Today we have part 2 of the Eggie Eggstravaganza! In this installment, you will see Deborah and I laugh hysterically! You will see us do a craft project! My voice is eggstraordinarily high-pitched! There are cameos by Luisa and Deborah's partner, Gabriella! We will also eat the eggies and who doesn't want to see that? If you get bored while watching, you could always entertain yourselves by counting how many times we say "screw" or some variant. Enjoy...
I was sitting in my office in North Minneapolis and had too much work to do and my supervisor e-mailed me saying that he'd received an angry call from a family member connected to one of my cases which only added to my stress. Then, a co-worker and friend tried talking to me and I snapped at her and hurt her feelings. I then called the disgruntled family member to try to de-escalate the situation and the guy spent the next 30 minutes yelling at me and telling me what a horrible person I was. When it was clear that I could not calm him down, I told him that I was hanging up because I wasn't going to take his verbal abuse anymore. I knew this would only mean more trouble for me because he was going to go all the way up the management chain to complain about me. I am able to do my job because I can compartmentalize my feelings. That day, however, it was all too much and I went in the bathroom and cried. When I returned to my desk, I sent Deborah from Peaches and Coconuts a message that said something like, "I'm having a really shitty day - say something funny."
Moments later, she called me and told me about the Eggies. Eggies are little contraptions that supposedly allow you to hard boil eggs without the shells so you don't have to peel them. They sounded completely ridiculous and somehow we decided that we would do a product testing video when I came to visit for my birthday. Just talking about the Eggies with Deborah made me laugh and it made my day.
We did, in fact, do a test of the eggies on video when I went to NY. It is long - longer than the attention span of most blog readers. It is so long that it is actually split into two long parts. Did I mention that it is long? Well, it is. Long. It's also pretty funny. We had so much fun doing it that we hope to do other product tests whenever we're together.
Anyway, head over to Deborah's blog and check out part 1. Get a cup of coffee or tea or some bourbon or a glass of milk and sit back and relax. One other note - nothing was scripted...which will likely be obvious when you watch.
Getting Testy with Deborah and Vikki
Tomorrow, I'll post part 2 right here on Up Popped A Fox so stay tuned.
Remember when I told you about the corn maze and cat vomit and bourbon? That seemed like a crazy day, didn't it? I seemed a little overwhelmed and crabby and tired, didn't I? Believe it or not - something spectacularly irritating happened before we went to the corn maze but I didn't tell you about it because 1) I could have written an entire book about it or, at the very least, several pages of profanity laden limericks and 2) I decided to use the story as my post at Aiming Low this week. The day actually started out well...the kids let me sleep in until close to 9 a.m. which never happens. So, when I got up and came downstairs, I was grateful and I whistled a jaunty tune and ruffled the hair of my well-behaved children and called them "adorable whippersnappers" or something like that and made a pot of coffee.
Little did I know that the day had already peaked at that very moment and that I would soon be on the downhill slide.
A couple of weeks ago, we bought some little water guns so that we could discipline the kitten when she was scratching the furniture or roaming on top of the dining room table. Well, when I went to take a shower, the kids got into a fight with those water guns and squirted each other until every water gun was empty. Then, Zeca ran to the kitchen and filled an entire glass of water and threw it at Miguel and most of that water landed on the furniture.
But wait! There's more...
