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I'm watching a Stoke game that was played earlier. I KNOW the only goal comes from Stoke in the sixty something minute yet I'm still holding my breath when it looks like they'll score or West Ham will, heh. It's like the way I read books for the zillionth time and hope that this time, yes, this time, Anne Boleyn doesn't get beheaded (I identified with her so much as a child, though she was awful to Catherine of Aragorn but I guess different times and all that) and Rhett stays. As a romace writer, hats off to Mitchell for not giving her readers a pure, simple HEA; she left a doubt. Not in Scarlett's mind, of course, but in the readers'.
Um. I was talking about footie. How the hell did I get onto GWTW? ::stares suspiciously at empty wine glass::
Stoke are doing so well in their second season in the Premiership. Only one other team has stayed up and bettered their first season point score and Stoke are hoping to be the second. Last year they finished a very respectable 12th with 45 points (the magic number is supposed to be 40; usually that's enough to keep you up). Right now, with seven games to play, they're on 39 and they're 10th, plus they got to the quarter finals of the FA Cup and were only knocked out by Chelsea, who won 7-1 today against a high-ranking team and are looking good to win the league.
(Do I have any American readers left at this point? ::g::)
David is in Paris, back tomorrow, but Eleanor, Lauren and I turned off the lights/TV/computer for Earth Hour and settled down with candles at the kitchen table to play cards.
I taught them Strip Jack Naked which they'd never heard of. I used to play that as a young child with my brother all the time and after a few moments thought, the rules came back to me. Despite the name, it's pure as driven snow; you're stripping Jack of his cards, not his clothes.
I'm wondering if anyone knows it under another name? You divide the cards equally between the players, who hold them in a pile, face down. Each player places a card on the table, creating a pile, flip, flip, flip, until a face card appears, when the next player has to place penalty cards down (Jack 2, Queen 3, King 3, Ace 4). If they can put down the requisite number of non-face cards, the player of the face card takes the deck in the middle and puts a card down. If during the penalty the player turns up a face card of their own, the next player has to start placing cards. No skill involved and fortunes can turn dramatically. It's fun.
We then peered out of the window and tutted over neighbors who had outside lights blazing, feeling nicely superior.
Um. I was talking about footie. How the hell did I get onto GWTW? ::stares suspiciously at empty wine glass::
Stoke are doing so well in their second season in the Premiership. Only one other team has stayed up and bettered their first season point score and Stoke are hoping to be the second. Last year they finished a very respectable 12th with 45 points (the magic number is supposed to be 40; usually that's enough to keep you up). Right now, with seven games to play, they're on 39 and they're 10th, plus they got to the quarter finals of the FA Cup and were only knocked out by Chelsea, who won 7-1 today against a high-ranking team and are looking good to win the league.
(Do I have any American readers left at this point? ::g::)
David is in Paris, back tomorrow, but Eleanor, Lauren and I turned off the lights/TV/computer for Earth Hour and settled down with candles at the kitchen table to play cards.
I taught them Strip Jack Naked which they'd never heard of. I used to play that as a young child with my brother all the time and after a few moments thought, the rules came back to me. Despite the name, it's pure as driven snow; you're stripping Jack of his cards, not his clothes.
I'm wondering if anyone knows it under another name? You divide the cards equally between the players, who hold them in a pile, face down. Each player places a card on the table, creating a pile, flip, flip, flip, until a face card appears, when the next player has to place penalty cards down (Jack 2, Queen 3, King 3, Ace 4). If they can put down the requisite number of non-face cards, the player of the face card takes the deck in the middle and puts a card down. If during the penalty the player turns up a face card of their own, the next player has to start placing cards. No skill involved and fortunes can turn dramatically. It's fun.
We then peered out of the window and tutted over neighbors who had outside lights blazing, feeling nicely superior.
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