Hilary Booth... of course!

The temperature is brutally cold here. It actually feels like February for a change.

I'm quite confused. I have somehow been converted into a curling fan. Our local CVS member has been looking forward to the Torino coverage for some time, so he's been encouraging us to watch and explaining the intricacies. Yesterday watching the US men and Germany, I realized I finally understood the basic scoring. I still don't get all the lingo straight, much less understand all the strategy involved. The US ladies were leading Switzerland for much of their match, only to get knocked out by a phenomenal final shot by the Swiss captain.

I attended short story marathon hosted by one of our CVS members. I did some thinking about the one story idea I had but as much as I adored the opening, I couldn't quite get into the story. We did notecards on our personal traits and then swapped the cards around, so it was interesting to see what people used and how. There were traits I didn't put because I didn't realize I did! I apparently hum while I'm working, whether for focus or what I'm not certain. But until someone pointed out that I did that, I was "Huh? What?" *blushes beet red of embarrassment*

We also played a very strange game of word association called "Apples to Apples" where you're given an adjective and you're supposed to come up with the best noun in your hand that describes it. Each person around the group gets to judge, so to a degree, you're playing to the judge's penchant. I was actually quite good at this game, sometimes to my surprise. I did occasionally throw down the wackiest wrongest association that came to mind and won! I still lost the whole game by one card, but it's still a very cool game. Apparently the game even includes blanks so you can add your own nouns. Some cards are impossible to play without a cringe factor.