The One Where Julie Almost Throws the Newlyweds Out of Her House

I stole this title format from the hilarious Joolee , who I think stole it from someone else, who I am sure stole it from Friends.

It seemed perfect for this situation.

Noah was gone this evening, hanging out with his bachelor friends. Well, they are not all bachelors, but they don't all have 3 kids and a lovely, sweet wife at home lamenting their absence like he does. And boy did I miss him tonight!

One of my friends, Becki (the names have not been changed to protect the innocent, because, quite frankly, they are not innocent) wanted to play Settlers this evening. Since I have children I said that I would like to play at my house but that it would just be me because Noah was not going to be home (perfect place for a stike through, but I don't know how!).

Anyway, as it turned out we got a game together. Me and 2 relatively newlywed couples. Me. Non-sappy, hyper-competitive me. Me and two relatively sappy (no offense guys), not so competitive newly-wed couples. I missed Noah.

But it was ok until the end of the second game. They threw the game. Totally threw the game. Both of the other women took turns attempting to get their men to win. And one succeeded. Even though, had the game not been thrown, I would have won. This is where the title comes in. Seriously. I know that all you Non-Sappy, Hyper-competitive people out there get this. I know that you are pounding your keyboards now at the injustice of it all. To the rest of you: throwing the game is really, really bad (especially when you throw it to your "sweetie" and especially when I had already had to state that you can ONLY TRADE THINGS RELATED TO THE GAME AND NOT EXTRA FAVORS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BACKRUBS, NOT SLEEPING ON THE COUCH, AND FOOT MASSAGES!).

I attempted to explain later the difference. I will "help" someone take away the largest army or longest road to PROLONG THE GAME so that I can have more time for the ultimate goal: ME WINNING! But blatantly "helping" someone so that they just win. Not cool. Not cool at all.

My blood pressure is slowly coming down. I blame some of it on all the junk I ate after my 5K this morning, but mostly I blame it on the GAME THROWING. I asked Mike if it felt good to win after not really earning it. It apparently didn't really bother him.

I told Matt, Becki, Mike and Jenni that I was going to blog about this. So I have. I really was annoyed about it. I wasn't just kidding. But I will get over it. And I still like all of you. And I will invite you back (0r let you invite yourselves back). Probably. There may have to be a moderator.

And I may bring this obsession with justice, fairness and winning up at my next therapy session. Maybe in time I will work through it and be able to play a game "just for fun"????? Or maybe not.