georgia love & subjective guess who

Yesterday ended up turning into a gorgeous spring day and evening (and the rest of the weekend promises to be even BETTER), so after our 5:00 FREEEEEDOOOOMMMMM!!!!!! battle cry, we embarked on a rather typical-and-wonderful Matt y Erika Friday evening.

 

Not surprisingly, we started off with dinner on the porch of our neighborhood taqueria. This is how we start off 75% of our weekends (and 50% of the remaining weeknights) (we really like Mexican food) (and really don't feel like cooking usually), so nothing new here to see...except it was nice to be outside again finally! 

  After dinner we decided to enjoy the weather a bit more by walking around our downtown. Since it's been warm for like two days, a few things have started blooming, so we spent plenty of time investigating all plants and flowers and planning what we'll do in our yard and jealously coveting the beautiful landscaping and porches of some of the turn-of-the-century houses downtown. Our downtown is tiny, but we LOVE walking it and haven't been able to in a few months, so it was a very happy time.

 

And...then there was this spot where the sidewalk was broken. Instead of fixing it or leaving it be, someone opted to place two floor mats from a car in the gap. Made sense to me. (And by "made sense to me" I mean that I almost peed myself laughing so hysterically. Let's hope the homeowners weren't looking out their windows.)

Back to the serious stuff. Georgia beauty. Behold my favorite type of tree EVER:

 
I nearly lose my mind when I see these gorgeous tulip trees. And lucky for me, they're pretty pervasive 'round these parts, so there's a lot of mind-losing in late March. If there aren't tulip trees where you live, I suggest you move immediately. I recommend Georgia. But keep it north of the Gnat Line cause don't NO ONE wanna be swarmed by gnats 10 months a year. Ick. (Sorry South Georgians. True story, though.)

After it became too dark to enjoy nature anymore, we trekked on home and busted out one of our favorite games that we haven't played in way too long.

I'm sure that Guess Who is a familiar game to most of you, but we don't play it the normal way. May I present to you Guess Who's saltier big brother: Subjective Guess Who.

In Regular Guess Who you ask objective (read: boring) questions. Does your person have red hair? Does your person wear glasses? Does your person have a mustache? As your partner answers, you flip down your tiles until you've eliminated everyone but 'their person.' It's easy. A 6 year old could play this game.

In Subjective Guess Who you ask subjective (read: super fun) questions. Does your person use Twitter? Did your person vote for Romney? Does your person like cats? and then you have to think lonnnng and hard because truly, determining some of those things about a cartoon person can be very challenging and you're relying on a lot of stereotypes and such to make these tough judgment calls. But you press on and usually at the end of Subjective Guess Who no one guesses right to win and you spend 10 minutes fighting over whether Maria is pro-life or pro-choice or if Chris feels insecure in a crowd. I know. Ridiculous. But way more fun. This version of the game is even better when played with teams, because then you can get a whole BUNCH of people yelling about whether it's fair to assume white-haired people don't have iPods or if it's sexist to assume that no men want to attend a book club about 50 Shades of Gray. I mean, don't you just want to go play a round right now? That's what I figured. So now the next time you're at a yard sale and you see Guess Who for a quarter...do yourself a favor and pick it up.

So that's life out here in the sticks. Try to contain your jealousy and also try to work on your people-judging-skills if you ever hope to beat me at a game of Subjective Guess Who. I'm awesome.

Have a happy weekend!