New year, new kitchen

My parents are finally remodelling the kitchen! Today they started ripping out all of the cabinets and installing the new ones. (They as in the contractors... not my parents :P) My parents also planned to get a new sink and refridgerator.

I really wanted to do something for my parents for being so accomodating this past month so I decided to help them complete the renovation. I bought them a new stove/oven and dishwasher. Here is what I picked out at Best Buy today:


Frigidaire Range with Stainless Steel



I didn't realize how hard it is to pick out appliances! I knew I wanted black/stainless steel appliances because our new cabinets are light maple with black granite counters. I wanted sophisticated looking appliances... didn't realize stainless steel was so expensive! So I picked a simple range with a built in digital oven. The Frigidaire matching dishwasher in the stainless steel was reportedly not very good at dishwashing so I had to opt for the newer black on black model... plus I had to find a very user-friendly one because my mom has never used a dishwasher before (just as a drying rack for her hand-washed dishes) and I want to convert her.

Rain, rain, go away.

Don't you hate the rain?

Especially since recently Moley decided that it's trendy not to go poop in the morning, which means I have to bring him out an additional trip in the afternoon. Today he did just that... and so I gave up thinking I'll just bring him back down in a couple of hours... and that's when it started pouring :( But I was forced to bring him down anyway and it took him 20 minutes to decide on a place to poop. We were both soaked. :(

I decided to start some of my spring cleaning today and as I was getting ready to do the laundry and dishes, I realized we were out of detergent. Both laundry and dishwashing detergent.

I was reluctant to go to the grocery store because I just recently washed my car but I did anyway... It was so wet out there! Anyways, I was having a crap day walking around in the rain, ruining my blow-dried hair, getting rain water all over my newly washed car, pushing a wet cart around Ralph's... when I spotted a pick-me-up... the highlight of my week...



James Patterson wrote another book! Yay! And it was 40% off! (From $28?? When did books get so expensive???)

So anyways now I'm getting ready to do what I've been waiting all day to do. Rip open that bag of Baked Lay's and get started on this new thriller.

Yippee.

Happy Valentine's Day!

What a surprise....



Not that I would have thought Richard forgot Valentine's Day... he just likes to keep hush pretending like it's no big deal. So when I came home to this, I was pretty surprised. Mostly because of the sheer size of it.... this is sitting on top of our dining table, it almost grazes the ceiling! (Or maybe our ceiling's just low...)

Another Thursday Off!

My second Thursday off in a row :)

I hit up the Barney's warehouse sale in the morning. Then I came home to the two laziest dogs in the world.



Then I took some portraits of the lil lazy bums:





You can kinda see Lulu's toenails ~.~

Day Off

Today was much shorter than I hoped~ so I didn't get as much done as I wanted! But here is how I spent my SPA-Thursday...



Dropped Moley and Lulu off at Chateau Marmutt. They both had a bath, trim and had their teeth brushed (yes, because I'm too lazy to do it) and Lulu also got her first pedicure!

OPI - I'm sure you've seen this brand at mani/pedi salons everywhere- apparently makes a "PAWLISH" for dogs... non-toxic and fast drying. Lulu got all 16 of her toe nails done... did you know that dogs don't have a thumbnail?

Unfortunately I can't get her to sit still long enough for a picture.

While they were at Chateau Marmutt, I had an entire 5 hours to myself. Well, actually with LA traffic that translates to 3 full hours to myself.

I spent the morning running some errands. Okay~ who am I kidding, I went shopping :) Stopped by Bev Center, Loehmann's, and Brentwood Gardens. Picked up a few "essentials" then I went over to Fred Segal's for my haircut. This was my 2nd time with David/Amanda and he did a pretty good job. I like how he shapes my hair but I think this time around he made my bangs a little too short. I get really bad bedhair in the mornings now :(

Then I had to pick up Moley and Lulu from the Groomers~ Moley was so scared during the whole ordeal that he pooped 7 times. !!! Yikes.