So I found a link to the Grocery Game from somewhere. What it is, is you clip coupons (blegh but okay) and then use a list provided (that you do have to pay for) to get the best deal on various groceries and such. Thus cutting your bill in half or more. So we decided to try it out for the first month and see if it actually works. Figure cutting the grocery bill would be nice since we tend to spend about $600 a month on groceries which is pretty high for just two people.

Here are two pictures of the kitchen I’ve put up. We’re almost done except for the countertop. So here is a preview of the new kitchen. If you click on the links it will show you the full pictures of the the kitchens rather then the cut verision on the site.

First a picture of the old kitchen:

And now the new kitchen:

As you can see we’re still missing the countertops. We also need to do some touchup painting when everything is done and we are planning on putting a stampped border of butterflies along the top area as well. However it is a decent look at the kitchen.

Picked up the EQ2 expansion today, not sure it was worth it since I haven’t played in over a month and with school and all probably won’t have a ton of time to play now. We’ll see how it plays.

Sims 2 Nightlife comes out tomorrow, it looks interesting, too bad I can’t play it on the laptop, oh well guess I’ll hang out downstairs to play it. Which is good, spend time with Dan that way.

Been sick the last two days with a cold and it hasn’t been fun at all.

Reading Gilgemesh for history it is really good actually. Impressive what people wrote 3000+ years ago. They were quite good at getting their ideas across through a story.

Ordered new glasses today, my vision got worse, blegh, well my astigmatism in my right eye did anyways. The new glasses are hot. They are black frames with colours around the inside. Which I really like. I’m getting them with a new thing so that the lens change color in the sun, so I won’t have to carry around my sunglasses. The glasses cost a fair ammount, but much cheaper then getting them without insurance, yay for vision coverage when your eyes suck.

On that note the eyedoctor has this new vision test thing. Rather then putting drops in your eyes and diluting the pupil to scan the retna. They have a nifty machine that gets a much better view and no drops that screw up your eyes for hours, bonus! It cost a bit more then the other way, seeing as the other way was free, but it is a better option overall, so it was worth it. Nice east and quick. My eyes looks good, which at least means I’m not likely to go blind anytime soon yay!

My foot still hurts, but it is much better then Sunday, which is good, was just a muscle bruise I guess, which I’m glad of broken bones would not be fun. Especially not in the foot, well let’s be honest it won’t be fun anywhere.

I’m somewhat off my diet because of the sick thing and the whole no kitchen thing. I need to get back on it, it was working well, though the counting calories thing is a pain. Maybe I’ll use a spread sheet to do it rather then on paper.

Oh on that note, we now have a stove! They came yesterday and installed the stove and microwave, so of course we ordered in last night and tonight for dinner. Mainly because there are no dishes in the kitchen since we still don’t have the countertop, so it is hard to cook still, but at least we can now if we want too.

Other then that not much else has gone on in the past 2 days or so. Such is the exciting life I lead. Of school and home with the puppy and hubby.

Katharine Hepburn You scored 28% grit, 23% wit, 47% flair, and 19% class!

You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or conventionally woman-like, but you possess a more fundamental common sense and off-kilter charm, making interesting men fall at your feet. You can pick them up or leave them there as you see fit. You share the screen with the likes of Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant, thinking men who like strong women. Find out what kind of classic leading man you’d make by taking the Classic Leading Man Test.

Works for me Katherine Hepburn was my favorite actress for years, actually she still is.

Today is my whine post. I’m not in class today because yesterday I fell down in a parking lot. My foot got caught in a pothole and I landed hard on my foot, knee and hand. My foot got the worst of it. My hand is fine though my wrist is a bit iffy. My knee has a bruise and my foot is in pain. It was really bad yesterday it hurt to move on it. I used a heating pad on it for a few hours last night.

This morning though we decided it would be better for me not to go to class, that way I won’t be messing it up more by walking all across campus. So i am home today. Which isn’t too bad, but it still hurts some, less then yesterday but still.

I also have a cold, half of it is alergies, I hate fall, all the pollen and such is out in full force and so is my urge to sneeze. But I apparently caught something as well, I had a sore throat/ear on Saturday and it expanded to a full blown cold yesterday and today.

So I’m at home in pain and with a cold, whine!

Well today was family day. My parents were in town because my mom had some kind of dinner thing in DC this evening. So we were supose to meet them around 10am in DC, maybe go to the Smithsonian or something. We ended up just meeting them for lunch.

We went to a sport bar called Tommy Joes (maybe?), because we were also meeting family friends (good friends of my parents) and the husband of the group wanted to watch the Michigan football game. So we head down for the 12 o’clock lunch. After 15 minutes we finally find somewhere to park, yay closed streets and parking garages.

We get to the restaurant and the family friends are there but my parents aren’t yet. My parents arrive shortly afterwards. We had a nice lunch, though it was fairly loud with the football game on all 8 or 10 tv screens in the place. Talked to everyone and spent about 2 hours there.

We head out and say bye to my parents. Then we head back to our car. We are only about 15 minutes from my inlaws so we decided to stop by and visit them.

We had been talking about visiting them tomorrow, but the traffic is supose to be horrible tomorrow. So we drive over, and surprise them, since they weren’t expecting anyone.

We hang out with them from about 2:30 till 9:30 talk and have dinner. It was nice, and we got all caught up. My father in law is retiring at the end of the month, and they are going to Paris for 12 days in November which sounds like a lot of fun.

Over all it was a nice day, but dang there were a lot of parents seen and talked too!

My brain is slowly being drained from my body and my will to live is decreasing. I am in the middle of the discussion section for Macro Economics and it ranks high as the most boring thing I have ever had to attend. I think I would rather have a tooth pulled without novicane, or maybe a cavity drilled.

Heck I’d probably go for a finger being chopped off. It is mind numblingly boring…

The TAs voice isn’t helping any, he has a slight accent which for some reason is really grating on my nerves, which is odd I normally am never annoyed by accents but for some reason he is really grating today and I am losing my will to live. Oh thank god he is done!

So my first math homework is due tomorrow. And I have to prove: A = B if and only if (A is a subset of B and B is a subset of A). Which doesn’t seem to bad until you get to the point where it is really obvious. However, it is a pain because it is obvious, yet proving something obvious is harder then proving something that isn’t as obvious.

Sigh well I’m about half done, but I think it is going to end up wrong. Then again I guess getting the first homework wrong is better then getting the first test wrong.

Many students have not been able to acquire the Aplia package. Those students with the package should do the assigned work, but all deadlines for turning in assignments have been suspended until the bookstores make the package available to all students. Professor Terrell

Of course this comes up on the website after I spend the $60 on just the program because the bookstore has no more packages.

The frames came in yesterday so I now have glasses! and don’t have to wander around at midnight in sunglasses. I am quite pleased with this fact, yay glasses!