Crazy Night! New Doors and Meat Program!

So last night was crazy ...

Meat Program:
My parents had a company come out to give us a spiel on a meat delivery program. My mom saw them online and because of her new diet, she thought it was a good idea. The company is Passanante's. The concept seems pretty interesting although I am still confused on the money aspects of it. The guy brought meat with him and we cooked a pork chop. Basically it was around $400 per month for 6 months and they deliver all the meat at the same time and we get a full size freezer as well. We spend around $600 a month on food, so that still leaves us about $200 left to spend to get any extras (milk, eggs, etc.). We will have to see after 6 months whether we are saving money or not. Mike figured out where in the garage the freezer will go, my mom broke the news to him about the freezer instead of me.

Mom's New Diet
So my mom started a personal training program at Fulton Kettlebells that includes some 30 day cleanse type diet, although she calls it a lifestyle change. Basically for the next 30 days, she eats absolutely no carbs or dairy. That was one of the reasons for the meat delivery above. She is learning all about what to cook with and what not to cook with. They are cooking with coconut oil now and making their own taco seasoning. They also started buying their meat at Whole Foods. She has only been on it about 3 days, so we will see how it goes, but hopefully it will be for the best for all of us :) She still makes carbs that the rest of us can eat but she doesn't. Dr. Kalikhman said Mike needs to cut back on carbs anyway, so it is all good timing. 

New Doors
While at the Home Show on Saturday, I made one appt for West Shore Windows and Doors to come out on Tuesday since that is the one day a week Mike gets home from work early. Of course Jemma was super fussy around 6:45 and the meat guy was still at our house. I took Jemma up to bed and put her into bed and sure enough, right as I was sitting down to eat a little dinner, the door guy showed up. I showed him the 6 doors we were looking to replace (the breakfast nook, 2 living room, office, garage, and front door). He was nice enough but of course it turned into one of those sales pitches where he told us we had to sign today or we wouldn't get the best deal. The initial quote was high (somewhere around $2500 for the garage, $7500 for the two sliders, $1200 for the window, $3500 for the glass living room door and $13,000 for the front door!). The front door went down to around $8000 when I took off all the decorative glass. We got a 10% discount from the home show if we purchased in the next 30 days. The garage door didn't make sense and the front door was completely out of the budget. Since we didn't know yet what we were doing about the living room doors, we looked at just the two sliders, since they are the most important anyway. We were suckers and signed on the dotted line yesterday after he reduced the price to around $5400 for the two doors installed. They seem to be pretty good doors and they come with a lifetime warranty. They are triple paned, argon filled doors that are fiberglass and so hopefully will never have any problems and will be much more energy efficient. They were more than we budgeted but seem to be good doors. At around 11pm, he was still there and I went to bed, I was exhausted and Mike finished up the paperwork and my parents wrote a check for 30% down.