Jun. 27th, 2012

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Summer! It's so busy!

Especially this week. Evelyn is in dance camp in Lexington this week from 1-4. It takes an hour to get there from here, so we've spent a lot of time on the roads. It's really just about 40-45 minutes to most of Lexington so when I saw this deal pop up on Groupon, it didn't feel like too much of a stretch to be heading there for four days in a row. Naturally, the studio is in the worst possible location for me to drive to from my house, though, which just figures. Still! Since I have three hours of time alone in Lexington--super rare--I am not going to complain about the hassle of getting there. I will add, though, that I was a little sad when I found out later that her real dance studio in town has a dance camp the same week, same price. Oh well. Three hours! In a city with lots of fun shopping opportunities! If it were actually here in town, I would drop her off and go home. Since that's not really an option (Well, I guess it is. I guess I could be in the car for an hour, drop her off, drive another hour to come home, spend an hour playing Zynga games and pretending to get stuff done, and then spend another two hours in the car going to fetch her and back home. Chances of this happening are somewhere in the vicinity of 0.) I have to go places and do things. I've had two days of it so far and it's lovely. I've been to Kohl's both days using some lovely coupons and have hit a couple of drugstores and grocery stores and Walmart and returned a bra to Dillard's at the mall. I wanted to do some real grocery shopping one day but the deals are nowhere to be found now that I am actually trying to shop*. I had M fetch the cooler from the basement and then I sat down to make a Kroger shopping list and realized that I am not going to waste my free time tomorrow on a shopping trip for the sole purpose of trashy cereal, hot dogs and potato chips. Because I would never eat those things. Really.

This seems to be a good time to transition into my next topic, which is about how it's a good thing that I didn't have any close drug addict friends in high school because I am apparently susceptible to peer pressure. I joined Weight Watchers because [livejournal.com profile] grain_damaged just made it sound so darned appealing. I signed up mid-week with the intention of starting the following week, which was last Monday, so I've now been on it for a little over a week. I am down four or six pounds, depending on how you count it. (Do I count the day I signed up? Or four days later, when I had been at my mom's house for the weekend, knowing I was about to start a diet as soon as I got home and therefore ate everything that sat still long enough for me to attack it with a fork?) But, eh, I'm not getting attached to those numbers. The first week is one thing--it's whether it continues to drop that concerns me. So far it's been pretty livable, most days. The hardest part is trying to figure out how many points something is. Well, that and lunch. I am really bad at lunch on a regular day because of my weird queasy issues, so trying to figure out a low-point lunch is challenging.

If I had any more time I would go from here into a discussion of why children behave like hooligans when you are attempting to do something nice for them, such as drive two hours a day to dance camp for example, not that I am talking about my own precious angel at all, but it's past my bedtime and let's face it, I have no freaking clue why they do it anyway. I think that they might secretly be aliens or something.

*Coupon shopping has been on hiatus. The deals are not there in the same way and what deals there are... usually out of stock by the time I get there. I got fed up with spending ten hours a week on the stupid thing just to come home empty-handed. I am considering picking it back up after Evie starts school. In a month and a half. School starts here on August 8. People on the internets are still talking about their school's last day. It's freaky. Schools here have been out for well over a month.Anyway! Stupid Extreme Couponing show. Those bitches ruined everything.

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