Game Night.... Not.

Three. Count em.  One, Two, Three days in a row.
To quote one Ron Stoppable, "Boo-yah!"

I am up in the Mountains with my family currently.
Like, we're staying in a cabin. In the woods. There are other houses around us so it's not super creepy, but it's still pretty isolated.  But the cabin/house thing is huge.  And has awesome furnishings.  I posted a picture of the bed I'm sleeping in on twitter last night.  Mega-awesome.
We're up here, all eleven of us, because we're celebrating my mom's and grandma's birthday as well as Easter.  Which is today.
pause thought.
HAPPY EASTER!!!!  Jesus loves you. :) Very much.  He loves me too, which is awesome because I know I don't deserve it.  The whole grace thing blows my mind.  So yeah.  Jesus really loves you.  Just in case you needed reminding or didn't already know.  Yay!
unpause thought.
So it's a family mini vacation of sorts.  And so for the whole weekend we're just spending time together as a family.  For Grandma essentially.  However, today I got quite frustrated due to the fact our 'family time' is really just us involved with various electronic gadgets in different corners of the house.  We have ipads, computers, nooks, xbox, television, and ipods.  And then if we weren't on those we were napping or reading (the reading was really just me and Tabitha... we kind of do that alot).  We did manage to get out of the house for about three-ish hours and visit the little town about five miles away.  And even then half of us were on our phones.  It's a face palm moment everyone.
Then tonight occurred.  We eat this awesome dinner, my favorite meal actually- spaghetti with brown butter and Mizithra- it's a dish from the Spaghetti factory that my mom perfected.  My goodness it is beyond delicious.  Anyway, afterwards we have cake; people open presents.  All that jazz.  And then I'm expecting to play some games.  It's tradition after all.  There's nothing we like to do more than play some good old card games... or at least something.  But what did we all do instead?
Sat in front of the television and watched YouTube clips.  Not. Even. Joking.
All eleven of us.

I mentioned playing games.  I even chose one and said we should totally play!  And a few people nodded and then we went back to watching clips.
I wanted. to pull out. my hair.
So today is a new day.  I WILL play games with my family.  I don't care if it's just me and Grandma sitting at the table playing go-fish.  It's going to happen darn it.
That is pretty much all for now I guess.  I do want to add that both sides of my family, I'm with my dad's side currently, play board/card games together.  We enjoy it.  But I will say that my mother's side of the family .... well we would never ever ever ever have sat down in front of the TV and watched anything.  We would be duking it out over cards or some wacky game where you have to name three state capitals in five seconds or something.  And it can get a bit intense, because we have a healthy amount of competition running through our veins.  So sometimes things like this almost happen:

So as crazy as it seems.  That's what I want tomorrow.  Fun, laugh out loud, family games.  And if not I'm willing to purchase water balloons and throw 'em at everyone.
Just saying.
Thanks for reading, and again, Happy Easter!!!

52-Week Challenge

My fish doesn't like me.  I've been told beta fish are fickle like that.  Mr. Darcy seriously doesn't like me though.  Don't know why.  I gave him a castle for crying out loud.  No one's given me a castle.

I watch him do his exercises about his tank... swimming up, down, backwards, forwards.  If I had his dedication I'd be down to a size six by now.  Not that he has much else to do.  Maybe that's why he's always pissed.  But I still love him just the same.  Even when he hides from me and doesn't eat.  He'll come around eventually.  Either that or die.  I really hope he doesn't die.  That wouldn't go over well with me.

Moving on.  I recently, like five minutes ago, read two blogs by two of my closest friends: Cynthia and Megan.  They were both titled: 52-week Challenge (haha kind of like mine...).  Now, seeing as both of these lovely ladies are two of the most inspiring women I know I figure... what the hey.  I'll jump on this challenge bandwagon.  

What is it?  

It pretty much requires me to do something new every week for the entire year.  So by the end of the year I will have done 52 new things.  As Cynthia said, "They can be as simple as trying a new food for the first time or as exciting as sky diving."  That's literally what she wrote.  I just copy and pasted.  I'd be all for sky-diving by the way.  Just throwing that out there.  

Why?  

Because I figure a) I'm not going to be getting any younger.  b) It will hopefully get me out of my comfort zone at least a few times.  and c) Why not?  Who knows how I'll grow and what I'll learn from these new experiences.  I'm excited.

When is it?

Every week silly! And I'll be updating you as my 'new' things occur.  I have absolutely no idea what they will entail.  But I think I might start making more lists... just to be ready.

Those are all the W's you're getting.  So now my new year's resolutions have grown to 8 things now.  I'm giving myself till January 15 to finalize them all.  More lists!  I have an issue.  

I must get ready for work now.  Have a simply fabulous day and God Bless!