As soon as i got home last Friday i was faced with a mother and brother who were sick. I mean coughing, sneezing, aching, and all but passing out on the nearest seat.A week later after threatening harm if any of them got me sick before Christmas, i am lying in a bed with my faithful cat at my side suffering from all the symptoms listed above. DAMN.
Of course now my brother and mom are recovering nicely, while i have been dragging around with a blanket and a headache.Being sick royally sucks, because while being sick I've had to decorate the whole house, buy presents,wrap presents, hang out with Marie, and try not to pass out during the process of all that.
And don't even get me started on the freaky dreams i get when i am sick.
Today i feel a tad bit better and hope it i feel completely myself on Christmas day.
Despite being under the weather Marie and I headed out Wednesday to buy each other Christmas presents. Marie is not the easiest person to buy Christmas presents for. Me on the other hand am very easy, Cd/DVD/ and you've got me pretty much covered. It also helps because i always do the obvious "hey look at this "wink wink" " and i actually say wink wink to make it perfectly clear.
Marie on the other hand never admits she likes anything. "that ugly, it's not practical, yadda yadda yadda". So this year,perhaps because i wasn't well enough to drive all over town trying to guess what to get her, i opted for the "lets just buy the presents in front of each other, at least we will get actually what we want. She agreed, and that is what we did.
I got killer new shoes and an Amos Lee Cd, and she got....well two hours later while we were still looking for her gift, she decided on the game of life,as well as a book. We ended up back at my house and decided that we didn't want to wrap presents we had already seen, so we played Life.
Oh life....how i have fond memories of that game.
I can't pinpoint the first time i played it, but i can remember my brother finding another way to cheat, my mother getting stuck with the house no one wanted, and me hoping i didn't get stuck with the lowest pay.
Life was just the best game ever. That stupid car, with the stupid peg people, and all the stops players had to make. Get married, buy a house, get a job.
But it was kind of different playing this time, perhaps because we too were starting just where the game begins. At a crossroad of college and career.
The game was eerily freaky. She became a doctor(vet) who made 90,000 a year. She ended up with a husband and 1 kid. She didn't receive many life tiles(which are like bonuses for monumental life moments), bought bad stock, sold her home only to end up in the one she didn't want. She was in the lead for most of the game. Whizzing through life.
My car must have taken the detour. I picked the entertainer card, racked up a comfortable 80,000, got hitched had four kids, and lived in a nice colonial. Though i was so far behind i thought i would never catch up, a racked up a whole bunch of life tiles, and eventually got in the lead.
And won.
After that we decided to scrap LIFE. Playing the game this time around made me realize how unreal the game is. Unfortunately everyone doesn't ride on the same course, and despite the occasional "house has been broken into, pay 20,000(if not insured)", there are a little more pitfalls than that.
What the game lacks( and yes i know it's only a game, but i got something from it) is all the all the in between. Cause if you think about it, it's the inbetweens that make our life beautiful and special. It's the experiences and people, and indecisiveness that makes life...well not a board game.
Who wants to be in the game of life, where everyone has seen and passed the same objects and
milestones. Where you're path is totally predestined for you, and where the ending is always the same.
Not me. I rather take a chance on the real game of life, far away from peg people.
Christmas is only a couple of days away and i am kind of excited, i may even watch A Christmas Story for the hell of it. Trust me i love the movie, but i don't love how they play it all day.
What a hectic crazy year this has been, and not only is Christmas the day for celebrating, opening presents, appreciation, and above all...FOOD, but it's the day when you it's the countdown for the end of the year. And one for nostalgia i can't help but look back at the year and realize what all has happened.
And yes it is another year i am thankful is at a close, but i see that leaps and bounds i have made, and I'm excited because next year can only promise me some of those monumental Life Tiles stored up for me.
We'll see.
Of course now my brother and mom are recovering nicely, while i have been dragging around with a blanket and a headache.Being sick royally sucks, because while being sick I've had to decorate the whole house, buy presents,wrap presents, hang out with Marie, and try not to pass out during the process of all that.
And don't even get me started on the freaky dreams i get when i am sick.
Today i feel a tad bit better and hope it i feel completely myself on Christmas day.
Despite being under the weather Marie and I headed out Wednesday to buy each other Christmas presents. Marie is not the easiest person to buy Christmas presents for. Me on the other hand am very easy, Cd/DVD/ and you've got me pretty much covered. It also helps because i always do the obvious "hey look at this "wink wink" " and i actually say wink wink to make it perfectly clear.
Marie on the other hand never admits she likes anything. "that ugly, it's not practical, yadda yadda yadda". So this year,perhaps because i wasn't well enough to drive all over town trying to guess what to get her, i opted for the "lets just buy the presents in front of each other, at least we will get actually what we want. She agreed, and that is what we did.
I got killer new shoes and an Amos Lee Cd, and she got....well two hours later while we were still looking for her gift, she decided on the game of life,as well as a book. We ended up back at my house and decided that we didn't want to wrap presents we had already seen, so we played Life.
Oh life....how i have fond memories of that game.
I can't pinpoint the first time i played it, but i can remember my brother finding another way to cheat, my mother getting stuck with the house no one wanted, and me hoping i didn't get stuck with the lowest pay.
Life was just the best game ever. That stupid car, with the stupid peg people, and all the stops players had to make. Get married, buy a house, get a job.
But it was kind of different playing this time, perhaps because we too were starting just where the game begins. At a crossroad of college and career.
The game was eerily freaky. She became a doctor(vet) who made 90,000 a year. She ended up with a husband and 1 kid. She didn't receive many life tiles(which are like bonuses for monumental life moments), bought bad stock, sold her home only to end up in the one she didn't want. She was in the lead for most of the game. Whizzing through life.
My car must have taken the detour. I picked the entertainer card, racked up a comfortable 80,000, got hitched had four kids, and lived in a nice colonial. Though i was so far behind i thought i would never catch up, a racked up a whole bunch of life tiles, and eventually got in the lead.
And won.
After that we decided to scrap LIFE. Playing the game this time around made me realize how unreal the game is. Unfortunately everyone doesn't ride on the same course, and despite the occasional "house has been broken into, pay 20,000(if not insured)", there are a little more pitfalls than that.
What the game lacks( and yes i know it's only a game, but i got something from it) is all the all the in between. Cause if you think about it, it's the inbetweens that make our life beautiful and special. It's the experiences and people, and indecisiveness that makes life...well not a board game.
Who wants to be in the game of life, where everyone has seen and passed the same objects and
milestones. Where you're path is totally predestined for you, and where the ending is always the same.
Not me. I rather take a chance on the real game of life, far away from peg people.
Christmas is only a couple of days away and i am kind of excited, i may even watch A Christmas Story for the hell of it. Trust me i love the movie, but i don't love how they play it all day.
What a hectic crazy year this has been, and not only is Christmas the day for celebrating, opening presents, appreciation, and above all...FOOD, but it's the day when you it's the countdown for the end of the year. And one for nostalgia i can't help but look back at the year and realize what all has happened.
And yes it is another year i am thankful is at a close, but i see that leaps and bounds i have made, and I'm excited because next year can only promise me some of those monumental Life Tiles stored up for me.
We'll see.
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Get to feeling better soon! Merry Christmas to you, sweetie!
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