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Mistress' Day!?

From the NY Daily News online:

Feb. 13 - 'Mistress Day' - marks day of straying for men
BY NICOLE LYN PESCE
Gov. Spitzer's suspected hookup with a high-end call girl was booked on a night already notorious for men behaving badly. Feb. 13 is also known as "Mistress Day," the day that straying boyfriends and husbands set aside for the "other woman" - since they're spending the actual Valentine's Day with their girlfriends and wives.

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You Decide For Yourself

This is in honor of the Auto Show being in town this weekend . . . .

Last week one of my knitting peeps was telling us how her child almost got ran over by a Corvette speeding in their neighborhood.

They were walking home from their child's school, which is just down the street, when Mr. Corvette Man came out of the blue and didn't even bother to look to see if anyone was there before he turned the corner. It was the same intersection they were getting ready cross. Thankfully kp's child is fine.

This got the group pondering the two widely held beliefs about male Corvette owners. The first is that a majority of men who purchase Corvettes are going through a mid-life crisis of some sort. The other belief we explored was that men who purchase Corvettes are trying to over compensate for "shortcomings" in other areas of their life.

Since I always want to be as fair as possible to those that wouldn't normally have a voice, I consulted a few of my guy friends to see what they had to say about these stereotypes/beliefs. All ages of course - again, to make this as fair as possible. So far, the consensus is that in most cases the purchase of a Corvette by a guy means they are experiencing one of the two scenarios.
(Please note, this is not a professional survey with the proper controls and I make no claims that this is the end all be all truth.)

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Something Good Out Of Something Bad

Posted on Tuesday, Feb. 03, 2009

A knitter's story of survival stitched into new book

By JEFF JARDINE
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Ellin Klor seems to be everywhere these days, profiled this week in Newsweek, the San Jose Mercury News, the Washington Post and numerous other print publications.

The 58-year-old children's librarian from Modesto, Calif., who graduated from Davis High in 1968, was a guest on a Fox News morning show last week and is featured in an online video promoting a book. Here's why:

One night in January 2006, she went to teach a knitting class at a friend's home in Palo Alto, Calif. She arrived late, hurriedly grabbing three bags full of knitting needles, books and yarn from her car. She tripped heading up the front steps and fell, her landing broken in part by the bags of knitting stuff she carried.

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How Much Do You Really Know About The Person You Are With!?

Betty's (names have been changed to protect the innocent) sister Nancy had cancer. She was fighting it for years. During the course of this battle Nancy met a man and ended up marrying him. Not too long after they got married she told him she had cancer. A few later Nancy died. Nancy's husband was shocked how quickly this happened. However, at Nancy's funeral Nancy's husband observed that no one else was as shocked as he was about the rapid spread of the cancer. That is when Nancy's husband learned the truth. You could only imagine what a shock it was to him.

The point behind this. . . Well, I'll let you decide for yourself. I just thought it was an interesting story.