to prove my point.

Remember that last post about books saturating my life?

Tonight, I sat around with Trey, Hunter, and Josh playing board games-- wild and crazy guys!-- and I couldn't help but see that post at work.

Trey had devised what he calls a board game biathalon (actually, it was a triathalon, but we talked him down from from tri- to bi-). We split into teams-- Josh/Lindsey v. Hunter/Trey-- and went back and forth between Scrabble and Taboo. We each played our turn of Scrabble, partners scores being counted collectively, and then we did a round of Taboo. Then, you guessed it, back to Scrabble. Repeat. I thought it was going to be chaotic, but it was actually a lot of fun and broke the monotony of an hour-long Scrabble game.

As we played Scrabble, I struggled more than usual. For one, Words with Friends lets me play with words and tells me if it's a word or not. But the most frustrating thing was that I couldn't remember what words were actually... words. Literary words from made up worlds fogged my mind-- is nox a word? or is it just a spell to turn out the lights? (that's from Harry Potter, Mom). what about avox? word or a tongueless convict in the Capitol? (The Hunger Games).

Clearly, I was working with an 'x' because doxy also sent me for a whirl (in Harry Potter-world, that's a creature that lives in dusty places, like the abandoned home of Sirius Black). But you get my point.

And for the record, Josh and I dominated: 320 to 247. Hunter's a frequent flier on Words with Friends, so I thought they'd have a pretty good run... not to mention, Josh played in a Benadryl haze, but it was an easy victory after all.

Best. Gamer. Ever.