Today I took my camera on my 6 mile run. I took a number of pictures, some of which made it to the blog today. The pictures are not perfect of course but the run was. When I took these pictures the real news of the day was still fresh in my mind. You see we may downsize, move to a smaller house if this one ever sells when we list it again. Add to this old news the fact that we have been a lot more frugal the last few months. It is in our lives time to do some saving and "frugal" is OK. So you cut back some and give some stuff up. For example, we both have given up caffeine in the last few days. We are both good at this, giving up caffeine, and I probably am the best of all because I have given up caffeine a lot of times over a lot of years.
Another side note to all this
is that I just now went in and added a book
to my master list, "Caffeine Blues by Stephen Cherniske".
As I write this my head aches a lot, by the way. So this very morning Kathy told me of a conversation she had about giving up things. Just the other day she was telling Katie she had given up a few things. She told her she had given up "Ice Cream". Katie's reply was that she though she didn't like Ice Cream. Kathy told her that was true she didn't like Ice Cream but Dad liked ice cream, a lot by the way. So Katie, quickly grasping the core meaning of this story said, "sounds like Dad gave up Ice Cream". The real insight here is I just never knew it until today, that I had given up ice cream. I have gone to the freezer a number of times the last couple of months looking for an ice cream snack and wondered why we didn't have any? Well now I know. I gave it up, even before I gave up Caffeine. Since over 80% of Americans are hooked on caffeine I guess I am now in the minority and my head affirms that action.
1 comment:
You are truly brave!! Caffeine is very overused in my home! Your blog made me laugh. I wish I could send Kathy to the store for me. There's a few things that could quietly go away here too. :)
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