Some great quotes from the classic - "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin."
— Linus Van Pelt
Sally Brown: I could have gone to tricks-or-treats! Halloween is over and I missed it! Instead, I spend the night on a pumpkin patch and all that came was a beagle! You blockhead! I could have had apples and gum, and cookies and money and other things! I'll sue! Trick-or-treats only come once a year, and instead I spent all night sitting in a pumpkin patch! What a fool I was! You owe me restitution!
Linus: [to Charlie Brown after Sally just ripped him a new one] You've heard of the fury of a woman scorned, haven't you?
Charlie Brown: Yeah, I guess I have.
Linus: Well, that's nothing compared to the fury of a woman who has been cheated out of trick-or-treats.
Tonight we get to see all the neighborhood kids dressed up and out in costume. We will then hopefully be heading off to Wednesday night Trivia at Fins - Supposed to be a Halloween themed trivia. Questions tomorrow.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Rant - No Keys Once Again
Today is Halloween and I've had it scheduled to leave early at 4:00 almost all month. Jason is supposed to be leaving early as well. This morning was a hectic one as normal. We were running around to get ready and try and make the train, which we once again missed so had to drive in. Maybe it was a blessing that we missed the train because on the ride in, I noticed I didn't have my monthly ticket with me since I had finished the book I was reading where I had been using it as a bookmark. Since I noticed this, we talked and I grabbed a one way ticket which we had in the car, Bruce had left it there after taking up the train one day and not being asked for his ticket on board, so that just in case Jason wasn't able to get out of the office in time because of work constraints, I would still be able to take the train and make it home in time to meet all the trick-or-treaters. (First year in our new house and the neighborhood kids tell us they all go out so I want to make sure we are there to see them.)
Oh, the best laid out plans
It wasn't until I was walking down from Metro Center to my office. Walking down from the metro? Yes, even though we drive in and we do have to technically go by my office to get to his - it is about 3-4 blocks down 11th Street from where he goes across I or K to get to his office, so he drops me off (pushes me out if he's a real big hurry - lol) at the curb on the outside circle (Mass Ave.) as we go by Union Station and I have to take the train from there. If I didn't I would have to ride all the way to his office and take the train back from Farragut West to Metro Center - it just takes way, way to long for him to travel those 3-4 extra blocks.
Anyways, I digress. As I was walking down from Metro Center to my office. I realized that I, once again, don't have a single set of keys to the house or either one of our cars because Jason has all of MY keys. One set for the car he is driving and he has pocketed the other Saturn car keys with the house keys on it for some reason or another. Why do I stress that they are my keys - it's because, yes, once frick'in again, Jason has misplaced his keys. They are somewhere around the house, but he has no clue where he put them or where they could be. He claims to have searched high and low for them but is unable to find them. I am sure I will need to do a search on my own very, very soon, but I've been pretty busy lately so haven't had a chance. I know that it probably won't take that long to find them once I start - it hasn't in the past. (I don't think guys know how to look beyond what's directly in their line of sight.) So, we have been splitting up my keys to the two cars.
I understand that since he did the driving today that he would need the Toyota keys as a necessity, what I don't understand is why he has the Saturn keys. I drove this car home last night, let myself into the house and put them on the little table by the door where keys are to be left so that they are easily accessible to both of us. This is where they should be returned to if needed to open the lock on the back gate - which I actually had to do last night for my book club guests and I returned the keys to the table. Now, not positive, but I'm thinking Jason picked up these keys to go out to the car parked by the back gate, which he had driven home, so he went out that door and needed to unlock the gate. He came back in, locked the gate and pocketed the keys!! How do I know this, because this morning when I went to look for the keys so that I could lock the deadbbolt behind us as we exited the house I was unable to find the keys where I had left them and they were supposed to be. I proceeded to ask him if he had both sets of keys and he said yes. I restated my question to indicate I was specifically looking for the Saturn keys which definitely had a house key on it. He said yes again. Did he offer to give them to me after I asked about them twice - No. Now, I'm sure it was my fault because I didn't spell it out specifically for him that I wanted the keys. But you know - I wasn't asking for them out of my health. I would think that since I lock the door after us every morning and he is aware of this that he would put two and two together and give me the keys or at least offer them to me - no such luck. Again, maybe I don't know the reason that he so strongly held on to these keys - maybe they gave him security - just don't know. All that I know is that I did not get them. Mind you this was all happening while we were rushing out the door to make the train, so I didn't even dwell on it at the time or think again to ask more specifically for them. So, maybe it is all my fault that I am now once again stuck without keys!
I know that you who know us are thinking - Andrea, Andrea, how long have you known Jason, this is so like him, you can't be surprised. And, I know, I know. It just does bug me that after being together for six years and basically living together for four of those years, all during which I have had a drop-off area for keys, repeatedly pointing this out and asking and/or yelling at him that he needs to leave the keys there, that he can not get it through his thick skull to do so. If he had done this with his set of keys they would not be lost now and I would not be without keys.
Seriously, do men ever change. Is what I'm asking really all that hard? Maybe one day this work in progress will actually take hold. I would just think that if he keeps losing things and that when he does do it the way I ask and it works that he would realize this and keep it up. I know that people are going to be thinking why would he want to change if all that I do is nag, nag, nag. They don't know that I actually did try and change that aspect of myself - because, even I know I'm pretty good at nagging. I went through a period of a few months where I tried the positive reinforcement method of asking politely going so far as helping and pitching in with most of what I was asking to be done - feeling like a mother the whole time and did it change anything - Not Really. So, I have gone back to nagging because it makes me feel better. If being a spacecadet and not keeping track of things makes him feel like himself and better, then I should have just as much right to nag and bitch cause it makes me feel better.
