Chirky

This weekend we had another gamenight, with a special guest appearance: JCol, aka Amstaff Mom. You've probably already read about it on hers or Eddo's site, but that won't stop me from recapping it AGAIN and adding my own pictures. Pictures that may be embarrassing to some, but to me, they are just small nuggets of digital evidence demonstrating my capability to blackmail.

Eddo cooked fabulous fajitas, and even provided the celebrated FLAUTAS from Pancho's. Raise the flag! We participated in a group farkle to see who would have to eat the ENTIRE BOWL of flautas. Here, you see JCol and her husband, Jeff, in a showdown. Jeff totally won the bowl, because his rock crushed JCol's scissors. Note the prize held between them, and the look of anticipation and excitement in their faces.

Does it hurt your eyes to look at it? Yeah, me too. This picture is a little blurry because we had our camera on some random setting that made ALL the images blurry. So, you can just use your imagination.

We played Cranium, which has become a favorite. Eddo's sister had to play puppeteer with Eddo, and here he is acting out "Feeding the ducks" according to her directive. Although it sort of looks like he is worshipping KT's feet.

During our crowning ceremony, Eddo turned on the ceremonial music and crowned each of us with precious-gem filled tiaras. He also presented to us our prizes, mine being the coveted $50 Best Buy certificate. It pays to be a nerd. Literally.

"Who? ME?" "Oh, wow. What an honor! I am so surprised!"

Ha! KT, the slow shutter makes the picture so funny. If you look really closely, you can see where there are another set of eyes beneath yours. It gives a whole new meaning to the term "four eyes."

JCol. At this point, she's just really not too sure about us yet. But, we're still glad she's here! Maybe as the evening wears on she'll adjust to my volume and KT's opionations. Yes, that's a new vocabulary word for you.

What I have failed to mention thus far, and what you may already know, is that we celebrated Jeff's birthday on Friday night. JCol surprised him with a birthday cake, complete with squiggly candles, a happy birthday message, and party hats for us to wear!

Oh, look! Our camera started working properly! While some of us were trying to find new ways to wear the typical party hat, others were apparently taking a nap. Standing up.

Then we sang Happy Birthday to Jeff. Unfortunately, Eddie belted out "Brian" instead of "Jeff," and we all stopped singing to stare at him, laughing at his mistake. All in good fun, this was the paraphrased conversation, with my flair for drama added:

Jeff, looking at Eddie:
"Dude. My name isn't Brian. Where did that even come from? YOU BIG JERK."

Jeff, looking at his wife, JCol:
"Can you believe this guy?"

I couldn't resist. Eddo started eating one of the decorative items from what I'm suspecting was the birthday cake. Except it is a playing card, and the cake had nothing to do with cards. Does anyone know where this lard card came from?

Queen, but for a night. Now they just refer to me as The Grand First Place Winner, Holder of All Things Necessary to Conquer Nerdom, or TGFPW,HOATNTCN. It's quite a mouthful until you've practiced saying it several times, or unless you're drunk.