katie-lou-hoo

brent and i played a game tonight. we don't often play games just the two of us because it isn't so fun beating him for me. tonight we played solarquest, which is like monopoly except in the solar system. brent was rolling really well and collecting money on all sorts of spots. on the other hand i never landed on anything to collect money, but started to have to pay brent money. i kept buying property and so quite early in the game i was running out of money. i'm ashamed to say i wasn't a very good sport and kept complaining as brent bought up more and more property and collecting free money. brent asked me if i wanted to quit. no, but it's not very fun, i whined. soon i was out of money, much to brent's surprise. i don't know why he was surprised--i had yet to collect any money and was having to keep paying him money and was caught in orbiting jupiter where he owned 4 properties. so i threw my last little bit of money at him in very poor sportsmanship and told him the game was over because he had been soo greedy. he talked me into mortgaging some of my properties and told me which ones would be the most strategic to mortgage. having never played monopoly all the way through i didn't really know anything about the whole mortgaging thing. so i mortgaged a couple properties and got out of jupiter's orbit. i landed on earth and so got quite a cash in. brent who had been rolling way better than me, (and buying up all the property before i had a chance) was now in saturn's orbit. i had spent alot of time there and so owned all the property except one. suddenly the game was much more fun as i collected high rent and fuel money from brent. i couldn't help but laugh at him as i mercilessly gouged him as turn after turn he kept landing on the same spot and required refuelling and rent from me. he had to mortgage all his properties and very quickly, i won. who knew it could turn around so quickly?