I slept in a little bit, woke up with some big time pain in the shoulder in back-that bed has got to go. I took motrin and plugged in the heating pad. I got my coffee and breakfast ready before I got on skype with Kevin. Got a chance to talk to Cecilia for a little while about school, her braces and how everything is going for her. She was wearing my Battaan Death March sweatshirt, she says it makes her feel closer to me. Made me cry, I miss her so very much! Kevin and I had a good chat, but, it was getting late and he needed to get to bed. He has been sick for the last two weeks with the worst cold he has ever had. He is working the golf tourny this week, he is on the mountain bike all day, not really helping him to get better. Then if I keep him up all night talking him, he is not going to get any better either.
So, I got off of the phone with him and put in a $2 movie to watch while I worked on the Kirigami design for this week. It is a rose. It covers 6 days of cut-outs. It is the first rose design I have done.
I also did this butterfly-my best yet.
I could hear everyone gabbing out in the hallway so I went out there to see what was going on and we got to talking about when we are going to play cards. We decided on 2pm and Phase 10 would commence in the hallway. I went to lunch with Freddy and when I got back I worked on the picture I colored for the week.
Then the time came for the games to commence. It was epic. This was our card table area. my seat, the one covered in my poncho is on one of my containers, it has my chem gear in it. Notice the puff of smoke in Chief's face, it is vapor-not really smoke though.
The best part was the uncontrollable laughter from Chief-he just came back from R & R. While he was gone he picked up some of those e-cigarettes to help with the smell of smoke etc on his clothes. However, we have determined there is something else in those things from all the giggling from Chief.
The jokes-were out of control. Hanks was picked on for the smelly farts she has all the time. Freddy was picked on for being Mexican. Chief for the giggles and being Peruvian, plus his doughnut chair.
Martindale for his anger over a silly little card. Me for having the right cards in my hand and not playing them and getting caught with them.
Comments said:
Hanks needed to step over Freddy to get to her room-"she needs to cross the border"
Freddy for concern over the farts-"not sure which end to let pass, front or back"
Chief repeatedly asking, "I have a question. What is a set?"
Martindale, "I just need one damn card, come on, give me a card."
Cards I would love to steal from the deck for next time, "Skip and the 12 or 11 cards" Freddy kept dropping them on me.
Chief discarded too soon, "Premature discard"
The endless jokes on Hanks for her farts and eating, she is not fat-they just call her that, she is not gay either, but, the jokes that she is are endless.
Freddy calling the game, "Is this white people UNO?"
There were so many. We were into our second game, I lost the first one-Chief won. Chief agreed to play the second game to continue his winning streak of one game won. The first 5 or 6 hands he kept saying, " I need to break for dinner, I need to go eat." But, he would still just sit there and giggle.
Three separate times the Major came in. The first, to see what we were doing-having fun, now go away. The second, to deliver my mail, a letter from Cecilia that got mis-routed.
The third, he found this football for the dog, Angel.
By the way, this is Angel.
This is her trying to get the dog food Hanks bought her
A thing to note-a guy came in earlier to tell us he was from a new unit that is in place and he was just going around meeting people. His weapon sling was serving as a support for his gut...anyways, he said he was from the Unit written on the football. They just got in, named a football and the Major stole it to give to us for the dog he has never seen? Odd-which made us laugh even more...check out the name brand of the ball.
We finally gave into the Chief and said we would go to dinner. We giggling all through the meal. We embarrassed Chief like kids embarrass their parents-it was funny. Friday is steak night.
Then it was back to the game. I was waiting for a message from Kevin if he was ready to call. I had my computer in the hallway ready for him. Martindale was waiting for his wife to call too. I got the message from Kevin he was ready-ran to the toilet real fast and talked with him for a little while. Talked to Will for a few minutes too. It was great to talk to Kevin. Although I was having a fun time, I wished he was playing cards with me too.
We finished up our game, Martindale won. I got last place. Stupid 12s and skips.
Then it was back to my room to do my weekly letters for the kids and cards. I did a couple other special letters for Kevin and I sent back the dot game to Cecilia. Here is what my weekly mailings look like. I also send out stuff through the week to Kevin.
I watched a little bit of t.v. then went to reading some more of the book I got from Jana, "Wizard's First Rule" by Terry Goodkind. It is pretty good so far, a new genre for me to try. It makes me have some interesting dreams of swords and wizardry.
I sent off my goodnight text to Kevin complete with Muah, muah, muah and it was off to sleep.
It was mostly a typical Friday, but, it was nice to spend it laughing and joking and building friendships. We are going to include Niazy in the next game-we will have 4 countries represented. Mexico, USA, Peru and Afghanistan-quite the international card game! I look forward to more Fridays to come and make more memories, laughter and maybe, just maybe win a game of cards.
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