Burnin' Down the House Weekend Recap

Friday the Mr was done with his class a little before noon so we went to a few grocery stores and got those out of the way and were done by 2pm which was nice.  I took a nap while he watched a movie.  We went downstairs to work out and got to talking for almost 2 hours and that ended up taking precedence so we skipped the workout and didn't think a thing about it.

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Saturday we got up and got showers and grabbed some lunch.  We got wrapped up in a few home improvement shows and the Mr hit a wall since he got up earlier than I did.  Then I decided if he was napping, so was I so we both conked out for almost 2 hours!  I told you we were going to be lazy this weekend!  So we hopped up and went to an antique shop I wanted to hit.  The Mr pointed this out to me...

Grandma had one of these when I was maybe 5 years old.  I remember her getting it for Christmas. She wanted an oil lamp so bad and had the biggest smile on her face when she pulled a similar one out of the box.  When I would go over, I would ask if I could turn on the light and it would take about a minute to heat up before the little beads of oil would come down one by one until it looked like it was raining around the statue.  It was mesmerizing.

Never knew Ed Grimley had his own doll!

It took me by surprise, I must say!  I remember dancing like him as a kid because I thought it was the funniest thing I ever saw.

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I think if Martin or I tried to do that dance now, we both would be in traction for two days.

We went to another antique shop and these stopped my inner movie nerd in my tracks.

As soon as I saw them, in my head I heard...“The wretch concentred all in self,  Living, shall forfeit fair renown,  And, doubly dying, shall go down/   To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.  Sir Walter Scott."

Anyone remember what it's from without looking? 
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Good for you if you said Groundhog Day!  If that was in those books, I would've had to own them but the Mr looked it up and it's not in any of these.  *kicks pebble*

We hopped over to Hobby Lobby to pick up some spring flowers for Grandma's grave.  We had to cringe when we saw this:

Can you imagine how frigging annoying it would be hearing more cowbell when people wanted you to kiss at your reception?  NO THANK YOU!   Then we started laughing about our own wedding reception.  People kept tapping their water glasses with knives and the Mr and I are looking at each other irritated like "why the hell are people doing that!?" and someone yells "you're supposed to kiss!!"  They did it about 5x and then were like "okay...enough."  😆

Also, the person who came up with this sign needs to be fired because it is 100% wrong.

There are ZERO flamingos in Hawaii.  Maybe in a zoo just like in your neck of the woods but when I see flamingos in "luau" decorations, I get irritated because some people just take what they see at face value and do no research, especially these days.  According to Wildlife Journal "The American flamingo is found in Central and South America and the Caribbean. It is also occasionally seen in Florida and along the Gulf Coast as a vagrant. The American flamingo doesn't breed in the United States." 

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The Mr went up to game a bit and I worked on this a little before heading up. 

Then Spring Forward Sunday rolled around and who doesn't like getting one less hour to yourself on the weekend??  Be respectable and do it on a Monday or Friday at 4pm like a human being. 

(When your morning lotion makes you laugh because inside you'll always be a 7-year-old boy.)

The back pain I've been having the past week is confirmed that my pillows have gone to crap.  (I thought it was because of the amount of weight I lifted last week on a particular workout but the rest of the workouts for the week were walking.)  Do you know how long it takes a side sleeper needing a soft pillow that doesn't flatten out in 6 months to find such a unicorn?  I do not relish this undertaking as I've already wasted so much money on pillows over the years that don't work and I can't remember where I got the one that went south on me.

We have a gunmetal surround on our fireplace that I've liked for 20 years but it's time for a change.  I want to spray paint it with high heat paint so the Mr got to removing the surround for me to take care of.  Hey!  Wanna see a fun picture!?  We've been here since this piece of land was land.  So for almost 24 years, this has been on top of the firebox under our surround:

Can you tell what it is? 

It's a piece of WOOD trim that has very obviously burned to embers on the top.  This means every time we've used our fireplace for 23 years (and I LIKES ta use my fireplace) this was potentially smoldering and could've easily caught our wall on fire and killed us. 

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We said a very big thank you to God for looking out for us all of these years and felt lucky it never caused us any issues.  There is NO WAY the person who put the fireplace surround on didn't see it.  You have to be eye to eye with where that wood was to install the vent hood and the top surround.  It was not there in a way that would suggest it was part of the install and any smart person would question it.  I'm going to assume it was installed by the same tit that put a paper towel under our leaking pipe in the shower before the pipes burst 10 years ago.  Or maybe the asshole who used our blank space behind the cabinet where the lazy susan is now as the construction trash bin.  Oh wait, they did that with our old furnace too which we found out when we got the vents cleaned about 10 years ago.  Literally, boards in the furnace vents.  If that place wasn't already out of business I would list the myriad of violations for all of Yelp and Google to see.  I cringe to think about what we'll find when we start ripping some stuff out in the garage. 

Why don't I drink?  Oh wait, I have wine from Christmas in the basement. 

We walked three miles around the hood, gabbed then rolled to try to keep us from gimping up today when we got back.  I made grilled cheese and soup for dinner, we caught up on SNL and the Mr cut my produce for the week.  We settled in and watched a movie and that's about it.

What did you get into this weekend?

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