Drawers of Ridiculousness/Doom, Circle of Death, Etc.
I am sick of this bullshit. And yes, I am fucking irritated.
Sometimes I really, really... resent... people.
And also, guys are often full of shit. Hell - people in general are often full of shit.
On another note, I was terribly productive today. I think I spent at least three hours straight just cleaning the kitchen. Jonathan made dinner for Nadia last night, and he left ALL THE DISHES out. All of them! What an asshole thing to do. Anyway, I cleaned that up today, along with any other dishes that needed to be washed. Which was a lot. I kept doing that throughout the day, so I basically washed dishes all day (insert racial joke here, cue giggling). Also, I put many dishes away after washing/drying them, so that's another bit of work. I organed the Drawer of Ridiculousness, aka. the second-to-top silverware drawer in the kitchen. It's named that because that's the drawer that holds our non-fancy spoons. We have fancy silverware, nice silverware that we use from day-to-day, and then silverware from our old house, aka. the most casual silverware. In other words, we have far too many eating utensils. Blame my mother.
Anyway, I sorted that drawer out, and let me tell you - we have the most random collection of forks, ever. I mean, besides having random escargot forks and dessert forks, we have single ones from other sets I have never seen before. It's crazy. I think our forks breed more forks. Also, our silverware seperator was FILTHY. I don't know HOW it got to be so bad, but I washed that, thank GOD. Ugh, I can't believe I've been using utensils that have been in that thing when it was in that state. GROSS. And this isn't just my neurosis speaking, either. I also sorted allllll of the other random things in there, including chopsticks, bottle cap removers, paring knives, various bottles of Advil, Motrin, Tylenol, etc., and a corkscrew, among many other items. Like I said, Drawer of Ridiculousness.
That, however, is NOTHING compared to our Drawer of Doom. Imagine an empty drawer. Now imagine it full of knives. And not in a seperator or anything - just a drawer full of knives. That's the Drawer or Doom. I'm talking about BIG KNIVES that you use to kill people with, or cut large pieces of meat. Either one. From cleavers to really long, thin knives, to crazy serrated ones.. we have a LOT of knives, let me tell you. And there are random things like spatulas and wooden spoons and whisks and whatnot, too. But the knives are what really jump out at you. That's always fun, navigating that drawer. We really should do something about it..
Anyway, as you can tell, today consisted of a lot of cleaning. I did some loads of laundry, redistributed toilet paper in all the bathrooms, cleaned the microwave.. and so on and so on. Pretty rocking. My body is tired now. I wish I went on cleaning sprees more often! Man, if there's one thing I'm looking forward to regarding getting older, it's having my own place to keep clean. Or sharing one with a cool roommate.. who hopefully will not be like my brother and never clean up after himself. Or herself, if I live with a girl.
Oh, yeah, I hand-washed some shirts today. I actually had fun.. which is kind of frightening. I hope my aqua-colored one doesn't turn out all screwed up now. I mean, how often do I wear bright colors? I actually do get comments when I do, since apparently all I wear is black. Which is a lie, but people are dumb.
I saw Bewitched last evening with Katie. She, Kristin, Joe, and I went to the movies. Then hung out at Burger King. Then the two girls and I went back to my house where we met up with Branden and had fun. Then he went home and we hung out more. Eventually the two went to sleep, but I stayed online for a bit. I was hoping to talk to Brandon, but we didn't get to.. we haven't talked regularly in a while. It sucks :/. Same story with Elfie, only less so. I'm afraid I've gotten used to talking to him almost daily.. bad, spoiled me. :x In fact, I hadn't seen much of ANYONE for the past week. It's kind of weird. I didn't do that much in general until today. For a while, I kept having this anxious feeling, like school was still around.. but after this week, that's been muted a LOT. Which is wonderful. It was kind of like that feeling from The Bell Jar, only instead of just being grey, I was worried and.. anxious as well. It wasn't cool. But now it's not there as much, so phew! Maybe once I finish all my summer homework, it will dissipate even more. Now all I have to do is fucking schedule work days with my uncle! I'm going to call him again tomorrow.
