Eighth, Ninth & Tenth Tasks Done!

I was all excited to host a bridal shower for my friend, Ashley, because it gave me a reason to accomplish task #40 on the list, buy cupcakes from The Flying Cupcake!  Oh, also because Ashley's a real sweetie and she and Ross are an adorable couple.   I told Ashley to pick what flavor she wanted, and she chose the Red Velvet Elvis cupcakes.  I've given up chocolate for Lent, but knowing that God doesn't want me to suffer too much, I bought a single Here Comes the Bride cuppie when I picked up my order:  almond cupcake with almond buttercream icing.  Their cupcakes are larger than what you make at home; two people could definitely share one...but, of course, I ate the whole thing and it was delicious....burp.  Fortunately, their location at 56th & Illinois is not particularly convenient for me.  It is worth the trip for a special occasion, but I don't need to be going there very often.  Oh, I should confess I brought a Red Velvet Elvis home from the shower and stuck it in the freezer to be consumed on Easter Sunday.

This brings me to tasks nine and ten which I did completely forgetting they were on the list!  Imagine my surprise while re-reading that doggone list and found  #29: Enroll Ringo in an obedience class.  Coincidentally, today was our third session.  Five more to go, then we're done - thank God.  As much as I like dogs, I'm not a "dog person".  I don't have the patience for this.  To give you an example of how it's going, this is right after I gave him the stay command so I could take his picture:

They're probably making me and Ringo matching dunce caps as we speak.  Moving on...

I burned my last vacation day on Monday to take Lily shopping for a prom dress.  We headed up to this cute little boutique in Pendleton called Girlfriends.  Lily had seen a dress online that she absolutely had to have and that was one of the few stores that carried it.  As it turns out, she found another dress there that looked totally amazing on her and that's the one she got.  You'll have to wait until May to see THE dress, but here are a couple she tried on:

Because we got done there so early, we headed to Broad Ripple so Lily could check out the vintage shops.  One of them, Broad Ripple Vintage was pretty cool.  I think she bought a Beatles poster there.  

The other store, The Red Rose, was a bit of a disappointment.  Everything was crammed into this little-house-turned-store and it was overwhelming.  You couldn't even stand two people by each other there was so much stuff.  There may have been some pretty cool stuff in there, we just didn't want to have to work that hard to find it. We ate lunch at Greek's Pizzeria, which was another experience.  As soon as we ordered, I noticed the underside of my arm felt wet.  There was a puddle of some bleach-like substance on the table where I rested my arm.  You could immediately see a light spot appearing on the sleeve of my BRAND NEW sweater.  The "manager" told me they don't use any cleaners with bleach, so I offered to let him smell my wet arm, but he wasn't interested.  He allegedly tried to get the owner on the phone to resolve the problem, but the owner allegedly hadn't called back.  He gave me a $5 discount card for my next vist - WTF? - and told me he honestly didn't know what to do.  So far, nothing from the owner (who is a fool if he thinks I'm going to let this go).   The point of this rambling is to note that #31 on the list was Spend the Day with Lily in Broad Ripple.  Okay, it wasn't the whole day (and we never did find out where the hookah bar was), but it was long enough. Believe me.

Three completed tasks = $15.  Add that to the $35 I've already earned, and that makes $50 for TBD charity.