Soccer. Stoop. Speakers. Sleep.

The first couple of hours with Can’t Be Bothered were surprisingly sober. By day three, however, things had changed. It all started with a simple football game. If you are not familiar with Queen’s English, ‘football’ is the proper term for what most Americans refer to as soccer.

Knowing the passion English fans have for this sport, I embraced my heritage and dressed for the occasion – royal blue wig, tank top with royal blue accents, mini skirt, and white thigh high tube socks with royal blue stripes. I offered similar fashion accessories to Can’t Be Bothered, however, she wanted to stay, “neutral.”

Although we were originally going to meet at a pub, filming was taking place there, so we instead met up with Progressive and Sleepless at a posh hotel bar. “People are going to think you’re here to see clients,” Can’t Be Bothered told me. “Can’t do that today. I haven’t signed a conflict of interest form at my full-time job,” I replied.

After several drinks and the game ending, Sleepless had to return to work, Progressive had to take kids to the doctor, and Can’t Be Bothered and I had to stay for another round. After which, we made our way back to my house where Can’t Be Bothered let the chloroform take over for a bit and I put a bun in the oven.

Progressive arrived just in time to mix drinks and enjoy fresh baked bread, stoopside. Earlier in the day, he had told me he wanted to change his blog name. While stoopside, he brought up the name change again. “I am not a government agency. You cannot just submit a request, pay a fee, and change your name,” I told him. “I wouldn’t mind a name change either,” Can’t Be Bothered told me and added, “I can’t remember why I’m Can’t Be Bothered.” “Maybe you just can’t be bothered to remember,” I replied.

 
About this time, Skiwi – who loves his name and being in the blog, invited us to his place for pizza. Progressive couldn’t join us, so Can’t Be Bothered and I grabbed a bottle of wine and made our way. We arrived to find Skiwi in the kitchen, flour on the counter and dough in hand. “Just in time, we’re ready to roll!” he told us while throwing the dough on the floured counter and rolling it into shape. DDDG soon came home and they began their relationship banter, which includes topics such as exercise, speakers and vegetables.

After dinner Skiwi showed us his house listing (he is attempting to sell) and then gave us a tour of the house. Specifically, a tour of the speakers and wireless audio/visual equipment. “Surprisingly, I’m not getting any interested buyers,” he told us. “Maybe you’ve listed it wrong,” I advised and added, “You should stop trying to sell it as a house and, instead, sell it as a speaker set, equipped with a top of the line house.”

While he got busy changing his listing, Can’t Be Bothered and I headed home where we took some aspirin and went to bed in an attempt to prepare for tomorrow. Unlike Benjamin Franklin, we don’t go to bed or rise early. We are, however, wise – we take aspirin, which is supposed to ward off strokes, heart attacks and relieve pain/hangovers. We’ll see…..