Last Splash

The gene pool could use a little Chlorine.

How I am feeling today about...everything, really...

I love my life! Seriously, I always thought of myself as the free-spirit, the independent, the career woman, and I am turning out to be so far from what I thought I would be. I love working a normal schedule, knowing I can make weekend plans for any weekend and not have to ask everyone on my staff for permission to go to a football game. I love Friday nights...love them! I love coming home from work about the same time as my husband every day and the two of us playing with the dog together, grocery shopping together, cooking together. I love making sure my kitchen is clean after dinner each night. I love cooking dinner at home more nights than not, eating at the table, and eating between 7 and 7:30 every night. I feel like a better wife, like the house stays cleaner and we share chores more evenly and our routine is WORKING! We have argued less in the last three months than our previous six years, and that's with the strictest budget we've ever had. I love the fact that yesterday marked a month since I quit smoking and not only have I put it down cold turkey like I never started, but I've LOST six pounds. I'm proud that my husband and I have cooked at home more and actually finished our leftovers instead of letting them go to waste. I'm proud that I've only eaten out for lunch 7 times in the last month, and I haven't bought coffee once.

In other topics, I'm sick of the Patriots, of political news anylysts making sure that Americans will never really know why they're voting for a particular candidate, coverage of stupid celebrity news like normal size people being photographed in bikinis and called fat, being unable to pay the balance on our credit card for the first time since we got married, Time Warner Cable and the dread of having to call them this week to argue for a better rate, not having as much time to check out the computer as I used to, arguing over the TV now that John and I work the same schedule, cold weather causing the highest electric bill we've ever had, not being able to buy the tenderloin steak that the butcher had just cut off the bone the last time I bought ground beef, and eating more chicken. But, I like Canadians more than I used to. That's a change...I hope I have time to share more with you.

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