i heart ebay

Mario Kart came yesterday!! It is so much fun. We played for several hours last night. We're trying to get the right combination of things done so that we can unlock the ability to use our Mii characters as drivers. It looks like it's going to take a while. It's hard!

Also, I won a controller charging station yesterday for half of the price that it would cost at Best Buy (including shipping). This is important, because I'm going to be getting two more controllers soon in order to increase the ability to have fun at our Wii parties. The charge station is gently used, but the picture looked good, and it's the same model as the one I already have, so for half price I'm down with it.

Yesterday I also tackled the first 5 songs on my Track Pack on the drums in the 'hard' setting and I dominated them. My Rock Band skills are increasing. Unfortunately, because it takes up so much space, Blake makes me take it apart and leave it in the closet during the week, so I won't be playing again until at least Friday. But I'll have plenty of Mario Kart to get me by.

I got my fat ass in gear yesterday and returned to the gym. After a 45 minute run on the elliptical, I was feeling pretty good. Until this morning, and now my abs and hips are sore. Seriously? It had only been a week since I was there last. I'm lame. Also, the bastards at work catered in Panera bagels yesterday, so I may have gone slightly off track with my eating habits. But at least I got to the gym to counteract that situation. Bagels are just so delicious.

Tonight, I have a softball game at 7:30, so when I head home from work I'm going to do some strength training with my kettlebell and have dinner before I have to head to the park. Depending on how good I am today, I may allow myself to pick up some Chinese food for dinner...I've been having a Chicken with Broccoli craving recently, and if I only let myself eat half of the portion I get it won't be too horrible for me. Last night I was pretty good, having a turkey dog, a baked sweet potato, and some steamed green beans. But I also had two of the chocolate chip cookies I made Sunday night. Oops.

I signed up this morning to volunteer at the humane society this weekend. Yay! I haven't really had the time to do that in a few months, so I'm pumped. We stopped by there two weekends ago to donate a 15-pound case of litter that we found when we were cleaning out a closet (it was a different kind of litter from what we currently use, so we didn't really need it). Blake wanted to throw it out, but I refused to let him do that. Plus, by bringing it there, we got to play with some cute little kitties for a few minutes. I wanted to steal them.

Well, I have a bunch of work to do today, so I'd better get to it so that Susan doesn't kick my ass.