Holly's Housewarming
Silly
great! Her house is lovely, and they've put a LOT of work into
it! (She presented a typed list of all they've done, and it was
beyond impressive!)
I got to meet Holly and Ken (of course), Karin and Cade, Heather
and Mike, and Jan and Drew. (Miriam was there earlier, but I
missed her.) What a blast! It was fun putting faces and real-
life personalities to the names I've known for a while now. For
some reason, I had a picture of Holly in my head as a dark
brunette (she's a redhead), but when I saw her, I knew I'd seen
pictures of her, so it was just my silly little brain. Probably
because my step-sister-in-law's name is Holly, and she's a dark
brunette. Karin, Cade, Heather, and Mike left after I'd been
there for an hour or so, but Jan and Drew stuck it out to the
end, as did I. There were a few of Holly and Ken's friends from
the choral group there, too, and we played Boggle. Holly kicked
butt! (All that Tangleword, she says.) I'm very much looking
forward to March 26th, and seeing these people again and meeting
more!
Shawna
(Oh, and DH wants to know if any of you were taken aback by my
height.)
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Miriam Lewis
<silly2N...@goplay.com.invalid> wrote:
> Well, Holly's housewarming party was last night, and it was
> great! Her house is lovely, and they've put a LOT of work into
> it! (She presented a typed list of all they've done, and it was
> beyond impressive!)
I second your comments. I was sorry to not be able to stay long but the
baby-meter was running. The house was great--I loved the colors and all
the details--leaves, frogs, etc. I've always been impressed by Holly's
organizational ability as evidenced in her posts and for her, it carries
over into real life.
I was also glad to meet Karin and Cade and Heather and Mike. It's nice
to put faces to the names I see on the group and I look forward to
meeting more of the Bay Area people in March.
P.S. Holly, I loved the cookies in the shapes of houses and tools and
those cakes in the shape of houses. Too cool.
Miriam
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and unconvincing narrative." --The Mikado
HollyLewis
I do have to say that Ken and I unfortunately did not do a good job of keeping
track of who all brought us wine and flowers, so if you did, thank you. :-) I
do know that Shawna brought yummy food and there were no leftovers, which
demonstrates how terrific it was!
Were we supposed to be taken aback by your height, Shawna? I didn't
particularly notice. :-)
Holly (who is really enjoying a very laid-back Sunday now that there is no
multi-page house 'to do' list hanging over her head)
Silly
(especially if they only know me from the internet where I'm
just a 12-point font :-) ).
Shawna
aMAZon
Silly wrote:
>
> Well, I am six feet tall, so some people are surprised
> (especially if they only know me from the internet where I'm
> just a 12-point font :-) ).
>
> Shawna
Thanks for putting that in perspective, Shawna! I appreciate being a
"petite" 12-point font! <grin>
--
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"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
Karin Lin
> In article <1f9e2c40...@usw-ex0103-024.remarq.com>, Silly
> <silly2N...@goplay.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Well, Holly's housewarming party was last night, and it was
> > great! Her house is lovely, and they've put a LOT of work into
> > it! (She presented a typed list of all they've done, and it was
> > beyond impressive!)
I missed the beginning of this thread, so I'll have to piggyback, but
I third these comments! It was great meeting you guys, and I'm looking
forward to seeing you all again in March (especially Jan, whom I didn't get
to talk to much).
Honestly, Shawna, I didn't notice your height at all, but that's probably
'cause when you were standing up I was sitting down and EVERYONE looked
tall, and when you were sitting down I couldn't tell. :)
> I second your comments. I was sorry to not be able to stay long but the
> baby-meter was running. The house was great--I loved the colors and all
> the details--leaves, frogs, etc. I've always been impressed by Holly's
> organizational ability as evidenced in her posts and for her, it carries
> over into real life.
Yeah, Holly's house looked almost exactly like I'd expected; lots of
character but not weird. The colors were great! Now Cade's thinking that
we can repaint our rec room a wilder color than the boring off-white we
were planning to use, after seeing how neat all the green and blue in
Holly's house was. In any case, Holly, you've definitely inspired us to
tackle the long overdue projects on our own house!
Karin
Mike and Heather Oviatt
Holly and Ken's party, and I think Mike did too.
Holly's house looked absolutely great! It made me want to get into our
own house even more, but it will be awhile before that happens.
Shawna, I don't think I was taken aback by your height, but then Mike
always says that I am very bad at noticing things, even things that are
right in front of me.
Heather
TracyZ
>I second your comments. I was sorry to not be able to stay long
but the
>baby-meter was running. The house was great--I loved the colors
and all
>the details--leaves, frogs, etc. I've always been impressed by
Holly's
>organizational ability as evidenced in her posts and for her,
it carries
>over into real life.
Okay, I've got to know, where are the frogs? I'm imagining
stencilled or stamped frogs as a border or around the top of a
doorway. Sooooo Cool! I love detailed stuff like that.
Tracy
Karen Simmons
> and all the details--leaves, frogs, etc.
Ok - now I'm dying! Holly, post pictures? Please? I'd love to see.
Karen
Vicky Larmour
>Silly wrote:
>>
>> Well, I am six feet tall, so some people are surprised
>> (especially if they only know me from the internet where I'm
>> just a 12-point font :-) ).
>
>"petite" 12-point font! <grin>
You're both (and everyone else) only 10 point fonts on my screen - even
more petite! :-)
Vicky, 5'10" in real life
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Silly
the house a little bit. The entry, living room, dining room,
and kitchen were all painted mainly seafoam green. There were
accents of a pastel blue, like on the three "bumped out" walls
in the dining room and the walls on either side of the section
above the fireplace in the living room (did that make any
sense?). There are arches separating the living/dining and
dining/kitchen. All the floors are hardwood, except the
kitchen, which is tile. Holly and Ken's room is sponge painted
with blues and greens. The other bedroom (the kids' room, even
though they have no kids--it's got toys and books, etc.) is a
peachy color. There's an office in the back that is kind of
like a walled-in porch, and it's done in really vibrant blue and
green. The handles on the cupboards are really neat, one was a
frog, and I'm not sure if the others were all frogs too or if
they were different. But the coolest room, IMO, is the
bathroom. IIRC, the walls are white (which makes sense in such
a small room), but around the top, there are stenciled/stamped
leaves in a couple of shades of fairly dark green. The shower
curtain was also dark green, and the bath rug is white with
green leaves to match the border. I didn't go into the bathroom
(I have a bladder of steel), so I only saw it from the doorway.
I'm sure Holly will elaborate, and I hope she does have
pictures, but there's the perspective of someone who didn't
actually do all the work, anyway!
Shawna
Liz Nyman
I must say, that I would LOVE to go out somewhere with another 6 ft-er,
LOL. Seems that *we* are few and far between.
Liz
Silly wrote:
>
> Well, I am six feet tall, so some people are surprised
> (especially if they only know me from the internet where I'm
> just a 12-point font :-) ).
>
HollyLewis
>> and all the details--leaves, frogs, etc.
>
>Ok - now I'm dying! Holly, post pictures? Please? I'd love to see.
>
We do have a pretty good digital photo of the bathroom...I am going right now
to remind DH to email it to me and I will try to figure out how to post it
somewhere.
The frogs are in the kitchen, and there's no painted border or anything there.
