original post: July 25, 2005 ("TUGGS")

TUGGS

Lots of catching up to do today!

Here's a quick summary of the past few days:

Tuesday night--I didn't make it to PINGO; I was at work late and then I had a late dinner at Chevy's downtown (one of my all time favorite restaurants) with Autumn, my "invisible" friend, according to Deb (since she's never met her!). 

Wednesday: slept in a little bit, since I took the rest ofthe week off from work, and went house hunting in the afternoon with Nancy, Deb's cousin, and then Deb joined us along the way to put in her two cents. Verdict? House hunting sucks! But it was only day one, so plenty more places to see. I got home at about 4:30p and fell asleep on the couch until 10p. Oops! I was wiped out!

Thursday: another busy day. I slept in again, but mainly due to the fact that I couldn't fall asleep the night before, due to my 6 hour nap. Sat on my deck for a little bit, trying to get some color on my skin. I think I've hit my tan max for the summer. Damn! Then I went to Juut Salon Spa in Edina and had my hair colored--I'm going back to my roots! Dishwater blonde, here I come!

The big event was Julie's belated birthday party at Tuggs on Main. The waitress was a bit of a ditz (sorry Clark!) but we had some good company going on. In the spirit of Le Tour de France, I gave Julie a lovely chardonnay called Le Bicicleta, or something along those lines--it had a yellow label and a picture of someone on a bicycle on it! Just like Lance Armstrong! But no LIVSTRONG bracelet.
 

We didn't make arrangements for a birthday cake, so we had to improvise. And so the bun-cake was born! Deb asked for the waitress to bring out a bun with candles in it, seeing as how Tuggs doesn't really do desserts, and she came out with this concoction:

which was a bun on top of a cookie, held together with whipped cream, and topped with candles. Happy Birthday! 

Well, at least one person there was able to enjoy the cake:

 

So, after the cake incident, it was pretty much back to normal.

I will write more soon!