It comes and goes....too quickly

It cracks me up how different the kids are. It's got to be a boy/girl thing.

Christopher turns 16 in two and a half weeks. Our conversations have been like:

Me: What do you want for your birthday?
Him: I dunno.
Me: What kind of cake do you want?
Him: I dunno.
Me: What do you want to do for your birthday?
Him: I dunno.

Catie had hers planned for months. She wanted cake with green icing, sugar free so her diabetic grandparents could have some. With neopolitan ice cream, so everybody could have their favorite kind. She had a list of things she wanted (if I could remember, I would share). She knew exactly who she wanted to spend the night, where she wanted to go the next day, and she executed every bit of it. We made a weekend of it.

I have Christopher's narrowed down to two or three things he wants for his birthday. That's it. I've been working on him for three weeks already. I wonder if I should just tell him when to show up??

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How lame am I that the best thing I can think of to do on a Friday night is pay bills and make a grocery list?

Actually, that's not true. I can think of a lot of better things to do. However, money is like water around here, but it doesn't even take sunlight to make it evaporate overnight. It's payday weekend. For most people, that means par-tay. For me, that means a mad dash to pay whoever I owe money to and buy whatever I think I might need for a month...quickly....before it's all gone. Which is usually the next day.

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I watched Extreme Couponing on TV the other night. I have to say...I'm inspired. I'm in awe at any rate. But what on earth would you do with 1,000 boxes of cereal? Some of these people's stockpiles looked like grocery stores. It was kind of cool, but I don't think I want that in my house. I'm cluttered enough as it is! LOL Although, how cool would it be to throw your garage doors open and let whoever needs to come and help themselves?

Anyway, I am inspired. So before I run off to the pharmacy to get Christopher's medicine, I think I'm going to wade through a stack of coupons and see if I can score a free bottle of lotion. No, I really don't need 47 of them. One would make me turn a cartwheel in the middle of the pharmacy. (It would really look more like a monkey-dunk, but I digress...)

I'll do it again before I go to the grocery store tomorrow. That's going to be an ordeal enough. I go through my cabinets, come up with meal plans, see what I need to round it out. Have I ever mentioned how much I love Angel Food? Yeah. I should be able to round it out for $100 or less. But since I have a huge stack of coupons anyway, I want to see if I can do it up even better. How cool would that be?