Trivia Night for Dummies?
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Tonight I joined our home community leader to a Women in Portland Publishing “Trivia Night”, knowing full well that trivia’s “not my bag” … baby … yeah.
Am I the only one who DOES NOT KNOW the 4 letters that make up DNA codes, or the 7 deadly sins, or the 5 permanent UN countries, or for crying out loud, the 7 sins or something of the dark professor-what-nots at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. Like, hello? Average American girl schooled in FLORIDA raise your hand- OH, that’s right, that’s ME. All that hard earned tuition dollars, (insert flush sound here.)
Makes me think to put a bug in some one’s ear within Wiley, my lovely employer, that we need to add another book to the Dummies series- hence the title of this post. I know I’d buy it.
Acme, the trivia night venue, was a bit of a dive. But the beer was good (had Young’s, double chocolate!). My cheese quesadilla went to the wrong table two times, and after 45 minutes and two trips to the bar again asking about it, at last it arrives - a nice BEAN quesadilla. I tried to explain to the waiter all friendly-bubbly-Vivian-like and he gave me a blank stare and said, “Do you want us to remake it without the beans?” Um, no, sure, I’ll take the damn beans- which, I’m happy to report turned out to be WORTH all the fuss (either because it was that tasty or I was THAT hungry.)
So this makes two week nights in a row that I’ve gone out past dark! Can I officially call myself a night-lifer? HA! I don’t think it counts when I nullify my out-going excursions by reading “Children at Play” until I fall asleep!
Speaking of which, pray for me; I’m going through one of those work vs. mommy crisis, one tailored especially for the work at home mom who doesn’t want her child raised by Dora the Explorer. (In a similar note, I’ve been meaning to publish a post I started titled, “Bye Bye Pow Pow.” Yep, we’re choosing to forgo the literal interpretation of “spare the rod” now, big news for those of you who heard the words, “pow pow” warned from my lips a gazillion times a day!)
Adios for now…
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