My first 5K (before)
Remember in school when you were forced to run a mile in P.E.? That was always the worst day of the year for
You Heard the Man
It was one of those days where both kids were home with strep throat but the antibiotics had already begun to
Sarah Test Drives a Mazda3
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Balance Rewards, My Friends
I am not going to lie, I am a little bit weird about drug stores.
No joke. I like walking around in drug stores. I like looking at the nail polish colors. I like browsing the shampoo aisle. I like the bizarre stuff that always shows up in the holiday aisle. I like drug stores. When Walgreens asked if I wanted to do a little project with their Balance Reward program I agreed quickly. I get rewards for buying stuff at Walgreens? I am so in.
Really, it is cool and easy you can sign up here and pretty much start earning points right away. You can earn them in the store or online, you can even transfer most prescriptions online and they give you extra points for being lazy. MY FAVORITE. Plus, Walgreens gives you special deals just for signing up, and the entire program is totally free.
I just signed up, so I don’t have any points yet, but I do need some nail polish remover and something for this head cold so I will be going to Walgreens later today. In a week or two I will let you know what I am doing with all of my points.
I am an over-sharer that way.
You Are Welcome Pa Rum Pa Pum Pum
What do you get when you mix my favorite Christmas Carol, $ .89, a wizard and a metal guitar?
Little Drummer Boy – Christopher Lee
Oh, hells yes.
Actually, I recommend you spend the $1.78 and get the “Silent Night” too. I did. My decision was a sound one. My only regret is that I could only buy two Christopher Lee heavy metal Christmas songs.
Funny, I Don’t Feel 40
I turned forty yesterday.
40.
FORTY.
It is weird. I don’t feel forty years old. I’m not even sure I feel thirty. Most of the time I feel 20, except for the fact that I suspect I am only weeks away from needing bifocals. I still think it is funny when I am allowed to be in charge of children. I pretend I am responsible and tell them not to stand on the couch and appropriate grown up speak, but honestly, I am just a kid with a car and a credit card.
I thought turning forty would bum me out more, but I am fine. I am happy. My life is good.
And I’m in my 40s.
Weird, huh?
Not So Sure About Those Christmas Carols
I woke up with Walking in a Winter Wonderland stuck in my head.
Woke up with Walking in a Winter Wonderland. Say THAT three times fast.
Anyway, I woke up to this.
In the meadow we can build a snowman
Then pretend that he’s a circus clown.
She’ll say “Are you married?”
We’ll say “No, ma’am.”
But you can do the job when you’re in town.
What the hell?
Is Winter Wonderland about whoring? That can’t be right. There is no way this could be considered a holiday classic. What are we teaching our children?
Preteen Angst
My daughter asks me the same question every single day.
“Why do you hate me?”
And every single day I give her the same answer. “I don’t hate you. I love you.”
To which she generally replies “No you don’t. You hate me.” and this goes on for a while.
This outburst is usually prompted by something truly evil that I do, like asking her to put on a pair of shoes or feed the cats.
“Why do you hate me so much? Why are you always mad at me?”
“I’m not mad at you. I just want you to wear underwear to school.”
5 Totally Unrelated Things I Have Learned This Month
1) Mick Jagger wrote the song “Tumbling Dice” after talking to a housekeeper about her gambling habit.
2) The piece of metal that you use to transition from a wood flor to a tile floor is called a Schluter.
3) Pinterest makes so much more sense if you watch Doctor Who.
Someday They Will Tell Their Therapists This Story
I walked into the room in the middle of “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance”.
Now, I am not entirely sure this movie is age appropriate for eight year olds, but there they were watching it. “Who is that guy, Mom?”
“I don’t know.” I said. “I’ve never seen this movie.”
“But who is he supposed to be?”
“No clue. He looks like somebody I dated in high school.”
There is Change
Just when I think I can’t take it anymore. Just when I think – this was the wrong decision. We should have moved. Remodeling is going to kill us. Just when I think I haven’t had an air conditioner since June and now I need heat and I don’t have that either. Just when I think nothing has changed and I’ve been looking at this half renovated kitchen for weeks and I am going to snap.
Just then, I put in an old photo card with pictures from July and I see this.
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