Fun with Name Cards

When you are 8 years old and the youngest at your family's Thanksgiving table, you've got to come up with something creative to do. Here is what my daughter came up with using only the 11 name cards at our table.

Guess Who?: With all of the cards lined up, using yes or no questions the guesser determines who the guessee has chosen. This is a classic low budget version of the original Guess Who? game. 

Guess Who? II:  All the name cards are distributed, being careful that no one gets their own. When it is your turn, you must act out the actions of the relative listed on your card while everyone else guesses who you are imitating.

And finally An Early Christmas:  Cards are once again distributed and once they are, all the players are released to go "shop" throughout her grandmother's (my mom's) house for a gift for that person. Once we all return to the living room, everyone guesses which card you have, based on the gift you pilfered for them. Sadly, we were not allowed to take home our gifts.

What did you do post-turkey?

I'm climbing back on the blog horse...

It is time to saddle up the ol' blog horse. I was not thrown from this proverbial literary equine, but stepped down under my own volition. In fact, I actually enjoyed my time away from areyoudestinized, and was considering extending my hiatus until I read this from Dumb Little Man.

My hope is that you get something out of this blog (spiritual insights, relational advice, or where to get free stuff), but I also know that this writing exercise is cathartic for me. This is a classic win-win. I hope you agree.

Pray Backwards

I'm a sucker for something free... VI

I'm back before the end of the month, because I did not want you to miss this. Follow the link over to restaurant.com, it is awesome. I did it and bought $125 worth of local restaurant gift certificates for only $10. Just use the promo code: TREATS.

Self-Imposed Blog Hiatus

The gaps between areyoudestinized blog posts in September have gotten longer and longer and the depth of thought has become more and more shallow. Meanwhile over in the Twitter world, I have been posting tweets at an ever increasing rate.

Therefore, I hereby declare October as Blog Break Month for areyoudestinized. If you still want a peek inside my brain during this 10th month of 2008, and really, who wouldn't? Then follow me on Twitter where I promise to make my thoughts succint or at least under 140 characters.

See you on Twitter or on Facebook but not here until the day after Halloween (better known as the day after Free Burrito Day at Chipotle).

Just How Much of a Geek am I?

I'm such a geek, that I get excited about free web apps like this one that serves God's Kingdom.


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I'm a sucker for something free... V

On Halloween this year, all you have to do is "dress up" in a tin foil costume to get yourself a free burrito at Chipotle. This promotion is aptly named Free Burrito Day and as always, I provide this information to you as a public service because I'm a sucker for something free...

By the way, my understanding is that you can simply wear a tinfoil sock, or glove, or hat or perhaps some tasteful tinfoil earrings to score the free burrito. You do not necessarily have to go all out like this guy here.  But, if you do, please send me photos. Enjoy.