Saturday, June 9, 2007

Game Room

Posted by Abby Marie at 2:43 PM

I got hounded for not updating my blog often enough. What the alleged hounder (Russell) doesn't know is that I was using how often he updates his blog as an example for how often I should update mine. As soon as he put a new post, I was going to too. He posted yesterday (after not posting for eleven days) and yelled at me (although it's only been 10 for me) so I figure it's about time to post.

I'm headed to a bridal shower. This is the first bridal shower for one of my friends that I have ever been to. It's funny how girls organize things. I got a room assignment on the bridal shower invitation--which I actually over looked at first and wondered what on earth I was going to get my friend.

Gratefully, my mom saw the assignment, "Game Room" which made my job a lot easier. I didn't know if game room meant a room that you play games in or a room that you hang stuffed deer heads that -you -killed-yourself in. Anyway, I took a wild gander and started out looking at Games People Play in the mall. I could have gotten a deck of Barbie face cards for 5 dollars, or a regular old UNO deck for 9 dollars. It was a tough decision, but I decided to go to Wal-Mart instead. I got a 1000 piece puzzle, Rook, Mancala and 2 disc shooters (and a basket to put them in) All for less than 20 dollars. Hopefully my friend and her future hubby will enjoy playing my games. In all reality they'll probably take them back and by a sweet door mat or something.

I'm happy for my friend. She is lucky to be getting married although I'm not sure I would like to trade her places (At least not right now).

I'm wondering what kind of equipment I'll need to take to New Zealand. I'm excited to go but I've been getting nervous that when we go on our backpacking and kayaking trips, I'll have to go to the bathroom in the wilderness. I've done it before, but that doesn't mean I liked it. I don't like the idea of burying my own bowel movement in the ground hoping that no one stakes their tent or builds a ditch in the same spot.

2 comments:

Russell said...

I am concerned that you may have made a huge and very embarrassing mistake. If your friend is the type to have enough rooms for each guest invited to a shower to be assigned a specific room, then it’s likely that she did actually intend yours to be a traditional Game room, and the attendee who was assigned the Salon would be expected to bring a gift associated with entertaining guests, as the salon is the room associated with such socializing. I hope you have time to return your gift and acquire a hunting license and go bag a nice 12 or 14 point buck for their game room. Failing that, you could at least find them one of those ever diverting talking bass for the wall.
As for equipment necessary for your New Zealand trip, I’d suggest watching the first installment of the Lord of the Rings, during which Frodo and his friends treck across the same country you will be traversing. You could take your cues from the items they valued or missed. Just don’t forget to pack enough food for elevensies. Aragorn forgot that and was roundly criticized by the Hobbits if I remember correctly.

June 10, 2007 at 6:29 PM
Anonymous said...

lol, Abby, you make me laugh! I miss you so much! I wish we could hang out some how :(

Love Always,
Julie

June 23, 2007 at 8:52 PM

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