Cranium=Cataclysmic Failure
So today was the day I predicted nobody would show and I was right. People all had things to do. Since, I had gotten so many maybe's, it would have been more work to call everyone and tell them it was off, and my sister put a big 'L' on her forehead, which I deserved. But today was quite fun, except for the morning, when I woke up at 1230 after going to bed at 530. I was in a daze for a while, but we got the driveway plowed. But today my sister showed us how to make pizza dough and we put on our individual toppings and had a taste contest to see whose pizza came out the best. I think Cora's won, mine second, dad's third, and Mom just had bad selections of ingredients on her pizza that nobody liked. But it was probably the most fun family activity to have occurred in recent years. I went with the pineapple and pepperoni, diced tomatoes, some basil and lots of mozzarella and parmesan, and a slice of peach(which wasn't bad). Anyways, the fabrication process was family fun and the food was good and can only get better in terms of quality since we all shared how we would improve each one.
Then we played Cranium, and as anyone knows, a game involving mom is never easy. It took us 10 times longer to explain the rules to her, because she is dense and easily confused and follows it up with an inability to listen after she asks a question. So both our teams sucked horribly: dad and I got stuck on a category that neither of us knew the person we were supposed to act out, and mom and cora were a sad sight, so the game was close. My mom does some very very funny acting though, her drawings are unrecognizable and thus funny, and she hums the tune to a different song. It's quite funny. After an hour and a half gagne showed up and took my dad's place and the game went about the same. For one of them I had to act out "cocktail dress." He guessed the dress quickly, but my acting of a cocktail wasn't coming close with the drink version, so I was forced to gesture and you can see where it worked. It wasn't my fault though, really. I did it for the good of the team. For the last question I had to draw a "convent" and gagne had to guess it before my mom could guess based on my sister's drawing. My art skills seriously lack, but I tried a lot of different ways to describe the word. First I went with drawing a convention in terms of the person talking and the room surroundings and he didn't understand the microphone, so I drew a good microphone and he still didn't get it. So I drew a person holding it and the mouth near it...nothing. I couldn't draw a video camera, so I went with a picture camera, which took a long time to guess, even though I thought with the presence of the eye and everything was quite good...nothing. So I drew a picture frame and he guessed picture which lead to camera which lead to microphone and then he was stuck again. I drew a vent and that was successful. Then I tried drawing a con so I went with a person in handcuffs going into a police car and he guessed everything but the word "con." So I tried use it's definition to get him to think of it, con meaning against. So I drew a ladder leaning against a wall, and a pole leaning against a wall, and a person leaning on someone's shoulder...nothing. Then I tried to point out that it was leaning against the wall. So I drew a lion, then a steak he was eating and he guessed it was meat. Then I drew a fat person, crossed out the fat and he guessed it was lean meat, then the link between leaning against and con were forgotten. So I drew professionals in baseball, football, a judge, going for the word professional, and he had learned when I X something out it meant the opposite of. The judge was apparently horribly rendered and he kept going with construction worker when I had clearly drawn a desk. Anyways, this was getting nowhere until magically he guessed it for the game winner! My mom had apparently had equal amounts of trouble guessing because my sister had thought a convent was a place you put criminals, and I had thought it was a place you put crazy people. So I had even drawn a jacket and made it straight and put a person in it and had them all going to a building and you can guess why this didn't work. It helps if you know the definition of the word. So what I learned from all this is that I suck, and my family sucks, and Cranium, and even despite the complete lack of adequacy we brought to the table, it was fun. Also, don't roll a green, because you'll get stuck on having to act out a person, like Joe Friday, who you've never heard of. For anyone who was out there wondering "I wonder if Casey would be a good partner for Cranium," now you know, the answer is most definitely not, but I will try if you want me to.
Anyways, gagne and I then played Super Smash Bros for a couple hours and we're a great matchup, and despite the competition we kept it lighthearted and lots of fun. Of course, a couple times he got embarrassed when I busted out indisputably the worst character in the game, JigglyPuff, and beat him once then beat him again in his rematch. It's hilarious because it's JigglyPuff and the character is so bad it shouldn't be able to come close to winning ever, let alone win. But I guess I mastered that thing enough that I took away most of his flaws and worked where he is okay at. Then we moved onto Halo2 at 10 and that was fun. Gagne is a good character because even though he didn't have a chance, he could laugh at his deaths. One game was 25-4, another 25-9, stuff like that. But given that I know the levels and he had forgotten, I had a big advantage. Then add in my ridiculous sniper skills/shots and it's a joke. We played a fun rockets game, and I taught him a couple things to help in multi games. In short, playing Halo2 is fun, yet I need to buy the original game. We talked a bit as he was leaving and he agreed to help set up Fruity Loops on my computer tomorrow, and I give him the money for the upgrade for the assistance, so we both benefit. And it turns out that he's free tomorrow, and he's never ever had a free day to my knowledge, so he's coming up tomorrow at 12, setting up FL and some other music and software he has, then we'll play raquetball at the Y. So tomorrow is automatic fun! And I get to start making music! Pluses! Cheer up!
