So last night I was driving home from school, listening to KSL to get traffic and weather together on the nines (a lifesaver when you commute, that). One of their morning DJs (although, if it’s a talk station, I guess you can’t really call them a DJ– morning personalities, maybe?) was doing a remote advertisment at the NordicTrack Workout Warehouse, which was having their Grand Opening that day. Amanda was gushing and flowing (as she usually does; Amanda gushes and flows over everything) about the great deals on home exercise equipment– including ellipticals starting at $200. I’ve wanted to get an elliptical, and have discussed it with mom. So I let mom know, and we dragged dad over last night to look. The $200 model was a small HealthRider. It doesn’t have power incline adjustment (it’s manual), and the tension runs off battery power rather than on a power cord. This suited us just fine, as we don’t really have room for the big models, and we’re all so out of shape that I doubt we’ll be much interested in doing any sort of an incline for a while yet. 
So, we bought one. Here’s to getting fit and thin again!
I’ve been thinking about buying an iPod for a while. I’d intended to get myself one as a graduation present to myself, in April. When I took out my student loan, I included $200 to buy the student edition of the Adobe Creative Suite (you just can’t beat that price, and my version of the software is now 2 versions old). But the last two weeks of driving back and forth with bad radio, sitting in a quiet office while editing, etc., made me change my mind. I’ll get the software as my graduation present.
I bought my iPod today. 
It’s a 20 GB color model. I bought it at the BYU Bookstore, because I could get academic pricing there– $30 less than retail. It’s shiny and lovely and I’m naming it Hermione. I figure, I have a Harry (my desktop), three incarnations of Ginny (Ginny I, Ginny II, and Ginevra, all laptops), and I named a pine tree Ron. ‘Bout time I had a Hermione. Can’t wait to listen to Pottercast on her. Maybe, it’ll be while I’m working out on the elliptical.