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I did too much typing for the past week and now whenever I rest my elbow my fingers tingle so I’m just trying to rest, which is really screwing up the Nanowrimo word count, let me tell you.

At the grocery store this morning I asked for a rain check for maple syrup. Now prior to today, if there was a sale on something and the shelves were bare, I would just come back later in the week, if at all. I mean, Barq’s rootbeer will be on sale again in the future, right? But this was 80 cents off, and that’s too much to ignore. So now I have a rain check. I hope I don’t lose it.

In other grocery karma, I made lunch Saturday for the three kids, and we blew through the rest of my tuna, my american cheese, a loaf of bread, and a big bottle of “Elmo Punch”. I was amazed. Well at the store today, everything on but the bread was on sale(!) The tuna, regular-sized chunk white, was only 77 cents a can! I bought 5 cans. I mean, I normally pay about $1.29 for the same brand. Same deal for the cheese and the Elmo Punch. It was very weird to have a list in my hand and have most of the items on it be on sale.

Him: Mama, can we have a fire in our fireplace to make the house cozy?

Me: You bet!

I love having a fire. It’s one of the things I love most about this house…having a fireplace. My whole life I wanted one. And now my little roommate likes them too. Woo hoo!

You know, I had nothing going on for weeks. The minute I commit myself to writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, BAM, I’ve got three projects going at the same time. Well, today I had to work on two of those projects instead of my novel, and in one way, I’m feeling bad about my word counts, and in another, I’m proud of myself for doing my WORK instead of my “fun” novel. Which, oh, by the way, isn’t so much fun when you have a gun to your head and no idea what you’re writing about.

I got tired of hearing my sister say that she uses Simple Green to clean everything in her house. She likes the “safety” factor, that it isn’t full of harsh chemicals. So I bought some, in my endless search for the perfect cleaning fluid.

Oh GAWD I hate the way this stuff smells. I really do. And not only that, but my chemical bathroom cleaner has LESS of a gross smell than this stuff. I think I got some in my lungs cause I couldn’t stop coughing. And now I’m feeling completely naseated. Just ready to throw up. And I didn’t feel that way before I Simple Greened myself. So that was a complete waste of money, and I’ll be giving this bottle to her the next time I see her, because I don’t want to ever use it again. Blech.

p.s. Heard excellent things about 409 Glass and Surface cleaner. Someone my mom knows said your windows will NOT streak with this stuff. But I can’t verify that. Yet.