Livin' Large and Livin' Free--Almost

This evening Evelyn and I had a budget night out.
First we ate at Dos Amigos, a little Mexican restaurant down by Tri-County Mall for which I had bought a Groupon some time ago. I figured we'd have a night sometime to try it, and this evening was the perfect opportunity. The $12 Groupon paid the first $25 of our enchiladas and taco and really good guacamole. Total tab was only $26.10 plus tip, so we did pretty well.
Then we went to Target to spend two $25 gift cards we had received from the friendly folks at Engagement Health. At the beginning of the year they randomly arranged everyone in our company into teams and then challenged the teams to compete with each other in losing weight. All of this was anonymous--I have no idea who else was on our team, but evidently they were some big losers, because we received these two gift cards in the mail to congratulate us for being on the team that had lost the most weight! Way to lose, guys! (I guess not many of them are eating chicken enchiladas and a PILE of taco chips like we did tonight.)

We bought an Oxo Salad Spinner. Cool, huh? We've hated the cheapie salad spinner we've been struggling with for years, but we were too cheap to spend the $35 this baby costs. But tonight, due to our success at weight loss, we got it free! After that we found two red pillows to adorn the white futon we inherited from Jennifer and that is sitting in our red and white and black family room. They were only $16. So for less than two bucks we made two significant improvements to our home atmosphere.
Maybe if we eat lots of salads and don't spend TOO much time on that futon, we'll be on the winning weight loss team again!