- Today for lunch at work I'm having this. For a while I've been leery of soup in a carton for some reason, but I finally caved and decided to try it, since it would be so easy to make at work. Aside from the fact that it looks absolutely vile when it slimes its way out of the carton, it's pretty tasty and now I'm interested to try the other flavors. Unfortunately it does contain huge amounts of sodium, but I eat very little salt otherwise, so I guess it all works out.

- I got my very own Flickr page since I'm now actually taking pictures. I've loaded a few pics so far. Right now I'm playing around with shutter speed, so there will be lots of random pictures of things in varying stages of blurriness, and also pictures of the birds, since they're always willing to get attention from the shiny flashing thing. Go see: http://flickr.com/photos/robotpenguin/

- March is almost here, and that means that shortly I can begin the 2 month countdown the the big move. I'm beginning to get a taste of what it will be like to have my budget and my savings caught up in a whirlwind of chaos. First up is my car, which recently decided "Hey! I'm going to need new break pads and sensors, oh and while you're at it, a 50,000 mile checkup would be nice too. K thanks."  I don't mind so much because I do need to have it running well before I make a long distance trip, and my car has been good to me for 6 years, so I want to keep it that way. What I do mind is depleting my saving in one fell swoop. Oh well, I do know that I'll be able to build it all back up in the next few months, so that makes me feel a little better. I also am in the middle of trying to sort out my apartment lease, which ends in July but needs to end in May if I don't want to be paying for two apartments for June/July. I'm pretty confident that that will have a positive conclusion though.

- Going to Fernandina for the weekend.

- I see my orthodontist in 2 weeks and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that when I ask how much longer until my braces come off they tell me 2-3 more months.