We stayed up to watch the Super Bowl last night. It was a great game besides the part about the Chiefs winning. I had started out rooting for Taylor’s team, but by the end of the night had switched over to the 49ers. My entire family was cheering for San Francisco and after a while it just got tiring being on two separate teams. I hadn’t been all that impressed with the Chiefs anyway, and the others seemed to be really invested.

During the game I saw in my son’s Instagram stories that the world record holding marathon runner had died in a car crash. We’d just been talking about him back in October. He could hold a mile pace for for over 26 miles that was faster than my son could ever even run one. I remember asking him, “Was he Kenyan or something???”, amazed that anyone could run that long and that fast. Once again I was sobered.

I was watching marathon videos then this morning, not for long. Tim walked in and I swear every time he comes over I’m on the couch at the computer. Last week he was here to replace the two bathroom exhaust fans. I had wanted to rip out the tub and shower and have them put in a new one that’s one piece, but those are hard to find. So I was willing to give the new exhaust fan a chance to see if that makes a difference.

We’ve tried to address the mold and mildew places several different times. When our friends bring their baby over and ask to use our tub to give him a bath, I’d like to not have that be something I’m apologizing for. Today Tim was here to replace some more windows. He asked, “Upstairs or downstairs?”, and Josh replied, “Probably downstairs.” I didn’t know he was coming. We could have cleaned the downstairs during commercials.

So I continued with the “Monday pile” I’d made on Saturday from the stack of neglected mail and bills, two of which had gone to collections. I had to call Thrivent and get a plan reinstated and I am just going to set these things up to be automatically withdrawn. I used to pay the bills and keep up with all that. We did get our HSA raise approved so I was thankful for that. It’s really ridiculous to be paying collectors for sports physicals.

Speaking of bills, food has really gone up. I spent $200 at the grocery store on Sunday and that was only for lunch food, Super Bowel snack food, cat food, Sunday lunch for the kids, and a supper or two. I’ve had these thoughts lately about what it would be like to make up a giant crock pot of lentil stew. I could totally eat nothing but that for a week, and it would be so cheap. With only some onions and salt and canned tomatoes.

Our bedroom is clean so it’s good for whenever Tim is ready to put the windows in here. It’s a lot of work to maintain a house, both structurally and in the day-to-day operations. Josh noticed I had cleaned it and told me it looked nice. I was listening to the Java with Julie podcast this morning and it really made me want to go into couples counseling. It seems like it’d be fascinating, challenging, and possibly rewarding work.