Girls Weekend: Meet Alex

This is Alex.

Poor Alex. For months he lived in the trunk of Gal in the Middle's car. Here's how the Gal feels about keeping Alex hostage in her trunk:

Actually, that's the Gal turning the air mattress from our girls' weekend into a "Murphy Bed" so she can operate on Alex.  After keeping poor Alex hostage in her trunk for months on end, Gal felt bad and moved him into the comfort of here spare room. For two years she held poor Alex hostage in his original box and packaging. Here are her feelings on that point:

So anyway, she finally felt bad for Alex. While our chaperones were busy scrapbooking during our girls' weekend and the Bathtub Mama and I were working on our own scrapbooks, Gal broke down and freed Alex from the bondage of his box.

I won't tell you who the dork is with one shoe on and one shoe off.

Oops. I guess now you know who it was. Don't ask: I have no idea why one shoe is off. At this point we're just excited to have our man Alex free in a house full of wild women.

So what's Alex's connection to our scrapbooking venture? He was brought into Gal's home specifically to pull his manly weight by holding together all of her scrapbooking supplies. After all, that is one of the main purposes of bringing a man into your home, right? Holding and carrying things?

At first, Gal was stressed because Alex's allen wrench was missing. But she soon found other tools and we decided to see how many scrapbook pages worth of time it took her to assemble Alex. Yes, there might have been a little Malibu in the Coke Zero at this point that made us decide to turn this into some odd competition. But I promise, the Malibu had nothing to do with the Bathtub Mama spilling her beverage of choice everywhere as we were getting started scrapping. Alteast, that's our story. And we're sticking to it.

Warning: when you keep a man like Alex in captivity for two years, his psyche may suffer. He may mentally (or even physically) crack. But we decided it wasn't a life threatening break down and it was all on the inside, so we pretended not to see his weakness. Besides, we like a guy who is not afraid to show his vulnerability.

Gal even broke out the power tools. (Yes, we're counting the electric screwdriver as a power tool...it's powered isn't it?)

Eventually, Alex's personality started to take shape.

Then Alex got some wheels. We can not have a relationship with a man without wheels. That's juvenile. And we are responsible adults. (Please...either stop laughing or go to the bathroom before you hurt yourself.)

But like most some men, he was still gut-less.

But Gal soon took care of that. Her love completed him.

Don't they make a cute couple? He's all ready to do her bidding.

Plus, he's kid-tested, gal-pal-approved.

Final count: freeing Alex and developing into a "real man" took 16 scrapbook pages worth of effort. If things don't work out between him and the Gal, he can come live with me. :)

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