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Whenever my siblings and I get together, we always wind up playing Catch Phrase over and over. For those of you who have never played before, it’s quite simple. 2, 4, 6, 73, or however many people you have split up into two teams. You sit in a circle and make sure that the order of people sitting goes Team A, Team B, Team A, Team B, etc. To play the game, you simply start the timer and try to describe the word shown on the Catch Phrase box. Once somebody on your team finally says the word, you pass it over to the next team and whichever team is left holding the Catch Phrase when the buzzer goes off fails to win a point. First to 7 points wins.

So as you can imagine, some hilarious moments can arise from such a game. For instance:

The teams are Tommy and Clay vs. Julianne and myself. Clay has the Catch Phrase and starts the buzzer as soon as he starts to describe this word…..
Clay: Okay, this is easy! It’s the place where four roads come together!
Tommy: Um, like a fork in the road?
Clay: No, no. Not just two roads, but four roads!
Tommy: What the hell are you talking about?! A stop light?! A street corner?!
Clay: No you dumbass! Okay, let me break this down for you. What’s the opposite of outer?
Tommy: Inner!
Clay: Right! Well the first part of this word sounds really close to that! Now for the second part! Okay…um…
The buzzer starts speeding up and buzzing louder
Tommy: HURRY UP!
Clay: I’M TRYING YOU IDIOT! Okay, when you buy a pizza, it comes in slices, but what’s another word for slices?! Come on you fool, this is easy!!!
Tommy: Um…Innerslices?! Innercity?! INNERPIECES!!!
Clay: NOOOOO! IT’S NOT INNER! YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT! IT’S WHERE FOUR ROADS MEET!!!!!!
Tommy: Innerstoplight? Innerroads? Innerstreet?
Julianne and I are rolling on the floor laughing since we both know the word and since the buzzer is going haywire now
Clay: IT’S NOT FUCKING INNER!
Tommy: I HAVE NO IDEA! YOU SURE IT’S NOT INNERPIECES?!
Buzzer sounds
Clay, Julianne, & Ryan: INTERSECTION YOU RETARD!!!!
Tommy: Oh……

I honestly don’t think we’ll let him live that one down for quite some time.

But as you can see, the siblings were down from Virginia this past week. I flew up to get them on Tuesday and brought them back down that night. We’ve just been hanging out here ever since, which is why I didn’t post over the weekend any. We did play a game of baseball yesterday and had such a good turnout that we’re gonna set another game up in two weeks. Tommy came through and brought a good 10 or so people out and we lucked out by having a few younger kids show up, so we had a decent 7 on 7. Next time we play, hopefully we can get a 9 on 9 and go over to Duncan Park to play on a real ball field.

And speaking of baseball, the rebuilding of the Mariners has officially begun. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little sad to see Freddy “The Chief” Garcia go. Like Mike Cameron, I had grown a little attached to seeing Freddy in a Mariners uniform and go out there ever 5 days and pitch for the M’s. But honestly, it was time for him to go. Not because he had outstayed his welcome in any way imaginable. Hell, he even got a little choked up during the press conference yesterday and wished there was some way he could stay here in Seattle. But the Mariners are done this year and Freddy’s a free agent this winter. It only made sense to trade him to a team who could use him and try to get some players back from him.

And did we ever! You’d be hard pressed to find a single person who knows anything about baseball that would say this is a bad trade for the Mariners. The Mariners got a major-league ready catcher and the 2003 Minor League Player of the Year for Garcia. I’m sincerely happy to be a Mariners fan for the first time in, what, a year? Finally, the Mariners make a move that doesn’t leave people going “What the fuck?”

Now if we can just find a way to bring back Freddy this winter… =)

I honestly don’t know what else to talk about. I’ve put off way too many things this past week. Most of it was due to the fact that my siblings were here, so I didn’t want to waste my time with them doing other things since I don’t get to see them but for a few weeks out of the year. So needless to say, I have about twenty thousand things piled up that need to get done, but I honestly don’t care.

Maybe I’ll get around to finishing that layout I told you about last week. The only problem is that Clay and Tommy both thought it looked stupid, so now I have to go back and change all the colors since they have convinced me it looks bad. Anybody interested in looking at it for me and giving me their opinion? Or maybe I’ll get around to finishing up one of the 20 or so half-typed posts I have on my desktop. Or maybe I’ll even get around to one of the many projects I’ve been planning for the past few months.

Or maybe I’ll just be lazy and refuse to do anything until after the 4th =)