Game Nights

Once in a while, we have game nights in the house. Tegan usually brings over a game for all of us to play and we spend the entire night sitting around on the lounge room floor playing our hearts out. It's like a speed bump that slows their fast-paced lives down, even for a night.

The first game we played was Scattergories. It comes with a dice that has letters of the alphabet on its sides and a list of categories. When the dice is rolled, the timer starts and you have to write a word starting with that letter for every category in the list. When the timer goes off, the players would compare their answers and if you have a unique answer, you get a point. It was really fun and at a few times we were just laying on the floor laughing so hard we developed ab muscles. :D

The other game we played is the interactive DVD version of an Australian quiz show on TV called Spicks and Specks. This game tests your knowledge of music and the music industry. It's like the game Cranium but all about music. There's a game where you'd have to get your teammate to guess the song you're singing but you had to substitute the lyrics to a book you were reading (and of course, Nadia's textbook from cooking school to the tune of YMCA was hilarious!!!!).

Just wanted to share! hehehe

Great Day for the Beach!

As with a lot of Wednesdays, we all got today off and have been planning to go to the beach since Sunday. We'll bring the dogs, bring a picnic basket, have a barbecue and just hang-out! It's going to be a lot of fun!!! So at 10 a.m., I got woken up by a phone call telling me to get ready for the beach. I looked up and the sun decided to come out. Yipee!!!

Three hours later, Mel and I are still in the lounge room waiting to go to the beach. When we finally get all our stuff together, and the dogs, we were off. In the 45 minutes we drove to the beach, the sun decided to go back to bed and the rain started to come out and play with the wind!

So when we got out to the beach we were freezing cold and dripping wet. But we still ran around in the rain and played fetch with the dogs. It was a lot of fun. It was different, not your normal preconceived notion of a day at the beach. My housemates said it was an Aussie thing since they do everything backwards... but of course, it's not.

An Answer to a Great Friend

I was reading one of my friend's blogs and he was asking a question about friendships and how they fare against distance and time. I've always thought friendships are phases in one's life and friends are the people with whom you share mere parts of your life while you share parts of theirs. All good things never last, right? And realistically, of all the people we've met, and will meet, in the span of our lives, however long that period of time might be, it would be impossible to sustain a level of friendship with them all. Personally, I couldn't and wouldn't be able to do it because I'd be spreading myself thin. It just takes too much effort.

Thinking back, I guess I've lost a lot of friends because I just wasn't prepared to put in the effort needed to sustain relationships with certain people. Although sometimes I really wish I wasn't lazy one night and went out with them or too caught up in my own world to even send a message.

As a twisted mind's reply to whoever's asking, for me, the level of friendship two people share is just what they both want it to be. If both parties still put in an effort into the relationship, then they're sweet. If not, then whatever right? There are billions and billions of people in the world. My only fear is not losing good friends, but letting the great ones just slip away.

**This is unsolicited advice: an answer to a great friend!