Live blog from "Ashley and That Guy's" place

it's been kind of an weird day for us... Usually my Sundays are filled with getting ready for the week ahead: things like laundry and ironing, paperwork that I've been putting off, cooking soup for the upcoming week's lunches and so on. But not today. After a super late night last night, it was up early to shower and dress, lock the cat in the basement, load up the car and and get out of the house since today was the day that the crew came around to finally replace all our windows. Although it will be nice to have shiny new clean windows, I was not looking forward to having all those workmen hammering, sawing and swearing as I worked around the house. 

So I invited us over to "Dan and Ashely's" for the day! Of course, I had to make it sound like fun, to prevent it feeling like an imposition, so I promised scrapbooking, food and movies. They were both into that so we all met for breakfast at the crack of damn dawn and after a round caffeinated beverages we headed back to their house to hang out.Poor Selena wasn't feeling well today and spent much of the day napping on the couch in her studio while I scrapped and watched movies and Maddie beaded the coolest necklaces ever. I think she's going to send me a photo of her cat wearing a necklace, it was one of the cutest things I've ever seen! Selena's scraproom is a super cool set up in that we can all watch tv, scrap, hang out and never be in each other's way. So while Selena suffered from dizziness and nausea, Maddie and I got down to the business of creating... 

Of course, no fun day is complete without food....Snacks consisted of shrimp cocktail (ooooh pardon me: Prawn Platter), fruit, rice crisps and pinwheel sandwiches...Yum! that held us until Dean had cooked our dinner... how do you like that...we invite ourselves and he cooks us a meal. That's some good service right there folks!  I have to be honest, I was concerned: Dean was preparing a meal from Mario Batali's cookbook called "Devils Chicken" and I was skeptical that I could handle it. There was a little discussion about how hot this "fire oil" was and how much it reeked of peppers the night before. I was nervous but decided that they were gracious enough to offer us a meal, I'd better put on my big girl panties and eat it. Besides, how bad could it be? Even if I breathed flames (like my favorite commercial ever: the one for the Flamethrower burger at burger king) I could drink cold beverages and eventually the pain would pass and I would survive. However, that was not necessary at all!! 

Dean's meal was brilliant. The chicken was just hot enough to light a little fire in my mouth but it never quite moved into "painful" and stayed just at tingling and delicious. The chicken was tender and the salad was great and he even served my all time favorite veg...the revered broccoli! Dessert was a splurge of Tiramisu cake .. but was worth every decadent bite. The icing on the proverbial cake was getting to watch dean shove that chicken carcass down the garbarator at the end. Made my day! 

So although Selena felt sick all day, I still had a great time. I think the guys watched TV. I'm not sure. I came up once and there was "Trout TV" on, so I assume they must have put it there. I know I sure wouldn't! 

oh by the way, there is definitely a story about why I called Dean "That guy". but its too long to put here. I just like that when I look back on this post one day, I will remember the story about Dean being "That guy" and have a little giggle. 

Thanks for a great night you three! Now, to go get ready for my week!
A