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sleepy halloween
There was a Halloween party (really a board games day) at my house today.
I woke up with a splitting headache and it was pretty awful. DJ was the first person to show up at 2:30 or so anyway. We worked on decorating stuff for a bit longer and then started games.
In attendance were:
Me (dressed as a pirate), Brian (dressed as a female vampire), Drew (dressed as the monk of canon), Mike (dressed as a karate kid), Edgars (dressed as something medieval-ish), Edgars's Megan (with fangs), Cory (with a spider on his head), Heidi (with a mask), Josh, Megan, Eli, Justin, Deb, DJ, Jarrett, Lahut, Casey, Jack, Kevin B, and Kevin's Michelle. I think that's it. Oh, right, Brian Y showed up with his friends Susie and John, except John turned out to be Safety Monkey from Penny Arcade, and boy is he rude. Yeah.
I played some Carcassonne, and some Great Dalmuti, and some Ricochet Robot, but other than that I stayed out of games, due to wanting to be hostess-twinkie-like. Josh ran a whole bunch of Halloween-themed games he brought. Puerto Rico was played on the floor at one point, and Starfarers of Catan, and Settlers, and Go, and Maul of America, and various other games I honestly lost track of.
We had Pagliacci's pizza for dinner. It's really good. It's the closest thing to New York pizza I've had in Seattle. I'd had it once before but I honestly forgot.
I made people eat pumpkin pie. And there were snacks and stuff, and I also sent everyone home with candy because hey, Halloween party, must have candy. I gave the prizes for best costume to Brian and Drew. Brian got the vampire puppet and Drew got the talking pumpkin head. We took a whole bunch of pictures of people and stuff. So I should have a pirate picture at some point. It was fun to yell "YARRR!" a lot and have people think "oh how cute, she's in character" not "what a freak."
thoughts in no particular order:
I really, really like hanging out with Casey. Wish I saw him more.
Drew and I have to go to Cheesecake Factory sometime.
Jack lives a lot closer now! We're hoping to find a brass band to play in sometime, since neither of us want to go back to Olympia for drum corps.
I'm really happy for Edgars... he has a girlfriend AND he seems to have a lot better handle on what the heck he's doing with school and life than last time I talked to him.
I got really burned out trying not to tell Safety Monkey to get the fuck out of my house. I mean, he was just picking on EVERYTHING in my house... I'm sorry, you don't get to pretend you're a gamer nerd AND make fun of games like you're some sort of non-gamer-nerd. And *nobody* disses my Japanese PHB and gets away with it. (Brian claims that it was his way of being impressed with my nerdy godliness, but I think there are a lot better ways to do so.)
Spider webs are hard to put up. They look cool with devil ducks in them. Go Eli! We're gonna leave the big plastic spider dude up for a few days I think.
Kevin Babbitt's girlfriend Michelle is way cool, and I'm hoping to catch the two of them some other time, maybe next time Brian and Dave and I do dinner circle or something.
I wish I felt more charged by people, like I used to. I just feel so totally burnt out by everything, and I don't know why, or what's wrong with me.
All in all though, it was a pretty successful party. We need more chairs.
I love daylight savings, but it's totally time for sleep. I have to go to work tomorrow, sigh.
I woke up with a splitting headache and it was pretty awful. DJ was the first person to show up at 2:30 or so anyway. We worked on decorating stuff for a bit longer and then started games.
In attendance were:
Me (dressed as a pirate), Brian (dressed as a female vampire), Drew (dressed as the monk of canon), Mike (dressed as a karate kid), Edgars (dressed as something medieval-ish), Edgars's Megan (with fangs), Cory (with a spider on his head), Heidi (with a mask), Josh, Megan, Eli, Justin, Deb, DJ, Jarrett, Lahut, Casey, Jack, Kevin B, and Kevin's Michelle. I think that's it. Oh, right, Brian Y showed up with his friends Susie and John, except John turned out to be Safety Monkey from Penny Arcade, and boy is he rude. Yeah.
I played some Carcassonne, and some Great Dalmuti, and some Ricochet Robot, but other than that I stayed out of games, due to wanting to be hostess-twinkie-like. Josh ran a whole bunch of Halloween-themed games he brought. Puerto Rico was played on the floor at one point, and Starfarers of Catan, and Settlers, and Go, and Maul of America, and various other games I honestly lost track of.
We had Pagliacci's pizza for dinner. It's really good. It's the closest thing to New York pizza I've had in Seattle. I'd had it once before but I honestly forgot.
I made people eat pumpkin pie. And there were snacks and stuff, and I also sent everyone home with candy because hey, Halloween party, must have candy. I gave the prizes for best costume to Brian and Drew. Brian got the vampire puppet and Drew got the talking pumpkin head. We took a whole bunch of pictures of people and stuff. So I should have a pirate picture at some point. It was fun to yell "YARRR!" a lot and have people think "oh how cute, she's in character" not "what a freak."
thoughts in no particular order:
I really, really like hanging out with Casey. Wish I saw him more.
Drew and I have to go to Cheesecake Factory sometime.
Jack lives a lot closer now! We're hoping to find a brass band to play in sometime, since neither of us want to go back to Olympia for drum corps.
I'm really happy for Edgars... he has a girlfriend AND he seems to have a lot better handle on what the heck he's doing with school and life than last time I talked to him.
I got really burned out trying not to tell Safety Monkey to get the fuck out of my house. I mean, he was just picking on EVERYTHING in my house... I'm sorry, you don't get to pretend you're a gamer nerd AND make fun of games like you're some sort of non-gamer-nerd. And *nobody* disses my Japanese PHB and gets away with it. (Brian claims that it was his way of being impressed with my nerdy godliness, but I think there are a lot better ways to do so.)
Spider webs are hard to put up. They look cool with devil ducks in them. Go Eli! We're gonna leave the big plastic spider dude up for a few days I think.
Kevin Babbitt's girlfriend Michelle is way cool, and I'm hoping to catch the two of them some other time, maybe next time Brian and Dave and I do dinner circle or something.
I wish I felt more charged by people, like I used to. I just feel so totally burnt out by everything, and I don't know why, or what's wrong with me.
All in all though, it was a pretty successful party. We need more chairs.
I love daylight savings, but it's totally time for sleep. I have to go to work tomorrow, sigh.
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Try Northlake Pizza House/Tavern, best pizza you'll ever have.
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Pizza's a very "personal taste" thing, I guess. I like Atlantic Street Pizza better.