War Witch's new FAD!

Originally Posted by Shadowe

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I'll keep lobbying for our Community guys and gals and the Developers to just drop by the EU servers randomly sometime (Come on - our peak playing time is your LUNCH HOUR! FOOD IS NOT IMPORTANT!) and say hi. It'd be funny as all heck to have someone drop by the Galaxy Girl statue as one of the signature characters... but then I'm an inveterate roleplayer...

Originally Posted by War Witch

Is it Friday already?! When did that happen?!

I laughed when I read the "Now I know you're one of us" comment -- was it the "grade 7" or the "runners" that gave it away?

So since this is my thread and I get to make (and change) the rules as I like, let's talk about some of these odd sayings in Canada. How many Canadian words need American translations? If you ask my husband, who's been with me for over ten years, he'll tell you "Plenty!"

So I'll start a dictionary for you. We'll see where it goes from there. (Hopefully not a bad place! Keep it positive, peeps!)

Chesterfield - not only did I sit on one each night watching "The Beachcombers", but I lived on an Avenue of the same name.

Butter Tart - best. dessert. ever. (Think of it like a mini-pecan pie without the pecans)

Chocolate Bar - what is this "candy bar" you speak of? My favourite all-time chocolate bar is (ironically, since I hate coffee) Coffee Crisp.

Nanaimo Bar - originated in the lovely town of Nanaimo - it's crazy sweet and rich, but very yummy. (There's probably a recipe on the internets for it somewhere.)

Pop - I don't drink soda, I drink pop.

Smarties - these are like M&M's but they do melt in your hand...and on your fingers...and probably will smear stains on your clothes if you're not careful. But they're very yummy. (And I don't actually eat the red ones last, I usually make a SmartieBurger with my brown meat, beige buns, red ketchup, yellow mustard, orange cheese, green lettuce and toss the whole mess into my mouth.)

Housecoat - it's what I wear around the house over my pajamas. You may think of it as a robe.

Track Pants - I never wear them here in California, but I used to in Vancouver when I'd be running around for PE. (Think sweat pants.)

Deke Out - leave quickly, take off, slink away. It's like this, "Hey, look, I know we're halfway through the Sewer Trial, but I gotta deke out. My Mom's calling me." Or, more likely, "Let's deke out of C Block and head on over to Mac's Milk for a Slush Cat."

Okay, enough of that, though it was fun! I never get to speak my native tongue anymore. I'll re-focus:


This is what I'm grateful for, other than the other stuff I was grateful for:

• I always manage to find something good in a challenge (sometimes it takes a while, don't get me wrong, but eventually I get there!)
• City of Heroes has been my home away from home for over 9 years and it's safe to say, this is the longest-running job I've ever had (before that, I think the longest was 5 years)
  • Shortest job was cleaning stalls at an Equestrian Center in the middle of a cold Canadian winter - I lasted two weeks
  • Toughest job was tree planting in MacGregor (east of Prince George)
  • First job was at a Taco Bell knock-off in North Vancouver
• That people showed up at my game night last week! (It was great fun! More on that in a second.)
• I got to hang with the EU Community this week (even though we spent much of our time face-down musing at the cement rubbing at our noses)

So before I wrap-up I'll do a quick synopsis of how the game night went.

I was very happy to see a huge amalgamation of Designers, Coders, QA, Production, etc. mingling together over the "snack foods" I promised to provide. Chips, chips, and more chips, and Hot Tamales, and cookies, and I bought a meat and cheese tray, and I made a spinach dip. Doc Delilah, bless her, brought a veggie tray and a fruit tray. Television and his wife brought some nummy cucumber cream cheese sandwiches. Black Pebble brought Korean fried chicken, which was crazy yummy.

Positron, Second Measure, Black Scorpion, and others brought either video games (like Rock Band 3) or board games (like Pandemic, Munchkin Quest, or Jungle Speed).

So we took over the kitchen table with many rounds of Chrononauts, which I bought just a few days before the party because Television said it was fun. (Wow, see how that happened? Television made me buy stuff and I didn't even know I needed it! I see how it is!) The card game happened to arrive on game day. I think they played a round of Pandemic at some point and probably Dominion.

In the livingroom, Positron, Protean, Dr. Aeon, Arbiter Hawk, and others were slamming away on the Xbox 360/Kinect on either Rock Band 3, Bowling, Dance Central, or Boxing. Protean was unstoppable at boxing by the way.

In my office, we had a small table that fit four so this was where I got my first taste of bloo-- uh, Jungle Speed. Wow, what a fun game! I lost. If the purpose of the game was to grab everything, even the things you're not supposed to grab, out of turn, and in complete contradiction to the cards, I'd win every time. Black Scorpion was the master and schooled us all. Repeatedly. Without shame.

So this is my biggest appreciation for the week: Spending time with co-workers outside of the office where (yes, it's fun to make games, but it's also at times stressful and challenging) we could step away from our roles and just hang out with each other socially, relax, kick some ****, and have fun.

I'll probably have another one sometime when it's a bit warmer. Ironically, we didn't play Poker!

So have a great weekend, everyone!

War Witch