Stupid Eric tricks, part 0003

From the "he who can laugh at himself will always have company" department.

The dumb Eric story of the week... I was kind of proud of getting my weekly stupidity out of the way on a Monday. I was leaving for dance practice, and I had my car key chain in my hand. At the last second, I decided to get a soda out of the fridge. I grabbed the soda, put it in my dance shoe bag, closed the fridge door ...and... pointed the remote for the doors on my car at the fridge and pressed ‘lock’. I was NOT rewarded with a light flash or a beep, in fact, the fridge door didn’t lock at all.

Camera Issues, Again?

Troy & Merinda had their early Mardi Gras party last night... king cake, beads, chili, cornbread, swing tunes, board games, dancing, and of course ninja fighting on the x-box 360.

The 'bead game' was you can't say the word 'dance' or you lost your beads to whoever heard you. Naturally as soon as you can't say a word, it pops into your mind and vocabulary constantly. I ended up the night with five sets of beads, although I lost mine twice.

We played Apples to Apples. It is amazing how vicious that game can be, also how funny. Troy won, he must have really wanted to win after not doing very well his first couple of times.

Anyways, I left my camera there, or you'd have pictures :-(

Appliance replacement, part 0002

My washer gave up the ghost on Thursday. The motor has frozen solid. Naturally this occurred in the middle of a load, so I had to pull all of the wet, cold, soapy clothes out of the washer, and now I have to find some way to drain the water that won't involve flooding the house.

This is my second appliance purchase in under a year... aah, the joys of owning your own home.

Thanks to T&M for letting me do my laundry there.

Announcement!

Until confusion about my new work schedule is cleared up, I am postponing my game night party. As soon as I know what weekends I have on, and which one's I have off, I will reschedule. Sorry.

Note to cat, I can eat dinner without your help...

The classic bait and switch ploy. This post has nothing to do with dinner or cats.

I am feeling pretty good about myself (contrast last weekend). Despite a bad night dancing, I could hardly get off of the floor without someone else asking me to dance (okay, we could have been short leads, but it was nice to feel popular).

At Viv's party on Saturday, I managed to (mostly) behave myself, even when things got a little silly at the end.

Made it to church on Sunday, and instead of watching football all afternoon, I went out to eat with Viv & Robin.

And today, I came home, and instead of hopping on the computer and ignoring my chores, I cleaned up, got the trash out, and cooked before heading to the computer or t.v.