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Kevin and I didn’t play Centipede at the dentist today. However, we took up the challenge online tonight.

Centipede

Kevin brought it and I was defeated.

Kevin’s Score: 24076 My Score: 15765

I tried my hand at Frogger.

Frogger

Kevin accepted the challenge.

Kevin brought it and I was defeated again.

Kevin’s score: 7236 My score: 1654

Feeling like quite the loser, I spied a game that I knew I could be fairly successful at – Space Invaders! I gave it all I had & I was doing great. My only goal in this game was survival. Never mind that my husband was playing Galaxia next to me. My mission was to annihilate those space invaders.

Kevin saw what I was doing and began playing space invaders as well. In Kevin’s world, I had issued another challenge (It must have been the way I was hitting my space bar). Kevin began his attempt to defeat me a third time this evening. When my last guy was blown to smithereens, I wrote down my score, feeling pretty good about it. Until I glanced over at Kevin’s computer. He was already four thousand points ahead of my final score and had 7+ men left.

Space Invaders

Kevin brought it (even though I issued no challenge.) I was annihilated.

Kevin’s score: 12460 My score: 3340

I’m going to go hang my picture in the hall of shame and get Kevin a pillow.

It will make his night on the couch much more comfortable.

I am so joking about the pillow and couch.

He can get the pillow himself.

Kevin and I will celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary this summer. One would think that with over a decade of doing life together, we would be great at communicating.

Yeah, we’ve got a communication thing going on.

Our friends are often amused at how we often coordinate our schedules at the last minute. It’s not unusual to overhear a conversation similar to this at our house:

“We’re doing what?”

“Going to ______________ tonight – we talked about this last week.”

“No we didn’t”

“Yes we did. Last Tuesday when the girls got home from school. Livie was singing a song about how she loves raw carrots and hates cooked ones and Jocie was looking for her tights that she needed to get ready for dance class.”

“Huh”

“Come on, we need to get going!”

We’ve been taking steps to improve our communication thing. Kevin’s been checking the calendar. I’m making sure I put events and appointments on the calendar. Both of us are making more of an effort to go over the details of the week together before the week starts.

So we’ve got our new and improved communication thing going on and tomorrow, we get to enjoy the benefits! Last weekend, we discussed what was going on this week. Kevin rearranged his work schedule so he could go with the girls and me to Sylvania tomorrow afternoon. The girls have a dental cleaning/check up.

Now we get to spend the afternoon hanging out together!

Oh, and I’m going to beat Kevin’s score

Hey Kevin,

you

me

and the centipede

bring it

(The dentist office has a awesome little game room. Yeah, it’s for the kids, but if there aren’t any kids playing in there – we’ll play a game or two!)

Wanna guess who’s gonna win?