Stupid Contractor

So remember how we were having work done on our condo...

And remember how the guy started in early September...

And how he quoted us 10-14 DAYS...

Well, it's almost Christmas, almost 120 days later and the contractor is still not finished!

He still has the glass to put in over our master bathroom door, the door handles on 3 doors, and our bathtub faucet, which is fine because it's not that much...

But he won't answer our phone calls, he won't answer our texts or emails and he is being an overall FLAKE...

And he has a key to our home...

My co-workers said we should have fired him a long time ago because he has taken so long, and he makes decisions on his own without consulting us- example: he picked out our shower door (without having us pick it out) and it is way too short for our tall shower, so whenever we shower there's a draft and it's just too cold.

Beware of contractors- make them sign specific contracts and don't let them take advantage of you- fire them early on if you hate their service

Birthday Part II

My birthday week is getting much better.

Eric and I have been celebrating little by little this week and my parents are coming over tomorrow with a birthday cake and dinner!

E and I had Red Robbins tonight because I had a free happy birthday burger and man, we feel so gross. Those burgers are way too big. I bet they have over 1,000 calories.

Birthday

December 2 was my birthday. It was one of the most suckiest (is that a word?) birthdays for one reason... work. I HATE my job. The past Tuesday and Wednesday (Dec. 1st and 2nd) were HELL at work. For some odd reason, except for the full moon on Tuesday, work was INSANELY busy. And not only busy, but busy with problems and irrational patients.

I woke up to Eric yelling at our dog for peeing inside- something she never does anymore (we later found out she had a UTI and thus explaining the odd behavior). After the scolding and clean-up of Ella's stinky pee we ate a birthday breakfast of french toast. Yum!

I then had work from 10:30am - 7:00pm... hell, hell, and more hell.

At 7pm Eric picked me up from work and took me to a GREAT Korean restaurant a pharmacist, Kyong, I work with recommended. Dinner was wonderful. Such delicious food and a perfect respite from my aweful day.

But at least this year my grandma remembered my birthday and gave me the "birthday girl" phone call I always look forward to (last year she forgot and I was so sad about that). She was definately surprised that Eric tried the kimchi and liked it too at the Korean restaurant (she doesn't like Korean food).

So when we finally arrive at home after a long day I start making my birthday cake...we only had 1 egg and the recipe called for 3. Sighhhhh. Ok, so I just take out half the batter and everything is fine and delicious.
Eric goes to bed and I sing myself happy birthday and blow out the candles we have out for decoration. Haha. It was pathetic but Eric and I laughed about it the morning after.

I've had two sucky birthdays in my life: 18 and now 24. Hopefully no more!

This is what we do for fun

Saturday night we met up with Westin and Katrina for dinner at the Texas Roadhouse in Parker. Madhouse! We had to wait for almost "3 hours" according to Westin (more like an hour), but it was worth it for the delicious rolls and baby back ribs.

Earlier that day I went to Katrina's salon and she did a color and cut for me that looks gorgeous! She's a really good stylist and I've never had my hair done by someone I know, but it was worth it. We had to celebrate my diva looking hair by going out to eat (paragraph above).

After the restaurant we went to W & K's house and played the Wii. Guitar hero for a little bit and then Wii Fit. So much fun! Who knew that a bunch of med students and their diva wives could have so much fun playing Wii Fit on a Saturday night. I've posted some videos of how cool we look.

Here are some recent, random photos of our puppy:

Ella's new toy, a hedge hog.

Ella waits patiently for her food until we give her the go ahead to start eating

Dog Park- Sunday

After this video, Ella kept chasing the gigantor Great Dane and trying to hold her own weight against him. She did pretty good. This is saying a lot because she used to be deathly afraid of other dogs when we first got her.

Happy Halloween!

The only way we were able to put this on Ella's head was because she was too exhausted to fight it from being at the dog park all morning.

Eric was a streaker! He won funniest costume at his school's partay and got a $25 gift certificate to Target.

Dog Park

Ella and I went to the dog park for the first time today...and loved it!

Ella is THE best "puppy gog." She ran so hard and played with all the other big dogs and most importantly, she came to me when I called her...even when she was playing with the other dogs.

The only naughty thing she did was jump up on me when we first got there, and because of all the recent snow (almost 2 feet in October) and then sunshine, it was pretty muddy. She somehow splashed mud on my coat and face. I thought I had wiped all the mud off of my face, but after about 1.5 hours at the dog park, I got back to the car and looked in the mirror...I still had a mud splotch on my face! And I had talked to a handful of people. Oh geez.

Ella and I are pooped now. After tromping around for miles in deep snow, we are tuckered!