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Haven’t shared any game night pics in a while. Here’s what we’ve been playing…

The first one’s an oldie from my childhood. My sweetie and I are going through our games to see which ones we want to keep. Hadn’t played Life in years, so we thought we’d give it a go.

Mine’s the car with the 2 hubbies and a daughter. Rosie’s is the one with 2 wives and a son. She didn’t want the kid (I guess she thought he’d mess with her girls’ honeymoon), but the game made her take him so the poor kid had to sit all the way in the back.

The 3-D version of Blokus is tough!

The rest of the games are from my uncle’s game club. Thanks for teaching us new games, T!

Coloretto is a great little card game. Easy to learn and the version we bought has a set of rules for two players.

Vikings is one I did not expect to like, but I just loved it. You can play it with two people (we are always on the lookout for new 2-player games), but sadly we can’t buy our own copy. It’s not available for purchase anymore.

Jaipur is another card game that allows for two-person play.

For Braggart, you make up a “story” with the cards in your hand, and it can be quite humorous to see what people come up with. Or what they are forced to play. Great for a group.

This was the best hand played all night:

“While wearing nothing more than my boots and a smile…I covered myself in oil to wrestle with…a party of drunken dwarves…and I am probably a better person for it.”

Acquire is another one I did not expect to like. It was fun predicting where the board was going and which companies would hit it big. Sometimes your plans worked out. Sometimes you got screwed. Sort of like real life. There were five women playing with one adorable young guy that looked half my age. He was sweet and patient as he taught all of us newbs how to play. I didn’t tell him I was already writing a story in my head about him meeting someone special during an all-nighter at the gaming club. I could see them sitting across from each other, some very sweet touches between them under the table as they tried to flirt with serious gaming still going on all around them.

Seriously, who thought that was a good name for a burger? And that sign? I couldn’t resist snapping a pic.

Just for fun here’s the scene board for Take Me Home (cleverly covered by my editing check marks to avoid spoilers). Each scene actually has 8 or more check mark post-its. I kept track of my read-throughs on a scene-by-scene basis. First time I’d ever done that, and it worked well for me. Gave me a nice sense of accomplishment at the end of every day.

My three cats…

Apparently I need to figure out how to take better pictures with my iPhone or my cats are possessed.

I can be pretty focused when I’m writing.

Helloooo…

And five minutes later…

And later…

I think I forgot something.

Starting a new topic on the blog this week. Thought it might be a fun way to share a bit about writing, my inspiration, my life, and the world around me. It’s called Friday Photo and will include only pictures I’ve taken or ones from my own life. It won’t be every Friday, but when I do share a photo I’ll try to do so with as little verbiage as possible to let the photo stand on its own.

But I’m a writer, you know I won’t be able to resist saying something, at least part of the time.

My nephew, 23 years ago (yes, that’s me holding him):

And now (with his new wife):

Congratulations, kiddo!