Nadia leaves on Sunday :(. I like her.. she's fun, and nice. She, Jonathan, and I played a drinking game two days ago called Circle of Death. What you do is, you get a deck of cards and make a circle with it. Then, one person draws a card and puts it in the middle. Now, you have to do something according to the card you draw, or the color it is.
For any card that isn't a face card, if the card is red, you have to take as many drinks as the number on the card. So, if I were to draw a red five, I have to take five drinks. If the card is black, you get to delegate to whoever you want how many drinks they can take.
If I drew a black nine, I could have told Jonathan to take four and Nadia to take five. You can also split it so that you have to take some. With the black nine, I could have also told Jonathan to take three, Nadia to take three, and made myself take three.
If you draw a jack, you have to do something called a Waterfall. The person who drew the card (let's say it was Jonathan) has to start drinking and keep drinking until he decides to stop, and then the next player (me) has to do the same and can't stop until the person who drew the card (Jonathan) stops. The person after that (Nadia) can't stop until the second person (me) stops, and so on and so on. Now, if the person who drew the card (Jonathan) stops, the second person (me) can keep going until whenever, or she (me) can stop then. And then the third person (Nadia) can do likewise. You can probably see why it's called Waterfall..
If you draw a queen, that means Questions. With Questions, whenever the person who drew the card talks to another player, that player has to either ignore the person or answer with a question. If he doesn't do either, he has to take a drink. So, if I drew a queen and said to Nadia, "This is a fun game." and she answered, "Isn't it, though?", or if she just didn't answer at all, she'd be alright. If she had responded, "I think so, too.", she would have had to take a drink, since she didn't respond with a question.
If you draw a king, that means Category. What happens is that you stop the game and whoever drew the card has to make up a category that you list items under. I'll use an example from that night. Jonathan had drawn a king and made the category Things You Can Use as a Sex Toy. So, he said something like 'a candle', and I said, 'a commemorative Statuette of Liberty', and Nadia said 'a wrapping paper tube', and so on and so on. If you don't think of something within ten seconds, you have to take a drink and the category is over.
Now, aces are the particularly exciting cards. When you draw an ace, you have to make up a rule. One of the rules we made up was that you had to say 'in my pants' after everything you said. So, if I had said, "Put it in my hands," I would have had to add 'in my pants', thus making the entirety of what I said, "Put it in my hands in my pants." The rule is followed unless someone else draws a face card, in which it's temporarily put on pause. If another person draws an ace, he can either override the rule, thus making it void, or add another rule on top of that. Jonathan drew an ace once, and instead of nulling my 'in my pants' rule, he added the rule that you have to say 'Oh, what a lovely tea party.' before 'in my pants'. So, if I had said 'Damn!', I would really have had to say, "Damn oh what a lovely tea party in my pants." If you forgot to follow the rule, you have to take a drink.
And that is Circle of Death. It's a pretty simple game.. lots of fun. You're supposed to use beer, but we used Bailey's. I wasn't affected too much - I only got the tiniest hint of a buzz. But that's okay. It was still really cool to play with Jonathan and Nadia. I daresay they love each other ^^... it's very cute. I mean, she asked what she thought their kids would look like, since we were talking along that vein, and he wasn't freaked out or anything. They've probably discussed that before. And I know they're doing it... a lot. I know far more about their sex life than is conventional, let me tell you. AND NOT ON MY OWN VOLITION. They tell me most of it. I don't really care, but it's funny that they're the ones feeding me the information. Oh well. I just shake my head slowly at them. It's pretty funny, really. And you know what's even funnier? If I were to tell him - him being Jonathan - about my sex life, he would get all uppity about it. Older brother thing, I guess, but still. However, I don't plan on discussing such excursions with my brother, so that probably won't happen any time soon.
Tomorrow I am going to Mike Z.'s pre-July Fourth barbecue! Hoorahh... it should be interesting. Shit, I should go take a shower, then.. l8r d0000ddzzzz.