This sounds like that is all we do, but this is just an instance and this post is just a rant to get it off my chest. The majority of the time we get along very well and are still our happily newlywed married selves, so people don't take this overly serious and start getting out the numbers for counselors - not needed.
All said..... He had better be able to leave on time today!
Oh, the best laid out plans
It wasn't until I was walking down from Metro Center to my office. Walking down from the metro? Yes, even though we drive in and we do have to technically go by my office to get to his - it is about 3-4 blocks down 11th Street from where he goes across I or K to get to his office, so he drops me off (pushes me out if he's a real big hurry - lol) at the curb on the outside circle (Mass Ave.) as we go by Union Station and I have to take the train from there. If I didn't I would have to ride all the way to his office and take the train back from Farragut West to Metro Center - it just takes way, way to long for him to travel those 3-4 extra blocks.
Anyways, I digress. As I was walking down from Metro Center to my office. I realized that I, once again, don't have a single set of keys to the house or either one of our cars because Jason has all of MY keys. One set for the car he is driving and he has pocketed the other Saturn car keys with the house keys on it for some reason or another. Why do I stress that they are my keys - it's because, yes, once frick'in again, Jason has misplaced his keys. They are somewhere around the house, but he has no clue where he put them or where they could be. He claims to have searched high and low for them but is unable to find them. I am sure I will need to do a search on my own very, very soon, but I've been pretty busy lately so haven't had a chance. I know that it probably won't take that long to find them once I start - it hasn't in the past. (I don't think guys know how to look beyond what's directly in their line of sight.) So, we have been splitting up my keys to the two cars.
I understand that since he did the driving today that he would need the Toyota keys as a necessity, what I don't understand is why he has the Saturn keys. I drove this car home last night, let myself into the house and put them on the little table by the door where keys are to be left so that they are easily accessible to both of us. This is where they should be returned to if needed to open the lock on the back gate - which I actually had to do last night for my book club guests and I returned the keys to the table. Now, not positive, but I'm thinking Jason picked up these keys to go out to the car parked by the back gate, which he had driven home, so he went out that door and needed to unlock the gate. He came back in, locked the gate and pocketed the keys!! How do I know this, because this morning when I went to look for the keys so that I could lock the deadbbolt behind us as we exited the house I was unable to find the keys where I had left them and they were supposed to be. I proceeded to ask him if he had both sets of keys and he said yes. I restated my question to indicate I was specifically looking for the Saturn keys which definitely had a house key on it. He said yes again. Did he offer to give them to me after I asked about them twice - No. Now, I'm sure it was my fault because I didn't spell it out specifically for him that I wanted the keys. But you know - I wasn't asking for them out of my health. I would think that since I lock the door after us every morning and he is aware of this that he would put two and two together and give me the keys or at least offer them to me - no such luck. Again, maybe I don't know the reason that he so strongly held on to these keys - maybe they gave him security - just don't know. All that I know is that I did not get them. Mind you this was all happening while we were rushing out the door to make the train, so I didn't even dwell on it at the time or think again to ask more specifically for them. So, maybe it is all my fault that I am now once again stuck without keys!
I know that you who know us are thinking - Andrea, Andrea, how long have you known Jason, this is so like him, you can't be surprised. And, I know, I know. It just does bug me that after being together for six years and basically living together for four of those years, all during which I have had a drop-off area for keys, repeatedly pointing this out and asking and/or yelling at him that he needs to leave the keys there, that he can not get it through his thick skull to do so. If he had done this with his set of keys they would not be lost now and I would not be without keys.
Seriously, do men ever change. Is what I'm asking really all that hard? Maybe one day this work in progress will actually take hold. I would just think that if he keeps losing things and that when he does do it the way I ask and it works that he would realize this and keep it up. I know that people are going to be thinking why would he want to change if all that I do is nag, nag, nag. They don't know that I actually did try and change that aspect of myself - because, even I know I'm pretty good at nagging. I went through a period of a few months where I tried the positive reinforcement method of asking politely going so far as helping and pitching in with most of what I was asking to be done - feeling like a mother the whole time and did it change anything - Not Really. So, I have gone back to nagging because it makes me feel better. If being a spacecadet and not keeping track of things makes him feel like himself and better, then I should have just as much right to nag and bitch cause it makes me feel better.
This sounds like that is all we do, but this is just an instance and this post is just a rant to get it off my chest. The majority of the time we get along very well and are still our happily newlywed married selves, so people don't take this overly serious and start getting out the numbers for counselors - not needed.
All said..... He had better be able to leave on time today!
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sunday - Football and Poker
On Sunday we hung around the house until it was ready to head over to Virginia to watch the Redskins vs. Patriots game and to play some poker. I had been checking the Steelers site to make sure that they were doing good and, of course, they were. They won 24-13 against the Bengals. Next game Nov. 5 vs. the Ravens and I am definitely hoping that they beat the Ravens down!!!
We arrived at Matt's around 4:00, so, just in time to set up for poker and the start of the football game. I knew going into the game that the Redskins were going to have to play exceptionally well in order to even stand a chance against the NE team. The Pats have been having a phenomenal season so far and, unfortunately, I could not say the same for the 'skins. I had actually even resigned myself to the fact that the Redskins probably wouldn't win, but damn! I thought they would at least do better than they did.
I have to say I'm thankful for the fact that I was playing poker at the same time, so that I did not give all my attention to the game and I missed most of the fumbles and the interception - though thanks to the playbacks - Not! I was able to see them - grr and boo hoo. This was not even just a loss it was a sucky loss - Jason is a Patriots fan and we go head to head about the better team whenever the Patriots play either the Redskins or the Steelers and I know, that one day, one of my teams will trounce those Patriots, but it wasn't the Redskins this year. I'm still in hope that the Steelers with do it when they take on the Patriots December 9th, so here's to keeping my fingers crossed and my thoughts in good places.