But, well, we started with a Kermit the Frog cookie jar, which was a wedding
present. In the new house we just decided to have frogs in the kitchen. There
are frog-shaped hooks (with potholders on them), a beanbag frog on the baker's
rack behind the table, a floating-frog soap dispenser by the sink (you know
those kind that have been everywhere this year with rubber duckies and dolphins
and whatall "floating" on a layer of brightly-colored thick liquid), and a frog
clock that croaks on the hour. I'm sure we'll accumulate more frog things as
time goes by, as that's how these things usually work. :-)
Holly
HollyLewis
>The entry, living room, dining room,
>and kitchen were all painted mainly seafoam green. There were
>accents of a pastel blue, like on the three "bumped out" walls
>in the dining room and the walls on either side of the section
>above the fireplace in the living room (did that make any
>sense?).
I'd call it a medium blue rather than pastel, somewhere between turquoise and
denim. But yes, the dining room buffet is called a bump-out. The section in
the living room would ordinarily be called a chimney. :-) Or, we have a blue
innie and a blue outie. :-D
And the kitchen isn't the same color as the front rooms. It's blue, sort of a
robin's egg blue. Well, a lighter shade, but that hue. Just enough turquoise
to it to go with all the greens. :-) Accent colors in the kitchen (via things
like dishtowels, mostly, and all the frog stuff) are lime green and bright
sunny yellow. Who was it that had a "Kermit green" jacket? That would
coordinate perfectly. :-)
>Holly and Ken's room is sponge painted
>with blues and greens.
Actually, there's no blue. It's primarily green -- a fairly limey green which
would be way too vivid if it weren't sponge painted and thus rather sheer --
with a sandy orange/gold as the second color. The comforter cover is navy
blue, so maybe that's why you remembered blue. The bedroom is really the least
coordinated room in the house, what with one navy/forest/flag gold/red/burgundy
striped rug, one lime/yellow/red/orange/purple striped rug, oak and white
furniture, a red chair, a purple laundry hamper and no doors on the clothes
closet (had to take 'em off because they were bifold style and our furniture
would block them from opening). We'll be trying to improve that situation as
we find replacements for some of the furniture, come up with the money to re-do
the closet, etc.
The other bedroom (the kids' room, even
>though they have no kids--it's got toys and books, etc.) is a
>peachy color.
I've always described it as apricot, but hey, it's all fruit.
> There's an office in the back that is kind of
>like a walled-in porch, and it's done in really vibrant blue and
>green. The handles on the cupboards are really neat, one was a
>frog, and I'm not sure if the others were all frogs too or if
>they were different.
Two frogs, two fish. Royal blue, like the trim. Walls and cabinet doors in
teal.
> But the coolest room, IMO, is the
>bathroom.
I'll post a picture. Gotta get DH to send it to me. The floor in there is
brown tile, not really very attractive, but it did suggest "forest floor"
(i.e., dirt!) so it works with the leaves.
The kitchen and dining room cabinets are oak, like the floors -- the kitchen
countertop is white ceramic tile -- and the bathroom has a lot of oak --
cabinet pulls, medicine cabinet frame, etc. -- on white cabinets, countertop
and fixtures. In fact, it was all the oak that inspired us to do leaves.
Anyway. All the painted trim (including the large mantel and built-in
bookcases in the living room), doors and wood window frames throughout the
house are now white. White-white, not off-white. It was amazing what a
difference it made in our leetle bathroom to go from beigey off-white to true
white. Much lighter and brighter, even with all the dark green.
Well, I'm glad if I am an inspiration to you other homeowners, and as I said,
we're not hiring out to paint other people's houses but the
don't-make-the-mistakes-we-did advice is free. :-)
Holly
HollyLewis
>always says that I am very bad at noticing things, even things that are
>right in front of me.
Or above you, as the case may be. ;-)
Holly
Jan A. Cordes
late as to nearly miss Heather and Karin who were on their way out.
We got to spend lots of time with Shawna though and that was good.
BTW, Shawna, I didn't occur to me to be surprised by your height.
I was just so amazed that I knew who you were immediately anything
else flew right by me.
Holly's house is great. We're very envious of how quickly they got
so much done. We've had our house almost two years and really haven't
done much of anything in it. Holly and Ken's list of house chores was
pages long. We're in complete awe of the two of them.
Jan
P.S. I loved the Frog clock. I want one of those with cat sounds now.
I also loved the blue shelf in the kid's room and wish my bathroom
was as nicely decorated. That leaf pattern is so cool and puts
our old shell stuff (done by original owner) to shame.
Mike and Heather Oviatt <vad...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
: I also had a great time meeting the folks from the group who made it to
: Holly and Ken's party, and I think Mike did too.
: Holly's house looked absolutely great! It made me want to get into our
: own house even more, but it will be awhile before that happens.
: Shawna, I don't think I was taken aback by your height, but then Mike
: always says that I am very bad at noticing things, even things that are
: right in front of me.
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HollyLewis
>character but not weird.
LOL. That's about how you would probably have described our W****** also, I
guess. I consider it a compliment. :-)
I used to joke about how I wanted to buy a button that said "Subvert the
Dominant Paradigm" but didn't because they were red and white and those colors
wouldn't go with my clothes. (I eventually did buy one, when I found it in
purple and yellow!)
The colors were great! Now Cade's thinking that
>we can repaint our rec room a wilder color than the boring off-white we
>were planning to use
Hey, go for lavender! :-)
Holly
HollyLewis
>
>
AOL is so proud of me. I've set up one of its goofy homepages with a photo of
the bathroom. Check it out.
http://hometown.aol.com/hollylewis/myhomepage/photo.html
Holly
Karen Simmons
> AOL is so proud of me. I've set up one of its goofy homepages with
> a photo of the bathroom. Check it out.
> http://hometown.aol.com/hollylewis/myhomepage/photo.html
LOL. Very cool. I love the border. A few years ago Kevin's mom gave
us a soap dispenser, a toothbrush holder, and some other bathroom stuff
made by a local potter in Ponchatoula. This woman uses oak, maple, and
ash leaves to form the clay and then she glazes around them - it's very
neat looking. So I have a matching shower curtain that has the same
leaves in it - all in browns and creams, tho. This type of stenciled
border would fit just right in a bathroom for us - one of these days
when we have a house to paint the way we want!
Now we just need photos of all the rest! *grin*
Karen
Vicky Larmour
wrote:
>colors in the kitchen (via things like dishtowels, mostly, and all
>the frog stuff) are lime green and bright sunny yellow. Who was it
>that had a "Kermit green" jacket? That would coordinate perfectly.
>:-)
That would be me. I'll have to wear it if I ever actually make it over
the US, just so I can come and visit you and blend in nicely with your
decor :-)
Your house sounds *really* lovely - all that hard work has really paid
off!
Vicky
KathyK
"Jan A. Cordes" <j...@netcom3.netcom.com> wrote:
> Holly's house is great. We're very envious of how quickly they got
> so much done. We've had our house almost two years and really haven't
> done much of anything in it. Holly and Ken's list of house chores was
> pages long. We're in complete awe of the two of them.
>
> Jan
>
> P.S. I loved the Frog clock. I want one of those with cat sounds
now.
>
Holly's house sounds wonderful... it makes me feel bad that we haven't
done a bit of decorating in ours yet (except for the bathrooms). I had
all sorts of elaborate plans for the week that I took off from work (I
was going to be making curtains while Stan put up the hardware), but
the delays and poor customer service put us way begind schedule on the
simple task of moving in/cleaning out the apartment, so nothing was
done.
Anyhow... I've never seen a frog clock, but we have a bird clock and a
Christmas Carol clock (we only use one at a time). We were away for
the weekend a couple of weeks ago, and my sister was checking on the
cat. Well, it chimed the hour just as my sister opened the door, and
she thought that it was a burgular alarm. Some of those birds sound
just awful. At my CM workshop the other day, people nearly jumped out
of their seats everytime the birds went off on the hour. I don't even
notice it.
