I've Got Some Catching Up to Do

My folks were in town over the long holiday weekend. Whenever they come, I usually suffer from a food hangover. On Monday night, after they had left, I seriously thought about doing a week or two of detox (not GOOP style, actual food is involved. You don't subsist on $1000 mixtures of coconut water from Bali, pure mountain spring water gathered by Tibetan monks, organic fair-trade grape seed extract, and the blood of 10 virgins). Then I remembered chocolate and bourbon and came back to my senses. Anyway, I ate too much, didn't write enough and didn't exercise enough. On the plus side, the freezer/pantry project aced the family dinner. I only had to buy asparagus and ravioli--and that's only because those are the only things Step-daughter is interested in eating.
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 Sweet Jebus, running on the treadmill is not the devil! My very most awesome friend Office Space, Christmas gifted (I hate it when people say gifted. Why is "gave" not good enough anymore?) me a few weeks at her work gym. I meant to be all tough and winter-brave, but then it snowed and I wienied out. Playing chicken with the oncoming traffic and bailing into a dirty pile of frozen slush at the last possible minute may get your heart rate going, but it's not my idea of a fun workout.
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I finished knitting my scarf and I got my very own harmonica and how-to-play-harmonica book from Brother as an early birthday present. I'm pretty good!--but not really. However, if we have to move into a boxcar and warm ourselves by building fires in trash cans, I'm ready to provide our soundtrack!
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My car died at the stoplight on my way to work yesterday. Surprisingly, no one honked. Husband and Police Officer gave it a little push 'round the corner. Can I count steering and braking with no power steering or power brakes as a workout? Long story short--a $64 tow and sitting in an attached garage for 10 hours and it starts. No diagnosis has been made because Husband and Father-In-Law disagree and, come on, there is a good possibility that neither of them is right anyway.
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It's snowing today so I came home early. I had to stop by the grocery store for bread and milk but then I didn't want to look like one of these assholes who runs to the grocery store for bread and milk every time it snows so I bought some other stuff we didn't need but it was on sale and we will use it. So that was pretty much of a fail for the freezer/pantry project. And? I'm still an asshole for going to the store for bread and milk. And? If you're one of those people who goes to the store for bread and milk when it snows, you're not an asshole. But if you're one of those people who wanders around and blocks the whole aisle while people are just trying get their bread and milk, you are an asshole.
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Oh, did I fess up yet to buying that peanut butter for less than $1/jar? Because I totally did it. The sale was supposed to be over when I went to the grocery store for milk and other perishables but it was still on. I can't be held responsible for my actions. We have five full jars of peanut butter in our pantry now. I guess I'll just be eating a lot of peanut butter from now until it's gone. Now accepting your peanut butter recipes.

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Husband just went to the grocery store to get apple cider and came home with two cases of bottled water (There are only three situations that individual-sized bottles of water are acceptable in my book: 1. If you're in Mexico fighting drug lords. 2. If you're wandering along the desert and come across a vending machine of water bottles. 3. Never.), a four pack of root beer, a frozen pizza, a 12 pack of Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper, and apple cider. Ok, so: A. Not so cheap honey and B. But, that's ok because VINDICATION! And to think I felt bad about buying stuff to make chili.

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Today I'm chowing down on:
Breakfast: 2 waffles (one was free, my parents brought  box of waffles when they came over for breakfast on Monday), banana, peanut butter 41 cents
Lunch: Orange Pork Chop and stuffing $1.37
Snack: Chocolate that was a Christmas gift
Later snack: Granola bar 26 cents
Dinner: Hamburger Helper and Orange 58 cents

Total: $2.62