I think you did pretty well.

I'm also trying to cook more vegetarian food, but without dairy. I'm debating buying yet another cookbook. I have a shelf of them I rarely use.

I love your Fun on Friday idea. Totally decadent, in that Frances won't eat it and you love it!

And I'm married to an HSP, which Amazon says means I need to read that book, so I requested it and will wait (im)patiently for a copy to get to me.

I wish I had as much discipline as you! I can't go a week without being in a store. :( I have issues. ;)

A site you might like is www.gymjournal.com . You can track your workouts there (for free). You can also look at other people's workouts for inspiration (of course, many of them are for guys lifting truly INSANE amounts of weight). Also, the book by Martina Navratilova is available at Toronto Public Library and has some interesting exercises in the back. There is another site called Hyperstrike that I was a beta tester for that has a low fee and will create workouts for you complete with video demonstrations for how to do the workouts. They may have a free trial available.

Hey, what cookbook did you get? Not that I'm trying to enable your book addiction, but if you have some time to spend cooking, you might check out The Passionate Vegetarian. It has a lot of really good stuff.

Madeleine, I am incapable of giving up dairy. As far as I'm concerned, cheese is one of the joys of living.

April, wow, thanks. I will have to check those out.

Casey, I got Deborah Madsen's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone or something like that. It's HUGE and so far so good. But also it's HUGE. I'll put that one on my amazon list, though, for when I am next feeling adventurous.

Hey that's pretty good.

I had to buy kid clothes and shoes. My hand em down channels dried up and my kids grew up. Plus that's it! Winter's over! Summers here! So time for sandals and tank tops, all in current sizes. On the upside I did buy only what we needed, am donating the other stuff, and shopped frugally.

Okay I didn't even take this challenge on officially, only in my mind because I knew I'd suck at it. I have to get so much stuff for the church, the school, and all the kid clubs.

Girl scouts, those cookies. I think we'll about about 50 boxes, because I bought a box or two from every kid we knew. But I'm donating them, honest abe!

See, I am the government's wet dream: consumer.

See? Suckage.

And look, those are useful, productive books. Not like you bought Danielle Steele!

My CSA is expanding to include dairy...WOOT WOOT. But we are so close to egg-fish-vegetarians now.

And we coordinated group sites to save more on fuel.

Yesterday my daughter and I had a recycling lesson. We take a field trip to the recycling plant each Spring.

I'M TRYING.

I LIVE IN TEXAS FOR GOD'S SAKE...that's enough of a challenge!!

(Little bit of guilt? Maybe?)

Andrea, I'm with you on cheese. And yogurt! And hot chocolate! But Snuggly Girl inherited her gut from her dad (and her teeth from me, really could it be any worse?) so that's two-out-of-three people for limited dairy.

I make Mac and Cheese for myself, once in a while, and eat the whole box.

The cookbook I'm considering is The Minimalist's new all-veggie book. I like the idea of relatively simple recipes and variations so you can sub out what someone doesn't like and sub in what's wilting in the fridge.

You know, I just started reading HSP because of B&Ps comment, and it is SO worth it!

Free (good!) veg recipes you might like:
http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/recipes_archive.html

Moosewood is great. I was completely vegetarian for a while and even now we're mostly veg, since it's easier and cheaper, and I use Moosewood cookbooks constantly. They do some fish, but it's primarily vegetarian.

Barbie cake aside, in January I was a STAR! Then the wheels fell off the bus a wee bit late last week. A new stuffed elephant for Miss M b/c I was sad and wanted something tangible to commemorate a passing. And then there were the two remainder Y/A hardcover classics at Chapters b/c how could I not buy them? There was also a Max and Ruby umbrella (ooo if you had seen her zeal in the store)that was snagged on a Zellers underpants run b/c apparently the size 2/3 get snug pretty quick when you are a carb loving pre-schooler.

I am now back on track but I must confess that I succumbed to retail as therapy. Uck.

Happens to the best of us.

It's tough. I don't consider myself a shopper, but it's still tough.

There's a good vegan recipe site called Fat Free Vegan Kitchen. http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/ She has a ton of recipes and if you aren't interested in doing vegan, you can use cheese where she uses, uhhh, not-cheese, I guess. I've made several things from her site and they've been quite good.