Poker.. it was fun. Neither Jason nor I won in the first game. Shirli took top honors with Matt in second and my following in third - they got money and I didn't :-( In the second game, I was on fire or maybe I really concentrated a little more and didn't throw my chips after bad cards, I don't know, but it came down to Matt and I battling for 1st and I eeked it out - Woo Hoo.
Can't wait for the next game!
We arrived at Matt's around 4:00, so, just in time to set up for poker and the start of the football game. I knew going into the game that the Redskins were going to have to play exceptionally well in order to even stand a chance against the NE team. The Pats have been having a phenomenal season so far and, unfortunately, I could not say the same for the 'skins. I had actually even resigned myself to the fact that the Redskins probably wouldn't win, but damn! I thought they would at least do better than they did.
I have to say I'm thankful for the fact that I was playing poker at the same time, so that I did not give all my attention to the game and I missed most of the fumbles and the interception - though thanks to the playbacks - Not! I was able to see them - grr and boo hoo. This was not even just a loss it was a sucky loss - Jason is a Patriots fan and we go head to head about the better team whenever the Patriots play either the Redskins or the Steelers and I know, that one day, one of my teams will trounce those Patriots, but it wasn't the Redskins this year. I'm still in hope that the Steelers with do it when they take on the Patriots December 9th, so here's to keeping my fingers crossed and my thoughts in good places.
Poker.. it was fun. Neither Jason nor I won in the first game. Shirli took top honors with Matt in second and my following in third - they got money and I didn't :-( In the second game, I was on fire or maybe I really concentrated a little more and didn't throw my chips after bad cards, I don't know, but it came down to Matt and I battling for 1st and I eeked it out - Woo Hoo.
Can't wait for the next game!
Saturday Night - Party and Dress-Up
Saturday night we went to a birthday party at a friends house and even though no one else was dressing up Jason made a compromise with me - that he would go if we dressed up, as he really wanted to either go to a Halloween party or to M Street for their Halloween "Nightmare on M Street." We also had to plan to leave the party around 11 in order to go to Fin's where they were holding a Halloween Party/Costume Contest.
Jason planned it out that he was going to wear his caveman costume and actually had to go in search for a wig to complete the look since we did not have his for some strange reason from last year. Unfortunately, he was unable to find a wig, but he had worn the rest of his costume on his outing and got a number of thumbs up!
I had my Renaissance maiden costume from years before, but was not in the mood to wear it again, so I thought about possibilities and decided that would just wear my wedding gown and tiara out as my costume, I figured why not, I have it and I paid for it. Let's get our money's worth and put it to use again. I have to say I had completely forgotten how uncomfortable that dress was to sit in because of the corseted bra - I felt like I had a back brace on and was being forced to sit up straight not to mention that it was sucking everything in and my breadth right out.
The party was fun and after the initial looks, everyone just hung out and had a really good time. The food was delicious as well. Kimmie's friend Frannie brought this deviled ham dip which everyone, including me, couldn't get enough of - think I have to get that recipe.
We did leave around 11 and headed to Fin's where most of the patrons were dressed in costumes. It was fun to be around a bunch of other people in costume and compare what everyone was wearing. We had a Marilyn Monroe, a Cruella de'Vil, a devil in disguise as an angel, a few Swiss girls, pirates and pirate ladies and a couple referees. The contest was to start at Midnight, but ran a little late so we were unable to stay. I believe that we left around 12:30 and swung by the house for a quick change and then back to the birthday party. We were out until around 3 and then back home to get tucked into our beds and get lots of sleep until the schnoodle sisters decided it was playtime the next morning.
All in all a good Saturday. If I ever find the cord to the camera to download the pictures - they will follow.
Jason planned it out that he was going to wear his caveman costume and actually had to go in search for a wig to complete the look since we did not have his for some strange reason from last year. Unfortunately, he was unable to find a wig, but he had worn the rest of his costume on his outing and got a number of thumbs up!
I had my Renaissance maiden costume from years before, but was not in the mood to wear it again, so I thought about possibilities and decided that would just wear my wedding gown and tiara out as my costume, I figured why not, I have it and I paid for it. Let's get our money's worth and put it to use again. I have to say I had completely forgotten how uncomfortable that dress was to sit in because of the corseted bra - I felt like I had a back brace on and was being forced to sit up straight not to mention that it was sucking everything in and my breadth right out.
The party was fun and after the initial looks, everyone just hung out and had a really good time. The food was delicious as well. Kimmie's friend Frannie brought this deviled ham dip which everyone, including me, couldn't get enough of - think I have to get that recipe.
We did leave around 11 and headed to Fin's where most of the patrons were dressed in costumes. It was fun to be around a bunch of other people in costume and compare what everyone was wearing. We had a Marilyn Monroe, a Cruella de'Vil, a devil in disguise as an angel, a few Swiss girls, pirates and pirate ladies and a couple referees. The contest was to start at Midnight, but ran a little late so we were unable to stay. I believe that we left around 12:30 and swung by the house for a quick change and then back to the birthday party. We were out until around 3 and then back home to get tucked into our beds and get lots of sleep until the schnoodle sisters decided it was playtime the next morning.
All in all a good Saturday. If I ever find the cord to the camera to download the pictures - they will follow.
Answers - Applebee's Trivia 10/25/07
Here are the answers. I hope that you did well. If you still want to try your luck - please see post of 10/25/07 before reading this.
No. - Category - Question
1. - US History - Which came first - the collapse of the Berlin Wall or Madonna releasing her first single?
