World War III broke out at the Murphy home tonight. Erin was mad at Shannon because she was leaving at 4:00 and their bedroom looked as if a hurricane had hit. Dave is having his MBA class over tomorrow night for a graduation party and their rooms have to be clean. Erin feels as if Shannon always leaves her with the mess. I told Shannon that she had to clean until her ride arrived. Erin was in the shower when Shannon was cleaning. She finished and came downstairs to wait for her ride and play Mario Cart on Wii. Erin came upstairs and her head started to spin around when she saw that Shannon scooped up all the clothes, including the clean folded ones in a basket and threw them in the dirty clothes pile. Which by the way was enough for 22 loads of laundry. Maggie had a friend over so she got to see the dysfunction unfold right before her eyes. Shannon was crying and adamantly professing her hatred towards her sister and Erin was adamantly professing how she was right regardless of how upset Shannon was, Erin was going to get the last word and prove that she was right no matter what.


An hour and a half later, World War IV broke out. Lucky for me I wasn't home to witness it. I receive a full account of the battle by phone from Lauren. Earlier, Lauren left to go out with her boyfriend. Erin decided since Lauren was gone it would be a great opportunity for her to wear Lauren's new designer top. Lauren decided to return home once she realized they were going to an alumni hockey game. Her boyfriend went to a high school who's colors were purple and gold. Lauren was wearing a purple shirt and my little fashionista couldn't show up at a high school hockey game wearing their school colors. After all she is a college student and has an image to uphold. Lauren was just going to run in and grab her new black designer shirt, she knew right where it was. She checked the closet and it was gone. She went to find Erin and sure enough she had it on. She tried to pull it off of her and Erin screamed "OK, leave me alone, I'll give it to you." Lauren let go and Erin took off running. Lauren chased her all through the house and finally caught her. She got her to the ground and pulled the shirt right off her body. Imagine Lauren's blood pressure when she put the shirt on only to find the arm pits soaking wet. I can't imagine why Erin would be sweating, a crazy woman chasing her through the house ripping her clothes off, she was bound to be a little nervous. Hey, that might make a great deodorant commercial. When your caught wearing someone elses killer outfit, "degree turns up the heat." Lauren was yelling at her and said, "look at you, you are so pitiful, you never wear anything of your own, you even have on Shannon's Uggs." A few minutes later she remembered that Erin and Shannon were fighting and Shannon left with her Uggs on, she was actually wearing Lauren's Uggs. The boots were a little easier to get off of her than the shirt.

The most normal part of my evening was when I was tying Ryan's basketball shoes before the game. I noticed he had duct tape on his ankles. I asked him, "What's with the duct tape?" He said, "My new basketball shoes are giving me blisters, it was either duct tape or Hello Kitty band aids, What would you choose?"