Tricky Grandparents

Yesterday I visited my grandparents. My Opa was still napping so my Oma and I were talking and then we started playing doubles solitaire (ironic, I know). A little while later, my Opa comes into the kitchen where we were playing and starts reading the newspaper and keeps interrupting our solitaire game for me to read bits and pieces of the news including the middle school shooting in New Mexico, the retired cop who shot and killed someone in a movie theater over texting in Florida and about the woman who gambled her millions away in Vegas. During that time, my Oma would keep playing solitaire, possibly cheating! 

Once he finished the newspaper, he brings out a book with famous paintings and their stories and the stories of the artists in them. He shows me the famous picture of Adam and Eve and asks if I can spot the mistake. Again, all the while my Oma is playing solitaire and possibly cheating cause she kept winning!

The mistake of course being that they have belly buttons. 

Next he shows me "The Discovery of Honey" and asks what I think of all of those "funny little people."

My theory is that my Oma and Opa planned this whole charade so that my Oma could win more games against me than I normally let her win. 

To get back at her, I took her smurf figures and hid them all around the house. I think we're about even, but I'm watching them!

Playing God?

According to some website that has different "holiday's" each day, it is Play God Day. Also according to the website, people believe that God is good and therefore it is a day to do something good and extra special. You could do something nice and boring like hold open a door, shovel snow for someone for free or bake cookies for your neighbor...but what if you are not a good God. 

What if you like watching people suffer. What if you like watching them get hurt. Well then I suggest you don't actually do these things in real life (cause the law doesn't care that it's Play God Day and you might get in trouble), so I suggest writing. If you want to watch people suffer, write a scene where a dog dies and the family is in mourning. Feeling more evil then that? Maybe you blow something up. A bomb in a house. A pipe exploding in a factory. A fatal car crash. Want to go bigger? Maybe a plane crash.

Remember to always think big, whether good or evil. Think like Darth Vader if you have to, remember, he blew up a whole planet!

(and yes while Tarkin gave the order, the guy at the control panel actually fired, and Darth Vader who held Princess Leia back)