Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Blog

The lone trivializer.

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My sister Jacqui and her family, along with the folks and I, had a little early Christmas at my niece's house today. It was so nice, so relaxed and low-key. Pumpkin pie. Chili. A really good time. Plus, there were presents and I didn't think there would be.

I only ended up saving three sheets of tissue paper, otherwise, we wastefully trashed the rest. In my family history I have the memory of my mother saving every sheet -- "don't tear that paper!!!!" -- and ironing it the next day before folding it into a box to reuse for the next eight years.

Moving past this....

My niece got me this: Trivial Pursuit Scratch and Play.

I love playing Trivial Pursuit, the original, navy-blue boxed, out-when-the-craze-struck, genius edition game. I know there's a million other varieties, but I'm talking the original game that came out -- I am a fanatic about playing it.

No one -- NO ONE AT ALL -- will play it with me.

"What game should we play?"
"Let's play Trivial Pursuit!"
"No. I'm not playing that with you."

There is a family legend of sorts that suggests that I'm so smart, I will always win at that game. Here is my secret: I don't know if I've ever won at that game. I know hardly any of the answers! I know nothing! I'm a complete blow-hard! And yet, somehow, I've fooled everyone.

No one will play the original Pictionary with me, either, which is my second favorite game. Life is full of disappointments.

Anyway, back to my gift. Essentially, I can now play Trivial Pursuit with myself! This is the perfect gift. I'm almost rabid over it, but I am determined to not use it until I go to Nicaragua and have flights and layovers with time to kill. We're talking tough questions that I'm going to sweat over. Fabulous!

My sister and niece also got me gift cards to the bookstore (woo hoo!) and Old Navy (annoying music, but comfy, cheap clothes! another woo hoo!), and a cookbook. My parents received some good South Beach Diet books, and a really cool book on the history of the west which I might sort of sneak away from my father when he's not looking.

My also brother-in-law gave me a little cat-themed frame ornament. As I looked at the ornament and thought how cute it was, I briefly noticed the filler photo inside and thought "That is one ugly-looking cat. Why in the world would they use that as the filler photo?"

As it turns out, it was Brutus, my cat, after we'd clipped all his hair off this past Thanksgiving.

The ornament is hung. The Trivial Pursuit book is calling me. And I'm off to bed. This was, in the scheme of things, a Trivial Post.

Labels: brutus, christmas, family

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4 Comments:

Here's the thing about Trivial Pursuit: You need at least three people to make it really fun. Even so, I'd play it with you. Pictionary too!

There's a game I have called Encore which is sort of Outburst but with songs. No one will play that with me.

By Jim, at 23/12/07 10:21