This is my philosophy on money.  I get a lot of flack from people, too.  These are the same people who laugh at my food budget.  

Currently, I'm also employing the Debt-Snowball method to pay off some debt that we've incurred:  home improvement, car.  I don't pay the highest intrest rate first.  I pay the smallest balance first and then transfer the snowall to the next smallest balance.

I shouldn't say "I" but "we" rather because Lenny is on board with this idea, too.  Usually we pay the bills together, but since he travels so much for work lately, I end up paying everything on my own. 

I was reading journal articles about liver failure caused by Tylenol poisoning.  Accidental overdoses can also be called therapeutic misadventures.  I thought that wording was hilarious, but on further review, that is sometimes what they are actually called.  Hmph!

I made my first picks for Fantasy MMA.  I've been thinking about betting on fights but I'd like to see how I do at predicting things.  Fantasy seemed like a good way to check it out.

1. What type of hair do you have? (Thin, Normal, Thick, Frizzy, etc.) Thick with a slight curl to it.
2. What color is your hair currently? Dark blond with highlights.
3. What colors have you dyed/highlighted your hair? Red, brown, dark brown, light blond.
4. If you could dye your hair any color, what would it be? Dark chocolate brown with chunky, blue pieces.
5. What is your hair's length?  Very short these days; it's never been shorter.

I am not much of a romantic person.  It just doesn't interest me too much.  I prefer small gestures of love and admiration to huge productions.  I don't get overly swept up in foofy emotional stuff.  I am a simple girl.

Which is why I find myself shocked that I am positively SWOONING over Edward Cullen.  Butterflies and everything.  I swear I feel just like I'm in high school again.  I'm actually giggly.  This is really not like me, honestly.

My fellow frugal, co-worker friend just shared with me that Jamba Juice has a BOGO coupon for smoothies.  YUM!!

I also have a $5 gift card that work gave me for my birthday.  That means Lenny and I can have 2 each for nearly free - (I think we might have to spend about a dollar for the second one, since they run about $3.)

I like Jamba a lot; I should choose them more often for a I-don't-feel-like-cooking meal.  For some reason, they are just not on my radar; probably becuase usually  "I don't feel like cooking" means I feel like eating junk food.  

 

 Dear Service Rep,

Thank you for taking my call today.  I hope you can understand my frustration with your telling me I can get a free sample and then changing the price to $125 because of it's popularity and then changing the price again to $600 because you don't actually have the reagent in stock and it needs to be found.  This is especially frustrating when you indicated that th reagent was already frozen down in a bank.

I especially liked our heated banter over the difference between lupus and my "more specific" request of systemic lupus reagents.  I always assumed that they were the same, but I'm willing to learn new things.  However, in the future, I would recommend that you don't actually tell your laboratory client that you got your information from a Google search.  Calling it a "literature search" would be substantially more reassuring; however, I found that calling your own technical services department would yield the correct information.  

I look forward to our continued collaboration.

Sincerely, 

TM

This poll from USAtoday.com makes me very happy...

My boss is French and like most of the French, he is very interested in politics.  We've had some good arguments over the years, and I will admit, he's very insightful and thoughtful with his point of view.  I just don't happen to share most of his view points, but I'm at least willing to listen and be convinced.  He hasn't don't it yet, but I'll keep listening.

He decided to run for office this year to be the president for his party in the US.  I don't recall which party it is;  I believe he told me it's moderately conservative for French politics.  I was joking that if he won we'd have to call him Mr. President.  Well, he won.  

I hope this doesn't go to his head.  (Just kidding, I'm sure it won't.)

We got some free lemons from someone who was giving away tomato plants on the internet.   (Ok, I went for the tomato plants but he had a tree full of lemons and offered us some.)

Anyway, Lenny started a batch of limoncello with the skins and then juiced them for me to make lemon curd.  YUM YUM YUM!  We had a bunch of egg whites left over from making the curd, which I planned on using for an angel food cake, but Lenny knocked the bowl over and we lost about half of the whites.  So sad!

Another thing we (read: Lenny) made this weekend was coffee gelato.  It is SO good - it makes up for the lost egg whites.  

Anyone want the recipes?