Sucking down coffee faster than you can say "I love Starbucks!"

This past Wednesday saw the family through a major, life-altering event . The Attorney, who we've all come to know and love, turned Fifty. I feel the importance of this monumental occasion calls for capitalization. Yes, she turned Fifty. And she is going to beat me no less than fifty times when she reads this.

In celebration, Teeter and her army made the trip from Utah and we've spent the last two nights staying up way too late playing Drabble.

Why we play this game, I have no idea. We're all much too passionate and sensitive and always, at least once, get angry and fight. The Attorney is very good, so she spends the majority of her time making us feel bad about ourselves and humming the Jeopardy theme song. Teeter scores high points with words like "Ya" and "Et," the loser. (Did you know "et" is a past-tense of "ate"? Go ahead and use it in a sentence. I dare ya!)

I'm not very good at scrabble. I think I've mentioned that before. The letters jumble around in my brain and it's hard for me to sort them out and make words.

However, I realized last night that I am the ultimate clutch scrabble player. Towards the end of the game, when there were no letters left to choose from and everyone only had vowels and Z's to work with, I was able to create words with carefully placed O's and I's that made two to three words at a time, earning me 10-20 points each turn when everyone else was only scoring 3, 4, and 5 points. No, I didn't win and, in fact, came in third (Teeter and The Attorney were nice enough to remind me of this fact multiple times), but I think I did damn good there in the end.

All I have to say is thank God tomorrow's Saturday and we all get to sleep in. Well, almost all of us. Teeter will be making the long journey back to Utah, which I believe means "Death by 120 Degree Heat" or something like that.


(On a side note: I just ran this post through a spell check and I want everyone to know that "ya" was not recognized as a word!!! T, you cheated!!!)