I’ve been saving a bit of money on fresh, organic produce lately because my experiment in square foot vegetable gardening has gone from this:

To this:

And finally, to this:

This is the coolest present my boyfriend has given me yet. It’s like a pet and a science project all rolled up into one big package.

I guess I don’t have a brown thumb after all.

Last year I tried out the P90X home workout system from Beachbody.com and had some decent results on it.  I liked the hardcore nature of the workouts (pull ups and push ups, yay!), and the no-nonsense cueing from the instructor, Tony Horton.

That’s why I’m a little leery about trying out the Beachbody Turbo Jam kickboxing workouts.

I have heard good things about it from my sister, who is the princess of DVD home workouts, but there’s something that just scares me about the program.

The instructor and all of the TJ posse behind her just look so $%#!! peppy that I can’t bring myself to put the first instructional DVD into my player.  I can’t help it.  Maybe I was traumatized in a past life by a bevy of chipper cheerleaders or something, but perky rah-rah types have always struck me as a little, well, phony as hell.

I’m posting about this openly so I can’t back out of it.

Tonight, despite my aversion to bouncy flouncy pouncy workouts, I *will* give Turbo Jam a fair shake.

Really.

I will.

This is the beginning of a new era for me. About a month ago I purchased an unlocked Treo 650 from the IT guy at work who had decided to switch to yet another new phone. This meant that I acquired a $599 pda/phone for $240. Except for a few cosmetic blemishes, it’s in great shape.

I thought my old separate pda and phone setup was just like having one of these all-in-one gadgets, but I realize now that I was sadly deceived. I looooooooove my Treo, I really do.

It runs all of my must-have programs–date book, HanDbase, Diet & Exercise Assistant, Shadowplan, Adobe reader, Docs to Go, and my collection of PDAmill games–and adds on the functionality of a mobile phone, audible-ready mp3 player, digital camera, and mobile web browsing and email.

I even have the incredibly useful Directory Assistant program installed, so I can locate a gym no matter where I am.

By the way, guess how this message was posted…direct from my Treo to my blog.

I tell you, I almost have a tear in my eye right now.

I have reached tech geekette nirvana.