Free Stuff

Man, the internet is a time waster.  I have been waiting all day, for two days actually, to get online and bitch and moan about our past couple of weeks.  I finally had free time (yes, really!) and energy (yes, really!) tonight to do it.  I even got access to the computer.  (Yes, we only have one computer at home.  I know it's hard to imagine, but it's true.  And I'm married to someone who legitimately needs it to work at night.  Crazy!)

So I get online, but before I could actually get to my blogger account, I got completely sidetracked by a link Jeff had bookmarked.  It was entitled The Best Birthday Freebies.  How could I resist?  So I clicked on it.  It turned out to be all I had hoped for and more.  Links to all sorts of wonderful places that want to give me free stuff on my birthday.  And on Jeff and the kids' birthday.  I thought I did well with free birthday stuff this year.  Ree and I had a girls' day in which we had free lunch at Moe's, followed by free ice cream at Cold Stone, and free shopping at World Market.  But these links will help me take it to a whole new level!  That level most likely being obesity.  But what fun I'll have along the way!

So now it is already time for me to get ready for bed and I have yet to complain about the past few weeks.  But it's coming my friends, it's coming.  In all of its gory glory.  And oh have there been some gory moments!  (Just a hint: five people simultaneously sick with a stomach bug combined with one dog who ate a blanket and a second dog obsessed with eating yard waste.  Imagine the possibilities!)

For now you have been saved by my obsession with all things free.  Aren't you lucky?