Brain Fog on Family Day

Monday was Family Day in Ontario, and I think most provinces celebrate something or other on that day or sometime in February.

Apropos for the day, we had the family over for lunch and table games. Lunch was simple: mainly sandwich fixins on sourdough bread.

After lunch we played Wizard, Uno and Yahtzee in that order. Somewhat to Danica's dismay, we always pronounce UNO as you know instead of the Spanish, oohno. We can't help ourselves because we said it that way many years before we knew any better, and now the right way seems wrong and vice versa.

Before I go on to Sue's photos, let me tell you how weird my day was, which gets us to the Brain Fog of the title.

With the help of the cat, I got up sometime around 5 or maybe 5:30. But I was feeling tired, so I did something that I don't do — kipped for another hour or more on my chair. I guess I shouldn't have, for that, or something, threw everything out of whack for me, and I was tired all morning, despite getting more sleep that usual. I even attempted to get a few minutes nap just before the fam arrived, but as I was drifting off, I was awakened by having them arrive earlier than I expected. And that left me groggy and in the wrong head space, let me tell ya. Too bad really. 

After they left, I did have a very short kip, and felt somewhat better afterward. My rhythms were really thrown off that day. (I think it is too late for me to learn how to spell ryhmtumss 😉 without spellcheck having to come to my rescue.)

Here are the pics, all Sue's. The first is Wizard, which Danica won.

Then came UNO. I was so brain dead that I just stared perplexedly at the cards before the concept of the game came back to me. We only played a few rounds, and I'm not sure who won, but I know who didn't.

JJ won at Yahtzee. He scored a Yahtzee (5 of a kind) and did it again for a big bonus. He got a high score unlike any result I can every recall seeing. Meanwhile, the die may have picked up my vibes because they weren't turning over for me. When you roll a pair on your first roll but can't roll a third iteration on two more rolls of three die, well what can you say?

Sue was probably thinking about keeping some cards up her sleeve for possible future 365 prompts. (Did you notice what I did there — cards up sleeve?)

Brain fog or not, it was a nice break in the dadblasted month of February, which really is the pits in a northern winter. Today (Tuesday) with a freezing rain warning, the kids have another day off school, after Friday being a snow day and Monday being Family Day. That freezing rain was supposed to begin a few hours ago and hasn't started yet, so it may eventuate that the snow day hasn't been necessary. But I'm sure the kids won't complain. (Note: it did happen in the afternoon and evening.)