Category — Microblog Mondays

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My friend just told me about a game: Kill Dr. Lucky.  It’s like Clue except instead of trying to figure out whether Mrs. Peacock used the candlesticks in the library, you’re trying to commit the murder.  As is everyone else at the table AND not get caught.  So you try to get Dr. Lucky alone and kill him off with one of the weapons you collect along the way before anyone else can do the same.

That sounded really dark once I wrote it out.

I love board games.  I hate trying to teach myself new ones from an explanation sheet, so I keep going back to the ones I know well: Yahtzee, Mahjongg, Backgammon, Chess, Sorry, and Monopoly.  I need to find people to teach me the rules to new games in real time.  There’s a board game cafe nearby, and if they’re not busy, the staff will sit down at your table and teach you new games.

Which games are your favourites?

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Being totally immodest: My ability to get stuff done is one of my best traits.  If I tell you that you will have a document on Thursday, I will likely have it to you on Tuesday.  You will not need to send me a reminder.  In twelve years of being a freelance writer, I have never missed a deadline.

I have great sitzfleisch.

At least, I thought I had great sitzfleisch because I am able to put my bum in a chair and get to work.  But I just read the other meaning for the word on the BBC:

It can also mean, in some cases, that one simply sits still and waits for a difficult situation to resolve itself. In that scenario, it’s still about endurance but rather the endurance to sit tight than the endurance to push through with hard work.

That is not me at all.  I do not have the endurance to wait, sit tight, or not nudge.  When I’m waiting for an answer or something to happen, I may not externally let the deciding party know that I’m fretting, but, believe me, I am Googling, journaling, or worrying as if it were my second job.

Are you someone who likes to move things along or wait and see what happens?

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My brilliant costume idea fell through.  Last November, I decided the whole family would get animal onesies from Target this year.  Josh swung by the Target a few weeks ago and reported they were all out of animal onesies.  Yes, I’m aware that there are other places we could try to make our onesie dreams come true, but we all gave up when they weren’t at the first store.

I went on Facebook to gather Halloween costume ideas (thank you, everyone!), and an old friend reminisced about how I used to make my guinea pig amazing costumes and take him around the neighbourhood trick-or-treating.  He went as Batpig one year, though he kept trying to twist around and eat the cape.  He went as a 15th century minstrel, complete with a tiny felt lute strapped across his powder blue tunic.

Just a few years ago, I was making ornate costumes for the kids.  I took over the dining room table to make a Lady Vastra mask!  I made a sonic screwdriver out of toilet parts!  I cannot tell you how many Queen Esther costumes I made over the years.  But somewhere along the way, I got really really really tired of costume making.

What will you be for Halloween this year?  Or what costumes did you make?

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The twins’ school recently had an open house, and I swung by when I could slip out for an hour.  I ended up in their French class, which is one of their favourite classes.  Their teacher is fantastic, and it’s a pleasure to watch her teach because she clearly loves the language and passing it along to the kids.

I took French for many, many, many years.  Being in that classroom brought out my French panic.  My body was on high alert that the teacher could call on me.  And I would be asked to speak in front of her students.  And… emergency emergency emergency.

I don’t feel this way about any other subject.  I couldn’t always do the math problem, but I wasn’t worried about getting called on in class.  The same with every subject; I was okay being called on in every other class.  But there was something about language classes.  I was so worried that I’d be asked to speak aloud.  And while I’m okay reading things in another language, I feel this panic come out every time I need to actually speak to another human being in that language.

Which language did you study in school?  Do you also have language panic?

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I don’t like the idea of reading challenges because I never want to rush through books I love, but I am very excited that I’ve consumed 27 books this year. Plus, it’s only October. I could definitely hit 30 before the year is out. Considering I only read 17 books in 2017, I am pretty damn proud of myself.

And only two or three of them have been duds that I kept reading because I was too far in to stop. I quit one because the typos made the story confusing.

Favourites have been Little Disasters (Randall Klein — my brother, but I can still put his book on my list), The Last Policeman trilogy (Ben Winters), Us (David Nicholls), and Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan).

What are your favourite things you’ve read so far in 2018?

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