{"id":15310,"date":"2012-07-07T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=15310"},"modified":"2012-07-07T00:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T07:06:32","slug":"families-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/15310","title":{"rendered":"Families Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my<\/span> former life<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n

Some badges are just plain tasty. Homemade potato chips, organic grocery shopping …<\/p>\n

Visiting Gramma Barbie in Florida this week gave me a fabulous chance to earn my Families Forever Badge<\/a>. Not only was I going to be there (in Gramma\u2019s posh retirement home\u2014hellooooooo, pool boys), but Auntie Skipper and Auntie Kelly were visiting as well. It was the perfect chance for some good old-fashioned fun \u2026<\/p>\n

Game Night!<\/p>\n

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Of course, I had forgotten how cutthroat Gramma is at board games, and since she spends like, six days a week playing Bingo with her girlfriends, sippin\u2019 their sweet tea and talking about their kids, I didn\u2019t really stand a chance. Thank goodness I\u2019ve always been her favorite or she\u2019d have taken me for all I was worth. As it was, I wagered (and lost) two pairs of Manolo Blahniks and a Gucci bag during Gin Rummy. Incidentally, there is no Gin or Rum involved, which I found to be a bit misleading. (Actually, the Gucci was a Guci that I bought from a vendor outside the mall. I was blinded by the salesman\u2019s French accent and didn\u2019t notice the spelling. I\u2019m banking Gramma won\u2019t notice either).<\/p>\n

Anyhow, things were going fine until Auntie Kelly brought out Taboo, and it was all downhill from there. I was paired with her, and let\u2019s just say our two minds do not work well as one. Gramma kept merrily beeping me with that annoying buzzer every time I slipped up, and she and Auntie Skipper pretty much annihilated us. I kept getting these crazy hard words: for example, Queen Victoria. So I yelled \u201cCate Blanchett!\u201d because, of course, she played her in the movie (only she didn\u2019t, that was Queen Elizabeth, I guess) and Auntie Kelly didn\u2019t know what I was talking about, and after we got through the whole wrong queen debacle, I shouted \u201cBeckham!\u201d because that was the only other Victoria I could think of. Then Auntie Kelly yelled, \u201cBend it like Beckham!\u201d and I was like, \u201cNo, no, focus! Posh Spice! Posh Spice!\u201d and then she was all, like, \u201cHit me, baby, one more time!\u201d and I was like, oh for crying out loud, that\u2019s Britney Spears, and haven\u2019t you ever heard of Victoria Beckham? And that was when Gramma Barbie buzzed me cuz I said the word Victoria.<\/p>\n

Again.<\/p>\n

With a really maniacal chuckle, too.<\/p>\n

So, we gave up on Taboo and moved on to Scrabble, which I totally thought was really unfair because I\u2019m not like, the world\u2019s best speller, plus they all know bigger words than I do and they said I can\u2019t abbreviate or use text speak, which is so unreasonable. KWIM?<\/p>\n

So, all in all, all the family bonding was getting a little distressing for Yours Truly, but I made it through, and by the time we got to Clue, I absolutely cleaned the floor with them. No one deduces like I deduce! I\u2019ve got total detective skills. I think it\u2019s from reading all those Nancy Drew mystery stories when I was a kid. Not a lot gets by me; I\u2019m terribly observant.<\/p>\n

Well, except when it comes to French salesmen, and I consider that a weakness, not a flaw.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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