I recently made a major purchase. The amazing thing about this purchase is I went to one store during the kids piano lessons and picked it out and bought it. Here's what I bought:

I did however make the surprisingly exciting choice of color for my set - white. It's a sad thing when buying appliances is a highlight of your week.
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I've become an amalgamation of my husband and my father. I have acquired one of those step counter thing-a-ma-jigs. My desire to have one is a cross between wanting another cool gadget (my husband) and my inherited need to assimilate essentially meaningless information (my father). So I've been using it and my step totals have varied quite a bit from day to day. But today was a real record breaker for my three day sample of collecting this data - 12,000+ steps. Cool.
Hey Dad, what are the gas prices in Portland today?
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Because sometimes it's nice to step aside from all the excitement in my own life, I take some time to keep up with my friends with exciting lives by reading their blogs. Tonight I was sick of the Super Tuesday coverage on TV, so I checked in on Jenny's blog (which by the way is really funny) and found this really super cool video.
I have no idea how all those people kept from laughing....