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Before you buy.
TracyZ
>>Ok - now I'm dying! Holly, post pictures? Please? I'd love
to see.
>>
>>
>
>AOL is so proud of me. I've set up one of its goofy homepages
with a photo of
>the bathroom. Check it out.
>http://hometown.aol.com/hollylewis/myhomepage/photo.html
Really cool. It looks great, and the whole place sounds great.
Were the leaves stamped or stencilled? I love the acorns in
there too, nice added touch.
Tracy
Silly
In fact, I professed the opposite to Holly just the other
night! But Holly, I hope you know I really liked it, even if
the details are a little screwy in my head!
Shawna
jlh
> LOL. Seems that *we* are few and far between.
>
> Liz
I agree, if only the world could have just a few more of us, the air up here
really is nice.
Jodie (yet another 6ft er)
Sandi Rollins
>
>> Well, Holly's housewarming party was last night, and it was
>> great! Her house is lovely, and they've put a LOT of work into
>> it! (She presented a typed list of all they've done, and it was
>> beyond impressive!)
>
>organizational ability as evidenced in her posts and for her, it carries
>over into real life.
>
>to put faces to the names I see on the group and I look forward to
>meeting more of the Bay Area people in March.
Pout, pout. I wanted to go too, but it was not to be. Dave's grandfather
passed away last week, so we were in SoCal for the funeral.
I will be attending the March a-n'er get-together, so I hope
to meet Miriam and Heather and Mary then.
In the meantime, if anyone local wants to attend a "game night"
at our house-in-progress (no comparisons allowed to Holly & Ken's painted
beauty!) Dave and I are hosting one on the night of March 17th.
Holly asked "what kind of games?" We have Pictionary, Guesstures,
Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, and Scattergories. Other games are
welcome!
Email for details.
Sandi
Howboutmer
>AOL is so proud of me. I've set up one of its goofy homepages with a photo
>of
>the bathroom. Check it out.
>http://hometown.aol.com/hollylewis/myhomepage/photo.html
>
Very cool, Holly. I wish I could've made it. I don't even have a good excuse,
except for pregnancy mood swings that have made me become a major hermit
lately. I just want to stay home on weekends and "nest" and not talk to anyone.
I hope I snap out of this soon. (I'll make sure I've snapped out of it by March
26, so I can meet all of you for lunch.)
- Mary
Silly
in mind for next time though!
HollyLewis
>Were the leaves stamped or stencilled? I love the acorns in
>there too, nice added touch.
>
>Tracy
>
The leaves were stamped, the acorns were a stencil. :-)
Karen, if you decide to go ahead and paint your bathroom, let me know and I'll
mail you the leaf stamps! (I mean, I suppose I might use them for something
else eventually, but right now they're just stashed in a closet.)
Holly
Liz Nyman
your siblings?
I think I get my height from my mother. I assume my grandfather was a
tall man, because she was just over 6 ft when she met my dad, who was 6
ft.
Anyway, out of my blood family, I am the shortest. One brother was 6'5"
and the other 6'4".
Emily is 2 and a half and is already three feet tall, we suspect that
she will be over six feet.
Liz
Nantucketgrrl
Meg
Silly
mom is the shortest, but I'm second shortest. My siblings (17
and 19) are both taller than me. I don't recall any of my
grandparents being particularly tall, or any other extended
family either. Hmm...
We're probably going to have rather tall children, as DH is also
6'.
Christina Ambrenac
> the bathroom. Check it out.
> http://hometown.aol.com/hollylewis/myhomepage/photo.html
>
Wow it looks great! Where did you find those stencils? (Please don't tell me that
you're so talented you did them freehand!). We want to paint our drab white
ensuite bathroom, and my towels and bathroom accessories are sage green. I love
the leaf motif!
Christina
HollyLewis
>6'.
>
>Shawna
I'm hoping our HFCs will split the difference! I'm 5'3" or 4" and Ken is 6'2".
(My whole family is short and Ken's whole family is tall.)
But I know one couple where the wife is extrememly petite -- short, slender --
and the husband is very large -- tall, beefy -- and their son takes after mom
while their daughter takes after dad! Unfortunate for both of them really.
:-)
Holly
Howboutmer
>We're probably going to have rather tall children, as DH is also
>6'.
Ditto. I'm 5'7 (not that tall); DH is 6'8! Unless the kid takes after my family
(the rest of whom are short), it's gonna be a tall one.
- Mary (hoping the babe doesn't start out too big)
CatMom0823
I am 5'2".
My "little" brother Michael is about 5'11".
My mother says she is 5'5" - she is either lying or has shrunk.
My father is about 5'8".
I got all the short genes from my father's side. And Michael
got all the taller (not super tall) genes from Mom's side.
I guess that's for the best. In this world, it is easier to be
a petite girl than a short guy!
Dianne
Wende Feller
>
> What side of the family do you get your height from? What height are
> your siblings?
Can I play, or is 5'11" too short? :-)
I got my height from both sides -- my father still professes to be
disappointed that I didn't match his 6'3". (And WHERE would I buy
clothes then??? Not to mention shoes! I would have to sew long flowing
robes, which is sounding darn tempting now anyway.) My sibs are adopted,
so their height (or shorth) doesn't count...
Hubby is the tallest person in his family, and he's only, um... he
*says* 5'10", but if that's so, I must be... 6'2"! Our wedding photos
with his family are comical -- the Fellers and the Mutant Bride (who has
a long neck for reaching the leaves on the uppermost branches). We will
have Perfectly Average Size children with Perfectly Average feet.
Wende
Liz Nyman
LOL. Your husbands height reminds me about John and his weight. For
three years he has been telling me he weighed a certain amount. Needless
to say he received a mighty big shock when he stood on the scales at my
prenatal appointment a month ago and found that the scales said he
weighed a tad more. He even said to the nurse, "this isn't right, I
don't weigh this much".
Liz
Stephanie Scales
I'm 6 feet exactly (another one!) and DH is 6'8"
I imagine our HFCs will be quite tall indeed. I definitely got my height from my
Dad, who's 6'1"ish
-Stephanie
Liz Nyman wrote:
> What side of the family do you get your height from? What height are
> your siblings?
>
Karen Simmons
>
> I am 5'2".
> My "little" brother Michael is about 5'11".
> My mother says she is 5'5" - she is either lying or has shrunk.
> My father is about 5'8".
Hello - you must be related to my family. I am 5'4" (if I stretch) and
got all the "round" genes in the family. My brother is 6'2" and got the
"slim, athletic" genes in the family. Grrr.
My mom was 5'7" and my dad is 5'9". I have all of the traits of his
family and especially his mom (my grandmom). My brother looks exactly
like my mom's brother (my Uncle Jim) in height, build, and face.
It was actually pretty funny at my Dad's wedding - my brother was the
best man and *towered* over my Dad by more than a head.
Karen
Karen Simmons
> Karen, if you decide to go ahead and paint your bathroom, let me
> know and I'll mail you the leaf stamps! (I mean, I suppose I might
> use them for something else eventually, but right now they're just
> stashed in a closet.)
Oh thanks so much. Right now our bathrooms are wallpapered, but moving
in the next year is our goal ... I'll remember this. I'll certainly be
happy to send them back (or on) once I've used them
Karen
Silly
now? Okay, so I'm nosy. Did the picture-taking work out okay?
