card sharks...

since we got out of bed 4-5 hours ago, the little and i have watched one movie, watched a bunch of teevee, and played the 'old maid' card game (as opposed to the game where the little and i stare in the mirror and count my grey hairs), we played 'go fish' a couple of times (which i had not played in so long that i actually had to read the instructions on the cards to make sure i knew what i was doing!). we first played with some kiddy cards (with pics of sea creatures on them), then we opted to play with a regular deck of cards... or so we thought. now i don't know who or what 'pinnochle' is, but somehow i have purchased a defective deck of cards because stuffed inside the box was 2 half decks of cards and the name "pinnochle" written in tiny letters somewhere on the packaging. sure, it made playing 'go fish' go a lil faster so that's not bad. but now how am i supposed to teach the little how to play blackjack? she's also kicked my butt at candyland, and i think later we'll raze the eiffel tower we made from tinkertoys this weekend and re-build something as constructionaliciously tall as 'latooreffel with lasers' as she likes to call it. oops, she just called out and exclaim "memory gaaaame!!" and now there are a bunch of tiles on my living room floor.... i'm off.