Because Erika Told Me To: Because I Told Erika To

We all know that I started this blog because Erika told me to. But it turns out I have some sway too when it comes to getting people, namely Erika, to do things.

I should mention that I finally stepped up my technology game by succumbing to a smart phone. This decision came immediately after returning home from Haiti, which is possibly the least-technologically saavy place I've ever been, other than the Peruvian jungle.

So I got a Samsung Galaxy SII and I love it. In fact, after I'm done marrying my housekeeper for cleaning the cat hair off of my couches, I'm going to marry my smart phone because it lets me speak grocery lists to it, check my email, and play Angry Birds.

It's also, with the help of my friend and loyal reader Katie Thimgan, introduced me to the magical world of Draw Something. Seriously, if you have a smart phone and you have not yet friended me on Draw Something, our real life friendship is on the way down. My code name is rac003. Consider this an open invitation to play this magical game with me.

Anyway, Erika also got a smart phone around the same time I did. This is fitting since we had the exact same dumb phone before, some silly looking red phone that only did things like text and make phone calls. Now we're all cool with our smart phones and we do things like go for bike rides and use our Map It app to tell us how far we've gone and then we take pictures of our bike ride with Instagram and put them on facebook. We're so awesome and hip together.

Erika owed me one. This whole blog thing has been a crazy, wild success beyond my wildest, craziest dreams (I have 12 followers!!! Yes!!!!) I started this blog for her so I felt she needed to start something for me. That's where Draw Something comes in. After some mild coercion post-amazing bridal shower, I convinced Erika to join the magical world of Draw Something with me. And she did. Because I told her to. See how this works?

Thanks to my smart phone, I've been able to document some of our more classy Draw Something interactions, and I'm confident all of you loyal readers out there are eager to see them as well. So without further ado, welcome to the Draw Something world of Robin and Erika. Because Robin told Erika to.

I draw a mean Bob Ross. It turns out, Erika has never heard of Bob Ross. Or Ryan Seacrest, who I tried to draw immediately after Bob.

But she does know who (or should I say what) Jacob from Twilight really is:

Yeah, that's a shark fin in my drawing of surfing. And yes, the surfer's arm has been chomped off.

Erika was paying attention when she watched The Notebook.

Erika threw this one at me. Obviously it's Conan O'Brien. Duh.

No explanation needed here.

For those Fort Collins dwellers, you might be familiar with Walrus Ice Cream. I was trying really hard to draw a walrus and then gave up and drew some ice cream. Then, in a desperate moment, I just flat-out wrote "walrus" in the drawing (image not shown to protect the innocent). Unabashed cheating is what this game is all about sometimes.

But Erika surprised me by guessing walrus before I wrote the cheating winning answer down. It was impressive, and I told her so.

At first, this drawing was just of a naked bald person holding something that was apparently shooting daggers at her neck. What is it? So I threw a red dress on her to make it obvious.