IrenicEmbers

I debated on and off to make a doggie bed for Blaze after he destroyed his last three. I had a plan and everything. But then, thanks to a suggestion from a co-worker, found this one at Costco for $16.99.

Much cheaper and who am I kidding, I can’t sew!

Blaze stylin

Saw this fun ‘game’ floating around the interwebs.

1. Levanto – Sant’ Andrea church, 2. One Chocolate Wedding Cake, 3. Forest Hills High School, 4. Blue Morpho, 5. Sophia Loren, 6. Mango Lassi, 7. The best beach of Greece, 8. gelato in caramel cups, 9. Doctors Point, 10. Rottweiler Blues – Ben, 11. passionate chrysanthemum, 12. irenicembers

(click through for photo credits, photos are NOT mine, well except that last one)

So, here’s the deal… you answer the following 12 questions about yourself (my answers are in parentheses after each question):

1. What is your first name? (andrea)

2. What is your favorite food? (chocolate)

3. What high school did you attend? (forest hills high school)

4. What is your favorite color? (blue)

5. Who is your celebrity crush? (Sophia Loren)

6. Favorite drink? (mango lassi)

7. Dream vacation? (Greece)

8. Favorite dessert? (gelato)

9. What do you want to be when you grow up? (doctor, more specifically now a pediatrician)

10. What do you love most in life? (my dog Blaze, the runtweiler)

11. One word to describe you? (passionate)

12. Your Flickr name? (irenicembers)
Wanna play?: Type your answer to each of the above questions into Flickr’s search. Using only the images that appear on the first page, choose your favorite and copy and paste each of the URL’s into the Mosaic Maker (3 columns, 4 rows)… Enjoy!

So, about a year ago, Nick bought me an elliptical machine.  I was always complaining about how fat I was and how fat I’d gotten and that’s the sole reason he bought the damned thing. That and walking to the neighborhood gym was too much in the afternoons.

We set the evilmachinefromhell, as it became to be known, in the spare bedroom and for a month straight, I was on it diligently. It was my friend. I even created an Excel spreadsheet to track my progress.

That was Sept/Oct of last year.  Then Thanksgiving came and I had all four of my wisdom teeth pulled out. Then the bronchitis hit and then the financial markets crashed and work became a clusterphuck.

I love excuses.

Then I saw the pictures from our engagement and my birthday and I realized that I’ve got a YEAR to lose 75 lbs if I don’t want to be this fat bride. Fat and I are not friends. Other girls are best friends with fat, so much so that they actually look GOOD fat. I am not one of those girls.

Anyway, my recent complaint to Nick was that I would go on the evilmachinefromhell again but I get bored. No amount of music listening was going to cure my boredom. Can he put up a shelf say… a small shelf… I mean we have all this wood laying about and on said shelf, I can put up the laptop… watch YouTube videos say… or whatever.

On Sunday, he did exactly that. He constructed this appendage to the evilmachinefromhell and I have to say, odd as it looks it’s working exactly like I planned. For the past three nights, I have watched Hulu videos while burning up some calories.

Let’s all hope that the bolts are on tight and the laptop doesn’t come flying down and kill me.

I tried to get a straight pic but it just wasn’t happening.

… I took some pictures.