Game On

I hate summer. I really, really do. I'm not a fan of the sun, I cannot deal with the heat and I always seem to get a cold whenever the weather warms up and who could forget the hey fever? Besides all of that, last summer was a nightmare, I barely saw anyone and spent most of my time in a depressed mood - bad times! This summer, however, is different. Though I still hate summer and all the illnesses it means for me, I have spent much more face time with people and my mental state has improved a lot since then so even if I am having a slow day my moodiness doesn't take over.


I have done the usual social stuff, shopping in town, chats, catch-ups, films, BBQs, etc, etc and recently did something unexpected. It all started with a simple game of Buzz! (a very fun and competitive PS3 quiz game if you haven't heard of it, you lay with buzzers that light up, it's so much fun! (childishness showing here)). There were just the 3 of us, the inaccurately named '3 gay musketeers' (me being the only gay of the gay musketeers, plus we lack muskets), when one of the straighties spotted Monopoly on top of my wardrobe and suggested we play despite the fact it was the Welsh edition - it's all in Welsh and I'm the only Welsh speaker of us, feeling rather special right about now! Anyway it was great fun, although the winner was totally unexpected and he crushed us. It was humiliating.


So to save our pride we arranged another game session. We started with another couple of games of Buzz! (both of which I won - genius!) before moving on to Star Wars Monopoly. I have a few problems with this edition. The money and places are very weird and the rules are ludicrous. You can either play Monopoly, proper rules and whatnot, or you can play Star Wars rules, or as I dubbed it, cheating. From what I recall the rules involved being able to steal other people's properties, and rolling a snake eyes would allow you to move any where on the board. Cheating. Pure and simple. I of course insisted we didn't cheat and play properly, and of course I got my way - childishness has its uses! We ended the game before anyone had the chance to win so we could play Risk, only one of us knew how to play and it wasn't me. So after a lengthy 30-minute explanation of gameplay we finally got to it and it was actually more fun than I expected. I assumed it was, dare I say, nerdy in that it would be similar to Dungeons & Dragons, it's not and I enjoyed it even though I came last.


Anyways, the point of this post? In the last fortnight or so I've been a bit up & down with my mood and these games nights have really helped cheer me up and have fun when my mind may have other ideas, so I shall use this post to thank my fellow 'gay musketeers' and to wish my readers a fabulous summer! I have been reading and replying to emails (sorry if I haven't gotten to you yet) so let me know how your summer's going.


Diolch am ddarllen,
Liam x