**SO, I thought dh was doubling the storage size of my MP3 player. (It's the exact same model as my old one, otherwise - looks the same).

It arrived in the mail a few days ago, and yesterday I purchased a few MP3s that I had been meaning to buy. I was looking it over real close to see if there was any distinguishing difference between the two (my old one now belongs to LM). When I noticed that it is actually 16GB as opposed to my old 4GB. No way! I didn't realize - I and am even more pleased with the purchase now. So far, I only filled up 5GB. Dh transferred everything over for me yesterday while I took the kids swimming. I am sure I can fill up 8MB quite easily. I will be more likely to store pictures, podcasts, and audio books on it with the extra space though. Yay!

I am super excited since I have kind of let go of a lot of music not having the proper equipment to listen to it, etc., etc., etc. For quite a time, CDs had priced me out of music entirely (during college when I had no disposable income to speak of). Now, I have everything on my MP3 player that I would ever want to listen to.

**Today, I transferred $1020 each into the kids' college savings funds. Birthday gift money. Spoiled rotten, yes.

**I also went to Target this morning, to pick up a few groceries. They do have a "produce" section of sorts, but it is also pre-packaged. I can't see doing a ton of grocery shopping there - but I perused the aisles for sales. Ground beef was $1.99/pound, which wasn't bad at all.

Oh, and I didn't realize that all their freezers are energy efficient. The lights turn on as you walk by. I was there the other day and thought, "Their lights aren't working," There was probably a lot of people around and they were just flashing on and off. At 9am saturday I was the only one there. I quickly realized the aisles lit up for me as I walked down them. Too funny!

I did scored the cutest lingerie for $4 on clearance. I am very pleased with myself about that.

**I reserved a rental car for Denver.

If I use Hotwire, I found a deal for $150 for a week in Hawaii. About what I paid for 3 days in Denver.

I have had terrible experiences with these kind of sites, and dh asked me to please not go off airport. BUT, I told him we would save $300-ish and I can't justify spending all that money on a car rental. I'd rather give it a go. If we have car rental hassles, we can work them out. It's just us 2, and we have a whole week there. (No kids to entertain if we have to wait 5 hours for our car). SO, I think we will just go for it. (He doesn't mind doing the off airport hassle to save that kind of money!). I am writing the first day off for "travel hassle" because of it. We really can't afford a car rental otherwise, and really it's the only big expense I want for this trip. We want to be able to drive around the island and see the sights, go hiking wherever, visit different beaches, etc. We probably don't have much budget to do much else.

What's the worse that can happen? They don't honor our reservation? (reading the reviews will scare you). So we pay full price when we get there. I think it is worth the risk. I do admit I am just being cheap though, and might regret it. Will see!