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    • Rearranging global geography for my convenience and entertainment

      • It would be so wonderful if my parents and K's parents lived just a town away from eachother. Visiting would be so much easier. We'd get to see both sides of the family more often. They'd get to see us more often. They'd get to hang out together and argue over who has the cutest grandchildren. Bliss.

        Plus...let's be honest...Grand Rapids could use a little diversity. Close proximity to San Antonio might decrease the preponderance of blond-haired, blue-eyed, Dutch reformed, Van Vandervans that pretty much own the west side of Michigan. I'm convinced it would, at the very least, be a fascinating social experiment.

        Alternatively we could relocate Kandahar, Afghanistan right next to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This should be done just around the time of Carnival. I think that would be completely hilarious. For obvious reasons.

      • answered by Melody on 05/07/2009
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    • Best weightloss diet ever

      • I still occasionally crave it, even though it sounds pretty bad.


        When I was a student in Australia, I hit a rough patch. And by rough I mean I lived on about $40 (Australian dollars were not worth very much back in 1997) for a month or so. It was in the middle of the summer holidays and I wasn't allowed to work when I wasn't also enrolled in courses at the university. Man was I stressed when I saw my bank account.

        I still had to eat though. So I bought a big bag of rice and an industrial sized bottle of ketchup. And yes, I lived on rice and ketchup for weeks. Fills you up. Has some semblance of flavor. Dirt cheap when considered on a per meal basis. Didn't you know that Reagan classified ketchup a vegetable for the purposes of school lunches back in the eighties? I was being healthy people!

        During this period I also spent one night on a couch in a hotel lobby. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Especially since I had spent the night before on the couch on someone's front porch. Which seemed like less of a good idea. Neither night was particularly restful.

      • answered by Melody on 05/05/2009
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    • Oh, for three more hours

      • I have to be completely honest here I suppose...sigh...I'm reading the fourth book in the Twilight series. I would love an extra three hours in the day to curl up with that silly book and possibly even finish it. How great would that be? Then I could give it back to my friend and NEVER THINK OF THE SERIES EVER AGAIN. I'm definitely not going to waste any three extra hours at anytime in my life seeing another Twilight movie.

      • answered by Melody on 04/16/2009
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    • Please get Jenny From the Block out of my head!

      • There are so many songs I'd like to get out of my head. I'm not even sure that these are the top three. Maybe just the top three today. And apparently I'm not feeling very charitable.


        Jenny from the block by Jennifer Lopez

        Seriously. I used to be poor, now I'm rich and famous but I'll never forget my roots? With Ben Affleck in the video? Pretentious much? Seriously. Horrible. Burns my ears.

        All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow

        So. F*&%ing. Repetitive. Makes me want to bang my head against a wall in time with the same same same line over and over and over. A little creativity Sheryl?

        Proud to be an American by Lee Greenwood

        Do I really need to explain this one? 'Where at least I know I'm free'? Free to...live with no access to medical care, with schools that happily reinforce anti-intellectualism? God bless indeed.

      • answered by Melody on 04/04/2009
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