Elliptical and Anniversary

Hello all.  I'm really bored so I decided that it would be a good time to write a blog post. 

We got our elliptical not last weekend but the weekend before.  It's a Body Break Dual Action Programmable Elliptical Trainer with 24 set programs on it and automatic resistance.  I am in love with it, but there is a story that came with it haha.  When we bought it in Winnipeg (which is an hour and half away), we brought it home and it took Jeff about 2 hours to put it all together.  We plugged it in too see if everything is okay, and that's when I realized that we have the worst luck out of any consumer in the history of buying things.  Of course it didn't work.  The screen kept flashing an "E1" error message. I was so upset.  Seriously, nearly everything we buy doesn't work when we get it home:  My bike, our TV, karaoke machine, humidifier... ugh!  Since it was a Saturday, we couldn't call the manufacturer to get them to send whatever part we needed to fix it until Monday.  Oh and the troubleshooting part of the manual was written in direct Chinese-to-English, so it made absolutely no sense whatsoever.  We refused to take it back because it takes so long to get to Winnipeg and that is waste of gas and that would cost us even MORE money.  It has a one year warranty, so the company had to fix it for us.  So Jeff called on Monday and they said they would send us a new motor with no questions asked and it would be here in 3-5 business days.  Then when Jeff came home he decided to check out the motor we had to see exactly what was wrong with it.  After taking it all apart, he realized that one of the wires inside was stuck.  He moved it and YAY the thing started working!  So now we have a working elliptical AND a new motor in case this one breaks for real.  What an ordeal!

So I try to run at least 5 km a day on it.  I thought it would be really hard at first but actually it's really easy.  I'm really happy that Jeff bought it, I really want to get back into shape. 

Our 3 year anniversary was yesterday.  Wow, I can't believe it's been 3 years already.  I never thought I'd find someone who I'd be with for this long.  I'm so happy though, and I hope that we are together forever, I really do.  The elliptical was our anniversary present and Jeff also bought me some flowers.  I made Chicken Carbonara Pasta for our anniversary dinner and it was actually really REALLY good. 

Well, that's all for now I guess!

-Ashley