Monday, March 24, 2008

Random Chore Day

Monday continues to be doughnut day, so we did that, of course. You wanna know something sad? We keep our thermostat set at 72 or 73 and Easton (Mr. Skinny) still gets cold:
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Dalton does fine, oh and I don't let him eat doughunts yet...he's having a plain piece of bread:
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Dizz had two naps that day Easton spent some time playing games at NickJr.com...
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...while I tackled some random chores...like running the self-cleaning feature on my oven and doing some major deep cleaning on my stove top, and under it, and the burners. Doesn't it look sparkly, though?
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My next stove will have a flat cook top. They look nicer to clean to me. :)

I also took on the very bizarre task of going through my collection of gift cards. "Pick a card, any card..."
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Would you believe those cards there hold a total of $518.24 on them? I called all the phone numbers or went to the websites to figure out all my remaining balances on them. Some have a mere .46 (Starbucks) while still others have $50-$100 on them. Would you believe that at least two of those are housewarming gifts to me and my ex husband??? I had to throw away 2 cards, one isn't a store anymore and one depleted itself with too much time passing. Looks like I've got some shopping to do, eh? The restaurants are hard because we have, like, $3.58 left for Olive Garden so it's not like we'll make a special trip to use it up when we'll have to pitch in so much of our own money. Pretty crazy, though. I love gift cards. Clearly. I guess I hate to see 'em go.

In between D's naps we made a run to the Dollar Tree...I told the boys they could pick out whatever they wanted. Easton picked out some giant bugs that were supposed to "walk" down the glass. But they didn't. They were broken and I felt sad for him. But he was a trooper about it because we also got a Spiderman pail and shovel:
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And an inflatable alligator for the pool this summer:
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Dalton and I ate tortillas and looked on:
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Because of my super clean kitchen I informed Jason that I would not be cooking that night, so he brought home Chick-fil-a because we had a coupon for free nuggets. We ate and hung out wrestling alligators and such...and look what a good walker Dalton has become already:



That was our Monday.

1 comment:

~aj~ said...

Look at that walker! So impressive!

I'm super jealous of your oven. Can you believe we've lived here over 5 years and I've never cleaned the inside of ours? It is a scary sight.

And woman, what is with saving all those gift cards? Get out there and SHOP!! If shopping doesn't appeal to you, at least eat! If I had all those before me and knew they were mine to spend, I think my eyes would pop out of my head! :)