What sucks the most about being sick this time of year is that there’s no new shows on the TiVo to veg out in front of. However, I do now know how to expertly be calm-submissive around dogs.
We’ve now gone to the gym 5 times this year. I’m starting to get to the point where I can push myself more and more, which is good, considering I’ve been the most sedentary slug around for the past forever. Jim and I have also been making an effort to eat healthier (read: meals made at home, not fast food), which is paying off in the pocketbook and on the scale: I’m down two pounds since last week!
While trying to decide if we should do shrimp and pasta with a pesto sauce or vodka sauce, Jim said he would Google some recipes. I suggested one better: Google Fight them.
Pesto sauce won, and it was delicious.
Admittedly, I haven’t been a good Gator fan in the last several years, but this is exciting stuff: Florida first to hold football, hoops titles at same time.
Me: Are you going to wear your new Ohio State shirt Monday?
Jim (who got his MFA at Ohio State): I don’t know. Why?
Me: Because their game is Monday.
Jim: What game?
Me: The National Championship
Jim: Oh yeah, who are they playing?
Me (who got her BS at Florida): FLORIDA!
I guess we’d have a rivalry in the house, if anyone cared about sports. Regardless, GO GATORS!
I am not a cat person. Never have been. They make me sneeze, and tear up, and snot all over myself. Jim came pre-accessorized with a cat, though, so I now live with one.
As cats go, Rutherford is a good one: weird (we call him “space kitty”, because he’s obviously not from this planet), independent, and still likes to be around us. I’m pretty cautious to wash my hands after touching him, so I don’t wipe my face and start a whole allergic reaction.
What I didn’t count on was Rutherford liking me. In the last couple of weeks, as it has been on the cool side out, he’s been seeking me out for warmth. When I’m sitting watching tv, he’s on my lap. When I’m sleeping, he’s resting his head on my shoulder. When I’m using the computer, he’s blocking my keyboard.
All this to say that I think the Rutherford attention has caught up with me. I think I got sloppy on the hands-washing routine. Today, my allergies have gone haywire. Not in any snot-all-over-my-face way, but in a space-cadet, feel-like-a-useless-blob way.
He’s just so cute, though. For a cat.
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I have gone to the gym a full 50% of the days in 2007. That’s an increase of 100% over 2006 (unless you count the day I got my membership), so I’m on a roll!
The last time I can remember doing a timed mile was middle school, when I’d poke along, chat with my friends, and still do a 17-minute mile. Tonight, I managed to walk a mile in 15 minutes. Take that, 11-year-old Leia! If only I’d not eaten so many cheeseburgers in the intervening years.
It’s not really publicized on their site, but Amazon.com has a price drop policy. If the price of an item you’ve purchased drops within 30 days, they will refund you the difference. Basically, this saves them the restocking efforts required if you were to return the item in your 30-day return window and purchase the item again at the lower price.
After reading about the price drop policy on Five Cent Nickel’s “Become an Amazon.com Price Drop Ninja”, I decided to take a look at all the Christmas gifts I’d ordered through Amazon. Sure enough, that chocolate fountain I’d bought as a gift to, um, myself, had dropped from $48.85 to $27.99! I requested the price difference using the “Refund Inquiry” form on Amazon, and was refunded $20.86.
Even better: there are sites out there that will monitor the price of items you’ve purchased, and notify you if the price drops. One such site is Amazon Price Watch.
I listed all the items I’d purchased in the last month on Amazon Price Watch, and received an e-mail tonight notifying me that the chocolate fountain is now at $24.99. I’ve requested the new difference, as I’m still in my 30 day window.
So, not only is the new chocolate fountain wonderful, delicious, entertaining, and a hit at every party its been at, it’s also helping pay for all the chocolate we’ve used!
Tonight, Jim and I finally made use of the gym membership we’ve been paying for and not using. After sweating until our legs were noodles, we came home and ate some of the delicious key lime pie he made back in 2006, when we made that sort of evil (aka “tasty”) food in the house. Baby steps, people. Baby steps.