Everyday Living
Uncle Chad and Aunt Amy
So my baby sister is having a baby of her own. We’ve known for a bit but she’s finally shared the news a la Facebook, so it is of course official.
We’re very excited. Let’s pretend that this is us, even though it’s someone else’s family altogether.
Congrats Sam and Tyler!
This Is Why
You don’t go to the grocery store hungry.
You’ll spend fifty bucks on all of this when you just went in for a steak and asparagus.
Yes, we’re the kind of people that buy only one steak and share it for dinner. It helps feed my magazine and clearance Easter candy habits.
Events of the Day
I’m busy planning a weekend coup on our basement stairwell right now. You know hunting down a ladder rental, deciding on ceiling paint, practicing my balance so I don’t kill myself in the process.
More to come on all of that, but in the meantime here are things that have recently occured.
I do not lie, I do not photoshop.
Even when the receipt printed out, seriously – 37 cents a gallon. I think there was a decimal point error on someone’s part. And although I would like to believe that I was just incredibly well behaved in a past life and that this practically free gas is my reward – I’m almost certain that just the opposite is true and that I am in fact doomed where karma is concerned for taking it and running. Don’t worry my conscience got the better of me and I at least called later to make sure they knew there was a glitch. They laughed, said I was one of the lucky ones – they had already fixed it.
I dunno, we’ll see. Maybe my karma will be spared.
Although for a moment I thought the gas gods were paying me back when I got home from work this evening. Our kitchen carbon monoxide detector was beeping and flashing “97″. Yikes is right.
Note to self – do not lock yourself and your dogs in your car in the driveway and call the emergency line for the gas company before you make sure that “97″ flipped upside down is not really “Lb” as in “low battery”. This could prove somewhat embarassing for you and your dogs when you have to call the gas company back and let them know how silly you’ve been.
Plus, once you call they have to come to your house anyways.
Thirdly – Home Goods is continuing their trend of oddities.
Complete with a tassle wearing stone dog and his um. Parts.
Robots
There are two new ones in our house.
One prints our Groupons and the other keeps Chad from running off the road in the mornings.
They were each purchased following the gift-card-palooza that was Christmas for us. So thanks family.
A Few Words About Michael Jackson and My Dream Home
It’s been mentioned here and there that the two of us are running a marathon in a few weeks. Yikes. A few weeks. I felt like I was just telling myself that it was a few months away. Let’s just say I haven’t been the best trainee. Chad on the other hand is rocking it as he does most things – except closing cabinet doors.
Because I am much slower of a runner, I find myself taking in a lot of my surroundings along my route and thought that this time I would take the trusty phone along for some photo ops. You know, just to give you guys a glimpse into what I am staring at multiple times a week as I seem to run around the ‘hood in circles.
Oh and just for fun I thought I would also throw in a few tidbits about my running playlist too. Because I know you all really care about what I listen to while said running in circles occurs.
Sight One: The neighbor is planting trees. Is it staker-ish that I cannot wait to see what fills these holes?
What I’m Listening To: When You Love Somebody by the Fruitbats
Sight Two: The house with the trees full of t-e-e-n-y pine cones.
What I’m Listening To: That’s Not My Name by the Ting Tings
Sight Three: The divided road where I always have to decide, do I cross and keep running? Or do I turn right toward Tutti Frutti? I definitely choose the path less traveled, most of the time.
What I’m Listening To: I Need More Love by Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Sight Four: The red tree that lets me know when it’s fall. It’s fall.
What I’m Listening To: Little White Church by Little Big Town
Sight Five: The new home that I’ve been running past for so long that I saw it built from the ground up. It’s a nice quaint property.
What I’m Listening To: Don’t Stop the Music by Rihanna
Sight Six: The golf course. This does nothing for me.
What I’m Listening To: The Way You Make Me Feel by Michael Jackson
Sight Seven: My dream house. On steroids. Half would be equally satisfying.
What I’m Listening To: Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root, yes it’s the song from Ice Age.
Any other wanna be runners out there with go to songs to pass the time? Any one else love those teeny pine cones as much as I do? If only my running shorts had pockets!
Yes We Will
Has anyone else ever recieved such a tasty proposal?
Thank you Priority Mail. And Aunt Bonnie.
Read more about Aunt Bonnie’s cookie fame here.
