I finished dinner a little while ago and I’m still too full for words.  Since my father hasn’t had a home cooked meal in quite some time, I went ahead and fired up the crock pot at about 4am in order to start some sauce.  Tonight I made lasagna with sausage and meatballs.  I was very good at keeping my portions under control.  It was hard considering it’s the only thing I’ve eaten today but I woke up about 2pm so by the time 7pm rolled around I was hungry enough to not care that I hadn’t eaten earlier in the day.

Everyone seemed to enjoy dinner, so that’s always a plus.  I did sneak in a little bit of bread but when you go out of your way to bake it for everyone else, just a small crusty piece isn’t going to kill you, right?  In order to burn off the extra calories I took a few laps around the block with Bella, I then burned even more carrying her home considering her little legs gave out on her.  She gets tired if she walks for too long, not sure how that’s possible considering she’s so low to the ground.

Dieting aside, it’s been a fairly calm day.  I’ve done some laundry, straightened up the kitchen and cooked dinner.  I’ve been unable to work today because Sean has taken captive of my laptop.  I’m considering purchasing another one sometime soon, I’m just not sure what company I’m going to go with.  I don’t use my laptop for anything graphically anymore because of my new iMac.  If I use it for any “big” programs it’s usually Dreamweaver CS3 and having anything less than a gig of ram would be stupid on my part.  I did hear, however, that in order to have Vista on a laptop you’re going to have to have at least 2 gigs of ram because Vista takes a gig to run from the get go.  So factoring all of that in, i figure I’m going to need something in the $650-$700 range.  I’ve been poking around on TigerDirect for a refurb, I’ve also poked around Newegg for a newer one and naturally I’ve been floating around eBay as well.  I’ll hold off for a few months, I just know that my laptop is slowly dying on me.  The lag right now is extremely annoying and it’s also about 2 years old so upgrading wouldn’t be the worst of ideas.