I Make No Promises That This Will Matter to You at All

A quick contest update:

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So, an update on the stove (if you cared):

Friday I received an email from the office asking me if maintenance had permission to enter on Monday. I replied, telling them, yes, they had PTE for MONDAY. I got home Friday night to a note shoved in my door saying they’d tried to get in to replace the face plate, but the dog wasn’t put away, so they needed to reschedule… I looked at Earl and begged him to tell me that we hadn’t fallen into some weird time spiral and that it was in fact Friday, not Monday.

Monday, Earl had the day off and was at home all day. No one showed up. I emailed them – trying to remain level headed, annoyed though I was – and informed them that they had PTE on Tuesday, but that Earl would be home all day (again), so they shouldn’t need to worry about the dog.

Tuesday, Maintenance finally showed up around 11am and replaced the face on the stove – Huzzah! And at approximately 1pm… the disposal stopped working… again.

I have to go down stairs tonight to sign some paper work so that the friends who lived in the building before we did can get their referral moolah (another process they turn into a total pain.) And so I’ll mention that the disposal is broken for the 3^rd time since we moved in. ( I looked in there with a flashlight and poked around with a chopstick. I have no idea what’s wrong… also, I don’t know why there are sunflower seeds in the disposal… I hate sunflower seeds.)

The healthier living thing:

Earl and I are not good at getting up in the mornings…. Sad, but true. So aside from Monday we’ve been seriously slacking on the whole cardio front.

We’ve been doing really well with the eating portion thanks to being cognizant of what we’re shoving down our gullets. It’s also helpful that we’ve found sparkrecipies.com which has provided us with some wonderful options in the range of healthy eating (I seriously recommend the Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken).

And that’s pretty much all I have for today. What’s going on with you?