we be grillin'.

Yesterday and today much the same: grilling dinner, then playing a game outside on the patio. I won last night's game of Phase10 (a card game similar to rummy), which had carried over from July 4th.

I believe tonight we're going to try playing Dread Pirate, the "bookshelf game" that I got for my birthday in May. Problem is that it has a fabric game board that is about the size of the table out there... and the table has an umbrella running up the center. I suppose after dinner we'll just move the umbrella base to the outside of the table.

After Tom went home last night, the momster and I went out for coffee, and she spontaneously decided to drive all the heck over the outer edges of the city in our quarter of it, looking at apartments, which was pretty annoying as it was after 10PM and I thought we'd only be out for 30 minutes or so. I don't like the outer belt of Columbus... it's basically retail sprawl if you're lucky. Sometimes there isn't even that much.

Oh, well, time for me to go stick some bamboo skewers through some onions and mushrooms, then start the fire on the grill.

At some point between today and tomorrow, craftyminx needs to get SIX POSTS. We'll see how that pans out. (I have a lot of library books due tomorrow. I might write out the reviews but not post them all at once.)

oh, THIS is yin and yang for sure.

I won Dread Pirate! It's actually a pretty fun game... pricey, but I recommend it if you can afford it. It's played on a map like Risk but involves a lot less strategy, because you're just marauding other areas, not trying to defend your own. (Actually, I don't think it's much like Risk at all, but my mom made the comparison, so take it for what you think it's worth.) Gameplay took about two hours. Some of the rules are not clear, so we're going to print out the updated rules that are available on the website and see how they work for us next time. I made the losers take me (and themselves) out for ice cream.

Then I came home and worked on cleaning the basement. See, it can't ALL be fun. I had to throw away a lot of things I had been saving (like soap I made, and other soap that had been given to me as a gift). So there's a lesson - use consumable goods, don't just save 'em up because they're pretty.

(Actually, that's a lesson that's been driven home again and again since moving. You can bet I don't have a huge selection of bath products anymore. I use them up. Too many went bad in transit.)