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So I've been depending on the internet for entertainment and figured I'd give back a little.
LOST finale was disappointing only because I was a brat and read a spoiler page which ended up mapping out the entire episode accurately. I would have enjoyed it so much more had I not known everything that was going to happen. Now that lost_tv is slowing down, I at least have the comfort of going back to read the recaps by ack_attack.
Even if you don't care for the show, you'll surely be entertained by her LOST recaps.
The latest issue of Rolling Stone to grace my mailbox mentioned a website where a man was comparing fast food products to advertised photos. I always love when people do things like this, and I thought you might wanna see it too.
Mike is gone until Sunday night or Monday night, I haven't been sleeping well without him as usual. Last night I went out with Jenna and Eric and a few others for Eric's birthday. I came home around 2:45 and had to go to work at 9. I am just too old for that, I can't survive on less than 7 hours of sleep anymore. Ideally my body seems to want 9 hours but I am too busy running around and doing things at night to get mentally ready for rest. I need to find a healthy way to manage my time.
I thought that the answer would be to work part time. I was considering a job that would still give me benefits (I provide benefits for both myself and Mike) and that would allow more time for me to exercise, prepare meals, do laundry regularly rather than in huge 4 hour sessions... I just want to feel like I'm not trying to squeeze my life in around work.
Mike and I realized that it's not really going to work as far as money is concerned. For example, my car payment alone is nearly $400 a month and virtually no part time job will pay more than $700 a month after taxes. And even without my car payment (if I were to sell my car and drive one of the cars Mike owns) I still would be treading water trying to pay my student loans, etc.
I was pretty devistated when we came to that conclusion. I realized it wasn't even because of my dream to have more time. It was because if we can't afford for me to back off of work for a while with just the two of us, it means we definitely can't start a family any time soon. At least now we have an idea of what that would take and it helps set the timeline for the next couple of years.
I had stopped going to my Weight Watchers meetings in April and maintained my points until Easter and my birthday right through to my trip to Vegas. I'm back on plan but I haven't gone to the meetings at all since April. I'm nearly 100% positive that I will not be able to keep this up if I don't attend a meeting right away.
And that's it. I'm looking forward to going to bed tonight. I bought new sheets. I got 420 thread count sheets for a decent price at BJ's. I am embarrassed to say that I didn't know anything about thread count and looked it up when I got home. I guess the type of cotton used can still make a difference, but I'm pretty positive I've never had nice sheets like this before. I used to spend so much money on fancy comforters and feather beads and down blankets and throw pillows... but I always took the cheap route with sheets, so they pilled or were always wrinkled. Wow, I'm officially a 25 year old married woman if I've gone on about sheets for this long.
LOST finale was disappointing only because I was a brat and read a spoiler page which ended up mapping out the entire episode accurately. I would have enjoyed it so much more had I not known everything that was going to happen. Now that lost_tv is slowing down, I at least have the comfort of going back to read the recaps by ack_attack.
Even if you don't care for the show, you'll surely be entertained by her LOST recaps.
The latest issue of Rolling Stone to grace my mailbox mentioned a website where a man was comparing fast food products to advertised photos. I always love when people do things like this, and I thought you might wanna see it too.
Mike is gone until Sunday night or Monday night, I haven't been sleeping well without him as usual. Last night I went out with Jenna and Eric and a few others for Eric's birthday. I came home around 2:45 and had to go to work at 9. I am just too old for that, I can't survive on less than 7 hours of sleep anymore. Ideally my body seems to want 9 hours but I am too busy running around and doing things at night to get mentally ready for rest. I need to find a healthy way to manage my time.
I thought that the answer would be to work part time. I was considering a job that would still give me benefits (I provide benefits for both myself and Mike) and that would allow more time for me to exercise, prepare meals, do laundry regularly rather than in huge 4 hour sessions... I just want to feel like I'm not trying to squeeze my life in around work.
Mike and I realized that it's not really going to work as far as money is concerned. For example, my car payment alone is nearly $400 a month and virtually no part time job will pay more than $700 a month after taxes. And even without my car payment (if I were to sell my car and drive one of the cars Mike owns) I still would be treading water trying to pay my student loans, etc.
I was pretty devistated when we came to that conclusion. I realized it wasn't even because of my dream to have more time. It was because if we can't afford for me to back off of work for a while with just the two of us, it means we definitely can't start a family any time soon. At least now we have an idea of what that would take and it helps set the timeline for the next couple of years.
I had stopped going to my Weight Watchers meetings in April and maintained my points until Easter and my birthday right through to my trip to Vegas. I'm back on plan but I haven't gone to the meetings at all since April. I'm nearly 100% positive that I will not be able to keep this up if I don't attend a meeting right away.
And that's it. I'm looking forward to going to bed tonight. I bought new sheets. I got 420 thread count sheets for a decent price at BJ's. I am embarrassed to say that I didn't know anything about thread count and looked it up when I got home. I guess the type of cotton used can still make a difference, but I'm pretty positive I've never had nice sheets like this before. I used to spend so much money on fancy comforters and feather beads and down blankets and throw pillows... but I always took the cheap route with sheets, so they pilled or were always wrinkled. Wow, I'm officially a 25 year old married woman if I've gone on about sheets for this long.