having a bad day

Ok, perhaps Sarah Palin does have one redeeming quality:

The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

Maybe it's a Southern thing, but I was taught to always smile at strangers.

I don't mean strangers with badly-inked prison tattoos, bloodshot eyes, and a bowie knife tucked into one boot; I mean strangers at the grocery. Strangers at the bank. Strangers on the walking trail at the park. If I come face-to-face with someone while I'm out and about and we make eye contact, I smile.

It seems I will never learn where the line is between lifestyle and obsession. I want triathlon to be a lifestyle, yet I don't know if I can stop it from being an obsession (whether I am obsessing over doing it or obsessing over NOT doing it!).

Our friend Walper commented yesterday about Kroger,

The Southern Family Market…… Signs are gone!!!!!…. The inside has marking of Kroger all over it… Looks bigger too!

I’ve said it before and will babble it again, I’m so pleased Kroger is coming! 

Oh, Sprint. Just when I thought I was rid of you, you keep coming back to irritate me.

You ever get upset and do something completely irrational? I’ve gone almost an entire year without eating any chocolate (that wasn’t fair trade), but Saturday I almost broke that commitment. As I mentioned the other day, we were having a bad day with car trouble and all, and I was really struggling with how frustrating things have been lately. It hasn’t even been so much the circumstances that have created the problems, so much as I felt it was our convictions.

Sometimes, I feel like I should just call it a day and start over in the morning.

It’s not that I’m having a bad day, it’s just that I need a reboot.