What I Buy Wednesdays

I finally got my Fitbit up and running. Turns out, you have to do everything from your phone app. Nowhere does is say that in the instructions. I was trying to do it from my computer. Pretty soon, laptops are going to be obsolete. I know my girls use their phones for everything! I will admit, I'm loving this Venmo app!! But, I prefer my computer. If I didn't have that, I would not be doing this blog. There's no way I'm going to try to "finger type" that much!!

Anyway, I quickly wasn't happy with the new Fitbit. The band is rubber and ugly. Add to that, it's hotter than heck. Even having it loose was not enough to keep my wrist from sweating and sticking. So, I did the only thing I could think of. I turned to Amazon. I found a cute bracelet type for $15.00!! It has rhinestones---definitely looks better.

And to top it off, I'm getting another for FREE! A card came in the box with the band that said if I posted a review on Amazon, they'd send me a free one. I did and they emailed me to ask if I wanted the same one or a different one. I chose different. Don't know what that means, but it's free. I'll keep you posted on that.

The other thing we bought---and I say "we" because it's a big purchase---is new pool tile. It's probably been about 10 years since we've re-done the pool. Our pool guy brought out some samples for us.

Are you kidding me? Of course we love this one---it's what we already have that is falling off the pool wall. I was even complaining that someone should have told me when I picked it out that when there are smaller pieces involved, falling off is an issue! No way were we going to pay a second time for what we already have to only last another 10 years. We were sticking with 6" squares.

Our guy brought these. Neither floated our boat. So we went to the tile store and picked out our own. We had it narrowed down to 2---one he loved and one I loved.

He picked this. 

I picked this. 

Here's a close up. I decided he could have his way on this since I pretty much always get my way. We left and were fine about our choice. At least we thought we were. Butch texted the pool guy and he came back with "Well, that one is going to be $1000 more." Suddenly, Butch liked the one I picked out just as well! He said, "I guess you are going to get your way!" Pools are money pits---for sure. It's always something. And it's never cheap.

Anyway, then our guy said we need to pick the grout color. He had left a sample card for us.

 OMGosh! Who knew there were that many shades of grout for pools?

If you look close, you can see what I picked---sea glass. It's kind of a seafoam green. It looks more grey here. I hope that works. Hopefully that will be installed sometime next week. It would have been nice if it were this week since we'll be in St. Louis again.

This is pretty late for us to not be using the pool. I've usually had my friends over several times by now. Soon.