Can girls make new friends?

I like to think I'm friendly and outgoing. I smile at everyone I pass them on the street and at work. Sometimes I even SMIZE.

So why today, did a girl at work give me a dirty look when I simply smiled at her in the cafeteria?

Pardon me for smiling at you, next time growl IN YO FACE.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's harder for girls to make new friends than it is for guys. I'm not calling myself a loner, because yes I have made new friends recently, but what's with girls and their cattiness? Why can I make friends with guys so much easier?

I've struck up conversations with girls in bars by "hey I like that shirt," or "what is that drink...looks so yummy!" Sometimes they'll talk back to me, and other times they'll look at me like I'm a creeper trying to take them home. What gives, girls?!

Maybe it's just me! Has this ever happened to you?

That time I pretended I went to Harvard

This past weekend Kurt and I ventured into Boston to this massive computer store so he could buy tools and equipment to build a computer
.

I mean as nerdy as it sounds, it makes me smile watching him run around the store picking up hard drives and gigabytes and motherboards and power supplies and gigahertz and output thingamajigs. (I don't know if he even got any of that stuff...I just rattled off technology mumbo jumbo that I know)

We were close to Cambridge (Pahk tha cah in hahvad yahd) so we decided to go to lunch at one of my favorite places...FIRE AND ICE! They cook in front of you on a big grill. So delicious. But before we did that, I insisted on walking around Harvard speaking in a British accent pretending to talk to Kurt about a big thesis I had to do for class. This only worked for 5 seconds before Kurt walked away in embarressment.

I was a tourguide in college. It was probably one of my most favorite jobs EVER! Maybe I'll blog about it one day. But the point of me saying this was that I saw a tour going through Harvard while I was creeping the campus. I ran after them and eavesdropped from behind while Kurt hid across the courtyard.

I heard a lot of things from the tourguide ranging from:

"And Harvard's most notorious professer was blah blah," 

"The reason for the vines on the building is blah blah" 

"I honestly have spent 22 hours in this library working on my blah blah blah"

OK girl. Excuse me. No matter how smart these are, they might also want to know about the dorms...or about the food...or how much trouble they'll get in if they are spotted doing a kegstand at Delta's frat party. I couldn't believe it! I was taught as a tourguide not to give too much history, but gear it more towards what the kids wanted to know. I wanted to crack a beer open in front of this tour group and show them that fun does exist in college (even though I was a pretend Harvard student)

Then we saw this one man band outside of Harvard's campus.

Then we met up with one of my college roommates and her boyfriend for lunch at Fire and Ice and then Pinkberry!

Okay lads, I'm off to the library for the next 13 hours to work on my thesis (said in British accent) Ta Ta!

Something awkwardly awesome taking you into the weekend

I'm not sure if it's the swimming attire or the fact that this guy has the longest ass, but I can't help but bop my head and smile when I watch this video and hear this song.

Hopefully I'll dance to this song at one point this weekend. Happy Weekending!

An incident with an elderly person

Something really crappy and saddening happened the other day while I was at the grocery store. I was in the frozen food aisle looking for one of my FAVORITE Lean Cuisine meals (Lemon Pepper Fish...holy crap..try it) and I saw an 80-ish year old man at the other end of the aisle in one of those motorized scooters.

He was having the hardest time keeping the freezer door open while trying to maneuver his upper body to find a frozen meal he wanted. FOUR people walked by and did not help him. I wanted to cry!

I went over and asked if he needed any help. He smiled and said,

"no, I'm okay...but whoever brought you up, go home 
and give them a hug because they did a great job."



I could have died on the spot! It made me happy. So I continued to look for my meal, and finally found it waaaay in the back. As I turned to go check out, I saw him struggling again on the other side of the aisle.

 I went and held the door open for him and we ended up having a 10 minute conversation about the Smart One's frozen chicken pot pie versus the Lean Cuisine Shrimp Scampi dish. He swore that the Chicken Pot Pie was the best frozen meal out there. I held up my Lemon Pepper Fish and said no way, this is the best. It amazed me just how much a simple conversation like that could make someone so happy.

He was excitedly telling me about how his microwave at home wasn't that good so he needed to find frozen meals that could handle his old microwave. Then he told me how when he couldn't cook for himself anymore, how much he loved sampling all the different frozen meals. It was so cute. He bid me goodbye and I watched him scoot down the aisle towards the deli meat counter where he said he was going to get some bologna and cheese. Seriously, HOW CUTE?

I grew up with my grandparents and watched them get older, and watched them continuously say "No, I don't need help, I can do it." Though it might be a pride thing, or they might not want to appear vulnerable, I still think it's respectful to help out elderly people.

