Before we get to my gracefulness, Kim and I had a housewarming/my birthday party. We had a potluck and invited about 20 friends over. We only had 7 show, but it was still so much fun. I had a great time cooking for the party. Kim wanted me to make the salad of goodness, which consists of avacados, black beans, corn, tomatoes, red bell pepper, feta cheese, lime juice, cilantro, red onion, cumin, and chili powder. (This was named by Kim.) I also made stuffed mushrooms, which had cream cheese, parmesean, green onion, garlic, and cayanne pepper.
I made some tres leches (I made the cake from scratch, and I didn’t like that part as much), and I had leftover stuffing from the mushrooms that I turned into a dip. Kim doesn’t like tres leches, so I also made some cookies: white chocolate, raspberry, and oatmeal. We actually spent most of the night making fun of reality tv. Kim had left some channel on, and Daisy of Love was on. We spent 3 hours making fun of just about everything on the show. It was a ton of fun.
On my birthday I was rushing to get home kind of early (sixish or so), and I had to throw some bacteria to grow in the warm room. Of course I got a text and was looking at my phone when I managed to slam my middle finger in the door. Yay! It still hurts, but luckily overall it’s fine.
Kim took me out for dinner that night, and we went to the original Ninfa’s on Navigation (so much better than any other Ninfa’s or Mamma Ninfa’s!). We just sat out on the deck and talked for a while, and we shared fajitas. It was great, and exactly what I wanted to do. Just a slow, relaxing evening with a margarita. Then we went over to Blake’s house (Kim’s boyfriend), and just watched the end of the Tudors. I got to pet his dog, who was making all kinds of noises. (Pat can testify to this, he called when she was in my lap.)
The next morning I decided to be good and get up and workout. I wanted to try the treadmill instead of the elliptical in hopes that I might have better results. About 5 minutes into my workout, I tripped and fell, got thrown off the back of the machine, had my knees ground off, and the safety magnet was tethered to the machine so the it ripped the rusty metal clip off my shirt which flew up and cut my lip. Yay for tetnus shots! I went to complain to the office, and of course they not only said that I used it at my own risk, but the clip wasn’t actually rusty and it came like that. Really pissed me off. All I asked was that they change the clip for one that isn’t rusty (I wanted my tetnus shot reimbursed, but they never let me get that far.) Stupid waste of $50.
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Yes. I never remember to post…