Games

There’s something about winter that makes me want to wear nothing but flannel pants and do nothing but play games. I rarely get the urge to play Trivial Pursuit or Scrabble in the summer, but when the weather is even the least bit chilly I want to be home with Angela and the pups rolling dice and fiddling with plastic game pieces or playing pool. We get so excited about the flannel pants part of the game-playing that we both let out several “Hmm hmm hmm’s!” as soon as we put them on. It’s the little things.

We don’t have an xbox or playstation and we don’t really want one because the only game we would probably ever play is Madden 06 or some other football game and we can think of better ways to spend money, but Angela happened to be browsing through Kohls last week and found a much cheaper time-waster—a joystick that you just plug straight into the TV that comes loaded with Pole Position and Ms. Pacman. It rocks! It was only seventeen bucks and it has games on it that we actually understand. I wish it included Frogger, but God can only answer so many prayers at once without making a girl feel spoiled. So we played Ms. Pacman a lot over the weekend. And last night Angela figured out how to split the TV screen so we could watch the Packers/Lions game on the left side while we were playing Ms. Pacman on the right. It’s genius! We’re already planning a Monday Night Football/Ms. Pacman marathon.

We played Cranium and Catchphrase with our friends Anna and Jocelyn Saturday night. We met them at Buca di Beppo near Stonebriar first and we all stuffed ourselves full of salad, bread, pizza, and pasta, then we rolled ourselves out of there and came back to our house for games. We had never been to Buca di Beppo before, but now that we’ve discovered the greatness of it we’re going to have to go back. The Pasta Cardinale was amazing. So was Anna’s L Word knowledge! She’s my new source for Season 3 spoilers and behind the scenes info. A plethora of L Word tidbits and she just watched her first episode a couple of months ago. Anyway, Angela and I were smoking them at the beginning of Cranium, but then I had a really bad charades performance and the lead unraveled from there. Oh well. It' s polite to let the guests win. They beat us at Catchphrase too. We're so hospitable.

We leave for Nebraska next Thursday. Then it will be a week of games, family, nog, and warm fuzzies. I love this time of year.