my perfect saturday morning consists of a little cleaning, a little surfing, a little crocheting, and some great tunes. it also helps that you go to bed at a reasonable hour and that your child sleeps until 7:30 AM (which is the latest he's slept in months)

i just finished an apple, i've got my water, the wyrd sisters CD is playing, dishwasher is running, the counters are clean and i'm thinking about tackling the living room next. the hardwood is in need of a vacuum.

father and son are upstairs playing video games. i can hear andrew squeal with delight every so often. they're plaing an old bowling game from the 80's on the computer and andrew seems to be better at it then steve (considering he's 3).

before steve goes to work this afternoon we're going to check out a large garage sale at a local church. andrew needs a new pair of sandals to finish out the summer but i don't want to spend a load of money.

which brings me to the jar update. this week we went back on the jars. there's enough allocated for gas (enough to fill up the car), enough for food (we went 1.94 over budget, i could have put something back but i didn't want to cause the line more grief), enough for clothes, enough for the LIFE stuff...except...there's never enough for entertainment. apparently we need to be entertained quite a bit. it seems that our downfall is eating out and eating in. is a large part of our relationship to go out for supper and enjoy appetizers, entrees, desert and drinks. it's hard to develop other aspects of what we can do together as a couple. it's tough but it's happening. sometimes it's as easy as going out side to sit for a few minutes. let the consumption urge pass. lol. we're going through withdrawal from our addiction.

the big test is tonight. my best friend is supposed to be coming over tonight. she wants to go for supper and i don't have any of my allowance left and i don't want to use the entertainment money from the jar b/c i want to save that for steve's day off. in the past i would have just put the meal on my credit card...but now i don't want to do that. i want to suggest that we just stay in. i have the fixin's for pizza and this way andrew can run around. but i know she likes to go out for supper. so we'll see.

i'm off to get ready for the garage sale now.

cheers!