Millicent Thrash
So, we’ve been playing a lot of this since last night:
I’m Millicent Thrash, lead singer of the epic trio, Chartreuse Midget! We rock! *giggle*
Merry early Christmas to Jon (and me)!!
Grandma's House.
I miss my Grandma’s house.
She had the most fantastic raspberry bush behind her barn. It was crazy – the berries on that bush grew twice as big as any on her regular rows of bushes. Black raspberries on one side of the yard, red on the other. She taught me to put them in milk with sugar, and then squish the heck out of them til the milk was bright red or purple.
She had a great front porch, too. It faced a good sized road and I remember using it as my own personal stage. The passing drivers were my audience. I’d plug my boombox in and dance up a storm. The trees in the front yard were enormous too, so it was always nice and shady on that porch.
She also had the best game closet upstairs. There was an old board game version of Family Feud up there. I remember having a really hard time figuring out the answers to some of the questions since the game was older than any of us kids. There was also a great marble game called Avalanche. I don’t think we ever played by the rules – it was way too entertaining just letting the marbles go through the board.
Good Week!
I had a great visit with my Dad last night and this morning. We went to Buca‘s for dinner, and he generously paid despite how easy it is to rack up a big bill there. Then we went to my brother’s place for another try at Nottingham. It was still fun to play, but it definitely moves slower around the table when you have five people instead of three. After that, we came back to my apartment to do some Wii bowling and play some Super Monkey Ball party games.
Since we kept Dad up so late, he decided not to drive back home until today, so before he left we went shopping for some Heroscape expansions. We didn’t find anything he needed, but it was fun to look. We’re going down to his house next week so we can play a round or two. We’re geeky like that. *grin* After that we found some lunch at the mall and my husband decided to shop for cell phones. I’m starting to come around to the cell phone thing, slowly but surely, but I end up playing “bad cop” when we shop so that the sales people don’t sell us a bridge.
And, tomorrow is adventure day! I get to go back to my very favorite breakfast restaurant, Hell’s Kitchen! I really hope my friend Mara likes it there. It’ll be my first time at their new location, so that’s kind of exciting too. After I stuff myself full of Toasted Sausage Bread, we’re going to discover all the odd little shops along southern Nicollet Ave. I’m going to bring my camera, so hopefully I’ll have a bunch of great things to upload to Flickr tomorrow night. It’s going to be such a great day!
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