Then we played Cranium, and as anyone knows, a game involving mom is never easy. It took us 10 times longer to explain the rules to her, because she is dense and easily confused and follows it up with an inability to listen after she asks a question. So both our teams sucked horribly: dad and I got stuck on a category that neither of us knew the person we were supposed to act out, and mom and cora were a sad sight, so the game was close. My mom does some very very funny acting though, her drawings are unrecognizable and thus funny, and she hums the tune to a different song. It's quite funny. After an hour and a half gagne showed up and took my dad's place and the game went about the same. For one of them I had to act out "cocktail dress." He guessed the dress quickly, but my acting of a cocktail wasn't coming close with the drink version, so I was forced to gesture and you can see where it worked. It wasn't my fault though, really. I did it for the good of the team. For the last question I had to draw a "convent" and gagne had to guess it before my mom could guess based on my sister's drawing. My art skills seriously lack, but I tried a lot of different ways to describe the word. First I went with drawing a convention in terms of the person talking and the room surroundings and he didn't understand the microphone, so I drew a good microphone and he still didn't get it. So I drew a person holding it and the mouth near it...nothing. I couldn't draw a video camera, so I went with a picture camera, which took a long time to guess, even though I thought with the presence of the eye and everything was quite good...nothing. So I drew a picture frame and he guessed picture which lead to camera which lead to microphone and then he was stuck again. I drew a vent and that was successful. Then I tried drawing a con so I went with a person in handcuffs going into a police car and he guessed everything but the word "con." So I tried use it's definition to get him to think of it, con meaning against. So I drew a ladder leaning against a wall, and a pole leaning against a wall, and a person leaning on someone's shoulder...nothing. Then I tried to point out that it was leaning against the wall. So I drew a lion, then a steak he was eating and he guessed it was meat. Then I drew a fat person, crossed out the fat and he guessed it was lean meat, then the link between leaning against and con were forgotten. So I drew professionals in baseball, football, a judge, going for the word professional, and he had learned when I X something out it meant the opposite of. The judge was apparently horribly rendered and he kept going with construction worker when I had clearly drawn a desk. Anyways, this was getting nowhere until magically he guessed it for the game winner! My mom had apparently had equal amounts of trouble guessing because my sister had thought a convent was a place you put criminals, and I had thought it was a place you put crazy people. So I had even drawn a jacket and made it straight and put a person in it and had them all going to a building and you can guess why this didn't work. It helps if you know the definition of the word. So what I learned from all this is that I suck, and my family sucks, and Cranium, and even despite the complete lack of adequacy we brought to the table, it was fun. Also, don't roll a green, because you'll get stuck on having to act out a person, like Joe Friday, who you've never heard of. For anyone who was out there wondering "I wonder if Casey would be a good partner for Cranium," now you know, the answer is most definitely not, but I will try if you want me to.
Anyways, gagne and I then played Super Smash Bros for a couple hours and we're a great matchup, and despite the competition we kept it lighthearted and lots of fun. Of course, a couple times he got embarrassed when I busted out indisputably the worst character in the game, JigglyPuff, and beat him once then beat him again in his rematch. It's hilarious because it's JigglyPuff and the character is so bad it shouldn't be able to come close to winning ever, let alone win. But I guess I mastered that thing enough that I took away most of his flaws and worked where he is okay at. Then we moved onto Halo2 at 10 and that was fun. Gagne is a good character because even though he didn't have a chance, he could laugh at his deaths. One game was 25-4, another 25-9, stuff like that. But given that I know the levels and he had forgotten, I had a big advantage. Then add in my ridiculous sniper skills/shots and it's a joke. We played a fun rockets game, and I taught him a couple things to help in multi games. In short, playing Halo2 is fun, yet I need to buy the original game. We talked a bit as he was leaving and he agreed to help set up Fruity Loops on my computer tomorrow, and I give him the money for the upgrade for the assistance, so we both benefit. And it turns out that he's free tomorrow, and he's never ever had a free day to my knowledge, so he's coming up tomorrow at 12, setting up FL and some other music and software he has, then we'll play raquetball at the Y. So tomorrow is automatic fun! And I get to start making music! Pluses! Cheer up!
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