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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A Good Start to the Day

I was really debating going back to sleep this morning after the alarm went off. I love watching the Olympics, but it has definitely thrown off my sleep schedule. Sure I could Tivo it. There's two problems with that 1)It's just not the same. 2) Inevitably I will see the results when I log into the computer or turn on the radio all of which happen before I would get around to watching the recordings in the evening which is the Big Giraffe and my usual TV time. My eyes burned this morning as I reset my alarm clock for a couple hours later and climbed back into bed. Instead of falling asleep though I thought about how I really should go workout. Plus my car was almost on empty and I definitely needed to stop at the gas station. A couple of the grocery stores out here have a program where if you get the free store card and spend x amount of money you get x amount of money off per gallon at the gas station associated with the grocery store. I was up to 50 cents off per gallon.

Sounds great right? The problem is that my store card doesn't work at the pump like it should. I guess it's pretty common. In order to take advantage of this program I need to go inside the gas station store, drop off the card, have the attendant turn on the pump, fill up and then go back inside and pay for the gas. It's a real pain in the neck if I have the kids with me so I try to do it before I go to the gym in the morning. In fact it was this image of trying to do this with my kids that was enough to get me back out of bed and moving.

I arrived at the gas station and did exactly what I described above except when I went to pay for the gas, I got a very pleasant surprise. Due to a malfunction at the pump, the gas came up as already having been purchased. I asked if there was any way to pay for it and the attendant laughed and told me to just enjoy it. It isn't every morning that I can save $46 for getting up early and going to the gym!

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Who knew that cutting back on sleep could save money?

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