Sometimes I really, really... resent... people.
And also, guys are often full of shit. Hell - people in general are often full of shit.
On another note, I was terribly productive today. I think I spent at least three hours straight just cleaning the kitchen. Jonathan made dinner for Nadia last night, and he left ALL THE DISHES out. All of them! What an asshole thing to do. Anyway, I cleaned that up today, along with any other dishes that needed to be washed. Which was a lot. I kept doing that throughout the day, so I basically washed dishes all day (insert racial joke here, cue giggling). Also, I put many dishes away after washing/drying them, so that's another bit of work. I organed the Drawer of Ridiculousness, aka. the second-to-top silverware drawer in the kitchen. It's named that because that's the drawer that holds our non-fancy spoons. We have fancy silverware, nice silverware that we use from day-to-day, and then silverware from our old house, aka. the most casual silverware. In other words, we have far too many eating utensils. Blame my mother.
Anyway, I sorted that drawer out, and let me tell you - we have the most random collection of forks, ever. I mean, besides having random escargot forks and dessert forks, we have single ones from other sets I have never seen before. It's crazy. I think our forks breed more forks. Also, our silverware seperator was FILTHY. I don't know HOW it got to be so bad, but I washed that, thank GOD. Ugh, I can't believe I've been using utensils that have been in that thing when it was in that state. GROSS. And this isn't just my neurosis speaking, either. I also sorted allllll of the other random things in there, including chopsticks, bottle cap removers, paring knives, various bottles of Advil, Motrin, Tylenol, etc., and a corkscrew, among many other items. Like I said, Drawer of Ridiculousness.
That, however, is NOTHING compared to our Drawer of Doom. Imagine an empty drawer. Now imagine it full of knives. And not in a seperator or anything - just a drawer full of knives. That's the Drawer or Doom. I'm talking about BIG KNIVES that you use to kill people with, or cut large pieces of meat. Either one. From cleavers to really long, thin knives, to crazy serrated ones.. we have a LOT of knives, let me tell you. And there are random things like spatulas and wooden spoons and whisks and whatnot, too. But the knives are what really jump out at you. That's always fun, navigating that drawer. We really should do something about it..
Anyway, as you can tell, today consisted of a lot of cleaning. I did some loads of laundry, redistributed toilet paper in all the bathrooms, cleaned the microwave.. and so on and so on. Pretty rocking. My body is tired now. I wish I went on cleaning sprees more often! Man, if there's one thing I'm looking forward to regarding getting older, it's having my own place to keep clean. Or sharing one with a cool roommate.. who hopefully will not be like my brother and never clean up after himself. Or herself, if I live with a girl.
Oh, yeah, I hand-washed some shirts today. I actually had fun.. which is kind of frightening. I hope my aqua-colored one doesn't turn out all screwed up now. I mean, how often do I wear bright colors? I actually do get comments when I do, since apparently all I wear is black. Which is a lie, but people are dumb.
I saw Bewitched last evening with Katie. She, Kristin, Joe, and I went to the movies. Then hung out at Burger King. Then the two girls and I went back to my house where we met up with Branden and had fun. Then he went home and we hung out more. Eventually the two went to sleep, but I stayed online for a bit. I was hoping to talk to Brandon, but we didn't get to.. we haven't talked regularly in a while. It sucks :/. Same story with Elfie, only less so. I'm afraid I've gotten used to talking to him almost daily.. bad, spoiled me. :x In fact, I hadn't seen much of ANYONE for the past week. It's kind of weird. I didn't do that much in general until today. For a while, I kept having this anxious feeling, like school was still around.. but after this week, that's been muted a LOT. Which is wonderful. It was kind of like that feeling from The Bell Jar, only instead of just being grey, I was worried and.. anxious as well. It wasn't cool. But now it's not there as much, so phew! Maybe once I finish all my summer homework, it will dissipate even more. Now all I have to do is fucking schedule work days with my uncle! I'm going to call him again tomorrow.
