Reminiscent of "the old days"

I don't know if its because I've been away from "home" latley or if I just really miss Jodi and Jen that much, but I've been looking at pictures and thinking about how life used to be when we had a house full of girls. On that note, I found a funny blog posting on one of my other (many) profile sites and I thought I would share it...we sure got a kick out of it!



(May 2005)

"Well, today I stayed home "sick" from work. After spending the weekend out at my boyfriend's farm, I needed to get some things done at home. I wanted to put up some shelves that I bought but instead, my roomate Jen had the ingenious idea of using the scrap wood and carpet we have to build a cat box for our cat Bailey. Well, that was a shit show if I've ever seen one. As if it wasn't bad enough that we were cutting the wood with a drill, but we both emerged from the basement covered in silicone and high from all the fumes. We then went outside to paint. I think the trees and the lawn got more paint than the box actually did (and it was a pretty bright blue). When the box was finally assembled, and I'm talking like 5 hours later, Jen pressed down on the box and it broke. After all that, we weren't about to throw it out, so we just reinforced it with duct tape. It is the most ghetto, white trash peice of "furniture" I have ever seen, so it will stay in the basement. But hey, atleast we built something! Who said girls can't build stuff!"

This "cat box" was freekin hilarious! We built the box itself out of pieces of drywall, nailed and siliconed together. We then, because of lack of a saw (or did we break it? I don't remember) had to cut a 2x4 into 4 (kinda even) pieces for the legs. We then covered the box in scraps of carpet with a staple gun (many of which only went half way in). Like I said, it then wasn't very sturdy (and the roof caved in) so we wrapped duct tape all around it (who knew drywall isn't sturdy). The funny thing is, this pathetic looking unit, which Bailey (for good reason) was too scared to go in, sat in our livingroom for a few months before bitting the dust and going to the dump. But I did manage to keep it long enough to show it off to my Mommy, she was so proud.. wait she laughed at us.
Oh well, it was a great day and the funny thing is, if I remember correctly, Jen and I both got paid for that day off, hahaha.