Madonna released her first single
2. - TV - The sitcom Benson was a spin-off of what other TV show?
Benson is a spin-off of Soap
3. - World Geography - What Nordic country has the longest life span for a human?
Iceland
4. - Musical Anagrams - What Broadway musical's title can be made from the following: think nil ego
The Lion King
5. - Pro Football Coaches - What was the second NFL team that Terry Robiskie was head coach for?
Cleveland Browns
6. - US Geography - What Eastern state has the oldest orthopedic hospital in the world?
New York
7. - Authors - Who wrote the Joy Luck Club?
Amy Tan
8. - TV Timeline - Within two years when did "Walker Texas Ranger" air in the US?
1993
9. - Food & Drink - After California and Wisconsin what state produces the most Italian cheese per pound?
New York
10. - General Knowledge - Name the four elements on the periodical table which are represented by these single letters
F = Florine
P = Phosphorus
O = oxygen
W = tungsten
Well, I hope that you did well. More trivia on Thursday and Friday, from Wednesday and Thursday night - unless things change.
No. - Category - Question
1. - US History - Which came first - the collapse of the Berlin Wall or Madonna releasing her first single?
Madonna released her first single
2. - TV - The sitcom Benson was a spin-off of what other TV show?
Benson is a spin-off of Soap
3. - World Geography - What Nordic country has the longest life span for a human?
Iceland
4. - Musical Anagrams - What Broadway musical's title can be made from the following: think nil ego
The Lion King
5. - Pro Football Coaches - What was the second NFL team that Terry Robiskie was head coach for?
Cleveland Browns
6. - US Geography - What Eastern state has the oldest orthopedic hospital in the world?
New York
7. - Authors - Who wrote the Joy Luck Club?
Amy Tan
8. - TV Timeline - Within two years when did "Walker Texas Ranger" air in the US?
1993
9. - Food & Drink - After California and Wisconsin what state produces the most Italian cheese per pound?
New York
10. - General Knowledge - Name the four elements on the periodical table which are represented by these single letters
F = Florine
P = Phosphorus
O = oxygen
W = tungsten
Well, I hope that you did well. More trivia on Thursday and Friday, from Wednesday and Thursday night - unless things change.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Trivia Thursday 10/25/07 - Applebee's Crofton, MD
Ok, so we went to trivia last night as well. This time it was at Applebee's in Crofton. The were about nine teams playing. The format for the trivia here is different from Fin's in a way and is run by a representative of Final Score Trivia - http://www.finalscoretrivia.com/. Once again, if you are ever in the area and are up for a game of trivia and want to join us or play against us - the more the merrier. Below are some of the questions which were asked - answers will follow on the next post - could be tomorrow, could be Monday.
Team Name: Miller Time
Players - Jason, Andrea and Kevin (RINAR)
No. - Category - Question
1. - US History - Which came first - the collapse of the Berlin Wall or Madonna releasing her first single?
2. - TV - The sitcom Benson was a spin-off of what other TV show?
3. - World Geography - What Nordic country has the longest life span for a human?
4. - Musical Anagrams - What Broadway musical's title can be made from the following:
think nil ego
5. - Pro Football Coaches - What was the second NFL team that Terry Robiskie was head coach for?
6. - US Geography - What Eastern state has the oldest orthopedic hospital in the world?
7. - Authors - Who wrote the Joy Luck Club?
8. - TV Timeline - Within two years when did "Walker Texas Ranger" air in the US?
9. - Food & Drink - After California and Wisconsin what state produces the most Italian cheese per pound?
10. - General Knowledge - Name the four elements on the periodical table which are represented by these single letters
F
P
O
W
I had a world series baseball question to ask, but I can't remember the exact way it was worded though I have the answer :-) Sorry Bruce!
Team Name: Miller Time
Players - Jason, Andrea and Kevin (RINAR)
No. - Category - Question
1. - US History - Which came first - the collapse of the Berlin Wall or Madonna releasing her first single?
2. - TV - The sitcom Benson was a spin-off of what other TV show?
3. - World Geography - What Nordic country has the longest life span for a human?
4. - Musical Anagrams - What Broadway musical's title can be made from the following:
think nil ego
5. - Pro Football Coaches - What was the second NFL team that Terry Robiskie was head coach for?
6. - US Geography - What Eastern state has the oldest orthopedic hospital in the world?
7. - Authors - Who wrote the Joy Luck Club?
8. - TV Timeline - Within two years when did "Walker Texas Ranger" air in the US?
9. - Food & Drink - After California and Wisconsin what state produces the most Italian cheese per pound?
10. - General Knowledge - Name the four elements on the periodical table which are represented by these single letters
F
P
O
W
I had a world series baseball question to ask, but I can't remember the exact way it was worded though I have the answer :-) Sorry Bruce!
Answers to Fins Triva - Wednesday 10/24/07
Below are the answers to the Fins Trivia questions - If you want to play - don't spoil it, go to post made yesterday on 10/25/07.
So, How'd you do on the questions? Did you get them all right? Here are the answers:
1. Put the following cities in order - from city with most to city with least - number of buildings over 1000 feet in height A) Chicago B) Seattle C) Houston D) New York
Answer - Houston, Chicago, New York and Seattle
2. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common: navy auburn brown
Answer - They are all colleges/universities
3. Anagram - rearrange the letters in the below word to come up with a famous musician Mr Mojo Risin
Answer - Jim Morrison
4. This may be true still but at least up until 2006 Name the 7 NFL Football teams who do not have cheerleaders
Answer - Pittsburgh Steelers (Go Steelers!!), Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, New York Jets and New York Giants
5. True or False - We all know carrots come in orange - Is the statement they also come in a variety of other colors - purple, white, red, true or false?
