Wednesday...

We returned our DVR today and I don't really miss it. It wasn't as painful and dramatic as I thought it would be. We also downgraded to the lowest non-dial up internet speed (does anyone even have dial up anymore?) and I don't notice a difference AT ALL. The total savings will be something like $75 a month, and that's pretty significant in my book.

Oh, and I have a confession. I finally watched the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy and DEAR GAWD, I am DONE with that show. What a fluke! Hot redhead is gone and the writers are just trying too hard, barely keeping their head above water with this total bullshit. The Office is all I really look forward to anymore, and LA Ink. That's all I got. Am I missing something? Is there some phenomenal show on that I don't know about? T.v. sucks. That's right, I said it. Without Showtime there is hardly any reason at all to watch. The Office must be the last great show on television. I will cherish it and hold it dear and pet it and sing to it and call it Fred. If it goes sour I just might kill myself. Or read, or something.

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Life is expensive. We now have 3 car payments and full coverage on 3 vehicles. I do believe that gouging my eyeballs out and making an eyeball stew, and then EATING my own eyeballs in said stew would be more pleasant than forking over the hefty wad of cash that we now have to pay each month. Insurance, or in case shit happens, as Chris Rock so cleverly put it, is INSANE. To think that I'm on the preferred driver list is horrifying. What are all these other shmucks paying? Am I the shmuck? WHO HAS THE LOWEST RATES? No one. Everyone is money hungry and blood thirsty and they are out to RUIN YOUR LIFE. We can't go out anymore and there will be no more venti 3-splenda brewed coffees from Starbucks for me, no more weekday beer binges for D, no more "just because" toys for Ethan, but we're covered! For the love of gawd, we are COVERED.

(Deep breaths, deep breaths...)

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My nose piercing is doing marvelous, thanks for asking. I have to check to make sure it's still in every freaking hour because I can't feel it at all. It's not sore anymore and, contrary to popular belief, it doesn't feel like I have a huge booger in my nose. My wee stud just sits there, shiny and pretty, jazzing up my nose like it's supposed to. I really dig it. Good stuff.

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D is working late and E is in bed, and normally I would use the free time to workout, but I am SO.FUCKING.SORE. today from my leg workout yesterday that I had to make today my rest day. I hurt in all the right places, in my quads and glutes and hamstrings, in my abs (yowza!), and even in my neck, back, shoulders and forearms. My upper body hurts from hoisting a heavy barbell onto my shoulders every 5 minutes, and my forearms are killing me from deadlifts. I can manage a decent weight for deadlifts, but my grip strength is not up to par. When you do eighteen million hundred thousand trillion deadlifts with varying rep patterns, it starts to burn. So, in conclusion, this lower body workout rocks. I can't wait to do it again on Saturday. *sob*

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I'm in need of some new menu ideas. To all you mini-mealers out there, what are you eating? Gimme your favorite meal-o-the-mo'. And thank you kindly!