Saturday, March 16, 2013

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!

15 comments:

  1. Ha, I love the games that you guys make up! (Unless you didn't make this one up, but I still love the fact that you play it.) I am not usually a big fan of playing games, but I could get on board with Subjective Guess Who!

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  2. So funny. You guys are hilarious. Matt's really concentrating in that Guess Who pic! Also I love your matching Toms... I need to get Nick on board with wearing Toms and pick him up a pair! Happy weekend!!

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  4. I have a whole new appreciation for Guess Who after this. That is brilliant! You guys are too fun! :-)

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  5. I forced my brother to play Guess Who with me constantly when we were little. I wonder if I could force him to play subjective guess who now?! It sounds awesome!

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  6. This sounds like the greatest version of Guess Who ever!! We like to make up different variations of Apples to Apples, but other than that, we don't normally put our own twist on board games... excellent idea, though!

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  7. Subjective Guess Who has opened a whole world of board game possibilities... Subjective Go Fish ("Do you have any 6's?" "I don't feel like I do.") and Subjective Trivial Pursuit ("But I really, really think that Adam Sandler won an Oscar for Water Boy, so I must be right!") Now I'm going to subjectively Spring Clean my house :)

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  8. My husband and I made up the same version of Guess Who when we were engaged! But we call it Speculative Guess Who. It thrilled my heart to see my favorite made-up game described here! Well done, Matt & Erika.

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  9. HAHAHA! That is FANTASTIC that y'all have your own version of Guess Who! I love it. :)

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  10. Oh LORD the ideas running through my head of subjective twists to old games is making me laugh. Love your version of Guess Who. :) Oh, and your earrings in that first pic are darling!

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  11. Obviously I need to move to Northern Georgia because those tulip trees are sooooo beautiful. And Subject Guess Who sounds like all kinds of fun! Ha ha ha!!!

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  12. Now I have stolen TWO amazing games from you! Why do you people know the coolest games? Is there a website?

    Also, do you have tattoos on your feet, or is that a shadow in the picture?

    I'm intrigued.

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  13. HAHAHAHAHA! OMG, that is the BEST. I've got to bust that out the next time my BFF is in town!

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  14. I am sold on Subjective Guess Who. My sister and I just played the old boring way recently and remembered how lame it was. I'm so glad we have a new grown-up way to play!

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  15. This sounds amazing. I totally want to play Subjective Guess Who!

    Side note: have you seen Guess Who Halloween costume ideas? http://ideas.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/2012/11/07/cool-couple-costume-guess-halloween/

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