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I don't have anything new or interesting to write today. I can tell you about my day yesterday though. I went to Core and did Body Attack at 5:30. Betty was teaching, and she is one of my very favorite teachers, although I think I might like Jamie a little better. Betty is very inspirational though. I hope I look like her when I'm in my 40s. Seriously.

Then I came home, showered and fixed my hair. As I was making breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen a little, I noticed that our recycling was overflowing. Like literally nothing else could fit. So I decided to add taking the recycling to my agenda for the day. Then I realized that I needed to go to Wal-mart because we were running out of dish soap, dishwasher soap, toilet paper and paper towels. I've been trying to pay cash for everything lately because I have a lot of it, and it helps me to save money if I use it for essentials. Less of it is wasted on non-essentials that way. Plus it really helps me remember to look for the best quality for the lowest price. However, I'm not a total cheapskate. I like to buy things that cost what they're worth. And I don't like things that fail in the quality department. So I looked closely at what I was buying and I think I got basically the best stuff for the best price. I also bought dryer sheets.

After I got home I had an apple and peanut butter. As I was eating that Talya called and asked if I wanted to help her stuff envelopes. Since I don't have a job at the moment (PLEASE LET ME GET THE CORE JOB!) I had nothing better to do so I went over to the office to help her. Then B-Rod called to ask if I could take her grocery shopping. I thought that wouldn't take long, but it took over an hour. She was very slow...but so am I, so I'm not complaining too much. Plus she gave me $30 last week when I helped her take her stuff to storage. I thought that was really nice of her. After that Talya called again and told me to bring B-Rod back to the office with me if she wanted to, but I had already dropped her off so I just went back alone.

Talya and I finished stuffing envelopes and then went over to my house to make chicken/mushroom/tomato stew stuff. We also tried to make a list of all the foods we're going to make this summer and next year. We want to plan menus so that we won't be tempted to go out or spend extra money. I'm looking forward to this because it seems so adult. :) It was kind of hard to think of healthy meals though, because we want to make REAL meals and not just like...I don't know, omelets and banana burritos. Those are for the days when there's no leftovers for lunch. So if anybody reads this and can think of good, healthy food we can make, I'd appreciate it. It has to taste good though. Talya wants to be able to cook good-tasting food for Keith when they get married. And I want to eat good-tasting food because I don't like eating stuff that tastes bad.

After we finished eating we went for a walk towards downtown. We went to the farmer's market, the Co-op, this little store called Vortex and another little shop with a name I can't remember. As we were walking I suggested we make a point to do something outside every day that it's nice this summer. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the outside and I wish I had a pet so I could have more excuses to go outdoors. Hopefully I'll take Cheyenne here for a visit for a few days.

Anyway, Talya had to take a test this morning so she went back home after our walk and I came back and went to bed. I don't know why I was so tired, but I actually went to bed before 8:00. It was crazy. And then I woke up wideawake at 3:30 this morning. I would like to wake up closer to 4:30 next time though. I normally get up at 4:45, so that's a little closer to my schedule. If I could have only known last year that I was going to wake up so early in the summer I would have thought I was nuts!