Answer - True
6. What is the name of the chocolate cookie with cream filling that came before the Oreo?
Answer - Hydrox
7. Which country has the most natural born red-heads? A) Ireland B) Sweden C) Scotland D) Australia
Answer - Scotland
8. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common Siamese Cats Hugh Grant's Mickey Frank Sinatra
Answer - Blue Eyes
9. What country has the highest number of bowlers (in a year) A) US B) Canada C) Russia D) United Kingdom
Answer - The US
10. True or False - It's the male starfish who becomes pregnant and carries the baby?
Answer - True
11. Name the categories from the original Trivial Pursuit game - Genus 1.
Answer - Geography, Entertainment, Arts & Literature, History, Science & Nature and Sports & Leisure
Bonus - Name the color of the pie/hub for each category ?
Answer- Geography - Blue; Entertainment - Pink; Arts & Literature - Brown; History - Yellow; Science & Nature - Green; Sports & Leisure - Orange
More next week - from Fins - Wednesday, Oct 31 - Halloween Themed Trivia - post on 11/1 Questions and on 11/2 Answers
So, How'd you do on the questions? Did you get them all right? Here are the answers:
1. Put the following cities in order - from city with most to city with least - number of buildings over 1000 feet in height A) Chicago B) Seattle C) Houston D) New York
Answer - Houston, Chicago, New York and Seattle
2. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common: navy auburn brown
Answer - They are all colleges/universities
3. Anagram - rearrange the letters in the below word to come up with a famous musician Mr Mojo Risin
Answer - Jim Morrison
4. This may be true still but at least up until 2006 Name the 7 NFL Football teams who do not have cheerleaders
Answer - Pittsburgh Steelers (Go Steelers!!), Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, New York Jets and New York Giants
5. True or False - We all know carrots come in orange - Is the statement they also come in a variety of other colors - purple, white, red, true or false?
Answer - True
6. What is the name of the chocolate cookie with cream filling that came before the Oreo?
Answer - Hydrox
7. Which country has the most natural born red-heads? A) Ireland B) Sweden C) Scotland D) Australia
Answer - Scotland
8. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common Siamese Cats Hugh Grant's Mickey Frank Sinatra
Answer - Blue Eyes
9. What country has the highest number of bowlers (in a year) A) US B) Canada C) Russia D) United Kingdom
Answer - The US
10. True or False - It's the male starfish who becomes pregnant and carries the baby?
Answer - True
11. Name the categories from the original Trivial Pursuit game - Genus 1.
Answer - Geography, Entertainment, Arts & Literature, History, Science & Nature and Sports & Leisure
Bonus - Name the color of the pie/hub for each category ?
Answer- Geography - Blue; Entertainment - Pink; Arts & Literature - Brown; History - Yellow; Science & Nature - Green; Sports & Leisure - Orange
More next week - from Fins - Wednesday, Oct 31 - Halloween Themed Trivia - post on 11/1 Questions and on 11/2 Answers
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Trivia Wednesday at Fins
They finally had a pretty decent crowd at Fins (Hawaiian Fusion in Crofton, MD) - OK so it was enough that there were four teams playing and we didn't have to divide up our team - Yay! We came in third - not our best showing in playing but we had fun and it is after all just a game :-)
If you're ever in the area and want to play - the more the merrier and competition is a good thing.
Team Name - Night of the Living Drunks
Jason, Andrea, Danny N., Kimmie, Kristi W., Runner, I need a runner - Kevin, Mark A (hit and run appearance)
Test your trivia knowledge - not all the questions from last night but a sampling:
1. Put the following cities in order - from city with most to city with least - number of buildings over 1000 feet in height
A) Chicago
B) Seattle
C) Houston
D) New York
2. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common:
navy
auburn
brown
3. Anagram - rearrange the letters in the below word to come up with a famous musician
Mr Mojo Risin
4. This may be true still but at least up until 2006 Name the 7 NFL Football teams who do not have cheerleaders
5. True or False - We all know carrots come in orange - Is the statement they also come in a variety of other colors - purple, white, red, true or false?
6. What is the name of the chocolate cookie with cream filling that came before the Oreo?
7. Which country has the most natural born red-heads?
A) Ireland
B) Sweden
C) Scotland
D) Australia
8. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common
Siamese Cats
Hugh Grant's Mickey
Frank Sinatra
9. What country has the highest number of bowlers (in a year)
A) US
B) Canada
C) Russia
D) United Kingdom
10. True or False - It's the male starfish who becomes pregnant and carries the baby?
Good luck and I hope that you enjoy. I'll post the answer's tomorrow, along with some more trivia from our game at Applebees (Crofton) tonight - if we don't turn into pumpkins and just go home and hang with the schnoodle sisters.
Two nights of trivia - love it, love it.
If you're ever in the area and want to play - the more the merrier and competition is a good thing.
Team Name - Night of the Living Drunks
Jason, Andrea, Danny N., Kimmie, Kristi W., Runner, I need a runner - Kevin, Mark A (hit and run appearance)
Test your trivia knowledge - not all the questions from last night but a sampling:
1. Put the following cities in order - from city with most to city with least - number of buildings over 1000 feet in height
A) Chicago
B) Seattle
C) Houston
D) New York
2. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common:
navy
auburn
brown
3. Anagram - rearrange the letters in the below word to come up with a famous musician
Mr Mojo Risin
4. This may be true still but at least up until 2006 Name the 7 NFL Football teams who do not have cheerleaders
5. True or False - We all know carrots come in orange - Is the statement they also come in a variety of other colors - purple, white, red, true or false?
