial standing in comparison to all other people on Earth: http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Did you try it? Isn’t it INSANE? They tell me that my family’s income puts us in the top 0.503% richest people in the world, and the world holds more than 5.9 billion people [...]

Our family members head home tomorrow. They should be able to get back to their houses safely, as they live about a 45-minute drive north of Gulfport. They know that their homes survived with minimal wind damage, although they lost many trees. But it’s been a traumatic experience. One family member rode out about 8 [...]

Just some happy news to report: My in-laws, sister-in-law and husband and their kids, and brother-in-law are back in town staying with us and a family friend. I am *so* glad they are not on the road, trying to make it back to south Mississippi right now! They were heading home to check their properties, [...]

I’ve just been surfing the web to see the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, and I’m overwhelmed, dismayed, crushed to see the devastation. And I’m also so grateful that — by all accounts we’ve heard so far — our family members and friends in Gulfport and Biloxi and McHenry (a bit further north) are safe. [...]

I’ve been completely useless at work, checking cnn.com every few minutes, since they first announced that the Michael Jackson verdict was IN. And we just heard the news. I can’t believe he got off. Now I’m just wondering if he deliberately targeted children whose moms are con artists. (Wouldn’t that be diabolical. And just like [...]