Stuff and things... But mostly snow. Still.

I haven't been up to all that much here in the frozen tundra. It's SO COLD! Mornings have been in the negative numbers. Without the wind chill. Ugh! This was when I went out to tuck the ponies in for the night yesterday:

Gross is an understatement. Come on Spring, where are you?! The good thing about being stuck inside is that I'm getting all caught up with things in the house. Laundry is under control. Closets have been purged. And I finally put the treadmill together!

They say it's a two person job, but I got it done by myself. The hardest part was getting the base out of the box. I'm really happy with it! I haven't yet found where it will tell me my pace per mile, but I'm sure it must somewhere. I should probably read the manual...
Since this thing is finally up and running, so am I! (Pun fully intended) FINALLY! My first run was just a 2 miler. A slow two miler. With a little walk break in the middle. I'm so out of shape. My second run was better. I ran slow still, but did two full miles, walked for 2 and a half minutes, and then ran one more mile. So 3 total running miles. Baby steps friends!

Flashing my "L" for Liz and Outrun 38!

I took a break from chores Saturday evening to make myself a Valentine's present or four:

Jewelry for Valentine's Day! 

The rest of my time has been split between the fur kids and shoveling. And eating. 

It's nice to have some down time, but I am ready to get back to riding horses and seeing my friends. It's getting lonely in the house! What have you all been up to? 

Truthful Tuesday

I very much need to stop buying stuff. I'm going to be in for a very rude awakening when my bill comes from the snow plow driver. Which I must tell you, is really frustrating considering he shows up whenever he feels like it, with no regard to my needing to leave the house at 8 AM. Or my worker needing to get in the driveway at 7 AM. But I digress.... Despite my needing to save some money, I also need to get back in shape and drop some pounds. So I made one last large purchase:


Yep, I bought a treadmill. A ProForm 505 CST Treadmill to be exact. It's nothing fancy. Probably wouldn't suit a very serious runner. But I think it will work just fine for me. Hopefully anyway. It's temporarily on sale from the manufacturer for $599. Marked down from $999. So that's a deal right there! On top of that, I got it from Target with my Target Credit Card, which means I saved an additional 5% plus got free shipping. Free shipping is kind of unheard of for an overweight item like this, so major score there! On top of all those savings, I clicked through to Target.com from Ebates, so I'll get 2.5% back. I could have gotten it through a few other web sites that would have gotten me more back from Ebates, but the transit time was a lot longer and/or I couldn't get the free shipping. When all is said and done, this baby will have set me back $554.82. Not terrible for a semi-decent treadmill delivered to my door! I have enough of my holiday bonus left to pay for it when the bill comes, so no interest charges either. Yay! But the real question is... will I admit on Truthful Tuesday in a few weeks to not using it?! I hope not! Time will tell. It should be arriving tomorrow, and I probably won't get it assembled for a day or two (I read it's a little time consuming, especially for one person), but hopefully by the weekend it will be up and running. Literally.

Anything you need to confess today?