Shawna
HollyLewis
>that
>you're so talented you did them freehand!).
I am nowhere near talented enough to do them by hand. :-) They're actually
foam stamps, not stencils (except the acorns -- couldn't find a stamp, so those
are from an "autumn" theme stencil sheet), and there are all sorts of shapes
and sizes available at craft stores, along with little bottles of the
appropriate paint/glaze and various types of sponges and brushes and other
tools. I used a sponge to dab the paint onto the stamp and then stamped the
walls "freehand" -- meaning, I didn't measure or mark out exactly where to
place each leaf -- so as to get a more organic look.
I suppose if you're really talented you could make your own stamp!
Dunno how easy it is to see in the photo, there are three different shades of
green (plus the brown acorns), which I just used in sequence. A sort of sage
green, a darker/bluer forest green, and a yellow-toned grass green. I was
rather pleased with the way repeating the three colors and four shapes combined
so that if you just look at one of the shapes, it repeats thru the three colors
in the same sequence as the overall design.
Holly
cjr
In article <38BC4AAE...@wizvax.net>, Wende Feller <
wfe...@wizvax.net> wrote:
>
>Hubby is the tallest person in his family, and he's only, um...
he
>*says* 5'10", but if that's so, I must be... 6'2"! Our wedding
photos
>with his family are comical -- the Fellers and the Mutant Bride
(who has
>a long neck for reaching the leaves on the uppermost branches).
We will
>have Perfectly Average Size children with Perfectly Average
feet.
>
>Wende
>
>
That's what my sister's wedding photos look like, only in reverse
:-). We're the short family. She's 5'0" and incredibly petite
which makes her appear even smaller, husband is 6'4". Her
husband's family range from 5'9" at the shortest to 6'6" at the
tallest. Their two sons are both tall for their ages (5 and 9),
and while the dad calls his daughter 'short', she's still above
average for age 8.
I've determined that we must have embarked on a selective
breeding
program aimed at balancing out our short genes, as all of my
sibs-
in-law, if not tall (which a few are) they're at the very least
average (which means taller than us). It's not *all* short genes,
my brother was 6'1" (and clearly towered above the rest of us)
and
a few of my dad's brothers are in the 6' range, but dad's only
5'7" (or he was, he must be skrinking....). My mom's family is
generally short all around. My little sister always got called
the 'tall one' at 5'4". That's actually the one thing I'd change
about myself - well, sure there are many less than ideal physical
characteristics, but if I had to choose just one, it'd be to be
taller. Just a couple of inches more really,then I could reach
things without having to drag a step stool around everywhere. Ah
well, DF is 6', so should we produce offspring, that should
balance things out a bit :-)
C
Karin Lin
> >Yeah, Holly's house looked almost exactly like I'd expected; lots of
> >character but not weird.
>
> LOL. That's about how you would probably have described our W****** also, I
> guess. I consider it a compliment. :-)
Good, 'cause it was intended as one. :)
> The colors were great! Now Cade's thinking that
> >we can repaint our rec room a wilder color than the boring off-white we
> >were planning to use
>
> Hey, go for lavender! :-)
Hmm, lavender's a color we hadn't considered, but I like it! Cade will probably
think it's too "girly" though. I also think a pale green might be neat, since
green and brown is my favorite color combination and there's lots of wood up
there...
Karin
Karin Lin
> P.S. I loved the Frog clock. I want one of those with cat sounds now.
Jan, I have one of these and I'll give it to you if you want it! (I assume
it's one of those that meows every hour on the hour? I didn't actually see
Holly's frog one.) I got one for Christmas a while back (generic "I don't
know this person very well but she's a cat lover so I'll just get something
cat-related" present) and both Cade and I think it is really annoying. :) I
AM cat lover, but there's enough meowing around the house without
artifically adding more!
If you're serious about wanting one I'll check around and bring it on the
26th if I can find it before then.
Karin
Geri.Clark
<cjrNO...@my-deja.com.invalid> wrote:
>I've determined that we must have embarked on a selective
>breeding
>program aimed at balancing out our short genes, as all of my
>sibs-
>in-law, if not tall (which a few are) they're at the very least
>average (which means taller than us).
My family height either makes no sense or perfect sense,
depending on how you look at it: My parents are more or less
average -- dad is 5'10", mom is 5'6". They got two children who,
when combined, average out -- I am 5'4", my "little" brother is
6'4". (**so** unfair!)
It's not clear where my bro's height comes from...my mom's family
is all of average height and my dad's family is on the shortish
side (the women especially are all "vertically challenged")
My cousins (the only two other people of our generation in the
family) are 6'4" (the male cousin) and 5'11" (his sister). Their
height comes from their dad (no blood relation to me), who is
6'4". I look like a stranger in family photos; my cousin's
11-year-old stepdaughter is taller than I am.
DH, alas, is not tall. He *says* he's 5'10", and NY state has
accepted that on his driver's license, but it's not true in any
reality I'm aware of :-) 5'9"+ is more like it. I can only hope
our HFCs get the mutant height gene my brother has...
Denise
wrote:
Dad's side definately
Buncha 100 percent norwegians, Short with Fair skin & Thin light brown
hair.
>What side of the family do you get your height from? What height are
>your siblings?
>
>I think I get my height from my mother. I assume my grandfather was a
>tall man, because she was just over 6 ft when she met my dad, who was 6
>ft.
>
>Anyway, out of my blood family, I am the shortest. One brother was 6'5"
>and the other 6'4".
>
>Emily is 2 and a half and is already three feet tall, we suspect that
>she will be over six feet.
>
>Liz
>
>jlh wrote:
>>
>> > I must say, that I would LOVE to go out somewhere with another 6 ft-er,
>> > LOL. Seems that *we* are few and far between.
>> >
>> > Liz
>>
>> I agree, if only the world could have just a few more of us, the air up here
>> really is nice.
>>
>> Jodie (yet another 6ft er)
Denise, Brain & Spaz
I'm going to devote the rest of my life
to cultivating my natural beauty
~Lucy Van Pelt
Denise
<Silly2N...@goplay.com.invalid> wrote:
>From both sides. My mom is 5'10" or so, and my dad is 6'4". My
>mom is the shortest, but I'm second shortest. My siblings (17
>and 19) are both taller than me. I don't recall any of my
>grandparents being particularly tall, or any other extended
>family either. Hmm...
>
>We're probably going to have rather tall children, as DH is also
>6'.
>
>Shawna
I was figuing you were either really tall or really short,
My 2nd cousin is 6'1, and size 10 (that means really skinny for a tall
person)
Denise
>I'm hoping our HFCs will split the difference! I'm 5'3" or 4" and Ken is 6'2".
> (My whole family is short and Ken's whole family is tall.)
Hehe, that's like me & brian
Im 5'2-1/2" and he is 6'2"
Jan A. Cordes
I don't know if I'm serious or not now that you've reminded me about
how there's already a lot of meowing going on around here. I'd probably
be running around trying to figure out who's doing the meowing. But, it
would be fun for my office though.
Jan
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Sara-anne
5'5". My sisters are 4'8" and 5', my mother is 5'2", and my
grandmothers were 4'8" and 5'. On the other hand, DH is 6'3". His
father calls me peewee!
Sara
In article <20000229163602...@ng-dc1.aol.com>,
holly...@aol.com (HollyLewis) wrote:
> I'm hoping our HFCs will split the difference! I'm 5'3" or 4" and Ken
is 6'2".
> (My whole family is short and Ken's whole family is tall.)
