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I’ve had a fairly uneventful week (or so), all around. There was a lot of watching of movies, a bit of reading, and more eating than anyone really deserves. I’ve had more ice cream than usual, and more peanut butter. I’ve drank at least one beer every day from August 3rd through the 14th. I’ve also played less racquetball, as my membership has expired and I’m waiting on paperwork to go through so I can give them a bunch of money to let me play again. These things combined do not spell a happy immediate future for my midsection.

To that end, I bought a blender last night! My goal is, instead of having peanut butter toast in the morning and ice cream in the evenings, I can start replacing said delicacies more often with smoothies made of soy milk, Splenda, and sundry fruit (which might as well be made of wax, at that point). I like smoothies, and they seem to sit acceptably well with me, so hopefully this purchase with affect a positive dietary change. Either way, it looks pretty sitting on my dishwasher (the only available counter space), so even if its purpose in life is to collect dust, it will do so attractively.

Either that, or Wednesday nights will become piña colada nights. I’m happy regardless.

My car is visiting its friends at Karl’s Chevrolet today. It was time for its 6,000 mile oil change and tire rotation, and they also (finally!) contacted me about applying a paint protection coating I purchased when I bought the car, so they’re doing that today, too. I talked them in to trying to fix up the scratches my car has already sustained in various parking lots over the last 15 weeks and 6,400 miles (over 400 miles per week, not even counting I spent one week without it in Colorado!), since I’m pretty sure several of them would not be there if they’d applied the protection coat some months ago.

Anyways, I’m driving a rental today. I drove in a subcompact Chevy Cobalt, and I left in a huge 4WD Trailblazer. It was the last rental they had. In fact, about 30 seconds after I got there, another person in need of a rental came in, and it sounds like they get to drive a 2006 Impala off the lot instead of a rental. I sorta wish I’d hit a red light on the way in or something. I’d've much preferred the Impala. I haven’t driven anything this large since one week I had to borrow my grandfather’s pickup back in 1999. It makes me nervous driving through I-235 construction in something so massive.

It sounds like my going-out plans for this evening have fallen through. :( I’m trying to decide if I want to try and develop new going-out plans, or if I just want to head home and clean my apartment or something. I think Dana is planning on spending the evening continuing to plan her classes for the coming semester (which starts on Monday), so I’d rather stay out of her hair. I’m sure I’m going to prove an annoying distraction to her this semester, but I’d rather not be so from before week one. ;)

Did everyone check out my pretty Flickr pictures? I think the ones from the botanic gardens in particular turned out really well. Not bad for my beat-up old pocket Elph, anyways. I stuck my favorite of the botanice shots up top for your viewing pleasure. I’ll try and remember to post more pictures sometime today. Hopefully Flickr gets around to instating my Pro account sometime soon… I paid for it over two weeks ago, but still don’t have it. They must be custom-designing my little “Pro” logo or something.

Hehehe… pocket elph.