"I know stuff."

A series of events has resulted in J and me trying very hard not to spend any cash for the next few months. As we already owned the game, we decided to pass time last Sunday playing Trivial Pursuit.

I grew up playing Trivial Pursuit with my sister and parents and we still play it when we get together for holidays. We've played it so much, we've developed some of our own traditions around it, such as when you get a really easy question and it's for a pie, we call that pie piece a "pity pie." When J first heard us refer to the pity pie, he loved it, and now he uses it regularly. We were saying it to each other so much last Sunday, I developed the pity pie dirge and can't wait to share it with the rest of my family. It basically consists of me singing, "Here comes the pity pie, here comes the pity pie," to the tune of, "Poor Jud is dead," from the musical, Oklahoma, as I march it across the board towards the game piece.

In the past, we would fight over who got my Dad on their team, now we fight over who gets my Dad and who gets J. I think I've only ever beaten J at Trivial Pursuit once in the past. It's not that I'm dumb, it's just that J is really, really smart. I think he summed it up best when I demanded to know how he knew the answer to a particularly obscure question and he said, "I know stuff." One question I wasn't surprised he knew the answer to? "In what state do you find Riverside, the future birthplace of James T. Kirk?"