>
> But I know one couple where the wife is extrememly petite -- short,
slender --
> and the husband is very large -- tall, beefy -- and their son takes
after mom
> while their daughter takes after dad! Unfortunate for both of them
really.
> :-)
>
> Holly
>
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Sara-anne
sure I have ever met a woman who was 6' tall. But, then again, I have
been used to being around short people all my life!
Sara (the tallest woman in all of her extended family at 5'5")
In article <47gpbsk448fe4hi29...@4ax.com>,
Denise <den...@nexuscomputing.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:01:59 -0800, Silly
> <Silly2N...@goplay.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> >From both sides. My mom is 5'10" or so, and my dad is 6'4". My
> >mom is the shortest, but I'm second shortest. My siblings (17
> >and 19) are both taller than me. I don't recall any of my
> >grandparents being particularly tall, or any other extended
> >family either. Hmm...
> >
> >We're probably going to have rather tall children, as DH is also
> >6'.
> >
> >Shawna
>
> I was figuing you were either really tall or really short,
>
> My 2nd cousin is 6'1, and size 10 (that means really skinny for a tall
> person)
>
> Denise, Brain & Spaz
>
> I'm going to devote the rest of my life
> to cultivating my natural beauty
>
> ~Lucy Van Pelt
>
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aMAZon
Karen Simmons wrote:
>
> CatMom0823 wrote:
> >
> > I am 5'2".
> > My "little" brother Michael is about 5'11".
> > My mother says she is 5'5" - she is either lying or has shrunk.
> > My father is about 5'8".
>
> Hello - you must be related to my family. I am 5'4" (if I stretch) and
> got all the "round" genes in the family. My brother is 6'2" and got the
> "slim, athletic" genes in the family. Grrr.
>
> My mom was 5'7" and my dad is 5'9". I have all of the traits of his
> family and especially his mom (my grandmom). My brother looks exactly
> like my mom's brother (my Uncle Jim) in height, build, and face.
It seems that both in DH's family and mine, the women are all kinda
short and, well, dumpy. In my family, the men are tall and reasonably
slender (with my dad and my uncle Met being the exceptions), and in
DH's, they're all tall and rounded. DH is 6'2", and he's one of the
_shortest_ of the male cousins; my BIL is 6'7".
Her Majesty seems to be taking after us in the height department. She's
6 years old, and about 45" tall.
--
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jlh
Liz Nyman <ame...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:38BC3C8F...@mindspring.com...
> What side of the family do you get your height from? What height are
> your siblings?
I am not sure my mom is only 5'7" and my Dad is 5'10" (but claims he was
6'1" at one time). All of my grand parents are in the 5'6" range. My older
sister is about 5'9" and my younger sister is a runt at 5'2. But my little
brother @ age 17 is 6'3". So to answer your question I have no idea where
my height comes from.
Sorry.
Jodie
RNR
<den...@nexuscomputing.com> wrote:
>On 29 Feb 2000 21:36:02 GMT, holly...@aol.com (HollyLewis) wrote:
>
>>I'm hoping our HFCs will split the difference! I'm 5'3" or 4" and Ken
is 6'2".
>> (My whole family is short and Ken's whole family is tall.)
>
>Hehe, that's like me & brian
>
>Im 5'2-1/2" and he is 6'2"
That't about the spread we have. I'm 5'4" and Rich is 6'2". However,
there are lots of tall genes in me, they just were overrided by the
shorter ones. Most of the people in my family are pretty tall. Alexander
is tall and looks like he will stay that way.
Regards,
Ranee
--
Anyone who is not a socialist at 16 has no heart,
but anyone who still is at 32 has no mind.
HollyLewis
>: artifically adding more!
>
You can turn the sound off, you know. :-) Switch on the back.
Holly
jlh
Liz Nyman <ame...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:38BC3C8F...@mindspring.com...
> What side of the family do you get your height from? What height are
> your siblings?
>
JulieD3964
>Liz Nyman <ame...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>news:38BC3C8F...@mindspring.com...
>> What side of the family do you get your height from? What height are
>> your siblings?
I'm a combination between my parents. My dad is 5'11 and my mom is barely 5'2.
Almost everyone on her side of the family is a midget. She's actually on the
tall side for them! I measure in at 5'4.25 and I know that because when I was
in AFROTC, I was given an extra 3 pounds weight allowance for that quarter
inch. It came in handy when I was hauling a cast around! My brother is a mere
5'7 or 8.
An interesting fact discovered when they did the x-rays of my legs when I had
knee problems was that my growth plates in my lower legs never fused.
Theoretically, I've been told that I could possibly gain a few more inches but
I don't believe them. I think whatever hormones you need for that have long
left my system.
I'm certain that Matt and I are going to have monster babies because he's 6'5
and the babies run very large on his side of the family. They've got tall genes
coming out of their ears. His mom is almost 6'. His dad is 6'2 and his brother
is taller than he is!
Julie
Julie...@aol.com
Karin Lin
> In the meantime, if anyone local wants to attend a "game night"
> at our house-in-progress (no comparisons allowed to Holly & Ken's painted
> beauty!) Dave and I are hosting one on the night of March 17th.
>
> Holly asked "what kind of games?" We have Pictionary, Guesstures,
> Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, and Scattergories. Other games are
> welcome!
Hi Sandi! I'd love to come to your games night! I can add Taboo and 25
Words or Less to the collection...both great party games. What time? Do you
need me to bring anything other than games? Food or drink?
Karin
Barbara Elizabeth Warner
>
> Now, Holly's party was one thing, but not being close enough to go to a
> game night, might just kill me! Oh, what's a few thousand miles? :^)
Hey, with that attitude, you might just rationalize yourself into coming
on the AN cruise! I forsee some fun game nights on the ship.
> Just remember if you play Trivial Pursuit, the answer is "Alaska". Ok,
> I feel better.
I too wanted to come when I saw the post...and I'm even further away.
Sara-anne, why don't we solve this by having a 'games afternoon' when
I'm in Boston with my Dad? ;-) We're free on June 17th all day (the
ballgame is at 7pm).
And if the question is about American presidents, try Kennedy!
(We've noticed a near obsession with Kennedys in American trivia
questions....)
--Barbara
Mike and Heather Oviatt
Barbara Elizabeth Warner wrote:
> And if the question is about American presidents, try Kennedy!
> (We've noticed a near obsession with Kennedys in American trivia
> questions....)
And if you are playing the 1980's edition of Trivial Pursuit (it's in a
grey box) then the answer to the orange questions (category is Wild
Card) is usually "condom". I don't know why, but it's been the answer
more than once in a single game while we were playing.
Heather
Sara-anne
game night, might just kill me! Oh, what's a few thousand miles? :^)
I feel better.
Sara
In article <89h0oo$s7m$1...@agate.berkeley.edu>,
srol...@econ.Berkeley.EDU (Sandi Rollins) wrote:
> Pout, pout. I wanted to go too, but it was not to be. Dave's
grandfather
> passed away last week, so we were in SoCal for the funeral.
>
> I will be attending the March a-n'er get-together, so I hope
> to meet Miriam and Heather and Mary then.
>
> In the meantime, if anyone local wants to attend a "game night"
> at our house-in-progress (no comparisons allowed to Holly & Ken's
painted
> beauty!) Dave and I are hosting one on the night of March 17th.
>
> Holly asked "what kind of games?" We have Pictionary, Guesstures,
> Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, and Scattergories. Other games are
> welcome!
>
> Email for details.
>
> Sandi
Jan A. Cordes
: Just remember if you play Trivial Pursuit, the answer is "Alaska". Ok,
: I feel better.
