06.29.06

I like silly games

Posted in Other Fun at 9:36 am by Chef Matt

This is a bit off topic, but I can’t help but join in on silly games when presented to me. One of my favorite games is called Stampin’, a game that had a trial run from the USPS and was billed as “The Lively Game of Stamp Acquisition”. I am serious about this. No, really! OK Mr. Doubter, look here. It is silly and I can see why it didn’t catch on (stamp acquisition is NOT lively), but I love it all the same.

So anyway, in that line of thought, I was tagged for this Meme of Fives by Anne from Anne’s Food yesterday, and I can’t help but play along. She billed me “entertaining” in my writing, so I hope she likes my answers!

Five Things in My Freezer:

1. Frozen Perogies
2. Italian coffee (Starbucks is burnt crap people! Wake up and smell the… hmmm, is that a bad or an apt metaphor?…)
3. Raspberries from my garden I am saving for winter
4. Chile peppers from New Mexico (thanks Jeff and Charlotte!)
5. Assorted nuts (insert crude joke here)

Five Things in My Closet:

1. Hawaiian shirts
2. Moose slippers
3. Things I don’t want my wife to find
4. An overflowing clothes hamper
5. Numerous skeletons

Five Things in My Car (my car is always full of crap of one kind or another. Here are some of the longer-term residents)

1. A CB radio and antenna I have never used
2. A map of the DC area from 1997
3. Three bungee cords
4. A piece of toe molding
5. A deck of mind teaser cards (I told you I love stupid games!)

Five things in my purse. (Ummm.. I don’t really have one of those, but I can tell you “Five things in my wallet”):

1. A Taco Bell “Club 1000″ card from 1997 (one of my most prized possessions)
2. A Red Cross Donor card (type O Positive)
3. About 350 Home Depot Receipts
4. A Kuwaiti 5 Dinar note*
5. Assorted business cards from chefs and restaurants I have been talking to.

*The Kuwaiti note was from a friend of mine who was a military contractor who went to Kuwait in about 2002-3. When he got back, he had the note, but had no idea of the value (nor did I). As a night of drinking went on, I was challenged to chug an entire side of blue cheese dressing, and he offered up the Kuwaiti Dinar in return for it. He told me it was like worth $3 or so. I did it, and it was one of the dumbest things I figured I had ever done for $3. Anyway, much to my surprise, 5 Kuwaiti Dinar are actually about $17 US, so it worked out OK for me. Now I just have to get to a currency exchange somewhere…

OK, so all that is done, and now I need to tag some other people with this.

• Boutros from Nookie Cookie - no question. She rules, and is a frequent commenter.
• Alejandra from Sent from My Dell Desktop - She also rules, but is not as frequent a commenter.
• Robert from Appetites - He has similar opinions to me, but does he have any Kuwaiti Dinar?…

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