I felt good helping this man, even though he didn't ask for it. To be honest, it really brightened my day!

So help those oldies! You're gonna be one of them one day! ;-)

Went to Texas, rode a bull, and met some fabulous girls!

Y'all..I had the most AMAZING weekend in the entire world. Wanna know why?!

Friday morning I hopped a plane to Austin, Texas to see the sweet, gorgeous, awesome miss Shalyn and Sabrina! Seeing them in the airport with a sign that said "Howdy Erica" made me KNOW it was going to be an awesome weekend...and it was!

Ugh...can I go back tomorrow please?

Not only did I meet Shay and Sabrina..but another familiar face joined us for lunch on Friday..anyone recognize this pretty girl?!

Jenni! From Story of My Life! Girrrl you so gangsta!

Jenni...you are so so sweet and probably the teeniest person in the world! I am so glad to have finally met you after stalking your blog for so long!

Visiting these girls really opened my eyes to how AMAZING blogging is. Seriously..they were exactly how I pictured them: adorable, sweet, friendly, loving, and so.much.fun! We had a blast!

And...we made sweatshirts. And they say GO BLOG OR GO HOME. We really are that cool and I love it!

Shalyn and her hubby Drew (Drew Drew Hot Pants) made us feel so so welcome. They are the definition of true love..and probably the cutest couple I have ever seen. Shay really hit the lottery with this man!

While in Texas, I had a sexual experience with a bull. I don't know what got into me...maybe it was the fact that I had never ridden a mechanical bull, or because of a couple cranberry vodkas, or because Shay and Sabrina told me I'd do good on the bull, but I found myself hoppin all up on that thang!

 My Bull! during the day!

The guy controlling it was making it vibrate and jerk all around..gettin a rise outta the crowd! It was SO fun! I am so glad I did it...Shalyn has the video...and I'm not sure I'm ready to let you all watch my ass jiggle.

If you ever get the chance to meet a blogger, seriously do it! I am so glad I did..even though I was scared to get on that airplane alone...it was worth every single fear I had to be able to meet Sabrina and Shalyn. I feel like I've known them for YEARS and we didn't stop talking and laughing all weekend! I am so excited to see them again. I fell in love with Texas, and these awesome ladies!

Dancin' in da clubs

In preparation for Texas to see Shay-Baby and Sabby Fresh, I have been working on my dance moves to show to the big ole LoneStar State. Okay so I really haven't been practicing, BUT, at Zumba the other night, it got me thinking about all the different dances there are out there...and how many there are that I want to learn!

At Zumba, we dance to hip hop, salsa, latin, belly dancing, and country. When I'm out with my friends, I can safely say that these dance moves usually bust out of me at one point in the night.

The Crip (though not to this amazing extent!)

The Stanky Leg...extra stanky!

This move starting at the 2:45 mark (only when I've had more than one cocktail heh!)

And of course the Dougie...I mean, who wouldn't want to do that dance? It's so fun!

One dance I'd love to learn though, is the country 2 step. I love to do the cotton eye joe (hello 8th grade dances!!) haha! So I really want to learn that. Maybe in Texas I'll become a boot kickin' champ who knows! ;-)

What are some dances you like to do or want to learn?

Flashing the White Mountains

This weekend we flashed the White Mountains in New Hampshire.

(So I might have been the only one who didn't actually flash haha!) Gotta be my good girl side bustin' out ;-)

If you've never been to the White Mountains in New Hampshire, you seriously have to go. One word. BREATHTAKING! I mean, if you live in the south it might take 20 hours to get there, but I promise you'd be amazed.

This lil trippy trip was spontaneous. One of my college roommates called me last week and said "hey, wanna come up to my condo for the night on Saturday?" I sure do! So 4 of us hit the open road and off we went! We went to some of the bars up there Saturday night.

Now, the White Mountains bars ain't no Boston bars. We danced with some good old hicks and had the best time! Plus I had a goblet of Sauvingon Blanc. Not sure why I chose wine in a brewery, but I just felt like feeling like a classsy beeyotch ;-)

We ended our little rendez-vous with the most adorable little breakfast place on Sunday morning where I mowed down on an omelette and home fries while looking at a tree sprouting phallic symbols!

AND THEN... to top off the weekend, I received a nice little photo message from my sister who had a bunch of friends over the house for the weekend. Two of them slept in my bed and my sister Lauren thought it'd be HILAR to send me this lil photo of them in MY bed:

Flashing, phallic symbols, and faux-doing the deed pics. All in all, a pretty good weekend ;-)