Nadia leaves on Sunday :(. I like her.. she's fun, and nice. She, Jonathan, and I played a drinking game two days ago called Circle of Death. What you do is, you get a deck of cards and make a circle with it. Then, one person draws a card and puts it in the middle. Now, you have to do something according to the card you draw, or the color it is.
For any card that isn't a face card, if the card is red, you have to take as many drinks as the number on the card. So, if I were to draw a red five, I have to take five drinks. If the card is black, you get to delegate to whoever you want how many drinks they can take.
If I drew a black nine, I could have told Jonathan to take four and Nadia to take five. You can also split it so that you have to take some. With the black nine, I could have also told Jonathan to take three, Nadia to take three, and made myself take three.
If you draw a jack, you have to do something called a Waterfall. The person who drew the card (let's say it was Jonathan) has to start drinking and keep drinking until he decides to stop, and then the next player (me) has to do the same and can't stop until the person who drew the card (Jonathan) stops. The person after that (Nadia) can't stop until the second person (me) stops, and so on and so on. Now, if the person who drew the card (Jonathan) stops, the second person (me) can keep going until whenever, or she (me) can stop then. And then the third person (Nadia) can do likewise. You can probably see why it's called Waterfall..
If you draw a queen, that means Questions. With Questions, whenever the person who drew the card talks to another player, that player has to either ignore the person or answer with a question. If he doesn't do either, he has to take a drink. So, if I drew a queen and said to Nadia, "This is a fun game." and she answered, "Isn't it, though?", or if she just didn't answer at all, she'd be alright. If she had responded, "I think so, too.", she would have had to take a drink, since she didn't respond with a question.
If you draw a king, that means Category. What happens is that you stop the game and whoever drew the card has to make up a category that you list items under. I'll use an example from that night. Jonathan had drawn a king and made the category Things You Can Use as a Sex Toy. So, he said something like 'a candle', and I said, 'a commemorative Statuette of Liberty', and Nadia said 'a wrapping paper tube', and so on and so on. If you don't think of something within ten seconds, you have to take a drink and the category is over.
Now, aces are the particularly exciting cards. When you draw an ace, you have to make up a rule. One of the rules we made up was that you had to say 'in my pants' after everything you said. So, if I had said, "Put it in my hands," I would have had to add 'in my pants', thus making the entirety of what I said, "Put it in my hands in my pants." The rule is followed unless someone else draws a face card, in which it's temporarily put on pause. If another person draws an ace, he can either override the rule, thus making it void, or add another rule on top of that. Jonathan drew an ace once, and instead of nulling my 'in my pants' rule, he added the rule that you have to say 'Oh, what a lovely tea party.' before 'in my pants'. So, if I had said 'Damn!', I would really have had to say, "Damn oh what a lovely tea party in my pants." If you forgot to follow the rule, you have to take a drink.
And that is Circle of Death. It's a pretty simple game.. lots of fun. You're supposed to use beer, but we used Bailey's. I wasn't affected too much - I only got the tiniest hint of a buzz. But that's okay. It was still really cool to play with Jonathan and Nadia. I daresay they love each other ^^... it's very cute. I mean, she asked what she thought their kids would look like, since we were talking along that vein, and he wasn't freaked out or anything. They've probably discussed that before. And I know they're doing it... a lot. I know far more about their sex life than is conventional, let me tell you. AND NOT ON MY OWN VOLITION. They tell me most of it. I don't really care, but it's funny that they're the ones feeding me the information. Oh well. I just shake my head slowly at them. It's pretty funny, really. And you know what's even funnier? If I were to tell him - him being Jonathan - about my sex life, he would get all uppity about it. Older brother thing, I guess, but still. However, I don't plan on discussing such excursions with my brother, so that probably won't happen any time soon.
Tomorrow I am going to Mike Z.'s pre-July Fourth barbecue! Hoorahh... it should be interesting. Shit, I should go take a shower, then.. l8r d0000ddzzzz.