Bed Bath and Beyond my wildest dreams!

It's like Heaven came and built a place right on Dimond Blvd just for me! I know that most of you may have them in your town and that it's old news, but I had NO IDEA. I now believe I fall squarely into a very large atypical marketing bracket. The "20-30 something mommy who still wants to stay slightly hip but who has an obsession with containers and cooking gadgets".

When we walked in I really had only planned on buying sheets. But they bombard you with 20 foot high displays of STUFF. Pans, sheets, towels, containers, glassware, plates, mirrors, clocks, and on and on and on... It was so crowded that I didn't have time to stop and look in one spot. We literally had to keep moving. It was all about the 2 second "do I buy" decision.

We spent $50 and I never even got to look at sheets. But hey - I have a new fantastic mickey mouse waffle iron! Cause, uh, well...I NEEDED it! Ok, so I did leave with some things I needed like a new can opener and felt pads for our furniture and a new set of glasses that were only 10 bucks! And they were EXACTLY what we had been searching for for an entire year!

I told Hubby that he'd better keep me on BBB watch because I may overstay my welcome. When I escape the house it may be to browse the many aisles of wonder instead of my mundane trips to the bookstore and Joann's. Sigh, the plight of a container obsessed middle class mommy.

New Obsession

I like to do research about new things. I get hooked into an idea and I'll sit at the computer for hours researching everything about it. I almost never follow through with actually DOING whatever I was researching, but at least I'm smarter when all is said and done, right? Lately I've found myself looking for motivation at the gym. It's already easy enough to use my kids as then excuse not to go, so I need a program.

I used to do the Couch to 5K program and have made good progress the few times I've done it, but due to makin' babies I've had to stop numerous times. I love the program, but am tired of trying. So I went onto iTunes and was looking around. Niki has these new podcasts with music tracks that are specifically for training puposes. Of course, they're 9.99 a pop, but if it gets me in the gym then I'm all for it!

So I begged hubby to buy it (I don't remember the last time I paid $ for a cd) and he grudgingly supported my new obsession. While I looked through the podcasts to see which one I wanted to get I somehow found myself browsing a whole new section of amazingness! That's right - AMAZINGNESS (when webster puts that in the dictionary, you'll know where you saw it)! I found FREE podcasts that normal everyday folk put on itunes that are actually good.

The last time I tried to browse the podcasts they were pathetic, and mostly people broadcasting their political or social agenda via podcast - ick. But this was platinum baby! I found a podcast by Robert Ullrey called Podcasts for Running: Couch to 5K! YEAH! I KNOW! I could have cried.

He plays some basic techno workout type music and tells you when to speed up and slow down. No more watching the clock, or timer or anything. I just do what he tells me to do until I'm done. It was so exhausting to have to run and counting every 90 or 60 seconds - and frustrating. I'm just so excited!

So, if you aren't a runner (or are) and are aspiring to become so THIS is the way to do it. I figure when I make it to the 5K that I'll be the slowest 5K on the planet, but hopefully by then there will be another podcast and it will all be about speed and the half marathon! If not, then I'll do my own! WAHOO!