Oy vey!  What a weekend.  Where to begin....  Well Friday night Cristie came over & we watched "Corpse Bride" which was very well done & very funny.  Excellent cast of voices including Christopher Lee and the lady who plays Patsy on Ab-Fab...can't remember her name.  Like Cristie said, she doesn't understand how I can be gay.  No fashion sense, no decorating ability, no memory for gay icons.  But my response to her was "Well that's why you're here, to be my guiding fag-hag."  Is this not the fodder that sit-coms are built on?  But, she has finally admitted that I have "the gift".  She brought me another oracle...

That's right!  Inspired by episode #42 with the magic conch shell, Spongebob will answer all of life's questions.  Chris, a habitual no-show to our little get-togethers was supposed to be coming up on Saturday but still hadn't called to confirm, so I asked if we would see Chris this weekend and Spongebob said "yes".  Naturally, Cristie was skeptical, but was once more proved wrong. 

Anyway, so then we wanted to play Monopoly but we needed a 3rd so I called my friend Jeff to come over.  No, this is not the same Jeff who wanted to try to date me for the 4th time (FYI, that of course has come to nothing...big surprise.)  So this was the Star Wars Saga version...and it had the most interesting optional rule.  If you rolled doubles, you could use the Force.  Double ones let you move to any place on the board.  Double twos got you $200 from the bank.  Double threes netted $50 from every player.  Double fours was good for a Chance card.  Double fives got a Community Chest card.  And double six's?  Oh here's where the fun began.  Double six's lets you battle for property control.  You can take another players property of your choice (so long as they didn't control all the color lots of that group) if you rolled a higher number than your opponent.  How Cristie managed to unwrap that game, load those dice, and get the box shrink-wrapped again I'll never know.  She should have bought a lottery ticket considering the luck she had.  And she accuses me of voodoo!  Poor Jeff went bankrupt first...didn't take him long to leave after that.  So then we watched...what was the title?  Black Christmas?  Anyway, slasher film that was so badly done it was funny.

Saturday we got up late & did nothing but watch VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders.  It was during this spectacle that Cristie mused..."See, we should have been old enough in the 70s to enjoy it."  To which I replied, "Oh lord, I'd have lived in Studio 54 & been dead before I was 27...and you'd still be a worn-out queen!"  That's right...I am that good!  Then I had to leave to go work night shift at the home.  I must have been out of mind to agree...I haven't worked 11 to 7 in four years.  But, I do kinda need the money.  I managed to stay busy all night, for which I was very grateful so I wasn't falling asleep.

Got back this morning with breakfast from Hardee's (they make a mean loaded omelette biscuit).  Slept for a couple of hours & then got up to watch a "Farily Oddparents" marathon with the sea hag.  We're such adults.  So then, our long-lost friend Chris calls & says he's on his way over.  See?  The oracle was right.  "All hail the magic conch!!"  He brought me my birthday present, which sent Cristie pea green with envy.  It's this really sweet Wonder Woman statue, and I'll get a pic of it up here but the lighting right now is bad & I want a great pic to show.  Oh, we also let Cristie in on the big secret.  We managed to further fuel her obsession with Harry Potter by supplying her with... the Harry Potter collectable card game.  It's basically played about the same as Magic.  She's out at Wal-Mart right now trying to find additional game packs.  Chris & I have been playing these types of games for years now.  We've literally sat up all night talking & playing Star Wars, Pokemon, Magic, & recently Harry Potter card games till after the sun was up.  So now, Cristie is on a level playing field with us, and just as obsessed.  She kept saying "this is not good...I don't need another obsession."  Ah sweet revenge...what delicious torture.