A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two On Your Windshield

At work yesterday, I was getting a drink and overheard 2 ladies at the microwave. One of them was wondering if what she was putting in the microwave was microwave-safe. The other lady laughed and said, "I don't know, but I do know that Wendy's wrappers aren't!" And I thought, "Well, of course they're not! The last time I had Wendy's, the wrappers were shiny foil! Which is METAL." And I was thinking that this woman wouldn't have said that if she hadn't actually put one of those shiny, metal wrappers into a microwave at one time or another. Which brought back a memory...

...of the time one of my sisters- I won't say which one, to save her some embarrassment- put a metal bowl in my parent's microwave. The expected result happened, which is that the microwave caught on fire and had a big burn mark in it and didn't work anymore. My other sisters and I teased her mercilessly about it, because seriously- she was old enough to know better. Anyhoo, the four of us ended up putting money together and buying my parents a new microwave for Christmas. And about a week later, I was hanging out in my parent's kitchen when I saw my sister walking towards the microwave with a bowl. The same metal bowl that she had used to blow up the old microwave! So I said, "Ky- (ahem)- Anonymous Sister, what are you doing?" She copped a big attitude, "Putting food in the microwave, what does it look like?" "It looks like you're about to blow up a second microwave with the same metal bowl you used to set the last one on fire." She looked down at the bowl, "Well, how was I supposed to know it was metal?" "Um, you're holding it." Then she got mad. But the microwave was saved. The end.

In other news, I am going back to school this fall! Yesterday I had an appointment with a counselor at MCCC, which I used to attend once upon a time, and I am all set and have all of the information I need so that I can sign up for fall classes and finally finish the degree I should have finished years ago. And while it feels silly to take classes in things I have been getting paid to do for the last 9 years, I know it is a necessity to have a degree in order to get anywhere in life, and I really do like school (I know, nerd alert!), so I'm pretty excited about it, actually.

The bad news is, my trip up to Monroe resulted in a fatality...a bird fatality. It came out of nowhere and hit the windshield of my grandpa's car! That car is seriously so big, there was almost no way the bird could have avoided it. Which led to the following text message exchange between Bobby and I:

Erin: I get my car back 2day- which means more birds can feel safe again.
Bobby: Good. Don't you feel any remorse erin? You murdered one of gods beautiful creatures.
Erin: It wasnt me, it was the grand marquis! It does what it wants, & what it wants is murder!
Bobby: Haha. Like christine. I think its you. Ole ice cold erin.
Erin: My eyes are like staring into an abyss of nothingness. If u stare 2 long, u may lose ur soul.
Bobby: Haha. Did you make that up or did u read that somewhere?
Erin: I made it up. Or someone said it 2 me on a 1st date once. I 4get.

Too much for a Tuesday morning?

Or is THIS too much for a Tuesday morning?
Either way, I'm following it up with a picture of me and Darren.

I think I'm destined to look horrible in all pictures with Darren from now on. Cause lookit my eyes! Maybe it's for the best, though. Don't want anyone staring too hard into the abyss...

Which also reminds me, once we watched the movie "The Abyss" at a Youth Group get together at church, and we had closed captioning on because there were a few deaf fellas in our Youth Group. And in the middle of the movie, the captioning started malfunctioning and only printing cuss words on the screen. Which was hilarious. And ended our movie night rather prematurely.

Have a great day, everybody!