1. I'm tired of being tired.
2. I have strained my left tricep. I'm beginning to think that this whole exercise thing is just too dangerous for some people.
3. I love biscuits.
4. I also love lima beans.
5. And meatloaf.
6. Stupidity really makes my head hurt lately.
7. I do not feel 39 at all.
8. I wish it was NFL time. Basketball sucks.
9. One of my couch cushions is noticeably cleaner than the others. I wonder if that Resolve upholstery cleaner is any good?
10. We had a cow slaughtered and processed- $196 for 585 pounds of beef. That is .34 per pound--steaks, roasts, and loads of ground beef. Guess what we'll be eating this spring and summer? I've been paying $2.00+ per pound for ground round.
11. I have fifty dollars in my cash stash drawer. This is pathetic, but I cannot remember the last time that I intentionally set aside cash to have for miscellaneous purposes. I'm soooo bad with money. This fifty makes me feel very happy. I'm putting ten bucks per week in the drawer. I think I will use it to buy myself a new swimsuit. Or some really great spring/summer shoes. Or to pay school fees for next year. Ugh. Kids are so expensive.
12. Our school has a new dress code next year--the kids have to wear solid shirts w/ a collar in one of six colors--navy and white are the county-wide colors and then our school added light blue, red, black and pink. Naturally we have approximately five shirts between three kids that will meet these regulations. I imagine part of #11 will also be used to purchase school shirts. I'm conflicted about this--I like the idea of being able to dress them easier and in the long run, it will make life easier because we won't have so many clothes, but I also hate the idea of seeing nothing but blue and red and the occassional pink. It's going to be weird.
13. My parents' 41st anniversary is coming up and I want to send them something because I never do. I'm thinking about an edible fruit bouquet, but they're sort of pricey and my mother could make one of them on her own for far less and that nags at the one frugal bone I have. But the idea of presents is to splurge on a treat, right? Ugh. I don't know.
14. I cannot believe that The Closer won't start new episodes until frigging JULY. Pisses me off.
11 comments:
Rumor has it that excersize will take away that tired feeling and keep your muscles working. Of course, I don't know if there's any truth to that rumor. Usually, I indulge in a nap or just roll with being tired all the time. *shrug*
I do not like lima beans. Nasty blechy little things.
And about all that down there that I missed? Well, that's a lot of updating you've done. Just think, in the time you typed all that you could have folded a shirt or two. *snort*
my email? is on it's way.
I love Red Lobster's Cheese Biscuits. I would like to go there and just eat endless baskets of Cheese Biscuits - screw the lobster.
Sorry I make your head hurt, lol.
Lima beans are good in soups or stews but not as a stand-alone side dish. Ick!
Baseball sucks hugely.
Poor little slaughtered cow...
An edible bouquet? My parents didn't mind the ocassional splurge so long as the gift was practical and lasting. I think my biggest splurge on an anniversary gift was when I had a 3-trunk birch tree (a big one!) planted in their front yard by men with big tree-planting machines.
Oh fer cripes sake. How am I supposed to respond to THAT list?
I will agree on the Football, meatloaf, money saving and cow slaughtering. Oh, and definitely on the stupidity thing.
I will remain neutral on the biscuits, lima beans, edible bouquet and school clothes.
I will not even pretend I'm interested in your exercise (I've got my own to worry about, TYVM) and The Closer.
And I already told you Happy Birthday and made all the old jokes I can muster, so I've got nothing on that front.
Our school picked light blue, burgandy, red, and yellow as our additional shirt colors.
burgandy AND red? yuck, yuck, yuck. We chose not to go with yellow because the kids can still wear school-sponsored shirts, so that covered our need for the school gold/yellow.
Yes, burgandy (our school color) and red. The Grand Poobah claims to have had a committee make the decision but no one can actually locate any member of said committee. I'm guessing is wife picked - LOL!
He had a differing opinion on the school sponsored shirts. He says they have to have a collar, too. I didn't read it that way. I thought that was an exception - that an unaltered, school-sponsored T-shirt was okay. What's your take?
a t-shirt is fine, but it must have a collared shirt/tneck underneath it, we think; HOWEVER, the actual code itself simply says school sponsored shirts may be worn. the layering part is mentioned later on, when they cover spirit week, etc. it is a very poorly written policy (surprise) because it also technically doesn't allow for denim shorts, but does allow for navy, khaki or black jeans.
i don't know who writes their policies, but they are just asinine. Rather like great grandparents not being covered under the family deaths and such.
Lima beans taste like little bags of sand, I am no longer allowed to eat biscuts so I'll pretend you didn't mention them.
Excercise * head tilt* ?
Strained muscles suck. But exercise is good. I'm not one of those people who really enjoys it, but I enjoy that it keeps me from being fat. Although a guy at the gym started talking to me today on the way out and remarked that I "live on the eliptical" and that it was paying off because I looked like I'd lost a lot of weight. Which: true. But also, it kind of squicked me out that some strange guy was paying close enough attention to notice. (I suppose I won't deny that I'm shallow enough that if he'd been good-looking, I might have been all, schwing, but alas, he was not.)
I love that you love lima beans. I don't know why they have such a bad reputation. We were at a restaurant a while ago where you order the sides separately and share them, and they had lima beans (actually the big white ones called butter beans, which are the kind I like best), and I wanted to get them. Everyone else was all, I hope you plan to eat all of them, because we're not going to. And I was like, what, they're good!
So is that $196 for the cow and the slaughtering? Or did you already own the cow? Because, damn, if that's for everything, I need to get myself a freezer and buy a cow or something. Although maybe I should get a family first, because that's probably a lot of beef for one person.
We had the cow, so there is that expense added in as well. We didn't actually pay for the cow, but for his mother instead. So, other than the feed and whatever meds, we didn't have much money tied up in him.
The $196 was the processing costs.
Aha, that makes a bit more sense. Probably makes even less practical sense for me, what with living in an apartment and all. I doubt they'd let me keep a cow on my balcony. It would probably also scare the cat. Oh well, looks like I'll be sticking to the supermarket for the foreseeable future.
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