Its Game Time

Tonight's post is meant to be a little fun. We are going to play a game. Haven't we always played games? Didn't we just play a little game before we hung up the phone? (The how many episodes game we played). I think playing games has always been one of those cool things we have always done together.

So how about our "game history".

Let's start with really our marital launch game. You know the time I beat you at thumb wrestling. It is a game right?

We have also had the silly games. How about the rhyming game we played so many times? There were times we would go on for about an hour matching each others words with rhyming words. Trying to keep the in context. Hoping the other wouldn't use the only remaining rhyming word we had left in our arsenal. It was such a fun way for two broke married kids to kill time.

An even sillier game - an one I really never liked playing by the way - was good old "trusting titty". I should have seen your strong desire to cause me pain way back then. But you hid it in this "oh so fun for us both" game. Oh the tension of it all. I am pretty sure you always win at this game.

Remember when we used to play a ton of "hang man". What a great way to kill time together.

Then there was the infamously long games of 500 Rummy. So many cards on the table. Trying not to get caught with a ton of pints in your hand. You may not remember, but once we played a hand that seemed like it would never end. Like neither of us would ever get to 500. I am sure that I was hoping to get to the end of the game so we could go have .... well you know.

Then I really did it and taught you how to play Gin Rummy. You went from "I don't like this game as much as the other" to continuously kicking my ass every time we played. Your uncanny ability to always go for gin drove me nuts for years. It goes against everything my grandmother taught me about the game. It still drives me nuts that you can beat me so regularly yet still have to ask me if the ace is high or low right before the first hand. That you learned to be so good so quickly is quite impressive.

How about Scrabble? We even went out and got a Scrabble dictionary to settle our word debates. You kill me in that game. Every time. Well almost every time. Remember when those invisible gnomes "flipped" the board right before my soon to be first ever win? I think the most fun you have at Scrabble is puring through the old score sheets we keep in the box for some reason. Historic reminders of how you kick my butt.

With that in mind how about the litany of different old scores sheets for whatever games we have played that have silly names at the top of them. Things like "stupid husband" or "sexy wife" or whatever made us smile at the time.

We had spells of Boggle and that other word game too.

Lisa and Eric are of friends pretty much because they play games with us. We have played many a game of Scattegories, Men vs Women (or whatever it is called), Pictionary, VH1 Trivia and a variety of others with them. We usually ended up really drunk, but we always had a good time.

Now you play a lot of games on your own. Keeps your mind sharp I imagine. Soduku, Snood, Solitaire (which was more fun when we used to use real cards - remember?) and a whole bunch more. We have had so much fun together in the past 20 years. I seriously doubt that most couples spent this kind of time together. Of course most are not as competitive as we are either. We both like to win. However you always seem to win.

So there you have it 20 years of game playing fun. From the very first minute of our marriage to now. It has been a constant in our relationship. You beat me at everything. Well wait a minute...I do beat you at one game more often than not. How about some Paper, Rock Scissors this weekend?

I love you so much and love the fun we have together. It is really just another reason for us to spend time together isn't it? I'd rather spend time with you than anyone in the world. Why not have my butt kicked in game or two while I spend that time with you.

I love you more than anything in the world.