6. What is the name of the chocolate cookie with cream filling that came before the Oreo?
7. Which country has the most natural born red-heads?
A) Ireland
B) Sweden
C) Scotland
D) Australia
8. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common
Siamese Cats
Hugh Grant's Mickey
Frank Sinatra
9. What country has the highest number of bowlers (in a year)
A) US
B) Canada
C) Russia
D) United Kingdom
10. True or False - It's the male starfish who becomes pregnant and carries the baby?
11. Name the categories from the original Trivial Pursuit game - Genus 1.
Good luck and I hope that you enjoy. I'll post the answer's tomorrow, along with some more trivia from our game at Applebees (Crofton) tonight - if we don't turn into pumpkins and just go home and hang with the schnoodle sisters.
Two nights of trivia - love it, love it.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
October Book Club - Book - The Faraday Girls
So, I just finished reading my book club book of the month - "The Faraday Girls" by Monica McInerney and have to say it was definitely a winner. I really liked the story, it kept me reading, but I wasn't absolutely crazy about the ending.
The book is about the Faraday family - Leo, the eccentric father and widower; Juliet, Miranda, Eliza, Sadie and Clementine, the motherless daughters and Maggie Faraday, Clementine's illegitimate daughter.
"As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household in Tasmania, with her young mother, four very different aunts and eccentric grandfather. With her mother often away, all four aunts took turns looking after her – until, just weeks before Maggie’s sixth birthday, a shocking event changed everything.
Twenty years on, Maggie is living alone in New York City when a surprise visit from her grandfather brings a revelation and a proposition to reunite the family. As the Faradays gather in Ireland, Maggie begins to realise that the women she thought she knew so intimately all have something to hide…"
Part One of the book introduces us to the family as a whole and the dynamics which make up the family. Juliet, tries to make everything right and buries herself in cooking for the family when things get rough; Miranda is all about herself and thinks she deserves more in life; Eliza is obsessed with working out and keeping in shape, Sadie is quiet and feels left out and different from everyone else, while Clementine is the baby and pretty much lives as the baby of the family oft does almost clueless to what is going on around them only interested in their own lives, but not in a selfish manner, just that this is how things go and they should continue especially when everyone older helps make it this way. Leo is a widower who is still very much in love with his dead wife, still talks to her and tries to carry on what he thinks as her traditions and misses her deeply.
Part One goes on to introduce Clementine's unplanned pregnancy and the family's gathering around her to help her get through it and raising her child while she is able to still fulfill her dreams of finishing school and having a career. It brings up journals/diaries which their mother used to keep and how since Clementine doesn't really remember her mom, these might be something good to read, as well as the other sisters reading them as a way to remember there mom and the way she was. When they approach Leo with this idea, he gets really upset and shoots it down, saying it's not their place to read the mother's intimate thoughts and any way he had burned them a long time ago following a request by the mother that if she passed away before him that he would burn them.
The sisters and Leo then gather around Clementine saying that it's ok and that they will be there for her and the baby always - it will be a family effort but as things settle in, she has the baby and life moves on they still help out as a whole but also begin to do not as much or think more of themselves once again living their lives. Except Sadie who goes beyond just helping and gives up all that she has (school, friends, etc.) to help raise Maggie. This is where you begin to see that Sadie has been feeling left out of the family, like an outsider, and at odds with them as she seems to fall into the role of "mother" to Maggie a little bit to much. There is an instance where she is confused as Maggie's mother and she mentions it to Clementine, who gets upset but doesn't stop Sadie from basically being the nanny to Maggie while she goes about her schooling and hanging out with friends (she still is a mother to Maggie, but she also does the other things). After this, the next time when Sadie and Maggie are on a little day trip in another town close by and are mistaken for mother/daughter, Sadie does not mention it and actually continues to go back to the town to join in mother/daughter groups pretending to be Maggie's mother. While Sadie is spending the time with Maggie around the house and doing things, she finds the supposedly burned journals/diaries and begins to read them. Finding out interesting things about their mother.
The arrangement of the sister's helping - with the majority being Sadie goes on up to the point where before Maggie's sixth birthday things come to a head. Even before this the family had begun to go their own way and want to start their own lives and not be a welded together all the time as a family unit. After the indiscretion, Sadie drops out altogether from the family unit.
While reading about the way Leo spoke about his wife and then a couple of the memories of the older daughters I began to feel that Leo was, while a very nice guy, very naive. I didn't get the impression that his wife was all bad or anything like that, but I could tell that there were things that didn't bring the impression of an angel which he seemed to remember her being. It made me think that she had some definite problems - maybe manic depressive - or was a very selfish human being.
After reading what happens before Maggie's 6th birthday, we then enter Part Two and find Maggie in New York where she has escaped after experiencing a tragedy at her job in London and a devastating truth in her personal relationship. We still get little snippets of the other members of the family but a lot of it is focused on Maggie and how she deals and copes with things and her meeting a new fellow. I found this part to be interesting, though I kept feeling that she had to have some type of inner problem if she took the job instance so deeply to heart with blaming herself as much as she did. I mean it was an awful thing, but was it really her fault and did she have to take on so much of the blame?
To top all this off, her grandfather comes to New York to ask her to read her dead grandmother's journals as he is to afraid to since there are things he doesn't want to find out or get hurt by - this further proved to me that he was living under a rock and probably always had when it came to the true character of his wife. Ah, the old saying - blinded by love. He is trying to find out what Sadie could have read in the journals that might have made her do what she did and also to find out why she left the family and never contacted them again except for birthday cards to Maggie. I also found it odd that he wanted Maggie to do this so as to spare his daughters from anything which I guess is a good thing, but made me mad because if he hadn't always deluded himself about his wife they wouldn't have thought her to be a saint.
