Game of the Year

Kanien and I used to play Scrabble at least once a week, and I always won. Then we stopped playing, I think it must have been the arrival of Marcella that changed things, but can't really remember. Anyway...we recently resumed our Scrabble, but Kanien, after a series of pagan sacrifices to the Scrabble Gods, beat me 4 out of 5 games, and one game she beat me by over 100 points. I was totally getting schooled by her. I don't think I really cared that much, but then we played last week. She started the game with a really high-point word, and I thought, "Oh man...here we go." And that's pretty much how it went. She led the entire game, until I played my last word.....Banality! It got me 92 points and I beat her by 100 after subtracting her letters from her score and adding them to mine. The best thing about it is if I hadn't gone out, she would have used her X on a double letter score....to spell TWO WORDS, so she would have gotten like 60 points. Victory is sweet, but it's that much sweeter when you snatch it away from someone right at the end.