Bits on Friday

The fact that I’m moving at the rate of a slug today reminds me of a story from a couple days ago. So C was messing with something on the front porch, and I asked him what he was doing.

“I’m moving a snail off the porch” (and he’s got a giant leaf in his hand)
“Oh okay”
“It’s a snail without a shell”
“So … a slug?”

• We got a new couch, which I’m way excited about except that it means we need a new end table (ours is about 5 inches too short) and a new chair (ours is huge and doesn’t go with the new modern sectional) and a new lamp (with one side table our old low-light buffet lights just don’t cut it) and new throw pillows (because, come on). So yay for shopping! Boo for not really wanting to spend MORE money on top of the couch and the car.


• We’ve sold our toddler bed and love seat on Craigslist but I’m still trying to get rid of the big couch. No takers yet, but I really don’t want to go any lower (I think it’s listed at $50, and it’s a really good couch). Any suggestions?


• The traffic for the last two weeks has been murder. Seriously, very bad. Last week two days in a row it took me two hours to get home, and I live 20 minutes from work. Monday I was meeting a coworker at the mall to leave my car and carpool to a work obligation and it’s a 10 minute drive that took me 50 minutes. Car-rrrazy. So here’s to hoping that subsides. I love my new car but not THAT much.


• I’m STILL plodding along in Dragonfly in Amber. I think that’s a very apt name for this book. I like it (or I would have abandoned it by now) but it’s just dragging. I think I only have 4 days left on my ebook library loan and I just don’t know if I can finish in that time. That would normally be nothing for me (even with 1033 pages) but I’ve got over 400 left. I don’t know, we’ll see.


• I haven’t had a soda in ELEVEN DAYS. The first several days were treacherous, and I daydreamed about getting a Dr. Pepper every second that I wasn’t doing something, but over the past couple the only time I think about soda is to marvel that I’m not craving it anymore. I still want one, don’t get me wrong. But I even turned down the free soda on the planes. I have also cut down on my alcohol consumption, having wine four times in the last two weeks. One time was with my friend in Jacksonville while I was visiting, twice with dinner and then Wednesday when I was sitting in the airport for two hours. This feels like still too much, but I was having a drink daily with or after dinner. I have at least cut down on that.


• I bought a ridiculous amount of vegetables two weekends ago to make sure we had enough veggies, and I’d like to now announce that besides 3/4 of a bag of lettuce that accidentally froze/thawed in the fridge (we have a cold spot) and had to be trashed we’ve eaten every bit of it. Tonight I’m making fish with lentils, sautéed greens, and cranberry sauce and then I HAVE to go shopping tomorrow because I’m actually out of veggies. (The cranberry sauce is because I had an extra bag of cranberries in the fridge from Christmas and they were going bad so I made them up the other night). The boys will probably/maybe eat lentils and cranberry sauce only, although S might eat the fish.


• My exercise this week has been ridiculous though. Monday I did Just Dance Kids, which was supposed to be with S but he refused to dance. Tuesday … nothing, I think? Oh, I helped move couches. Wednesday, nothing. Last night I went “skipping” with H which was much more tiring than I expected. Today I did get to the gym at work for 45 minutes finally. I’ve been almost always using the stairs except when I’m carrying a lot up to work from the car, but that’s my only steady exercise. Clearly I need to get on that.


• S started doing second grade math homework this week. In a way, I’m very excited about this – I’m so glad that even though he’s not even in VPK he is learning at his own rate (which is advanced) but I’m also concerned that when he gets to kindergarten (and even more so VPK) that he’ll be too advanced for his peers. I’ve been told that they do school in pods these days so he could go to a different class for math, etc. I guess we’ll have to see when we get there.

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