Reminds me of the time we played Trivial Pursuit with my cousins.
Dear cousin takes a car to read the question to us. He says "five".
We're all stumped...five what. Dear cousin had read the answer and
not the question. So now, whenever an answer is needed to anything
it's usually "five" around our house.
Jan
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> What side of the family do you get your height from? What height are
> your siblings?
I get my height from both sides :), I'm around 5'5''ish and I'm just a taller than
both my mother and father (who are around 5'4'' each). My brother gets his height
from my mothers side, he is 5'10''ish one of my Uncles is 6'+.
DH gets his height from his fathers side. DH is around 5'11'' ish. It is very rare
for me to meet a male who is shorter than me (I know about 3), but I have meet
quite a few women who are taller or around the same height as me.
Di
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KathyK
Sara-anne <sara...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Now, Holly's party was one thing, but not being close enough to go to
a
> game night, might just kill me! Oh, what's a few thousand miles? :^)
Ok,
> I feel better.
>
Well, are you going to the 4/1 get together in Troy? Maybe we can play
games then (you're in Boston, right?). It only took me 5 hours to get
to Boston for a CM conference a few weeks ago (well, technically
Cambridge), and I know that Albany is closer than that. And, I may be
having a housewarming party that a.ners would be invited to the weekend
after the Troy get together, if you'd like to come down for that (only
a few hundred miles, not a few thousand). Of course, this is all
assuming that me remembering that you're a Boston person is correct.
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Sara-anne
thing is, I *really* hate driving, especially alone, and DH is awfully
busy lately with his dissertation. So, that's why I wasn't going to
come. :^( I know that sounds lame.
Sara
In article <89lpp8$ff6$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
KathyK <kathry...@pharma.novartis.com> wrote:
> Well, are you going to the 4/1 get together in Troy? Maybe we can
play
> games then (you're in Boston, right?). It only took me 5 hours to get
> to Boston for a CM conference a few weeks ago (well, technically
> Cambridge), and I know that Albany is closer than that. And, I may be
> having a housewarming party that a.ners would be invited to the
weekend
> after the Troy get together, if you'd like to come down for that (only
> a few hundred miles, not a few thousand). Of course, this is all
> assuming that me remembering that you're a Boston person is correct.
>
> --
> --Kathy Kula
> TDC Snow White, Keeper of Sockpuppets
>
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>
>
>Barbara Elizabeth Warner wrote:
>
>> And if the question is about American presidents, try Kennedy!
>> (We've noticed a near obsession with Kennedys in American
>>trivia questions....)
>
>And if you are playing the 1980's edition of Trivial Pursuit
>but it's been the answer more than once in a single game while
>we were playing
In the UK version, if in doubt on Literature, it's either Oscar
Wilde or George Bernard Shaw.
It's remebering things like this that have my family refusing to
play with me anymore.
Anyone know if there's an Internet version?
Jean
Donna
There's the very enticing subcurrent here that games might be played...
which is enough to make me (almost) spawn a new thread asking what games
people like? I used to be near a few gaming crowds, but alas, moved far
away - and so am unfamiliar with what current Games People Play. I've
seen the some lists from the Sandi's S.F. post (Pictionary, Guesstures,
Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Scattegories) and seem to remember a few people
(Karen?) having a discussion ages ago about Encore. Some of these I know
(but not Guesstures or Scattegories) and some I'm terrible at (I can't
spell, sigh ;) so anyone care to enlighten me? I'll reciprocate in advance
by telling my own favorites:
Pictionary/Charades (when someone else makes up the phrases/words so that
people who play a lot don't get unfair advantage/get bored by the
same-old/same-old.)
WizWar (Tom Jolly Games - board game with lots of cards and silliness)
Set (a pattern-matching game I like to play with kids, because they WIN)
Robo-Rally (a board game race in which pieces interfere with one another
and survive dangerous environments in a race to touch flags. the fun
part is that you predefine your next N moves - and hope nothing messes
up your carefully laid plans... such as another piece bumping into you.)
Settlers of ... Catan? (there's that spelling thing again) which is a
somewhat arbitrary (dice dependent) resources-building game that
fortunately isn't too long. (As with whomever complained about Monopoly
- oooh, a game I'd forgotten was mentioned - I don't enjoy games that
you have to play for hours even when you realize you've lost on turn 3 ;)
Anyone want to tell me their favorites? Anyone?
Donna
KathyK wrote:
>
> Well, are you going to the get together in Troy? Maybe we can play
Jodi
Jan A. Cordes wrote in message <89kmq4$r1i$1...@nntp1.atl.mindspring.net>...
>Sara-anne <sara...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>: Just remember if you play Trivial Pursuit, the answer is "Alaska". Ok,
>: I feel better.
>
>Reminds me of the time we played Trivial Pursuit with my cousins.
>Dear cousin takes a car to read the question to us. He says "five".
I had a question that said, "In the nursery rhyme 'Hickory Dickory Dock',
what time did the mouse run up the clock?" So, I'm thinking "Hickory Dickory
Dock, the mouse ran up the clock, the clock struck one and down he run,
Hickory Dickory Dock. Well, the clock struck one *after* he got to the top,
so he must have run up *before* one, and knowing Trivial Pursuit, the answer
is probably 12:59" My grandmother (my teammate) insisted that they would
never put 12:59 on the card, the answer must be 1:00. I insisted it couldn't
be 1:00 and that they do put funky answers on cards sometimes. We said
12:59, the card said 1:00.
Jodi
Barbara
<mij...@livespamfree.home.com> wrote:
>
>There's the very enticing subcurrent here that games might be
played...
>which is enough to make me (almost) spawn a new thread asking
what games
>people like
(snip)
>Anyone want to tell me their favorites? Anyone?
Weel, we play board games, card games and other 'games' in our
family all the time. The default card game is Euchre, although
a recent favourite is a combination card/board game called
Sequence -- players play in teams, to cover a straight line of
five cards on the board...players play down the cards in their
hand and place a chip on the corresponding tile on the board.
We play backgammon, cribbage and crokonole (sp?). We used to
play a lot of pool (snooker/billards - had different ball sets
and rules) but no one has space for a pool table anymore :-( WE
play dominoes - atleast we intend to, since I just bought a
really nice set in Mexico!
As for board games, at home Julian and I play a strategy/luck
game called "Survive" where players must move little people off
an island (int he middle of the board), into little lifeboats
and onto the mainland (at the side of the board) without getting
eaten up by sea monsters, tidal waves or other players <g>.
It's fun but I don't normally win (boo, hoo).
Another favourite is "Labrynth", a game where you must move your
wizard around the board to pick up pieces -- but the
spaces/paths on the board are constantly changing and/or
moving. It's a neat game, although it can take a while with a
few players (plays up to 4 people).
We play other more traditional board games, too, like "Go" or
"Othello" or whatever -- Julian has a great "board book" that
has boards and rules for 15 games, and a set of black/white
markers with dice. We can bring that to Albany, as it's easy to
pack and carry around.
At my parents, we also play more word games like Scattegories,
etc., (A family favourite is the one where a wierd word or, in
the extended version, date/place/name/initials, is read out, and
rest of the players guess at the definition - eveyrone writes a
definition. Players get points by guessing the correct defintion
and/or getting others to guess theirs).
That's our games scoop. Any other favourites out there?
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cjr
> Sara-anne <sara...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> Now, Holly's party was one thing, but not being close enough
to go to
>a
>> game night, might just kill me! Oh, what's a few thousand
miles? :^)
"Alaska".
