October 8, 2003
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Thursday is impending.
And I!. I!. !I! will be taking off early (as soon as lab is done), biking home, throwing my shit in the car and getting the hell out of Dodge...er Columbus. I will be going home. Indiana and parent's house will always be "home" I think...at least until I get a place that's more...mine than any apartment can be. I do long for a place that is MINE, one that I can paint and love and just have. But I digress.
At home, I have my nieces! Yay for two...a brand new baby to hold and snuggle and change (can't feed her, I don't have the udders for it). And the "grown-up" baby, who is almost a year and a half old now. I like my sister's kids. I like baby time and it prevents me from having to make any. Also at home, will be my grandparents who I haven't seen for more than 7 years. It is pushing up onto 8 years now. I wonder how the time will have aged them and changed me. I wonder if I'll have anything to say to them. If nothing else, we can play cards.
Cards are an institution in my family. I sometimes think, that if you put two Ketcham's in a room and give us a deck of cards, we'd invent our own damn games. We play Pinochle and Hand'n'Foot when we have enough time and people. We play Tonk and 99 for nickles and we play Tick when we have company who doesn't know how to play the other card games. We play Cribbage and Michigan Rummy when we can't think of anything else....
This is not to say that we don't play other games. But cards....that is where the lifeblood of my family is, I think. If nothing else, give us cards and we'll play together. We might yell at each other while we play, but you know, I think that adds something to the mix. We're not afraid to say anything while we play...it tends to be a bit intimidating to outsiders I think. We have a couple of friend who play with us. My dear friend Amy who turns down dates with hot boys to play Hand'n'Foot for example. That always amuses me to no end.
Cards. It is where I learned to drink. How I learned that sometimes, you just have to get loud and aggressive (hence, I think, the alpha female post below). How I learned that you can yell at people and not always be mad or mean or even anything except enjoying yourself. How I learned competition and poker faces and so many other things....
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Mmmm...babies and cards and Ketchams...I am SO looking forward to this weekend. Oooh oooh...AND HOT TUB!
btw, I don't blame Amy for turning down dates with hot boys for Hand'n'Foot...especially considering she doesn't exactly lack the opportunity for dates with hot boys nearly as much as she lacks the opportunity to play cards!
Have a great weekend!!
I love games - they really bring people together that otherwise, wouldn't have much to do with one another. I also associate card games with older folks...my grandmother made it a habit whenever we would visit, to teach me a new card game. Fond memories!
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