Odds and Ends.. Quotes

I told KG that she should bring her blog back. She politely responded, "I think you should bring sexy back."

When we walked out of the ice cream shop, DG declared he was going to open a gravity insurance business. It would operate beside ice cream shops around America providing refunds to fallen cones and dishes. I said, "That's genius."

On my 8 hour drive on Wednesday, I listened to podcasts that I downloaded from iTunes. LS told me about them last week; I hadn't realized they were free. I told her that this information would have been greatly appreciated during lent when I gave up music and drove in silence for 40 days. She said, "Sorry."

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