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January 03, 2007
Ringing in the New Year
The new year has come. It's time for resolutions. In addition to maintaining better posture and eating less cottage cheese, I aim to be a more consistent contributer to this blog. My apologies for the recent lack of excitement on these pages. I can promise much more unexciting content in days to come.
We spent New Year's Eve in Baltimore with Chris and Emily. We watched football, ate a tremendous feast prepared by Emily. Pork medallions. Very sophisticated. I ate eleven.
After dinner was dessert, prepared by Robbi. This is where an otherwise pleasant evening went south. Robbi's contribution, a cake prepared in a crock pot, was a bad idea to start with. But the execution picked up where the misbegotten notion left off, and the resulting product was a mixture of repulsive and downright offensive.
Does that look like cake to you?
Robbi couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry.
I think she ended up crying. Chris and Emily laughed. I lay on the ground and moaned. Out of husbandly goodness I ate an entire portion. This was a very bad idea.
After the horrible non-cake, we played a game of Celebrities, a wonderful pastime for people who don't mind making fools of themselves. in order to pick teams, we played the Ladder Game, a mystical exercise involving lines both vertical and horizontal. Robbi's college roommate Cathy once wrote an entire math paper on the mysteries of the Ladder Game. I won't try to explain it. I am not a math major. But here it is, in all it's glory.
As you probably can't tell from the picture, the ladder game picked Chris and me, the pork medallian team to play against Robbi and Emily, the horrible non-cake (affectionately dubbed "poopycake") team.
We had fun, but I'm not sure who won, lost as I was in the throes of my stomach-ache.
We're back in Chestertown now, the crock pot returned to it's rightful place in the non-kitchen. Robbi is busy working on Volume 4 and I am cramming for tomorrow's harmonica lesson. Iggy just finished destroying her favorite stuffed duck.
Which is to say, we all are well, but busy, in the new year.
Posted by bogenamp at January 3, 2007 12:38 AM
Comments
How eerie that you mentioned that crazy mysterious ladder game on the very day that I used it in one of my classes to pick groups. I never get tired of people being so amazed -- awestruck, even -- at the fact that it works. And then there's always the kid who thinks he can "break" it. HA! This is the infallible Robbi Behr ladder game! Ah, the ignorance of youth...
Posted by: Cathy at January 3, 2007 11:52 PM