Have You Ever....

gotten ready for a shower, looked down, and thought, "This body doesn't belong to me!"?

I feel like a manatee.

Ugh.

Moving on...my house is now fall-ready, I polished my dinner table and coffee table, and I no longer feel like a bum. I even made it out for a run today, even though my time is pretty woeful. I'm thinking about signing up for another 5k to give myself a goal to work toward, but I didn't before because I was worriedslashhoping that I wouldn't be able to run in it.

And now, for something completely different....the first-ever edition here at "Me In the Making" of Roses and Thorns. I've seen this a few other places, and now I'm jumping on the bandwagon too.

ROSES....

*to online grocery coupons. It's a whole new frontier of saving money in the ABC123 household.
*to Joel McHale. Community = why Thursdays are worth waking up for.
*to the weather! Good job, outdoors!
*to A&E's "Teach: Tony Danza." THANK YOU for showing the nation how challenging it really
is.
*to DVR. DVR, you make it possible for me to grade papers without missing my shows. I lurrrrve you for this.

THORNS....

*to AF.
*to cysts. Especially "small" ones which today, feel anything BUT small.
*to downstairs neighbors who go outside and smoke pipes on their porch while upstairs
neighbors are trying to enjoy open windows and fall breezes.
*to feeling bloated. It's madness, I tell you.
*to watching something on DVR, watching all the commercials, and realizing AFTER the commercial break that you could've fast-forwarded through all of them.
*and a late addition....to the AT&T commercial showing major landmarks being covered by orange fabric. They show it all.the.dang.time.

What gets YOUR roses and thorns?