>Ok,
>> I feel better.
>>
>
>Well, are you going to the 4/1 get together in Troy? Maybe we
can play
>games then (you're in Boston, right?). It only took me 5 hours
to get
>to Boston for a CM conference a few weeks ago (well, technically
>Cambridge), and I know that Albany is closer than that. And, I
may be
>having a housewarming party that a.ners would be invited to the
weekend
>after the Troy get together, if you'd like to come down for
that (only
>a few hundred miles, not a few thousand). Of course, this is
all
>assuming that me remembering that you're a Boston person is
correct.
>
>
An FYI- it takes 2.5 hours to get from New Haven,CT to Albany
(and is half way to Syracuse, for anyone who's interested :-)).
It
takes about 1 hour w/o traffic to get to the Mass Pike from New
Haven. So that'd make it 1.5 hours from the Mass Pike/I-91
interchange, Which, IIRC,is about 1-1.5 hours from Boston (cause
it takes between 2-2.5 hours to get from New Haven to Boston
following the same route just turning east instead of west at the
interchange). Soooo - that would make Boston about 2.5- 3 hours
from Albany. :-)
C.
Silly
as Balderdash (although we play it without the actual game, and
just use a dictionary).
In case you don't know, in (our version of) Balderdash, one
player finds an obscure word in the dictionary that nobody is
likely to know. S/he spells it and pronounces it. If somebody
does know the word, they have to speak up, and another word is
chosen. The other players then write what THEY think the
definition might/could be. They can either make a guess that
they think is probably right or just make up something fun. The
person who chose the word also writes down the correct
definition (paraphrasing it so it doesn't sound too dictionary-
y). The person who chose the word then reads all the
definitions aloud, and people guess which is the correct one.
Points are awarded for having the most-guessed (wrong)
definition and for guessing the correct one. Unfortunately, I
don't remember how many points. Anyway, it's quite fun.
A recent favorite (I've only played it once, but we just bought
it) is Cranium. It has four sets of cards, in four categories.
One is where you draw/sculpt. You either play just like
pictionary, where you draw, or like pictionary only with your
eyes closed, or you have to sculpt something with the included
play-dough. Another category has to do with spelling. You
either have to write the word down, spelled correctly the first
try, spell it out loud backwords, or unscramble a given phrase
(with clues), or guess the definition, or fill in the blanks
(all but a few of the letters are given, and you get a clue).
Then there's the acting/singing category, where you are given a
song to whistle or hum, or you have to impersonate someone, or
just plain act out a charade. The last category is more like
Trivial Pursuit. It has trivia, true/false, and multiple choice
questions. Anyway, as you can see, it's many games in one and
is a LOT of fun.
Well, that was long enough, doncha think?
Shawna
Silly
pinochle with each other all the time, but other favorites are
hearts, spades (him more than me), and spite & malice.
Probably more, but I'm forgetful.
Hillary Israeli
play with me :( :( :( so I have to content myself with crossword puzzles.
I also like Trivial Pursuit type games, but never have the stamina to
finish them.
--
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"uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est."
upenn school of vet med class of 2000
Sandi Rollins
><mij...@livespamfree.home.com> wrote:
>>
>>There's the very enticing subcurrent here that games might be
>played...
>>which is enough to make me (almost) spawn a new thread asking
>what games
>>people like
>
>(snip)
>
>>Anyone want to tell me their favorites? Anyone?
Wow! I had no idea that games would be such an attraction! LOL!
Donna, you mentioned my post on which games we own, and
will have available on our Games Night party. I must say,
I failed to mention card games (we spent a lot of time with
Dave's grandparents playing card games, primarily Euchre).
We can't play Scrabble -- Dave is the *most* frustrating Scrabble
player I've ever known. He can take 1/2 an hour to decide on
the word "it". <grin>
I hate Charades, but will play Guesstures, since it has a timer
and goes quickly (forcing you to start acting out the words
immediately, instead of hemming and hawing for ages!)
We enjoy Trivial Pursuit, bit still have the very first edition
of the game (issued circa 1983), and *no* *one* other than
my mother and brother will play against me. <pout> Occasionally
we get people who are willing to try it, usually non-family members. :^)
Dave's latest love has been the Nintendo 64 games; I achieved
true Goddess status when I bought him the 64 station for his
Bday in 1998. :^) He is now lusting after Jet Force Gemini....
I don't like the Nintendo all that much, although Mario Cart
can be fun with a group.
The games thing is funny -- we've only recently gotten back into
game-playing, although it was something we used to do a lot.
The recent renaissance is due to our Thanksgiving weekends with
my mom. We've been trying to go low-key for the holidays, so a couple
of years ago I carted the games along, and we all had a BLAST. Last
year, I brought Scattergories along, and we stayed up half the night
playing. So a new tradition is born -- a new game every Thanksgiving,
and a lot of fun in store for all.
Sandi
Donna
Silly wrote:
>
> I like the old standbys of Pictionary and Scattergories, as well
> as Balderdash (although we play it without the actual game, and
> just use a dictionary).
>
I think I've played this Balderdash thing you speak of - only the folks
who had the dictionary/'taught' it to me called it Fictionary. ;)
Cranium I shall have to investigate, as it does sound like a mixture
of a bunch of games I like, but don't have. (Well actually, all I
_have_ are a deck of cards, WizWar, GOOTMU, Quandary and Set - though
the later is still in it's package and being sent out this week as a
birthday present to a little girl I know. ;)
Will I sound incredibly ignorant if I ask what Euchre is? I'd utterly
forgotten to include card games in my original question - but as I'm
pretty limited to playing rummy with my family (recently overtaken by
dominos) it probably wasn't that much of an oversight. ;)
Donna
Mieko Sunbury
>We enjoy Trivial Pursuit, bit still have the very first edition
>of the game (issued circa 1983), and *no* *one* other than
>my mother and brother will play against me. <pout> Occasionally
>we get people who are willing to try it, usually non-family members. :^)
>
sometimes. But we also found out that it's the best thing to do with my
parents! Phill usually gets *really* bored when we visit, but we played with
my parents, brother and SIL, cousin and her BF and had a GREAT time.
>Dave's latest love has been the Nintendo 64 games; I achieved
>true Goddess status when I bought him the 64 station for his
>Bday in 1998. :^) He is now lusting after Jet Force Gemini....
>I don't like the Nintendo all that much, although Mario Cart
>can be fun with a group.
Oh no, don't get me started on video games. We've got a Super Nintendo, an
N64, a playstation, and he wants the Sega Dreamcast, and the new Playstation
when it comes out. We only have a few games for each, but the N64 is really
great for it's 4 player games, like Mario Kart, Mario Party (which is kinda
like a board game). The Super Nintendo has my favorite game Tetris Attack,
which is a puzzle game, but not that similar to Tetris, and Street Fighter,
which Phill plays with all his guy friends. The Playstation has Puzzle
Fighter, and Pocket Fighter which we also like to play when friends are over.
The two player games the winner usually keeps playing as someone else
challenges. We finally bought a nice chest to put all the games in - and for
the first time in my life, I have a toy box. :)
Mieko
Karen Simmons
with games the women like to be fair. Here's some of the ones we play
most often:
Encore: singing game where you have two teams. Teams move across the
board and draw cards with a word or subject on them. Then the teams
have to sing at least 8 words of a song with the word on the card in it
(e.g. if the word is "love", you have to sing "I'm in the mood for love,
simply because you're near me ..."). Play alternates until one team
can't come up with another song. Then the winning team rolls the dice
and moves forward.
