I Suck At Hanging Out With Friends

I have a black cloud over my head today.

Today is Prince spaghetti night, which also means that it is the day my friends (Marc, Kelley, and Andrea) and I get to hang out together. I look forward to our weekly get together as it breaks up the week. For this week, we decided to hang out at Andrea's in Weymouth. Too bad I suck at hanging out with friends.

I can say I suck at hanging out because I feel like I really didn't get to do much of that tonight. Most of my time was spent watching over my twenty one month old daughter (Briana) and wreaking havoc at Andrea's.

As a side note, Andrea got a new refrigerator for her place. Apparently, the last one died on her. And unfortunately, Andrea had to get rid of most of her food because of it. That is a bummer. If only the fridge could have waited until today to die. That way, she could have put her food outside in the freezing cold weather. (Yes, it's very cold outside right now.)

Regardless, I should have known that today would be a bad day for me from the early get-go. Andrea was gracious enough to get Briana a Christmas present. Briana took some time to unwrap the present (as she pulled off sliver by sliver of the wrapping paper). When she was finished, she seemed pretty excited about the gift.

Naturally, I attempted to assemble the toy for Briana as quick as I could because she really wanted to play with it then and there. So there I was, taking apart the packaging from the toys. For anyone curious, toy manufacturers seem to securely fasten toys to packaging these days. It's crazy how long it takes to remove a toy from a package with all of its twist-ties and tape.

Anyway, I ended up doing a common guy thing: (no, not leaving the toilet seat up) not reading instructions. Mistake #1: do not assemble a toy without reading the instructions. In my haste, I snapped the pieces of the toy together. The problem is... the pieces had to be snapped together in a certain order. Trying to unsnap the toys... very difficult. Eventually, I was able to unsnap the pieces. Thank you directions.

Feeling good about not ruining post-Christmas, I decided to be a good environmentalist and break down the cardboard packaging. Go recycling! Mistake #2: watch your fingers when breaking down cardboard packaging. While breaking down the cardboard packaging, I ended up getting a pretty deep cardboard cut. Needless to say, it hurts. It still hurts while I type this post. I hate paper cuts.

Of course, my comedy of errors was not done just yet. Not to be outdone by a cardboard paper cut, I ended up shattering one of Andrea's glass cups. Mistake #3: watch out for glass. Truth be told, I have no idea how the glass cup even broke. The glass had a handle on it, much like a tea cup. In what seemed like a mere seconds, I remember Briana pushing the cup from my hand. The next thing I know, the glass shatters all across the floor. My pants get soaked along the way. (Good thing it was just flavored water in the glass.) And I am left holding only the handle to the glass cup.

I felt terrible. After a little help from Kelley during the clean up, Andrea's floor was good as new. I'd be lucky to be invited back any time soon, I'm sure.

Anyway, following all of the brewhaha, all of us did get to watch an episode of Saturday Night Live and eat some ice cream cake. Andrea had recorded the Christmas episode hosted by Jimmy Fallon. When I wasn't watching Briana (who was sweeping the floor with a broom in the kitchen), I got to watch the episode.

All in all, today was just not my night.