Anyways, Maggie reads the diaries and she eventually meets up with her Aunt Sadie who has been tracked down by a private investigator hired by Leo. Maggie is to meet this person they think is Sadie and confirm it for Leo. Maggie meets up with Sadie and they talk. We also find out that Sadie has been living a lie herself, she's been lying all these years to her husband and daughter about who she is and where she came from and her background. I was a little mad about that as well and didn't think that it was fair to her husband at all - at the end it doesn't get revealed and Maggie abids by Sadie's wishes to not let Leo or the rest of the family know where she is - another secrete still intact - grrr.
While the family is meeting in Ireland for their July Christmas a number of things are revealed or actually they are revealed prior to the meeting to the reader about each of the sisters and then we are told about the tension that is in the house, etc.
I was disappointed that nothing was really totally resolved by the family tension that they didn't really addresses it, it just continues to be hidden. There was a little bit of a blow out and Maggie actually gets visits from each of her aunts after this, but once again nothing is brought totally out in the open. This I didn't like. This may be because I have become very outspoken in my later years and feel that it is ok for me to express what I feel and how I feel about things and the way people in my family act. I'm sure there are plenty of times my family would like me to just shut up about a lot of it and just let things go, but that's me - lovely. I actually do know a family a little like this. They are very friendly and loving and you definitely have a good time with them, but I don't know if I've ever seen them really get to the heart of things - I feel they just let everything slide by and never get into serious discussions about the way this person or that person made them feel bad or disrespected them. For me it's very irritating to watch and there are times I want to say something, but know it's not my place. Just cause I handle things one way doesn't make it the right way and their family seems to have been going on like this for ages and surviving.
It did have a happy ending as in Maggie found a guy who was good to her and seemed like he would be good for her. Juliet and her husband were talking and working things out. The rest of the sisters seemed to have their issues pretty much remain the same.
I'm probably just a witch cause I wanted to see some real conflict, I wanted someone to just tell Miranda really off and say how pretenious she was and that she wasn't really all that, I wanted someone to tell Juliet to get her head out of the sand and to stand up for herself, I wanted someone to confront Eliza about her affair. I really wanted someone to wake up Leo to the fact that the mother was a loser! But, I know that these things shouldn't always happen, that what was the harm in letting the father in his old age remember his wife anyway he wanted to, that after all that he had probably put up with, because I really don't think he didn't know some of what was going on when it happened, but just chose to turn a blind eye towards it - I'm sure he suffered in his own way. I'm sure he had his doubts, but he didn't want to confront them and find it out. Now me, I dig and I dig and I want to find out the answers I want to try and prove that a person is doing me wrong and I actually have, but I still ended up turning a blind eye on numerous occassions and let that person keep hurting me - such low self esteem - it's so sad. I hope that my niece and my nephew don't grow up with these issues. Ah, maybe another blog topic?
I would recommend this book to others as a good read. I found it enjoyable. It shows how families can be together and be dysfunctional, know each other and really not know each other; how secrets can bind and destroy; love and despise each other - all of this at the same time.
We meet on Tuesday, October 30 as a group to discuss this and I will follow up with what the others thought. I will also provide the recipes for dinner that evening - sloppy joes and scalloped potatoes.
The book is about the Faraday family - Leo, the eccentric father and widower; Juliet, Miranda, Eliza, Sadie and Clementine, the motherless daughters and Maggie Faraday, Clementine's illegitimate daughter.
"As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household in Tasmania, with her young mother, four very different aunts and eccentric grandfather. With her mother often away, all four aunts took turns looking after her – until, just weeks before Maggie’s sixth birthday, a shocking event changed everything.
Twenty years on, Maggie is living alone in New York City when a surprise visit from her grandfather brings a revelation and a proposition to reunite the family. As the Faradays gather in Ireland, Maggie begins to realise that the women she thought she knew so intimately all have something to hide…"
Part One of the book introduces us to the family as a whole and the dynamics which make up the family. Juliet, tries to make everything right and buries herself in cooking for the family when things get rough; Miranda is all about herself and thinks she deserves more in life; Eliza is obsessed with working out and keeping in shape, Sadie is quiet and feels left out and different from everyone else, while Clementine is the baby and pretty much lives as the baby of the family oft does almost clueless to what is going on around them only interested in their own lives, but not in a selfish manner, just that this is how things go and they should continue especially when everyone older helps make it this way. Leo is a widower who is still very much in love with his dead wife, still talks to her and tries to carry on what he thinks as her traditions and misses her deeply.
Part One goes on to introduce Clementine's unplanned pregnancy and the family's gathering around her to help her get through it and raising her child while she is able to still fulfill her dreams of finishing school and having a career. It brings up journals/diaries which their mother used to keep and how since Clementine doesn't really remember her mom, these might be something good to read, as well as the other sisters reading them as a way to remember there mom and the way she was. When they approach Leo with this idea, he gets really upset and shoots it down, saying it's not their place to read the mother's intimate thoughts and any way he had burned them a long time ago following a request by the mother that if she passed away before him that he would burn them.
The sisters and Leo then gather around Clementine saying that it's ok and that they will be there for her and the baby always - it will be a family effort but as things settle in, she has the baby and life moves on they still help out as a whole but also begin to do not as much or think more of themselves once again living their lives. Except Sadie who goes beyond just helping and gives up all that she has (school, friends, etc.) to help raise Maggie. This is where you begin to see that Sadie has been feeling left out of the family, like an outsider, and at odds with them as she seems to fall into the role of "mother" to Maggie a little bit to much. There is an instance where she is confused as Maggie's mother and she mentions it to Clementine, who gets upset but doesn't stop Sadie from basically being the nanny to Maggie while she goes about her schooling and hanging out with friends (she still is a mother to Maggie, but she also does the other things). After this, the next time when Sadie and Maggie are on a little day trip in another town close by and are mistaken for mother/daughter, Sadie does not mention it and actually continues to go back to the town to join in mother/daughter groups pretending to be Maggie's mother. While Sadie is spending the time with Maggie around the house and doing things, she finds the supposedly burned journals/diaries and begins to read them. Finding out interesting things about their mother.
