NURDLES UNITE!

So Saturday was my best friend Katie's birthday party. I love Katie Parties because Katie Parties usually include:

1.Pizza.
2. Cheesecake.
3. Board games!!

Seriously, who plays board games anymore? Nobody! I never owned any other than checkers my entire life. But Katie's house is a board game paradise and Saturday I stuffed myself with cheesecake and pizza and vanilla coke and play Monopoly and Balderdash with Katie, Gary, Brett and Nicole.

Katie's family plays what I like to call Survivor Monopoly: they throw most of the rules out the window and make crazy deals and alliances. We played the first half of Monopoly like semi-normal people and then halfway through we drew numbers and Katie and I combined forces against Brett and Gary's combined forces. Katie and I had Park Place and Broadway and all the super high class properties and Gary and Brett had the Ghetto. With like, fifty houses on them.

We got raped.

Like, big time rape. Like, Gary and Brett would forgive us our rent over and over again just to draw out how much in debt we were kind of rape. Finally I landed on a hotel and they took every scrap of money and property we owned, just like those evil Big Company CEOS that all those unwashed hippie protesters hate with a fiery passion.

And then we moved on to Balderdash, which is possibly the most amazing game ever invented. If you don't know Balderdash, you have my unending sympathy, but it's too difficult to explain.

All that awesome game playing has led to the Nurdle Club. I'd tell you more, but it's super secret and I'd have to kill you.

Word of the Day: scurryfunger
A highlight from Balderdash. Apparently a scurryfunger is a device used to clean teeth way way WAY back in the day.

So excited!

So NaNoWriMo starts in a month and the nanowrimo forums have absolutely exploded. Thursday there was maybe one or two updates every ten minutes and now there is fifteen updates every second it seems. I can hardly keep up! So happy. Seriously, to anybody who writes, that forum is an absolute goldmine of a resource. Check it out!

I'm super excited for NaNoWriMo because I've been saving a story for almost an entire year to do it for NaNoWriMo, and I don't think I can wait much longer. I've never loved a story idea so much, and I've spent almost a year thinking of a gazillion things for it, including outlines and I never outline!

If you guys want to check out the awesome forums, then head to www.nanowrimo.org. Especially YOU laurie!

Word of the Day: Liripoop
You know that tassel that hangs from your graduation cap? That's a liripoop. How awesome is that?