Dangerous!

Last night I did something dangerous.

I picked up my little monkey girl from day care and instead of going straight home, we went to the grocery store. I had decided earlier I just didn't feel like cooking, so I was going to let the grocery store do it for me.

People do this everyday. I don't. Generally because I'm lazy with a capital L on occasion. In fact, the capital L isn't really enough capital letters to express how lazy I can be. So I have so far avoided the temptation of letting the store cook for me because I didn't want to get into that habit.

So we bought some meatballs and some dressing and some fruit from the salad bar. And the monkey loved her dinner. Loved.

I may never cook again.

And in case you're interested... 1 week caffeine free! Next step, dropping soda altogether. At least the everyday habit.

My husband went to a hockey game with his dad...

Therefore, it is time to eat crappy pizza for dinner and then have Cool Ranch Doritos for a snack.

Mmmmm, cool ranch doritos.

From the "Things that shouldn't annoy me but do" files:

I have a co-worker, a lovely person, with whom I have the same conversation at the end of every day.


CW: Good Night!

Me: Good night, co-worker.

CW: Have a good night!

Me, in my brain: YOU JUST SAID THAT!!!

Caffeine update:

Except for accidental ingestion, I have been caffeine-free since Friday. The accident was that I bought myself a bottle of Dr. Pepper. For some reason I'd always thought Dr. Pepper was caffeine-free, so I thought I was being good.

Wrong!

And apparently everyone I know in life knew that Dr. Pepper is not caffeine-free. So I sipped at the Dr. Pepper on Saturday with my lunch and got rid of the rest. So it was less than a can of soda, not too much.

As of Monday so far, so good. A bit tired but that's to be expected.

My nemesis

Caffeine has struck again.

I now have a really good reason to quit the Coca-Cola habit. Apparently my body can't take the stuff anymore. It's been making me shaky in the late afternoon. I finally figured out it was the caffeine today when for the 3rd day in a row eating didn't get rid of the shaky feeling, and I had a headache so bad that I thought something was seriously wrong in my head.

So tomorrow it's a can, and then weekend I'm done. I'm not looking forward to the withdrawl headache though.

10 years ago...

10 years ago this August, I moved from the Midwest to the Northeast where I live now. I drove with my now husband in my Ford Taurus. Everything I moved with was packed in that car. Clothes, books, music, and kitchenwares. That's it.

So how is it, 10 years later, I have so much crap!

Asparagus

It's good. Who knew?

The World of Blogs

I didn't discover the world of blogs until a few months ago. A net friend recommended The Pioneer Woman, then I discovered Wendi Aarons, and today I discovered a load of grammar blogs.

My people! The ones who know their from they're from there. The people who know when to use your and when to use you're, and where apostrophes and quotation marks belong.

Apparently March 4th was Grammar Day. Yesterday. I can't believe I missed it. But I'm going to plan something big for next year. Maybe with a semi-colon theme.

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See how pretty it is?

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Today, I listened to this. So should you.

Caffeine is a double-edged sword. The delightful jolt of energy, the sweet fizzy refreshment.

The horrible, horrible headache when I have too much, or not enough.

I may be single-handedly keeping the Coca-Cola company in business.

Tomorrow I shall once again try to throw off the shackles of the bottle.