The arrangement of the sister's helping - with the majority being Sadie goes on up to the point where before Maggie's sixth birthday things come to a head. Even before this the family had begun to go their own way and want to start their own lives and not be a welded together all the time as a family unit. After the indiscretion, Sadie drops out altogether from the family unit.
While reading about the way Leo spoke about his wife and then a couple of the memories of the older daughters I began to feel that Leo was, while a very nice guy, very naive. I didn't get the impression that his wife was all bad or anything like that, but I could tell that there were things that didn't bring the impression of an angel which he seemed to remember her being. It made me think that she had some definite problems - maybe manic depressive - or was a very selfish human being.
After reading what happens before Maggie's 6th birthday, we then enter Part Two and find Maggie in New York where she has escaped after experiencing a tragedy at her job in London and a devastating truth in her personal relationship. We still get little snippets of the other members of the family but a lot of it is focused on Maggie and how she deals and copes with things and her meeting a new fellow. I found this part to be interesting, though I kept feeling that she had to have some type of inner problem if she took the job instance so deeply to heart with blaming herself as much as she did. I mean it was an awful thing, but was it really her fault and did she have to take on so much of the blame?
To top all this off, her grandfather comes to New York to ask her to read her dead grandmother's journals as he is to afraid to since there are things he doesn't want to find out or get hurt by - this further proved to me that he was living under a rock and probably always had when it came to the true character of his wife. Ah, the old saying - blinded by love. He is trying to find out what Sadie could have read in the journals that might have made her do what she did and also to find out why she left the family and never contacted them again except for birthday cards to Maggie. I also found it odd that he wanted Maggie to do this so as to spare his daughters from anything which I guess is a good thing, but made me mad because if he hadn't always deluded himself about his wife they wouldn't have thought her to be a saint.
Anyways, Maggie reads the diaries and she eventually meets up with her Aunt Sadie who has been tracked down by a private investigator hired by Leo. Maggie is to meet this person they think is Sadie and confirm it for Leo. Maggie meets up with Sadie and they talk. We also find out that Sadie has been living a lie herself, she's been lying all these years to her husband and daughter about who she is and where she came from and her background. I was a little mad about that as well and didn't think that it was fair to her husband at all - at the end it doesn't get revealed and Maggie abids by Sadie's wishes to not let Leo or the rest of the family know where she is - another secrete still intact - grrr.
While the family is meeting in Ireland for their July Christmas a number of things are revealed or actually they are revealed prior to the meeting to the reader about each of the sisters and then we are told about the tension that is in the house, etc.
I was disappointed that nothing was really totally resolved by the family tension that they didn't really addresses it, it just continues to be hidden. There was a little bit of a blow out and Maggie actually gets visits from each of her aunts after this, but once again nothing is brought totally out in the open. This I didn't like. This may be because I have become very outspoken in my later years and feel that it is ok for me to express what I feel and how I feel about things and the way people in my family act. I'm sure there are plenty of times my family would like me to just shut up about a lot of it and just let things go, but that's me - lovely. I actually do know a family a little like this. They are very friendly and loving and you definitely have a good time with them, but I don't know if I've ever seen them really get to the heart of things - I feel they just let everything slide by and never get into serious discussions about the way this person or that person made them feel bad or disrespected them. For me it's very irritating to watch and there are times I want to say something, but know it's not my place. Just cause I handle things one way doesn't make it the right way and their family seems to have been going on like this for ages and surviving.
It did have a happy ending as in Maggie found a guy who was good to her and seemed like he would be good for her. Juliet and her husband were talking and working things out. The rest of the sisters seemed to have their issues pretty much remain the same.
I'm probably just a witch cause I wanted to see some real conflict, I wanted someone to just tell Miranda really off and say how pretenious she was and that she wasn't really all that, I wanted someone to tell Juliet to get her head out of the sand and to stand up for herself, I wanted someone to confront Eliza about her affair. I really wanted someone to wake up Leo to the fact that the mother was a loser! But, I know that these things shouldn't always happen, that what was the harm in letting the father in his old age remember his wife anyway he wanted to, that after all that he had probably put up with, because I really don't think he didn't know some of what was going on when it happened, but just chose to turn a blind eye towards it - I'm sure he suffered in his own way. I'm sure he had his doubts, but he didn't want to confront them and find it out. Now me, I dig and I dig and I want to find out the answers I want to try and prove that a person is doing me wrong and I actually have, but I still ended up turning a blind eye on numerous occassions and let that person keep hurting me - such low self esteem - it's so sad. I hope that my niece and my nephew don't grow up with these issues. Ah, maybe another blog topic?
I would recommend this book to others as a good read. I found it enjoyable. It shows how families can be together and be dysfunctional, know each other and really not know each other; how secrets can bind and destroy; love and despise each other - all of this at the same time.
We meet on Tuesday, October 30 as a group to discuss this and I will follow up with what the others thought. I will also provide the recipes for dinner that evening - sloppy joes and scalloped potatoes.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Redskins football
So, the 'Skins pulled it through yesterday and won. What is up with them and not being able to keep the lead in the second half. Once again everyone was forced to sit on the edge of their seats and bite their fingernails wondering if they were going to be able to keep the lead or if they were going to get beaten at the last second again.
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