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Well it’s the first day of the a href=”https://mydebtfreeroad.com/”30 Day Challenge/a and I survived…by the skin of my teeth. Since yesterday was the last day to spend money on “extras” I went and got a pedicure. I had meaning to go for about a week, but the September deadline was approaching and I needed to get ‘er done! i{I live in the South, people, I’m in flip-flops till mid-October!}/ibr /ibr //ibr /bHow did my day start?nbsp;/bbr /br /Well, last night I had to go in for a sleep study. Yup…electrodes and all! That meant I wasn’t going to get much sleep because I don’t do so well in strange places hooked up to lots-o-wires. Plus, the tech told me she would wake me up at 5AM! Why? No clue.br /br /So I’m in my car driving home at 5:30AM and what does my brain jump to? Dunkin’ Donuts! I don’t know who trained me to want donuts that early *ahem, Dad* but I was sooooo tempted to stop and get a dozen for a morningnbsp;surprisenbsp;for my family.br /br /bBut I refrained!/bbr /bbr //bbr /I had all the excuses in my head for why it was okay to cheat on the first day, but then I realized that I made anbsp;commitmentnbsp;and I was going to stick to it. i{Sheesh…integrity can really get ya.}/ibr /ibr //ibr /Thursdays are our pizza nights so at 1PM I popped the pizza dough ingredients into the bread machine and went back to a website redesign/rebrand i{if you notice some wonky things happening around this blog when you are visiting, I’m working on it. }/ibr /ibr //ibr /After waiting for the elementary bus and then picking up the middle schooler I went to the store to pick up some pizza ingredients i{I haven’t gone grocery shopping yet because payday was today.}/ibr /br /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IxhGeY1Xmbo/TmA-xmHWJkI/AAAAAAAAAiU/wrYR3WVE-80/s1600/IMAG0403.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”191″ src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IxhGeY1Xmbo/TmA-xmHWJkI/AAAAAAAAAiU/wrYR3WVE-80/s320/IMAG0403.jpg” width=”320″ //a/divbr /I made the kids’ cheese pizza first because asking them to wait would benbsp;ridiculous.br /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”/divbr /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w8bXk89kNhM/TmA-zDq5kLI/AAAAAAAAAiY/n6_aMGwcjZI/s1600/IMAG0404.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”191″ src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w8bXk89kNhM/TmA-zDq5kLI/AAAAAAAAAiY/n6_aMGwcjZI/s320/IMAG0404.jpg” width=”320″ //a/divbr /Here is my pepperoni.br /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R_RXGFk1S-g/TmA-0BpFWvI/AAAAAAAAAic/_nYOurxL8b8/s1600/IMAG0405.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”191″ src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R_RXGFk1S-g/TmA-0BpFWvI/AAAAAAAAAic/_nYOurxL8b8/s320/IMAG0405.jpg” width=”320″ //a/divbr /Mmmmmm…delicious. My daughter made the broccoli slaw and we chowed down. Makes me wonder what I’m going to make for dinner tomorrow night. nbsp;I guess I better get to the grocery store if we are going to eat this month!br /a href=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” target=”_blank”img alt=”Anna” border=”0″ src=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” //a