This weekend has been kind of lazy. It's also been kind of nice. Yesterday I made a chocolate stout cake and a strange asparagus, green been, leet, and crouton salad. The cake came out pretty well, although slightly drier than I'd hoped. It reminds me of a chocolate pound cake, which I really like. The salad was very odd to eat at first, but as I ate more and more, I fell more and more in love. The same thing happened with Tim. At first he thought it was "interesting," then he thought it was "pretty good," and then he got up for seconds and said, "I changed my mind. This is fantastic!" We had left overs, and we didn't know how the bread would preserve, so we invited George over to eat the rest. I also went to Joann Fabrics in order to pick up some scrap fabric to patch up some of my pants and some of Tim's shorts. He has these shorts that he wears while mountain biking that have rips at least 6 inches long in the butt. They don't really matter because he wears them over biking shorts, but I figured I'd patch them up. The main reason I wanted to patch my pants is because all the pants I wear to work are ripping. They are really old and kind of threadbare, but I can't stand the thought of buying new pants for work. I spend so much time crawling around on the ground, snagging my pants on nails, and covering them with glue. I figured I'd try to patch them all once. If it works, great! If not, at least I tried before I shell out more money for more pairs of pants to promptly destroy. I bought a fabric glue and today I turned all of our pants and shorts inside out, cut out pieces of fun fabrics, coated them with a little glue and stuck them on. I'm still in the process of sewing them on for a little more reinforcement. We'll see what happens!
Since the dog didn't get a grand walk yesterday, we took her on a grand walk today. We walked over to PetSmart, where I found a toy I've been looking for on sale! I snapped that up, along with a really cute lobster thing. The cashier didn't love dogs as much as the usual cashier, so Navi didn't get a treat. She was very disappointed. I decided that because Navi had gotten neglected her treat, and I wanted coffee, we'd also wander over to Target. The garden store at Target allows dogs, and I figured we'd walk through to see if they had any Basil, and hopefully some cashier there would fall in love with Navi and give her a treat. We wandered in, and Navi got not one treat, but two! I also found a basil plant, and snapped that up. One java chip frappachino and one strawberries and cream frappachino later, we were wandering over to the beach. We played with Navi there for a while, then wandered on home. Once home, we decided to wash and wax the car. I soaked the car, Tim soaped it up, I rinsed it off, and then we drove around the block with the dog sticking her head as far as she could out the window. Then we parked the car in the garage, and started to wax it. Tim only brought one sock to wax with, though, so I ended up standing there with the dog supervising things. After I told him he missed a spot for the third time, he kicked me out, so I wandered back upstairs.
I've been realizing lately that Timmy and I did a better job at raising a dog than I thought we did. When I was in Rochester with her, I'd take her for runs all the time. She would always manage to get her leash caught on a lamp post by running on the other side. To make things worse, the faster I tried to unwind the leash, the faster she wound it up. After dealing with this every single day for a few weeks, I decided that I was going to stand there and wait until she unraveled herself. It took forever, but now that we're in CA and have worked on it for a long time now, she has made it one step better. Rather than getting wound up and unwinding herself, she just avoids walking on the other side of things. Even if you walk around something kind of strangely, she will slow down and make sure she walks on whatever side of the obstacle that you decide to take. So the occurance where she wraps herself around a post is now very rare. Yay! That's not the only example, but it's the only one I can think of right now.
On Friday, when I was biking home, I saw a woman exasperatedly guesturing frantically at her dog, who was dropping a load in the middle of the street. It made me smile, because now I know I'm not the only one whose dog likes to poop in the road.
I'm going to try to make a tomato and sausage risotto tonight! Yummy.
Since the dog didn't get a grand walk yesterday, we took her on a grand walk today. We walked over to PetSmart, where I found a toy I've been looking for on sale! I snapped that up, along with a really cute lobster thing. The cashier didn't love dogs as much as the usual cashier, so Navi didn't get a treat. She was very disappointed. I decided that because Navi had gotten neglected her treat, and I wanted coffee, we'd also wander over to Target. The garden store at Target allows dogs, and I figured we'd walk through to see if they had any Basil, and hopefully some cashier there would fall in love with Navi and give her a treat. We wandered in, and Navi got not one treat, but two! I also found a basil plant, and snapped that up. One java chip frappachino and one strawberries and cream frappachino later, we were wandering over to the beach. We played with Navi there for a while, then wandered on home. Once home, we decided to wash and wax the car. I soaked the car, Tim soaped it up, I rinsed it off, and then we drove around the block with the dog sticking her head as far as she could out the window. Then we parked the car in the garage, and started to wax it. Tim only brought one sock to wax with, though, so I ended up standing there with the dog supervising things. After I told him he missed a spot for the third time, he kicked me out, so I wandered back upstairs.
I've been realizing lately that Timmy and I did a better job at raising a dog than I thought we did. When I was in Rochester with her, I'd take her for runs all the time. She would always manage to get her leash caught on a lamp post by running on the other side. To make things worse, the faster I tried to unwind the leash, the faster she wound it up. After dealing with this every single day for a few weeks, I decided that I was going to stand there and wait until she unraveled herself. It took forever, but now that we're in CA and have worked on it for a long time now, she has made it one step better. Rather than getting wound up and unwinding herself, she just avoids walking on the other side of things. Even if you walk around something kind of strangely, she will slow down and make sure she walks on whatever side of the obstacle that you decide to take. So the occurance where she wraps herself around a post is now very rare. Yay! That's not the only example, but it's the only one I can think of right now.
On Friday, when I was biking home, I saw a woman exasperatedly guesturing frantically at her dog, who was dropping a load in the middle of the street. It made me smile, because now I know I'm not the only one whose dog likes to poop in the road.
I'm going to try to make a tomato and sausage risotto tonight! Yummy.
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