How My Brilliant Daughter Has Helped Simplify My Life

1) I have a genius daughter!  She has made my world a little easier by keeping me "in the know".  Every time we are out shopping and I pull out my checkbook to write a check she tells me I should just get a debit card.  Then, I just laugh it off and I say I don't want one.  Really, truly in my mind I was thinking of how scared I was to own one.  I didn't know how they worked and I thought my checkbook was going to get all messed up, so I just kept refusing to even entertain the thought.  Well, I don't know how my thoughts got turned around but I marched right into the bank and did the paperwork and got my very own debit card.  Can I just say how much I love it? I don't know why I fought it for so long?  My check writing has gone down substantially and it's pretty fun to swipe that little card in the machine.   

2) Another reason Kali is a genius is a few months ago she introduced me to a website called mapmyrun.com.  I have been in training for my half marathon for a few months now.  Well, a lot of my beginning runs were done on a treadmill during the cold winter months, but when it warmed up I would hop in the car and drive around different neighborhoods and figure out how many miles point A to point B was so I could then run outside.  I would come home and get out a piece of paper and write the street names down and have a reference for the next day.  One day she saw my piece of paper on the counter and asked if I was driving around to figure out my mileage and I told her I was.  She told me I didn't need to do that and to just get on the website and it would figure it all out for me.  Oh my goodness!!!  I owe Kali big time.  She has saved me so much time and more importantly so much gas money!

3)  One more cool recent discovery is my ipod has a stopwatch on it.  This has been so helpful on my runs because I don't like carrying my phone while running and trying to time myself with the clock on the wall in the house just wasn't working too well either.  I love new technology, or at least my awareness of it now.  I wonder what else is out there I'm missing out on?