bubbles

I'm not even sure how this happened. I switched to the concentrated laundry soap, and I guess I must have poured a little too much in. I've seen this in cartoons, but never in real life. I'm glad all I was washing was my running shoes.

Whitney's Birthday

After much indecision, Whitney decided she wanted a low key birthday. An afternoon chick-flick and a simple dinner. We bought our movie tickets and went for a pint at the Irish pub.



We saw New in Town at Tinseltown which probably won't be nominated for any awards, but Harry Connick Jr. supplies ample eye-candy. Then it was time for dinner and champagne, Sarah supplied the Caesar salad:



Yummm. I hadn't tried Sarah's Caesar salad recipe before, it is now my favorite. Why in the world was I using Kraft? Roasted garlic might just be the best thing in the universe!

On the cat walk

what a bad blogger I have been of late! I'll do my best to be better.

So I promised you the tale of this:


It was delivered to my house just after new years. There was so much snow on the ground, that the delivery guys bitched the whole time. But I figured I paid them $50 to deliver the 200 lb item, they could complain all they wanted. At least I had cleared my stairs off with my dust pan. Geesh!

So what is it? Well it's a treadmill! I found it really tough to get in my daily walks when the weather turned nasty. Problem solved! I set aside the whole day to assemble the thing. I read the instructions which said that assembly required two people. Surely not! Idiot that I am, I started to put it together. About an hour into it, all the snow came roaring off the roof onto my stairs. After I cleaned up that mess, I was back to the assembly line. I'm not going to lie, it was really, really hard to assemble. Not because the instructions where vague and badly translated but because it really did require 2 people. One person to hold a piece and another person to attach the piece. There was a couple times I thought I would cry with frustration. But I managed to put it together. After 3 hours of shovelling snow, and about 5 hours of assembling the treadmill, I was too exhausted to even use it!




The part that you walk on folds up when not in use. I thought it would be a bit more movable than it is. I wish it folded the other way, then I could hide it. Yes, the cats will walk on it, but not for very long. They like to use it like a rocket launcher, why walk against the flow, when you could run with it!

note- I was offered the job I mentioned a few posts back. I accepted it even though I don't think I want the job. Stay tuned....