extra extra

if you can believe it, i'm posting about something other than myself. i know, i know. but pull your jaws off the floor, because today has been a ca-RA-zy news day and i wanted to share. as someone who reads cnn.com and time.com and, let's face it, people.com religiously, i consider myself a pretty news-aware person, and i sometimes feel like a 'dumb american' that my attention is drawn first to the human interest stories rather than the hard-hitting, need-to-know news. but today, it seems as though the human interest stuff has officially crossed over into need-to-know territory. allow me to elaborate:

making friends, the southern way:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/24/lowery.fist.bump/index.html

local woman experiences waking nightmare:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33006136/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/wid/11915773/

not the reason i'd want to be in the guiness book:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/09/24/2009-09-24_big_baby_boy_weighs_in_at_19pounds_at_birth_in_north_sumatra_indonesia.html

assholes still exist:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1925607,00.html

am i right? crazy crazy crazy!

incidentally, i think i would make an excellent headline-writer. and, yeah, i just went ahead and made this post a little bit about me. you had to see that one coming.

t minus

• twenty four hours until b's baby shower, complete with baby name reveal
• three days until early birthday dinner with tatum, my darling girl
• five days until i am leaving on a jet plane for a long weekend
• eight days until my BIRTHDAY (boosh boosh boosh)
• twelve days until the official first day of fall
• fourteen days until my lovely sister and i get to celebrate said birthday in true haney girl fashion
• sixteen days until yom kippur, if that's your thing
• five weeks until scott finally shows his cute face in central arkansas
• six weeks until columbus day, which is of no consequence because i will probably be at work
• eightish weeks until i dress up like mario of the mario brothers for halloween in l.a.

more to come, kids. this time of year is always so exciting. :)

*it should be noted that at least one million exclamation points would appear at the end of each of the above events, if i had the time and patience for all that punctuation.