It's odd...

[soc_puppet]

But I suddenly really want to play Mah Jong.

I miss the old GAME Club days and sitting around with the old group, yelling "Mine!" when I saw something I wanted that had just been discarded, or "Pretty!" when I drew a flower. I miss the playing and the bad jokes we'd make and the general comeraderie of it all.

I want to sit down and play Mah Jong again sometime soon.


Anyway~ Some random things from yesterday and the day before.

In Spanish class, we were talking about how in Spain they call blue jeans "Cowboy pants" and usually just shorten it to 'cowboy'. So "I want to buy [a pair of] jeans" basically turns into "I want to buy a cowboy."

Me: Ooo, that one tends to walk around without his shirt on!
Her: That one has a nice hat!
Me: That one comes with his own horse!
Her: That one's built really well
Me: That one just starred in a movie!
Her: He's gay; I don't have much use for him.
Me: I do! :D
Her: Why? You're not [a gay man].
Me: But I do like reading about them ^____^
Her: ...

And then I was complaining to my brother about that big OrigiManga I'm planning to do after MGI.

Me: I can't decide if [female main character] gets her hat from her brother or her ex-boyfriend!
Him: ...No, I can't say that.
Me: Say what?
Him: *mutters* Can't believe I'm saying this, but *more clearly* Why not both?
Me: *has just been (re)reading Saiyuki* XD

...I think I'm probably going to go with ex-boyfriend when I get there. If only to make it easier to make the lame unicorn joke. Almost certainly not going to go with 'both' tempting though it is.

Comments

[soc_puppet]

^__^; Sorta. It was kinda false Mah Jong--we didn't make bets or play with all the rules, and we pretty much ignored the points system--but it was still lots of fun.

If you ever make it up here, I will have to drag you over to play with my old Mah Jong buddies, house rules and everything. I got a set for my birthday, so I can play with my family, but it's not the same as playing with my old friends. It's also not the same playing by myself... *sigh*

And we also need to play Mao together :D

[hime-no-nishi.livejournal.com]

What's Mao? The group that mom played with didn't bet either due to her being in the group and the point system was forgone. It's just who got up to a full hand first. Lucky you for getting a set for your birthday. We must figure out a time for visiting for sure now. So totally.

[soc_puppet]

Mao is, in my opinion, the most awesome card game ever :D It's also the most evil and frustrating, which makes it more fun ♥ The first rule of Mao is you must never repeat the rules of Mao. Luckily, the person who taught us was generous and interpreted 'repeat' to mean 're-use' instead of 'tell people,' so I think I'll be following his lead.

The basic object of Mao is to get rid of all of your cards. You never just play one round, and each game is different. The first round is to lay down the basics of the game; usually it's a combination of two other card games, at least one of which designed to get rid of cards. Sometimes a single game is just tweaked to get rid of cards rather than collect. The game starts with only one person knowing the rules, so the other players have to try and figure out the rules as they go in order to win. The winner of the first round makes a new rule and doesn't tell anyone, so the players have to figure out that rule in the second round. Each round introduces a new rule (or, in some cases, removes or edits an earlier rule). The rules can be anything from "play red cards with your right hand and black cards with your left" to "don't wear a watch while playing". Every time you break a rule on your turn you have to draw another card. The one constant rule for every game of Mao is you have to put down your cards to ask a question. We play a 'wussy' version of Mao in which all the rules are re-set after every game, but there are people who carry rules over from game to game for years. Anyway, I think it's lots of fun.

Sounds exactly like the way I'm used to ^_^ Makes things simpler.

*nods* Very much so, yes.