phases

since i've moved in with hailee, we went through a few phases. i realize the title of the post might have given that away.
anyhow, we had our sudoku phase. that is still on-going but when i moved in, that's all we would do. never mind watching tv shows, never mind having human interaction and actually talking, we placed sudoku. you should see the stacks and stacks of sudoku books we have on the end tables. it is actually bordering on absurd.
after we settled down a little on the sudoku, we had the movie phase. we watched movie after movie after movie. that got expensive because we were always renting, and always forgetting to return. blockbuster has rules, you know. after a good amount of laughs, tears, and "what the hell was that?" we got better. we still watch movies often, but not several everyday.
much like sudoku, we had will&grace. we have about half of the seasons and still watch them, though not as religiously as we first did. which is good, because only one in fifty people get our jokes about the show.
for about a month and a half we've been on the game phase. we play games every night, which as actually a good way to spend an evening if you are boring like we are. you can still talk and have a movie on or listen to some music all that crap. that's not what we care about. we care about... the phases.
i made the mistake of introducing hailee to phase 10. i say mistake because i can be quite competitive with the game. when i play, i'm not allowed to have any heavy object in my vicinity. this is because when i get stuck on a phase, i tend to through anything i can get my grubby hands on directly at your head. i've actually hurt a few people and i honestly am sorry. but during the game, BRING IT ON BITCHES.
hailee has learned the heavy objects rule, but hailee has also learned the competitive nature of this game. she gets just as mad as i do. her mad was once turned into pouting and whining. now, however, she has turned.
since neither of us are allowed to have anything remotely heavy next to us during this game, we have taken to punches. i have brusies on my arms and hailee on her legs because one or the other got 5 extra points added or someone got stuck on a phase.
the point is not to show you how vicious we can really be to each other. because after the game is over and the cards are back in their box, we're happy. there is no hostility or anger towards anyone because of the outcome of the game. it just gets that way DURING the game.
the point is,
YOU GOTTA TRY THIS GAME