Young is a state of mind

Just a quick thought: Have you ever thought about what the 12 year old version of yourself would think of your current self? Think about how different you look, the choices you have made and where you are now in life. Would the 12 year old version of yourself think you are a dork or cool, successful or even just a disappointment? This hit me the other day and my immediate thought would be the 12 year old version of myself would think, "so I DO get skinny at some point!" All other 12 year old Eric thoughts I will keep to myself.
Separate note: On the way home from work I saw some guy picking his nose hard core. Same car trip later, I saw some guy drinking fry sauce right out of the container (fry sauce is a Utah based condiment consisting of Ketchup and Mayonnaise) Great ride home!

i didn't have any pictures of 12 year old Eric. So I put baby Eric...I was a dang cute kid!

Two wrongs don't make a right

Much to my dismay classes started up again today. While going to campus I start to walk through a cross walk. Near the end, a fool in a beat up chevy decides he thinks its a 4-way stop and he just darts into the road nearly running me over. He missed and rather than make a big deal I continue to walk. At this point, the genious decides to put his car in reverse to go back behind the lines and nearly backs over me...Congrats sir, you are king moron for the day!

....On a separate note, I am rocking some sick Jack Purchell's (converse shoes) today, however, I can't seem to keep the left shoe tied. I refuse to double knot it mostly out of pride, so instead I walk around feeling like a 4 year old who can't tie his own shoes....yay for me!!

Being productive at work part 2

The toilets at my work hate me. The bathroom sinks too! We just moved into a brand new building that uses the sensors on both the toilets and sinks. The only problem is that while I am going to the bathroom the toilet keeps flushing on me, which at times can be startling because of how loud it is. The sinks don't even register that I am there. Occassionaly, when they do turn on it will only last for a few seconds...its quite obnoxious.

On a separate note, there is a girl on my sales team that we frequently accuse of being a hipster. So in her honor we decided to have hipster appreciation day, which consisted of me and some of the guys on my team dressing like the friends in her photos....this is what resulted

Key elements: the should bag, thick framed glasses, either cuffed jeans or ripped jean shorts, I even straightened my hair for this one although you can only see part of my bangs

Chicago is stealing my friend away :(

Things typically hit me a little late. I usually don't feel sore after a work out for well over 24 hours, I don't peel after a sunburn for a couple of weeks, and I usually don't get too sad about things until a week later. However, today was the last day I got to hang out with Alyson (my little sister) for a while since she and her husband are moving to Chicago. After spending her last night in Utah playing rockband at my house, she left and I started crying because I don't know when Ill see her next. I know its not like i'm never going to get to hang out with her again, but it still sucks to see her go. To my other siblings; I'm not trying to play favorites right now, but I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Alyson....
Als,
I'm gonna miss you. It sucks thinking I have to be in Utah without you now. I am going to miss hanging out on Tuesday and Thursday and just going out to eat with you (how are we not fatter?) I am going to miss you randomly coming over and just letting yourself in my apartment. And I am going to miss just having you around. Have fun in Chicago. n a positive note, people around here won't think you're my girlfriend or wife anymore....so I got that going for me.
Love,
Eric

Dressed for Success II

Dressing up for church is slowly becoming one of my favorite activities

The pipe is from a costume store and I did NOT bring it to church mom 

I totally forgot

My short term memory is sooo shot, its not even funny. Somebody tells me their name, I forget it in two seconds. I go to the grocery store without a shopping list and totally forget what I needed and then end up buying random crap. To remedy this, I now put everything on my phone's calendar or google calendar. I even had to remind myself to write about this, because I actually meant to blog about this yesterday but forgot......
(Hey Kristyn and Alyson, did you notice this post was shorter.....you're welcome!)