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Playing the cards
Six days and a wake up until I can kiss 27 goodbye. Forever.
Wow, I make it seem like my 27th year sucked. It actually didn’t. Lots of things happened. Like my promotion, failing the GMAT, starting grad school and all of that other stuff.
Whoa, did I really fail and GMAT last year? It seems like it was longer ago. Hum. Funny how that happens.
Yesterday I attended my first funeral ever. It was for the grandmother of a friend who lived to the ripe old age of 71. The service itself was actually kind of entertaining. They had sung a couple of her favorite songs and let’s just say it kind of turned into a concert. My mom and I couldn’t stop giggling. Though I will say that I was kind of annoyed at some of the little kids that were present. I’m just saying, unless its immediate family, maybe smaller children shouldn’t attend. They were noisy and one of them started complaining about getting in trouble during the prayer! I mean, really? It was so distracting.
One thing I’m glad about though: that my church does not have wooden pews. Yeow my butt hurt after a while. I kept fidgeting just so I could try to keep my bottom from falling asleep.
To be honest, when I wasn’t staring at the unruly kids [and wondering how the other Pastor that was supposed to be leading a prayer could be late. I’m serious! He was 30 minutes late!] I was trying not to stare at her body. I was kind of fascinated yet scared. So much so that I declined the chance to have my final viewing. I really didn’t feel comfortable being any closer than I already was. Being in the same room already gave me the heebie-jeebies.
I am super mature, I know. Though I did handle that decision a lot better than a certain someone who will remain nameless.
Afterwards, I went to the family’s house for the repast later that afternoon and it was great spending time with them. You could hear the laughter and love that filled the house and can I say that I had the pleasure of watching the most epic game of Spades ever.
So I decided that maybe I should finally really learn how to play Spades. I was watching two very animated games and while I did pick up on the nuance and general rules of the game, I’m still a little hesitant to play with the good players. Players like my aunts and grandmother. They are cutthroat. Especially my grandmom. Seriously, sometimes I think she’d reach across and cut her partner if they had mistakenly cut her card again [my Aunt Nita is notorious for that].
I think I may be one of the few women on that side of the family who DOESN’T play Spades. I actually had my relation doubted because of that. It’s that serious.
I know Spades are the highest, and then is the order hearts, clubs and diamonds? Or does it not really matter? I know you can’t use another card unless you’re completely out of the played card, less you renege, which was the source of controversy during last night’s epic take down of the dominant team. Oh the howling and yelling that started. Of course the offending player was adamant that they didn’t renege or cheat and it wasn’t until after the losing team “accepted” the loss that the other player’s partner finally admit that the teammate had in fact reneged. I mean, we ALL knew what happened. Hilarious. Completely hilarious.
Since I come from a family of cutthroat Spades players, I tend to bow out and just watch from the safety of the sidelines. Maybe at the next function I’ll get enough guts to actually sit down and play.
Apparently according to my future cousin-in-law, I’ll have to do so in order to join her family.
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