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The Kid's been taking the bus (the city bus here, folks!) just about every day after school to come to my work. He keeps track of his bus card and is getting really darn good at it. He usually gets to my work a few minutes after 4pm, which would be ideal if I were one of those douchers that watched the clock and bolted out the door the second it was time to go. I'm not. And so we're thinking it might be easy for me to text him when he gets out of school to give him an idea of where I'm at on finishing up with work, etc. Good idea, right? So, that means we need to fire up his cell phone plan again.

The Android on Straight Talk might be our best bet. I'm pretty sure this 14 year old will need to have something that at least looks cool and there are definitely some of those options, the same options we've seen at our local wireless shops. Those local wireless shops require contracts and more money than we really want to spend on a fickle-minded teenage, if you know what I mean. So, awesome selection of fancy phones? Check. Rates that don't make me cry or think twice about? Check there, too. (Some plans are half of what we'd have to pay if we added him to our current plan!)

Since we're not huge fans of him having web access on his phone, limited data might be right up our alley. I don't care what he does with his minutes: Call a friend, order pizza, check the bus routes. Doesn't matter. I know the kid and he'll only talk for 1000 minutes (in a row) if you're in person. This might be our shot to get him on the train of a new phone, makes sure he's excited about it and becoming just as responsible about it as he has been his bus card. I think we can reel him in on it. Hook, line and sinker.

And then he can in commercials just like this one:

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One of the best things I'd been doing lately is taking my lunch to work. It saves a minimum of $8/ a day and pretty much anything I bring from home is healthier then anything I'd be able go pick up or have delivered to my work. Quick places to grab a somewhat healthy and relatively inexpensive lunch? Kind of hard to come by in my little corner of downtown Minneapolis.

I'm fan of the prepackaged frozen dinners and cans of soup. The sodium's not the greatest; I get that. But when I'm at my least finest form at 6:30am every morning and I need to get some lunch and run out the door, the fewer things I have to grab, the better? Box from the freezer? Can from the pantry? I got that down.

Yesterday, during our grocery shopping expedition (Saturday afternoon = horrible idea), I ran across T.G.I. FRiDAY’S “Entrées for One”. Here's what I couldn't stop staring at:

Mac and cheese + chicken = my favorite foods in one container where I don't have to do anything but microwave it for six minutes? SOLD. I couldn't find the nutritional content anywhere online, which was a little frustrating, but I'm sure it's not going to match some of the other stuff I eat. In other words, I can't have Friday's frozen dinners every day. But occasionally? YES, PLEASE.

Also, here's an even better way to try these new entrees: Fun Freezer contest. If you enter and win, you can find yourself with a year's supply of freezer-based goodness!

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Tonight, I was killing time while waiting for a doctor and started digging around in my Android's Marketplace. I think if I could learn one skill overnight, it'd be to create apps. It seems like everyone else can do it with the amount of spectacular garbage on there.

I did run into the MeetMoi Android app, though, which has now turned online matchmaking up a whole notch. I downloaded it and spent some time in the waiting room digging into. It was more of a two-man-team digging into it, because The General was equally as enthralled in it as I was.

I immediately got hit up… IMed up? Chatted up? I don't know what kids are calling it these days, but I do konw that "lovergirl88" wants to talk to me real bad. I left my phone unattended for an hour and had a dozen notifications. I think what I'm trying to say is A) I'm apparently smokin' awesome and/or B) this mobile dating app might just work.

I'll leave you with this, though. Sometimes I text on the toilet. Or play Words with Friends on the toilet. And if I were in the market for someone to date, this app would lead to me browing the profiles of potential suitors on the toilet, too.