Guess what I haven’t done in the last four weeks?

Gone running!

I can’t believe it’s been that long since I’ve dragged my butt out there but it has. I feel pretty bad about that. Allison, my would-be running buddy, has called a number of times to go out and I bet she thinks I’m deliberately ignoring her calls but I’m not! When I get home I toss my cell phone (with the ringer still turned off from when I was at work) on my bed and am generally not near it when it rings. By the time I return to my room, it’s far too late to be returning calls.

I seriously thought the summer weather would have me pounding the pavement more often but we’ve been having strange weather: when the humidity isn’t deadly and draining, the thunderstorms have been keeping me in fine couch potato form.

To add to my lack of physical activity, I have also been eating out an awful lot in the last few weeks. For my birthday, I went out for three different dinners and I’ve been substituting cooking dinner at home for buying terrible fast food options for dinner. As if it’s not bad enough that my lunches are generally of the “bad for you” variety, I’ve been throwing in these sinfully rich and very delicious cookies from a newish cafe on the corner, and I sort of have a workplace candy stash too. When you couple the latter with a brain doesn’t know how to eat a handful of swedish berries and stop at that, you just know it can’t be good. I’m at the stage where I can practically feel the fat adhering to my stomach after each meal, and worse, my debit card is annoyed with this newfound hobby buying junk food all the damn time.

What else haven’t I done? Well, I haven’t done any more house hunting, although I plan to take my parents to see the ones I’ve looked at this weekend.

And car hunting…well a friend got me thinking that perhaps I should buy the house first because I was pre-approved for a certain amount that didn’t include the fact that I’d be buying a car. It may make sense to buy the house, and then after paying a couple of months of the mortgage, I’d know what I can truly afford to pay monthly on a car. But we all know that if I have a house, I’ll need a car so I should just buy one and get going already right? Well if I wasn’t so impressionable, I would.

You see, I’m surrounded by people who have opinions on both my house and car purchasing goals. I love and have loved getting advice on these things because I want to make the best decision possible, and learn from the mistakes of others (or their friends). Also, I’m not really picky about what I want in a car so I don’t feel too passionate about doing all the nitty gritty work for it: give me something that will run for a good long time with regular tuneups, that won’t be too expensive gas-wise, and is reliable, and I won’t care if the car makes you think I’m a granny or a 19 year old male. Just give me something pleasing to the eye in a general, neutral way (ie not covered in rust) and I’ll be happy. House-wise, I’d like something that’s big enough without being overwhelming, a good price and easy to resell (I know, how bland, don’t most people want this?). Something newer in a good (read: well developed and familiar) location is also important. Well and some other things but really, I’m not that picky.

Everyone I’ve talked to seems to have been in a slightly different situation from me, and they have each brought something new to consider to the decision-making process, which is good, but the fact that it takes me forever to make decisions means that every day I feel like I’m back to square one with my decisions since people’s opinions don’t exactly match one another. My opinions so far haven’t been strong enough on any of the mentioned points for me to disregard many of the helpful hints I’ve received.

So basically what I’m saying is I’m totally back at square one, well I never really left. I need to give someone Power of Attorney over my life. I’ll tell them to get back to me when everything’s set up.

Filed under: Mundane by jummy