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Well, it's happened again and I have another sneeze song.

If you're not Alexis, you might not understand this phrase of mine. You see, a couple of years ago we were listening to another one of these songs repeatedly and decided that pressing the back button could be explained by sneezing. As in "whoops, sneezing made me listen to this song so many times that I've memorized not only the words, but the chord progressions and where the singer takes a breath). The latest sneeze song is "Sometime Around Midnight" by Airborne Toxic Effect. Welcome song, you join a long line of glorious others.*

*Other sneeze songs include, but are not limited to "Upside Down" by Barenaked Ladies, "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens, "Passing Afternoon" by Iron & Wine, "The Quest" by Bryn Christopher, "Such Great Heights" by Postal Service and "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap*

A couple of things have happened since I've written. First I chopped a little over eight inches of my hair off...Which reminds me that I need to take the plastic bag of hair off my mantle and actually send it in to be donated. Depending on who you ask, my hair cut makes me look older, younger or more like my sister. It feels a lot better than the limp mess my hair was, whatever it makes me look like.

Tim and I are now new car owners. It's actually Tim's car, but I'm going to take a little credit for it too. We spent about eight hundred years in the car dealership yesterday and now have a Honda Civic. It's an automatic, which makes me happy but makes Tim a little sad because he wanted a manual (and was told there would be a manual of that model there, which there wasn't, but they gave us a pretty good discount since they messed up) and I also like that no part of it has duct tape on it either. I made sure to steal as much as I could to help right that wrong, including a bottle of water, a juice box, a tea bag, and some hot chocolate while I was there. I was tempted to take a box of paper clips as well, but figured I should draw the line at taking things that were actually free. I'm lucky my purse is so large.