Scattergories: big 20 sided die with letters of the alphabet on it.
You roll the die and then have a minute or so to come up with words that
start with that letter that match the categories on the card you're
playing. There are 10 or 12 categories, I think, and some of them are
easy and some are really hard. You get a point for every word you think
of that is unique.
Trivial Pursuit: Of course everyone knows this one. We just got the
Millenium edition (in the tin box - I love tin boxes!) and haven't
played it yet.
Scrabble: Kevin and I love to play this together, but we haven't played
it with other friends.
Monopoly: Kevin loves it, I hate it. So we play infrequently, but when
we do it lasts for HOURS!!
Karen
Kate the Short --- Spamblocked!
Donna <mij...@livespamfree.home.com> sat on the sofa and said:
>There's the very enticing subcurrent here that games might be played...
>
> Robo-Rally (a board game race in which pieces interfere with one another
> and survive dangerous environments in a race to touch flags. the fun
> part is that you predefine your next N moves - and hope nothing messes
> up your carefully laid plans... such as another piece bumping into you.)
Yes! This one is *great*. You have anywhere from 4 to dozens of boards
that you can set up. You put flags out that your robots have to reach--
and you can shoot at each other if you're in the way! You have to avoid
crushers, conveyor belts, lasers, pushers, flamethrowers that fire every
*other* turn, radiation, etc. It's a fun game. -grin-
> Settlers of ... Catan? (there's that spelling thing again) which is a
> somewhat arbitrary (dice dependent) resources-building game that
> fortunately isn't too long. (As with whomever complained about Monopoly
> - oooh, a game I'd forgotten was mentioned - I don't enjoy games that
> you have to play for hours even when you realize you've lost on turn 3 ;)
This one is also pretty cool. Joel got me/us a copy for Christmas.
Yay!
Scrabble: the classic. It's a must-have.
My favorite old board game is called Bonkers. It's zany, but they don't
make it anymore. SCORE!
Anything put out by Cheapass Games is a winner. Give me the Brain is a
fun one, and Killing Doctor Lucky is awesome. Think Clue on drugs-- you
try to kill the guy before someone else can, racing around a big house.
kate.
>Anyone want to tell me their favorites? Anyone?
>
>Donna
>
>KathyK wrote:
>>
>> Well, are you going to the get together in Troy? Maybe we can play
>> games then (you're in Boston, right?). It only took me 5 hours to get
>> to Boston for a CM conference a few weeks ago (well, technically
>> Cambridge), and I know that Albany is closer than that. And, I may be
>> having a housewarming party that a.ners would be invited to the weekend
>> after the Troy get together, if you'd like to come down for that (only
>> a few hundred miles, not a few thousand). Of course, this is all
>> assuming that me remembering that you're a Boston person is correct.
>>
>> --
>> --Kathy Kula
>> TDC Snow White, Keeper of Sockpuppets
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Di Roberts
> Oh no, don't get me started on video games. We've got a Super Nintendo, an
> N64, a playstation, and he wants the Sega Dreamcast, and the new Playstation
> when it comes out. We only have a few games for each, but the N64 is really
> great for it's 4 player games, like Mario Kart, Mario Party (which is kinda
> like a board game). The Super Nintendo has my favorite game Tetris Attack,
> which is a puzzle game, but not that similar to Tetris, and Street Fighter,
> which Phill plays with all his guy friends. The Playstation has Puzzle
> Fighter, and Pocket Fighter which we also like to play when friends are over.
> The two player games the winner usually keeps playing as someone else
> challenges. We finally bought a nice chest to put all the games in - and for
> the first time in my life, I have a toy box. :)
Hi Mieko,
I know how you feel, at last check we had at least one working console of every
type plus multiple games for all of them. DH currently is playing quite a bit of
Wrestlemania 2000 - both by himself and with friends. I tend towards the puzzle
games Devil Dice, Puzzle Bubble, etc. Mario Party is alot of fun, we have played
it with people who don't play console games and they really enjoyed it.
DH is currently looking at the Dreamcast and thinking about getting it.
Donna
"Kate the Short --- Spamblocked!" wrote:
> Anything put out by Cheapass Games is a winner. Give me the Brain is a
> fun one, and Killing Doctor Lucky is awesome. Think Clue on drugs-- you
> try to kill the guy before someone else can, racing around a big house.
>
> kate.
I think I must make it a goal to someday try this last one. Oh, and
sweetie wants to know if you have to call the shot prior to gamestart
(i.e. writing down "I'll get him in the workroom with the wrench", to
continue with the Clue-like analogies.)
Donna
Rose & Phil Bingham
some stencilling in Jamaica and since then I just love seeing what other people do
with stencils / stamps etc.
Rose
Rose & Phil Bingham
> LOL. Your husbands height reminds me about John and his weight. For
> three years he has been telling me he weighed a certain amount. Needless
> to say he received a mighty big shock when he stood on the scales at my
> prenatal appointment a month ago and found that the scales said he
> weighed a tad more. He even said to the nurse, "this isn't right, I
> don't weigh this much".
Since Phil moved back to the States he has been considerably less active than
he'd been in Jamaica (i.e. scampering up and down mountains on the coffee farm
on a daily basis). Also, the fact that he came back here just before Xmas
didn't help matters any. So... for the past 2 months or so he has been
straining the buttons on his Levis - determined that we were not going to go
get him some 32's to make him more comfortable.
Well, the other day he went out and bought some 32's (after looking in the
sale flyers for sales!!! - major breakthrough there...) and when he was
putting his clothes away he says something to the effect of he figures he's
just a 32 now and that's how it's gonna be. I managed not to laugh out loud
but it rather amused me.
Rose
>
> Liz
>
> Wende Feller wrote:
> >
> > Liz Nyman wrote:
> > >
> > > What side of the family do you get your height from? What height are
> > > your siblings?
> >
> > Can I play, or is 5'11" too short? :-)
> >
> > I got my height from both sides -- my father still professes to be
> > disappointed that I didn't match his 6'3". (And WHERE would I buy
> > clothes then??? Not to mention shoes! I would have to sew long flowing
> > robes, which is sounding darn tempting now anyway.) My sibs are adopted,
> > so their height (or shorth) doesn't count...
> >
> > Hubby is the tallest person in his family, and he's only, um... he
> > *says* 5'10", but if that's so, I must be... 6'2"! Our wedding photos
> > with his family are comical -- the Fellers and the Mutant Bride (who has
> > a long neck for reaching the leaves on the uppermost branches). We will
> > have Perfectly Average Size children with Perfectly Average feet.
> >
> > Wende
Kate the Short --- Spamblocked!
>
>> Anything put out by Cheapass Games is a winner. Give me the Brain is a
>> fun one, and Killing Doctor Lucky is awesome. Think Clue on drugs-- you
>> try to kill the guy before someone else can, racing around a big house.
>
>sweetie wants to know if you have to call the shot prior to gamestart
>(i.e. writing down "I'll get him in the workroom with the wrench", to
>continue with the Clue-like analogies.)
AFAIK, you just need to get him *when nobody else can see you*. This
means that nobody can have a clear line of sight from the room you're in
to the point where that person is standing.
Makes it really tricky when you're playing with tons of people...
kate.
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We've got Playstation here. For a while, I didn't think I'd ever pry DH away
from it. He is into all of the sports games, like NFL & MLB, which he insists
on playing until he reaches the Super Bowl or World Series. I like Tomb Raider
and Tetris. I absolutely love video games-- have since I was little with Pong,
then the essential Atari upgrade in the 80's.
Meg