farmtown vs. farmville? no competition

erik and i were hanging out on farmville this morning, maintaining our crops and animals and what not when i noticed my dear friend amy had become a fan of farm town. now i've known a number of other people (family included) that have boasted about farmtown and, of course, curiosity got the best of me.
farmtown is weak sauce. the graphics are bunk. there's a creepy old man that tells you what to do and you can't even plant your crops close together. the only pseudo cool thing is that the animals move a bit.

farmville, however, is amazing and i tend to spend my long 9 hour days wondering how my plants are doing. it's user friendly, your plants florish in neat, tidy little rows and you can decorate it how you would like. the only problem with farmville is that so many people love it and some times it bogs down the system. it's time for an upgrade facebook! work on it.

this is erik's other obsession, cafe world. while it is very exciting and i would love to join my stinkin job permits me from doing so.

this is erik's "emily please don't take pictures of me while i'm playing on cafe world" face. so cute.

be warned

this bug was flying around our room. erik smashed it into the wall; his head was dislocated to another part of the wall.

when i asked if he was going to clean it off the wall, he informed me that this was a warning to all other flies. like they used to do with pirates, hang the pirates who tried to port as a warning to all other pirates...

this is fly number 2. apparently he didn't get the warning.

fall in texas!

apparently you know it's fall in text because it's football season. that's it. this is our fall foliage. i think it might be juniper cause at least it's blue!

this is the truck that has been sitting outside by the laundry room since the day we moved in. it has not moved. ever.

our protection! right outside our door. in case people try to break in, i guess. not that they'd get much.

follow up on fight #17

i'd first like to state that training at my job is so difficult that i wrote my last entire blog while i was sitting paying attention to everything that we were learning. i'd also like to state that i currently have a 96.73% in the class.
that being said, the follow up to my foul disposition is this. i went home at my lunch break even though i wasn't sure i wanted to; i knew i didn't want to be upset for the rest of the day and then only have an hour when i got home to sort things out with him.
when i got home, i don't think he even realized why i was upset. to tell the truth, i'm not quite sure i knew why i was so upset. i told him about how i wrote a blog about it and we talked about why it bothered me. he didn't realize it was so important to me and i admitted to over reacting. i mean, in the month that we've been here this was the first time he didn't drive me. it really isn't that big of a deal. i work like 7 minutes away from our apt and that's if there's traffic. my only concern with driving is parking because you have to park far away which adds another 5 minutes at least to the walking in part.
(the weirdest thing about this building is that it looks like nasa where it's a bunch of different little compartments combined and the hallway that connects them is-no joke- a quarter mile long. my training room is at the other end of that mile, so it takes a while to trudge down there. especially since it's filled with slow walkers and people who are not so in shape. it's true, everyone- i mean thing- is bigger in texas.)
so that was really my main concern and now having done it and making it in on time i realize that it's not really a big deal if for some reason erik can't/doesn't want to make the trip with me. and he understands that this is something that's important to me and makes me feel special so i think we're doing an ok job of working this stuff out. :) for now at least.... lol

fight number 17

Today started like any other day. I woke up didn't want to get out of bed. Eventually went downstairs to make Erik pancakes as he had asked for the night before. I made my lunch and coffee. Erik continued to sleep.
I went upstairs to find out if he wanted to eat the pancakes I just made and he said he'd rather sleep. Back downstairs for me to eat my pancakes in peace.
Back upstairs to finish getting ready for the day-pajama day at work. Its then that Erik informs me that he is not driving me to work today. A first since we've been living together.
I flipped. For some reason to me this means that he doesn't love me, doesn't care about me and driving me to work is more of a bother to his very important life. On top of this, I had just made breakfast! What does he have to do all day that driving me to work is such a hassle? If I drive myself to work, he won't even have a car!!
Now I know this is ridiculous of me to think this way. I left for work in a huff, pissed off and early than probably necessary. On the way to work, I thought about calling and apologizing but I'm too stubborn for that. Instead, I'm grumpy all day waiting for him to realize the err in his ways and then tonight he'll go to work and I will probably continue to be upset because nothing was solved. He'll have no idea that having him drive me to work makes me feel special and makes my coworkers jealous. Its also the one thing that we get to do together, even if we aren't really doing anything. On days that we're both working, we have a max of 2 hours together. When he's finally awake it's 4 am and I am not. Weird, huh?
I hate fighting, but I hate not winning and/or giving in. I guess I just wish he could understand where I'm coming from and realize that for some unknown reason this is important to me.

welcome to my 24th year!

they say it's your birthday... duh nuh nuh na... happy birthday to you... duh nu nu na...
or in this case me.
this is a little photo documentary of how i spent my first moments of being the big 24!

12:11 am and mouthwash! time to break out the camera!!

that's right. i was watching netflix and it kept stalling, just like any day.

happy me day!