Home answering machine has me saying: Oh you got the machine! But you know the routine At the sound of the tone Let your message be known My cell phone has a personal greeting recorded by me, as does my voice mail at work.

"Tax forms ask for black." In what state? The federal government doesn't require black ink on the IRS tax forms. In fact, color of ink isn't even mentioned, either on the form itself or in the instruction book. The Franchise Tax Board in the State of California doesn't require any particular color, either. If you want to get really technical, they don't even require a signature in ink. You could sign in pencil or Crayon. All the instructions say is "You must sign your tax return in the space provided...." "i agree on the 'legal' important stuff i only use black ink." "At work I do use a blue fine point so I can decipher my signature on the original documents from the copies." My husband is an attorney, and I used to work as a paralegal. I was also a Notary. Hubs and I both insist on blue ink for signatures on original documents. It's virtually impossible to tell if a "black signature" is an original or a copy.

I work from home, and I was spending a week with Gary (who lived an 8 hour drive away from me). It was the day of my monthly one-on-one with my manager, which we were doing over the phone. Gary came in the room behind me and I reached my hands up over my shoulders to hold hands with him for a minute. He slipped the engagement ring on my finger!! I had to go on acting 'professional' on the phone, which was one of the most difficult things I've ever done :-) Poor Gary was disappointed that I didn't immediately tell my manager right on the spot. But he got over that and we are one of the happiest pairs of newlyweds ever (we were married almost 8 months ago). He's my best friend and one of the sweetest guys ever.

Nope, no little ones here. For those of you who mentioned the pickled eggs, over the past 40 years I have mentioned to people that I remember my parents' friend always serving hard boiled eggs floating in beets when I was a kid. People would give me a strange look and say they never heard of it. Now several of you mentioned them on this thread.