Almost a meme

[watervole]

People have been posting about the five things that give them exhilarating moments.

Here's my one for today. I'm just back from leaping up down and doing a small dance around the lounge floor and grinning all over my face and shouting 'yes!'.

exalted_mugwump, waveney and I have been playing a game of mah-jong over the last few days. (We have to take a break every few hands or my shoulder flares up)

I'd been losing steadily, not a single mah-jongg hand for the entire game and was a thousand points down. I was getting desperate. I got a hand that was almost half characters and decided to go for broke. I nursed it, collected more, resisted the temptation to go for chows (even when Richard started laying down a number of doubles) turned it into potential pungs, discarded a possible chow in circles and waited.

Got it! All characters and all pungs. Four doubles! From being a thousand points down, I'm now 400 points up and I'm a very happy bunny.

Please visualise Xander doing the Scooby dance.

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[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I tried to learn mah-jongg once and got terribly confused. I am not one of life's natural gameplayers, me... :/