And there's snow on the ground now and I have to drive home in it.
So I am grumpy.
I was planning on visiting with the kids tonight, but too many reports have come in that the roads are icky, so I had to call and cancel. Lissa's disappointed, I know, but I just don't want to risk it. I don't have the best tires in the world.
I got my car insurance renewal yesterday. My premium is going up FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS semi-annually because of an accident MY BROTHER had when I lent him my car last year.
I would shop around for a better rate, but it really doesn't get better than USAA, so I guess I just have to suck it up. The main problem is that I have to pay in full, I can't spread the payments out over six months, so I have to come up with almost a thousand dollars (instead of the six hundred I had budgeted). Ah well, I have about six weeks to figure something out.
Not much is really happening. Work is crazy busy. I had a bunch of sodas explode in my car's trunk. Dave is missing his W2s from 2002 and he thinks I have them.
I have abandoned the South Beach diet and decided to follow the radical, new and controversial Eat Sensibly and Exercise diet - I know, I know, it's risky, but I'm going to give it a shot.
I've been hitting the gym regularly for about two weeks now, and I've been eating sensibly - also for about two weeks. Hold on, let's have a weigh in. Wait right there.
::time elapses::
::huffs and puffs after running downstairs to the scale and running back up to my desk::
In two weeks, I've lost eight pounds.
I am pleased.
At my age, weight and level of exercise, I burn about 2800 calories a day. Which means if I consume about 1800 calories per day I should lose about two pounds a week.
This is good.
Okay, so I've spent the past ten minutes basically rambling, trying to fill up space on this page because I haven't updated in several days and I feel an obligation to you, my adoring public.
But I also feel an obligation to not be boring, which is what I feel this entry is so I think I will sing you a song:
Oh my dear Diaryland Every woman and every man Come along won't you hold my hand ---
