Dry, Eagles, Dry

This weekend was relaxing, I was (as David Bowles would say) "Gentle with myself". One of my roommates went to Boston for her bf's birthday, we had one of the JVs from Hartford come to stay with us and one of my roommates had their bf come up to visit so it was a weekend full of "drop-in" people! It was great to hear about the Hartford house and how they are working as a community...she gave us some great ideas for grocery shopping especially (thanks Kristin!) and it was nice to chat it up with someone new.

We ordered pizza for the first time in Bridgeport on Friday...Vinny's Pizza is great, if anyone was wondering and the weekend was basically spent "kickin' it" with our visitors. The most exciting aspect of this weekend involves Saturday, which can be easily followed by our avid football watching on Sunday...OK...

So on Saturday, Jeremy, Melissa's bf, took it upon himself to try and hook up our dryer. It involved moves that only MacGyver could parallel. For more than one reason, we ended up with two dryers...long story...so Jeremy tried to hook up the first one, hence channeling MacGyver, and finally got it working. Needless to say, after a three hour long drying session, we realized that the dryer wasn't blowing hot air...cue second dryer. Jeremy hooked up the second dryer with a special cord and what not and tested it...didn't work. Then Melissa realized that the door couldn't shut completely so Jeremy jerry-rigged a cement block and metal pipe to our dryer to keep the door shut and poof! we have a working dryer. The saga of the messed up dryer is over, all thanks to Jeremy...hahaha.

THEN, on Sunday Alie really wanted to watch the Eagles game...but we don't have cable so we decided we would all go out to a sports bar. We arrived at said sports bar around 4:30pm to watch the 4:15pm game and got our beer and seats in the back. After about an hour of navigating our eyes around the two large headed people in front of us, we decided to move...the big headed couple got up and left so we swooped in on their spots. Two very intoxicated men were sitting next to Alie and they were really funny to listen to...we watched the game from start to finish, listening intently to the announcer as best we could, which was a challenge...due to drunk #2 singing the "Fly Eagles Fly" song multiple times to mock the sad beating the Eagles were taking. Being the only females in the bar, it was a funny dynamic because the men couldn't understand why we were more interested in the game than them...the whole picture makes me smile when I recall everything...unfortunately, the Eagles lost (but the Seattle Seahawks won! YAY!).

So in one fall swoop, I gained a dryer, became a new fan of the Eagles and bonded with my roommates over both situations. It was a great weekend. Loves!
~Katie~