Very Loud Librarian, plus a couple of financial planners and a legal assistant

November 25, 2024

My husband did come up to check on my last night, mostly because he was surprised I hadn't asked for a Diet Pepsi. I have one in the afternoon, but I hadn't had one yesterday and I said I might ask him to bring one up when I headed upstairs. When he came up it was pretty late already - not for sleeping, lol, but for having a Diet Pepsi and then hoping to fall asleep at some point. I thought I might wake up with a headache but I did not. I FaceTimed with Eve and read and didn't end up falling asleep until about 11:30, which is still early for me, but I had a really good sleep. I had not had dinner, but when I got home Matt was making hamburger soup with short rib instead of hamburger, so I had a late lunch. I also did not wake up hungry. Things just worked out. I guess sometimes you just need to take to your bed at 6:30.

The games we played at the cottage: Very Loud Librarians. Quiddler, and Heads Up, and maybe one I'm forgetting? Oh yes, it was Asshole - the card game, to be clear. Very Loud Librarians was a fun concept but we found it annoying in practice - you play in teams and the game pieces are a kind of train of four little plastic circles, one with a librarian figure in it and three that are clear. The pieces go around a board of letters. You get a category and have to name something in the category beginning with the letter in one of the clear circles. It's harder than it sounds, which is the point, but the game pieces don't move around the board well - they keep bunching up and going crooked - and there's only one circle of letters so you have to keep switching between each team's game pieces, which is really confusing.

Quiddler was fun - it's kind of like Scrabble only you have cards with letters instead of wooden tiles, and there's no board so no adding onto other people's words. You have to spell words and then discard one card, and any cards you have left at the end you have to subtract from your total. Janet creamed us all. Collette's funny moment was when she played "SAND", discarded one card and had a solitary "Y" that she was going to subtract from her total. Until we all stared at her for a long, uncomfortable moment and she asked why the hell we were staring at her and then said Fuck me and put the Y at the end of the SAND.

I love Heads Up, even though I'm quite bad at it. We did Movies, Pop culture, Actors, the 80s, things you were supposed to act out instead of speaking the clues (the normally sedate and proper Margot fake-licking tequila off my neck and attempting a pole dance mime with a dining room chair is something no one will forget soon), and Current Events (that were not, very). Susanne had Dr. Zhivago on her forehead and the rest of us were yelling Russian winter and Lara's theme and Collette said "riding on a nuclear bomb!" which made us all stop and look very confused, and then she said "oh no wait, that's Dr. Strangelove", which made us all laugh until we had a coughing fit (okay the coughing fit was mostly me).

I usually take more pictures, but November has been busy and we were all tired. Which is fine - I like that the details of it change but the bones stay the same, and it is always a really good time.

When I got home Matt had put up the garland on the stair rail and then lights on the shelf above the tv. I haven't put up any decorations yet, so he just draped the lights over what is already on the shelf, which is kind of enjoyable.