Thursday, January 25, 2007

My Week in List Form

1. The apartment people came and put a new valve on the radiator, as several commentors suggested, but this did nothing. There are still puddles every morning and loud clanking. Still living on board the USS Lev! I'll call them again tomorrow if I remember.

2. I bought shitty toilet paper! Can you imagine?? I bought Quilted Northern even though we are a Charmin family. The QN was on sale & I figured it would be fine. The package pictures a young girl rubbing her face on the toilet paper as if to say "This is what heaven is like!" and there are well-funded commercials for the product. Who knew it would scratch my lady parts? Stay away from that, no matter how on sale it may be. I would throw it all away and buy more Charmin, but the sale pack I bought had 48 rolls in it and I hate to waste paper in that fashion. I wouldn't even donate it to a shelter, because I don't want anyone's special area to get torn up from that sandpaper. We'll just suffer silently until it's gone and I can get more Charmin.

3. Corey and I had cupcakes for his birthday. There are 2 cupcake cafes in Pittsburgh now. Entire stores where they sell only cupcakes. We sampled Dozen cupcakes. I blame my friend Julie for showing me the store. I now think only about the silky creamy chocolaty cake portion and the sweet buttery frosting. They have so many flavors that I need to go every day to try them all. My big problem yesterday was that I bought the cupcakes at 3pm and had to not eat them until 10pm when Corey got home. That's 7 hours of will power. I am darned proud of myself for holding out! I very nearly bought an additional cupcake to eat in the store so the package would still look full and Corey would never know, but I abstained. This morning, we (meaning I) had a lemon cupcake for breakfast. Man, that's good.

4. We took the car to a mechanic shop less than 90 feet from our house. Not in Monroeville or even Robinson. Highland Park! Tony's Autobody is run by a gang of Fresh From Italy Italian men, who sit around and eat biscotti and yell at each other in Italian all day. The other night, we saw them walking down the street with 40s in brown paper bags. These are much more like our sort of people. So Tony, unlike the Nissan dealer, told us that the catalytic converter is ok. We drove the car 50 miles, he put a sticker on it, and I have an extra $1000 I thought would be gone forever. More cupcakes for everyone! Including Tony!

5. We think we found a house to buy. It is also owned by a recent Italian immigrant. The selling point for me was the wine-making room in the basement, where there were person-sized casks of wine and stomping tanks for grapes and racks upon racks of the red stuff. Another key feature was the pantry, brimming with jars of homemade marinara, pickled vegetables, and figs from the fig tree in the back yard. Italian people and their food items make me very happy indeed. I wonder if Italians invented the cupcake?

12 comments:

Jane said...

Oh, my, those cupcakes sound good. Harrisburg needs a cupcake bakery.

ninny said...

this is where you have to get your wedding cake!!!

freya said...

god, i love dozen. the cosmo ones are delicious as well. that was my breakfast cupcake. my birthday one was vanilla. that's what the quilted northern girl should be holding...
on another note, i just bought bad toilet paper too! the horrible part is i unpacked it all and now don't know what brand it is. i, too, have considered throwing it all away/donating it. but who am i kidding? i won't get around to it. i'll just suffer along with you until then.

Anonymous said...

Can you seriously mail me a cupcake... I looked at the website... they look awesome.. I'll pay for it!

Oh and on the toilet paper- Angel Soft- it's cheap and is actually quite nice.

~Val

kk said...

Chairman is the only good toilet paper. I take it with me when I travel because that is the only thing soft enough for my tender,goddess bottom. The cupcake place sounds great. If I ever come to visit we must go there.

Unknown said...

Yes, Charmin is the best.
And you didn't tell me the house you're looking at has a WINE MAKING ROOM in the basement! Buy it. Now.

PeaceLoveMath said...

where is this house? in pittsburg? outside of it? i don't think i'm ready to take care of a whole entire house yet, but i could use about twice the size of our current apartment, specifically with a bigger kitchen. i can't believe you're buying a house, i can't wait to see it.

P said...

You know when the present owners vacate the house, they're not going to leave you all that stuff? Just checking.

Ask me about toilet paper commercials sometime.

Soupie said...

Ex-Mrs. Soupie works at dozen. There shit looks decadent, i havn't eaten there yet

Emily said...

are you buying a house?!?

Paul Askey said...

If you need auto parts. I will be family soon. So I can get you parts.

Paul (Meredith's Paul)

Katy said...

ah heck, paul. you're family already.