Top 2 Tuesday!

We sometimes play a lot of games in my family, especially when we're all together around the holidays. Card games, board games, video games, word games, you name it. I'm not going to lie, I only know a few card games off hand but we have a plethora of board games in my basement. I should have a holiday party/game-night/awesome times. hmmm... But anyway, I'm getting sidetracked.

Top 2 Favorite Games!

1. Euchre. My family always plays euchre when we get together. After dinner you can always find 4 people sitting around the table enjoying dessert, coffee, and dealing out a hand of euchre. I didn't realize it until I went to school in Ohio, but apparently it's mostly a Michigan game. It's fairly simple, once you learn, but that learning process can be difficult and a lot of people I've tried teaching just give up. 

2. Rummikub. This is another one of those games that I love to play with my family, and we're almost always playing when we're together. My grandparents, sister, and I (and sometimes some other people like aunts and cousins) stay up late after the little kids go to bed and play when we're up north. 

Runners up: Scattegories, Boggle, Scrabble, Life, and Pay Day.

Top 2 Tuesday!

I'm getting an early start on this. Tomorrow (or somewhere else in the near future) you'll get goodies about our weekend.



Top 2 gifts I have received. (Aside from Jude, of course)
1) My tea press. I love tea. Especially loose leaf tea. My parents got me this for Christmas a few years ago and it's the greatest thing in the world. It makes two cups of tea, which is great for the times when I want lots of tea, which is usually all the time. The only downfall is that loose leaf tea isn't as easy to find in stores, but I did discover Teavana recently because one of my friends works there, I just haven't had the money to go and spend on tea. :(

Image from Google.

2) The surprise trip to NYC my parents took my sister and I on for Christmas a couple years ago. We were opening our presents and we got to the last box. It had socks in it and underneath them were tickets to plays and airplane tickets to NYC. We were still half-asleep and it took us awhile to catch on, but we pretty much packed our bags and got on a plane Christmas day and went to NYC for 3 days to see "Evil Dead The Musical" and "The Producers" on Broadway. It was great!

Top 2 Tuesday!

It's been a while since I've done one of these, but this Top 2 Tuesday is exciting because I love Fall!
So here it goes, my top 2 favorite things about fall.

1) Pumpkins!

I love pumpkins. I love to cook with them; pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, pumpkin lasagna being my 3 favorite recipes to date, maybe I'll add another awesome pumpkin deliciousness recipe to my repertoire this year. I love carving jack-o-lanterns. I love digging the guts and seeds out with my bare hands to carve them and I love roasting and eating the seeds. I just love pumpkins, end of story.


2) The way everything feels real. It may or may not make sense to people who aren't me or who don't understand everything that comes out of my mind, but something about the crisp fall air makes everything seem more realistic and better than during the other seasons. Part of it is going back to school, being on campus around people. Life is just in full gear and it's amazing.

Runners up, because fall is that great:
- The different colors of the leaves. Green is cool and all, but the diverse shades of orange, yellow, brown, red, and green are truly stunning.
- The crunch of leaves beneath my feet.
- Jumping into leaf piles.
- School.
- Cider mills.
- Hayrides.
- Halloween, of course.

So, dear readers, what are your two favorite things about Fall?

Top 2 Tuesday... Random Things About You

I found this blog, The Undomestic Momma and decided to participate in this top 2 Tuesday thing in hopes of getting myself to blog more. So here we go...

2 random things about me...

1) I can grab my uvula (the little speed-bag at the back of your mouth) without gagging. I can also bend my tongue back to lick it.

2) Even though I fell off the vegetarian bandwagon (very, very hard I might add) 2 years ago, I still fall-back and order vegetarian options when I'm out to eat at restaurants. I do it mostly because a) it's delicious and b) it's what I'm familiar with because it's what I was ordering for 5 years and I sometimes don't like to go out on a limb in a place of familiarity. I hate thinking about my food and where it comes from when I'm eating meat. I've thought about being a vegetarian again, then I get a delicious whiff of bacon. If it does happen, it will be when I start living on my own.