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Woke up this morning and looked in the mirror and for the first time – I had no idea who I was looking at. For the past two months I have been growing a moustache for portraying Teddy in “Arsenic & Old Lace.” I hate the thing, with a passion, but they didn’t want to use a fake one so I agreed. I have also gained all the weight back I had lost in September, which didn’t surprise me.

I have kidded myself that I was gaining weight “for the role” but deep down I know it wasn’t truly necessary. February is going to be the month for me I have decided – in January everybody is out with their “new years resolutions” to lose weight and get in shape – most of them have failed already.

So yeah, February is going to be my month. I re-started my Blockbuster Online subscription, so now I have a reason to walk to the post office downtown again, and since I get 3 at a time, if I take one back a day, it should keep me busy every day of the week, assuming I get the next one by the time I run out in 3 days.

There are exactly three weeks (21 days) left until I can shave the moustache off. So begins the countdown.

1) They call you continously if you are even 1 day late
2) They outsource their calls to India
3) They raise their rates every month until it is 30%
4) They “lose” your payment that pays off your account in full, just to charge you another month’s interest while you have to sort it out.
5) Their computers are cheap and un-upgradable
6) See #3 and #4

I came home from work yesterday and found a note taped to my back door. I guess they are showing the duplex to prospective buyers. Yay. I haven’t had to clean the entire apartment since November – so I have a big weekend ahead of me. But, I did get the kitchen done tonight – woo hoo!