Anyone up for a BBQ ?

So I missed my TGIF posting but in my defense, it was a holiday. A 3-day weekend was much appreciated - I consistently lobby for 3-day weekends to be a rule rather than an anomaly, but alas I'm but one voice amongst the powers-that-be. Sigh.

Friday morning started without an alarm-clock, which is a wonderful way to start any day. I was enjoying my coffee out on my back patio when I decided my mission today was to buy a grill. Much like my quest for a new TV, which has yet to be fulfilled, I've been meaning to get a grill for my back patio for at least a year now. Today was the day.

I'll skip the minor details but suffice it to say that while the idea and intent to buy a grill was all well and good, the execution was not exactly thought out. Remember I lack an opposable thumb and the full use of my right hand/arm.

Arriving home with a huge box in the back of my car, I took out the smaller parts, carrying them through the house and out to the back patio. Then I got to the "body" of the grill. Large, awkward and heavy - no way I was getting that up 4 steps to my door, 4 more steps inside, across the house and down 3 steps to the patio. I slid the box to the ground and proceeded to push, pull, slide, curse and will the box up the stairs, across the house and to the sliding door.

Which is when I discovered the box wouldn't fit through. At this point I was more than frustrated, mostly at my own stupidity for thinking this was a good idea. After a couple of tries, I lifted the piece out of the box and nearly fell backward as I gripped it precariously with my left hand and my right cast. Awesome.

I pictured someone finding me days later, pinned under a half-assembled grill. The local media would interview my neighbors who would confirm that yes, she was a bit ... eccentric. We don't know what she was thinking, they'd say. She wore that neon-colored lycra all the time, even in the dead of winter, and we saw her recently riding her bike with a cast on her arm ! I digress...

I managed to get the grill together by about 930pm. The project started at 4. But dammit, I did it. By 10pm, I had grilled veggies, some chicken strips and an ear of corn.

Score: Wendy = 1, Grill= 0.