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Well I'm Selling/Trading the truck... this guy at work wants it, and is going to give me his car plus some cash. I figure he'll give me a hundred or so... it'll be enough for license plates. Its an 83 grand-prix with a 350, elderblock intake, 4bbl holley, and t-tops. It's got one grapefruit sized dent in the body but I don't much care about that... basically this car is just going to be what I drive around this summer, and fall... and by winter I'll have about half of the money for a new car saved up, which means I can put 50% as a downpayment on whatever I want and finance the rest... thats about the only way a place is gonna finance a NEW car to me, is if I can throw down half of the cost upfront as a downpayment. But the grand-prix looks like a cross between my old pontiac 6000 and devins monte. Actually it looks a helluva lot like the monte, even sports the same engine.
It looks exactly like this except its black.

You know...

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You know all I fucking read about in peoples journals is how they go do this and that with so and so... well you know what... you know what I fucking want... I want real fucking friends... who have real fucking lives... who I can fucking go out and do shit with... not people that say they are my friends but all I do is talk to them online and only when I im THEM... etc etc... you get the fuckig picture.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- People who say they are addicted to chocolate or pizza may not be exaggerating, U.S.-based scientists said Tuesday.
A brain scan study of normal, hungry people showed their brains lit up when they saw and smelled their favorite foods in much the same way as the brains of cocaine addicts when they think about their next snort.
"Food presentation significantly increased metabolism in the whole brain (by 24 percent) and these changes were largest in superior temporal, anterior insula, and orbitofrontal cortices," they wrote.
These areas are associated with addiction.
An estimated 30 percent of Americans are obese, meaning they have a body mass index of more than 30. This ratio of height to weight usually works out to being about 30 pounds overweight for a woman and 35 to 40 pounds overweight for a man.
Wang and colleagues studied 12 men and women with an average age of 28. The volunteers fasted for just under a day and then underwent positron emission tomography, or PET scans, which measure brain metabolism.
They were asked to describe their favorite foods and how they like to eat them while they were presented with some of those foods.
"A cotton swab impregnated with the food was placed in their tongues so they could taste it," the researchers wrote.
"The favorite food items most frequently selected by the subjects were bacon-egg-cheese sandwich, cinnamon bun, pizza, hamburger with cheese, fried chicken, lasagna, barbecue, ice cream, brownie, and chocolate cake."
Several leading addiction experts worked on the report including Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Ok... my lowes checks are going to be on average 475$ more than my best buy checks... which means ryan can finally start working on his truck and also possibly buy this 40 ford he has his eye on. It also means he can ahead some. Plus lowes is cool... all the people in my department are in 6heir 60's and 70's and act like they are 15 so its fun. Plus the 9 hours I"m there every day (8 housr of work and an hour lunch break, and I only live a block away so I can come home for lunch) go by incredibly fast... sure I sweat an awful lot and come home stinking to high heaven, (they also make sure you take both of your 15 minute breaks unlike best buy saying shit like "oh you don't need a break") but I'm getting 640 before tax every check apposed to 165ish after tax every check. my first check is only gonna be like 300ish before tax becasue there will only be one week on it... but that 1 week of works pay is equal to nearly 4 best buy weeks of pay.

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So I'm just doing my job walking back to the warehouse to get more product to put out this evening and I look over into media like I do every trip and I see some redish hair and I'm like... "nah that can't be laura, I doubt her hair is still that color" and other such thoughts... so I went to check anyway... sure enough it was... heh... *shrugs* just thought that that was mildly interesting.